Dirtiest place gone barefoot?

I was in Charlotte NC and I walked from my hotel to the arena I was going to for a concert. I didn't have to walk that far and my feet were the blackest I ever saw them. It actually felt weird being bf (and I'm bf everywhere almost all the time) but strangely I got over it quickly.

 

Definitely. Hopefully a day will come when you walk out the front door, go into the city centre and see everybody barefoot with black soles.

haha

 

After about four years your calluses are good enough to walk on glass down any alley.

 

This is so true.

 

People talk as if going barefoot were some sort of Hollywood mystery of the week, but the closer you get to the equator the more common it becomes. Duh!

Cold is cold, barefoot or not! You get down to subzero temperatures, and the ground will suck the heat right out of the bottom of most boots. You feet actually have special blood vessels that contract, just to preserve body heat.

 

Crap ! The pigs* raided the farm and claiming to be more equal than the others closed the veggie and eggs shop.


* not actual pigs

 

London and in particular the Underground is where my soles have got blackest. I also like walking through car parks, rubbing my feet in the oily filth.

 

Surprisingly, self service car wash. Not the wash bay, but the area where you dry off the car afterward.
Dirty water dripping from the underside of cars coats the ground with a thin layer of grime.
My soles get solid jet black while drying off my car. Distant second place is a nearby pet store.
The local grocery, Walmart and Target stores have amazingly clean floors, light grey soles even after an extended visit.

Edit: I'm not counting muddy hikes where my feet get completely filthy top and bottom.

 

I was in Iowa and I walked around a pig slaughtering facility barefoot. There was blood and poop all over my feet.

 

That will be a wonderful day! Feet are supposed to be bare, and dirty!

 

It would be nice if you would stop trolling..

 

Though I still don't get the sense of this dirtiest sole "match" to be a badge for barefooters, reframing to the original question I can tell that probably the most filthy feet ever I got during a school trip to Paris while using the Metro (underground public transport). Some people said this dirt then came from the brake abrasion of the trains. But obviously they have improved the cleaning maintenance of the subway stations since then, because now you get only the usual city dirt feet there.

 

It's probably the novelty of it. Too few people go out barefoot, even though you only really need anything on your feet a few times a year, although that can also depend on wear you live.Of you live in NYC you might need footwear when it rains, but in say, LA, you don't ever really have a reason not to be barefoot all the time. The fact that we are willing to go out and get some dirt on our feet is kinda....like a novelty. A badge that says that you don't car what you look like and that nothing can scare you.

 

That's a bit over there

agreed!

 

Dirty soles come from just being barefoot. Someone who goes barefoot for the first time in their lives can walk through dirt and get dirty feet. A real barefooters badge are soles that are extremely thickened with callous. Soles that actually feel like a piece of leather or rawhide have been glued to them. Even if they are scrubbed with a brush that dirt “shadow “ is still there. Also the ability to walk on objects that would otherwise do harm. Interestingly though, I read a post about a guy whose soles are as tender as can be,he said that he can’t thicken them, but yet is able to go barefoot anywhere. That is awesome!

 

Very lovely said.

 

To be fair, you don't even need super thick soles to go barefoot everywhere. Supermarket floors and the grass in your garden are lovely on your feet. If only more understood that. People should be barefoot, not having feet in shoes.

 

Yes, they should! Those who wear shoes everywhere do not know what they're missing: joy and freedom!

 

Exactly! If you are running off to the supermarket, why slip on shoes? Just head off. Or if you are in the mall for a few hours, why not be barefoot, right? Feet don't need to be super thick to be barefoot a good 50 percent of the time.

 

I've not visited but I believe they take this approach in New Zealand and well it's how I live. Shoes are reserved for work and everywhere else I'm barefoot.