Any of the SoCal barefoot peeps visiting the Auto Show this weekend? The floor is all plush carpet throughout. No anti- signs that I noticed, unless the convention center has a general shoes-required policy. I would have enjoyed padding around there BF, but the GF tagged along and would have complained.
1. Why do you need to ask if other barefooters are going to the Auto Show? If you really want to go barefoot there, is it that hard to enter with shoes and then take them off on your own? Men in dress shoes and women in their dress shoes might want to take them off momentarily from standing for a while, and as you said the convention center is carpeted. You'll just stand out more among the others, and the press will be there. If anyone has seen NBC 7 SanDiego TV news promos when visiting San Diego in any capacity... one of their weather segments even shows someone flexing the their toes so much the are on their heels, then curling their foot so much they were probably a ballet dancer, and the walking away barefoot. Whether they are making fun or them or giving respect to them... they are still recognizing the barefooters of the city. If they are making fun of them, their problem. If they are giving respect to them, treat that as a shout-out. 2. You are going to an Auto Show. Brand new cars being exhibited. Some the allow to be sat in. Pretty sure they don't want blackened dirt sole dirt on their factory new carpets, since they will sell those cars. Pretty sure they won't allow you to drive their new cars you can drive, barefoot is legal and blah blah blah doesn't matter because it's their show and their cars. 3. If you go as a group of barefooters. You will definitely attract press attention, right? Because it's one thing for a person to take their shoes off because their feet hurt, another to stand out as the barefooter for as long as you are at the event. It's going to be unusual, even if legal, for an entire group of barefooters to be walking the Auto Show.
Unless they make shod people remove their shoes (which they don't) that also have dirt on them, your argument doesn't hold water.
> Why do you need to ask if other barefooters are going to the Auto Show? Just curious is all. This is a discussion forum about going barefoot,mainly in public I presume. And I know there are (or were) several members here from the SoCal area. So I was wondering if any of them happened to attend this event and do so barefoot.
This argument has been true, despite claims all the way back as the Dirty Sole Society that it wasn't. Shoe soles can be fully washed with a handwipe or damp washcloth, unless they stepped in mud, gum, or dog poop, and they can even be wiped clean on a welcome mat. Shoe soles do not have pores that can trap dirt. The shoe soles are also already being wiped clean walking on the carpet. Blackened dirty soles cannot be fully washed... despite claims that they can... and some ingrained dirt always remains. Even sweaty enough soles will make footprint stains on their new car carpet. Unless the soles are perfectly clean and the way a person was born with their soles: pinkish, yellowish, translucent almost clear, or brown tanned not due to ingrained dirt... they are not fully washed clean. Some amount of pinkish to red or tanned is normal, especially since a tanned sole is like a sunburned sole except for on hot sand and hot asphalt, but too much is not cleaned. For some reason, those with naturally yellower soles get them more whitened than they get dirty.
Sounds like a barefooters dream if you ask me... For some reason I'm picturing a group of people traveling across the U.S. experiencing all of the different varieties of surfaces to walk on...
