the cable guy

So my house switched over to a new internet provider today and there were 2 guys working in the house, an older one and a younger one maybe about 3 years older than me. I was home when the they arrived in the morning. Many of you barefooters know the "look" you get when someone notices your bare feet but doesn't say anything. It's just a bit more than a quick glance down at your feet. Anyway, I didn't think much of it until later, but the younger guy seemed to give me that look.

I was home much of the morning and it seemed like every time the younger guy was around me he gave my feet a little more of a steady stare. By about the third time I started to realize that he was taking notice of them. I couldn't figure out why though, because I am sure these guys encounter plenty of people who are barefoot in the homes where they are working.

Around 10:30 I left to go to class. The young guy came outside where the older guy was right before I got into my car, so if he was still paying attention he would have noticed that I had no shoes on. I came back around 1:45 and they were still there.

So at about 3 pm when they were testing the tv in the room I was in, the young guy starts talking to me. He asked where I went to school and even where I went to high school. After a little small talk (here's where it gets interesting) he says, "Do you like going barefoot?" I said, "How did you guess?" He said, "Your feet got kind of dark since we started this morning." I then realized that he must have notices the soles of my feet in the morning cuz they were propped up on a kitchen chair as I was eating, and then when we were talking I was sitting on the floor and my soles were pretty black.

So I said, "Yeah I never wear shoes." So he proceeds to tell me that he sort of doesn't like to wear shoes either, and the sense I got from what he was saying was that he wishes he could do it more in public but has reservations mainly due to fear of people saying stuff. He also sort of intimated that he had an ex girlfriend who didn't like it.

So I said, "You have the type of job that you could do barefoot. Doesn't anyone ever not allow shoes in their houses where you're working?" He said he never encountered that but he'd love if he did. So I said, "Take your shoes off now...finish the job barefoot." And he was like, "Nahh I can't." I said, "That's the first step to going barefoot, saying you CAN." And after a little prodding, he got sort of devilish grin on his face and looked like he was about to do it and then chickened out saying that Dan, who was the older guy with him, would get mad.

I told him that he just needs to do it socially and before he knows it he'd be doing it regularly. I also said he better hurry up because winter is coming. We talked more and he said he'd like to do it in the mall or something but would like to do it if he had someone to hang out with, so he gave me his cell phone number.

Interesting story huh? After he left I thought that I should have referred him here...

 

I think you need to take a trip to the mall with him. It would help him and since malls are dirty sounds like he'd like to get his feet black. Make it a contest as to who gets dirtier.

 

If you do hang out with him, let us know how it went!

 

wow that was a real nice story bro, let us know more if it happens :2thumbsup:

 

so wet and cold today my feet are freezing, i couldn't do this myself.

 

wear a hat..

 

Great story! Must admit I've had similar experiences myself, although as a woman its a little different. Often I have tradesmen come through the house and they often have a sly look at my feet which I dont mind at all....a couple have even complemented on my tattoos, toe rings etc., which I find quite flattering. They always take their shoes off inside, but thats very natural in NZ.
Had one interesting experience with another woman whose son goes to the same preschool as mine....she said how she admired me going barefoot all the time, I looked so "comfortable", I said to her she should try it and she would enjoy it, so next day she arrived to pick up her son from pre school and she was barefoot! She looked so relaxed, and I said I thought she looked fucking :devil:great

 

I am on the fence about whether or not to contact this dude again. I hesitate cuz: 1) I don't really know him--I mean, he's the cable guy assistant! and 2) it turned pretty cold here, so that sort of limits the barefoot possibilities. The whole thing is just so random.

But I kind of do what to contact him because he just seemed like he couldn't really fulfill his desire to be barefoot in public. And it would be kind of fun to have company Christmas shopping.

I dunno..maybe I'll text him................

 

If I had a dude in my house who wanted to leave his # with me about going barefooting, without me knowing him before or otherwise... yea probably wouldn't do anything with that. Kinda weird.

 

What's the worst that could happen?

 

I ended up having an ongoing text message conversation with him all weekend. Actually a pretty cool guy. Dare I say I made a new friend, thanks to bare feet?

Anyway, he already had a milestone: he was hanging out with friends at their apartment Saturday night and I encouraged him to go barefoot, or at least take off his shoes and socks there. He was reluctant to do that, so instead I suggested he show up in flip flops, and then just take them off when he gets there. That's a tried-and-true method of easing into barefooting that I've seen often on this forum. Anyway, he did that and even texted me a couple pictures!

So..pretty cool so far!

 

Glad you're encouraging him. Sounds like he wants to be barefoot outside his comfort zone and you are doing a good job of nudging him

 

Barefoot hangout scheduled for tonight! Crazy how this developed...

 

Cool! :2thumbsup: Let us know how the evening went.

 

Update on my new barefoot friend. He is actually a very cool guy.

So Friday night was our first barefoot meet up. We had been texting and talking on the phone back and forth up until then. I was sending some pics when I've been barefoot in public places. We decided to just go into a convenience store barefoot Friday night just to "break the ice." We met up at a Wawa (Pennsylvania area version of 7-11 stores). First, the dude had the coolest car ever--a 1974 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, that his grandpop who was the orginal owner gave him. So this big ass gold 70s Caddy pulls up and I got in his car. As per our deal, he showed up barefoot and didn't even bring flip flops. He was nervous as hell about getting out of the car barefoot so we just hung out in the car for a bit. Finally I said, "Give me your foot" and he put it up on the seat. I touched it and was like, "You have fuckin awesome feet--your toes are perfect--they look great with the pants you have on (he had baggy brown long curderoys)--and you and me are going to get a bite in their in our bare feet." So he did it. Wawa is a busy store with lots of cars coming and going, but I think people were noticing the big Caddy we got out of more than our bare feet. So the ice breaker was a success.

After that, we didn't want to stop hanging out, so we went to the mall. Got some Christmas shopping out of the way too. He was totally broken in by then and we ended up hanging a total of 5+ hours that night.

Since he's really cool, has a cool car, is only 22, I figured why not ask if he wanted to come to this big party at one of my friend's the next night (Saturday). So he came to that and brought one of his friends too, but was barefoot the entire time, not bringing any shoes.

I can't believe how this all worked out. We talk a lot now and love talking feet! LOL It's shame all this happened so close to the weather turning nasty--but there's always next summer!

Plus, I'd really like to refer him to this forum because I think he'd have great contributions, but I'm a little embarrassed that I started this thread and talked all about him, sort of behind his back...

 

Well, tell him we want to meet him too. The more of us the better.

 

I love this story!

 

Glad it worked out well... hope to read more of your adventures.

 

that shit is just amazing...

...i mean... love it

:rockon:

 

It Reads Like A "Gay Romance Novel" To Me....:love:



Cheers Glen.