Since May I've been strolling barefoot into my local 7-Eleven two nights a week to make myself a cup of tea after a night out on the town. During this time I've been blessed with no problems what so ever from staff. My luck finally ran out last night. There was a new employee on the till and he seemed adamant that I understand that I could no longer go barefoot there because they sell food. I tried using my blisters alibi(which was a lie). He even went so far as to attempt to sell me a pair of slippers. I politely declined his offer. I'm sure some of you are disappointed that I didn't use the phantom laws defense, but at that point I just wanted to get my cup of tea and go. :rockon:
It never ceases to amaze me on the concept of bare feet vs. food establishments. :unsure: I'd love to have asked this clerk on how a persons bare feet would affect the food being served there. Most of it is already packaged and the rest of it stays away from any contact with feet.
there wouldnt be anything on a barefoot that wouldnt be on a shoe anyway, i always thought it was to prevent lawsuits in case there was a small piece of broken glass.
I sympathise with you. Being a quite hardcore barefooter for about 40 years I have had very little or no problems with food stores - until recently. Shops I go into regularly have suddenly started demanding that I have footwear. Their argument being it is unhygeinic.well really. I'm not going to walk over the food am I? and besides what is more unhygeinic than people with difty filthy hands handling the produce and putting it back on the shelf! So do we all have to wear gloves? The best one was a shelf stacker who didn't even bother to look at me whilst talking telling me my manager has told me that you have to wear shoes as you might step in something and tread it into the shop. Duh! I'm more likely to step in shit wearing shoes. Grrr.seems like here in England we are slowly but surely adopting American laws.
A long time ago I went into a CT 7-11 barefoot. One of the employees, a high school or college age female was also barefoot and sweeping the floor. Her feet were obviously dirty. I exclaimed we both liked the same style and color shoes. She said she was fortunate to be able to work shoeless. This was in the early evening.
I go in our local One Stop store barefoot most days, been in there countless times without a problem. When I went in on Friday afternoon one of the regular assistants looked at me and just said "barefoot?" I replied "yes" and smiled She said "Cool" and smiled back. Which was nice. She's never mentioned them before, so it shows that a lot of people either don't notice bare feet or don't care.
I went in to my corner convenience store yesterday after work and shoes on for once and the girl working actually commented on that and said it didn't look natural, me in shoez
On the very rare occasion I wear shoes the same thing happens. My reply to health code or shoes required cause of some law is always "wana bet" I will bet you $100 you can't find any law requiring shoes. I really should say $20 or $30 cause 100 sounds to confident but since I know they can't find any law and the process of looking leads to webpages pointing out no such law exists I start with the $100 bet. I have used "wana bet" and the reactions are very interesting but most people don't want to bet. Why don't you want bet don't you like easy money ???
