Only Downside to Goin’ Barefoot is...

um...well...sometimes people don’t...but fuck ‘em...so anyway...me personally...ahh...I dunno...feels good...energizes me...means gettin’ off my ass...nice weather....jeez, even crummy weather...fuckdoIknow...nah! Ain’t no downside.

 

Glass, uncapped needles, vomit, spit, piss, dead birds...

I love to walk barefoot in nature
Walking barefoot in a city is disgusting

 

This would be a downside... One of many.

 

little sharp stones, ..ouch. Bubblegum....eeww.

 

Honey Locust Tree. I've often wondered what would cause a plant to evolve thorns like that. What the hell was after it anyway?

 

The cambium layer under the bark is sweet...

 

Well, fuck, boys and girls, you DO have to watch where you’re going. Ain’t no streets lined with needles or bubbly gum. Wake the fuck up!

 

I'm plenty awake... You and your feet wouldn't last ten minutes running around in my woods.

 

Find another forest!

 

man, i wish it was that easy.

 

Calluses are bad for sex.

 

Everything listed here and I would add people with unnessary comments about my lack of footwear as well.

 

This is the main one for me, though I have become more thick-skinned about it. "Oi mate where's ya shoes" or similar being the most common. The worst I've had are a woman proceeding to give me a whole "you'll get something in your feet" lecture and a motorcyclist stopped at lights who went into a swearing rant for some unknown reason. Physical hazards are avoidable.

 

Quite rightly said charlie35. I have eyes and that's why I don't have injuries contrary to the belief of onlookers who, maybe out of kindness, think I am going to hurt myself. A week or so ago someone I know reasonably well asked me if I ever cut my feet on glass. Yawn..I've heard this a thousand times so I made a video. Can't get the link to post on here but if you go on youtube and look up rolthesole you'll find it.

 

I find it too dangerous to walk on streets and sidewalks in bare feet. Easy to take sandals off when i get into the grass and onto other more comfortable venues.

 

The only downside is people on rare occasion hassling me with that myth created 50 years ago that claims health codes require shoes.

"Signs to keep out hippies in the 1970s remained on many businesses after the war and took on a life of their own Today, the Vietnam War has been over a long time. Barefoot hippies are a thing of the past. Richard Nixon is dead. Yet the signs originally created to keep hippies out of businesses not only remain in one form or another, they have taken on a life of their own, including phony claims of “by order of the health dept. ” or “by law” often added. In other words, those signs and those attitudes started out as political statements, not dress codes based on any reason that may be claimed today – health, laws, liability, etc. Signs posted since the 1970s have convinced current generations to believe that bare feet are bad or even illegal."

In fact, no U.S. state has a law requiring restaurant patrons wear shoes. The Society for Barefoot Living went to the trouble of including copies of letters from Health Codes and OSHA | Society for Barefoot Living saying that while food service employees must wear "proper attire," there are no rules for patrons.

 

Going barefoot leads to callouses is another myth. Calluses are areas of hardened skin. They develop to protect the foot from the damage that is caused by friction from poorly fitting shoes. Over time, if the irritation continues, a corn or callus may grow and cause discomfort and pain that interferes with walking.

Going barefoot actually gets rid of those problems. The sidewalk is like one long pumice stone so no way you are getting callouses.