I do agree summertime = barefoottime but really only seems to be for the extreme minority. Like you I feel angered and upset when I see people walking around in gorgeous weather wearing shoes and socks plus you just know half of these people want to be barefoot so they should just go for it. Especially kids I think once they know being barefoot is acceptable they are quick to take off their shoes and socks.
I've driven with my left bare foot out the window when driving, ok, guilty as charged. However the right one always down where it should be.
It is a fact because no matter how good a driver you are you CANNOT control the actions of everyone else on the road.
Did you not read my post? There is no one else on the road when you're on back roads in New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, etc. I mean no one. In Nevada in particular...you can see the roadway, dead straight, for ten, fifteen or twenty miles. It's the salt pans...long and slightly depressed which gives you a long view. Stop in the middle. Dead calm and hot. Walk around on the salt flat. Because it's hard packed it doesn't burn your feet the way loose sand does. But yes...if I see a vehicle coming the other way, I put my feet down and maintain alertness. That happens like, oh, once an hour or so. But if it appears the other driver is cool, I might leave my left foot out the window and waggle a greeting. Perhaps stupid and dangerous...but have you ever driven across Nevada?
I wasn't replying to you - I was replying to iloveme. That's why I quoted what was said. And yes I have driven in parts of Nevada that are like that.
Well, actually your last "quote" you quoted was something I said. But let's not get into a flame war. Yes, feet on the dash are dangerous. Thinking about those vast expanses in Nevada makes me want to go there. I am now in Iowa. Ugh. Hot and humid, but boring. Where are you?
Well shit, I'm not limber enough to even consider doing something like this, and what with the narrow and windy roads over at my neck of the woods, it'd be a pretty fucking stupid thing to do anyway. Do you, like, need an automatic transmission for this? Because I can't imagine doing this with a stick shifter.
As I said I did it those long, lonely and straight roads you find in Western States like Nevada. Cruise control is rather necessary; I don't think cruise control is available on manual transmissions.
Our kids are always barefoot. We have the acreage and just let those twerps run! I spray down the driveway with the hose so it's not hot and they just go go go. It's chaos but fun as hell at our house. We are pretty chill and a bit old school with the way we raise our boys. Dirt, drinking hose water, bumps and bruises here and there. Only been a parent for 2 years but this is how I want to raise my kids. Wife is amazing with them and raising them right. We could live out in a cabin with no one around and be perfectly fine!
That sounds awesome. If I were still a kid, I'd love to come over to play Capture the Flag on all that acreage. Or hide and seek. Or whatever!
As a kid too much of a gladiator, what if I get in a fight ? I need my shoes on. Defend my turf. BUT oh my gosh but it was my childhood girlfriend not really girlfriend but best friend across the street that *might* have started me on the feet thing. I am like young and she is three years older wanting to paint my nails I am like NO ! She always went barefoot all summer but it was different for dudes. Growing up it was like bridge to terabita , my best friend in the world was the troll Janice avery not Leslie It really was like that. We played in the woods always had the dogs with us. It was like that the imagination especially at night. "we can see the whole kindom from up here" in our tree fort. I guess it would have been cool to be bare footing too. I didn't need my shoes for self defense. This was decades ago kids carried knives and no one thought nothing of it. No but I needed shoes using a knife for defense was just as serious in the kid world as it is in the adult world. Cant just poke a hole in the bully. But we would be sharpening sticks down by the pond no on thought nothing of it. All the graffiti on the trees pocket knives in the bark you never see that anymore.. All of us always had our knives.Random google image but this was everywhere. We were total "free range kids" back then. I bitch to much about the dark things that happened along the journey but those were good years out in the woods as kids And of corse it didn't end like that. But we did always making rope swings. We had one in the highest tree. It was a mission getting it up on that branch. Tie a rock to t string then haul it up... This movie really reminds me of some of the best years of my child life It has the moist beautiful soundtrack.
Much better version the sound is better I dont know. Didnt grow up all out on the country, poor, but this so reminds me of the days as a kid with my best friend girl across the street and out favorite place out in the woods. I love this movie.
Wile this movie Janice avery reminding me of my childhood best friend its not really about bare footing I just remember those imaginary things out in the woods. kids are all wrapped up in cell phones social media today we were just out in the woods, again always with our with the dogs climbing trees building forts, we loved climbing trees. And at night, it was scary "monsters" and how far do we venture ? not far. "we can see the whole kingdom from up here" ya we could.
I have been posting the answer for years. Its a bad feedback loop, shoes make feet weak and overly sensitive creating the false belief that our feet are to fragile to do any off carpet activity barefoot consistently perpetuating the belief that without shoes you cant function.. Bad feedback loop. again wile it great all the articles about how going barefoot is healthy and fun they fail explain it takes a a few weeks to build up the ability ti actually enjoy it and get the natural ability back . Dumb articles just take your shoes off and have a great old time.... No it takes a week of two to get over the shitty part.
