Barefooters: What is...

the most common question you get about being a barefooter?

Today had to have been the zillionth time someone asked me: "Aren't you afraid you're going to step on glass??"

 

I guess mine would be "how can you be barefoot ?"

 

whenever i go barefoot people are like "dont ur feet get dirty"

no shit, sherlock

 

The most common question I get is almost the same as yours, only it's usually more general, like, "Aren't you afraid you'll step on something?"
If I'm somewhere where the weather is cold (usually not around here where I live), I will get a lot of, "Aren't your feet cold?"

 

I don't get many questions, but when I do it's usually more like " why the hell aren't you wearing shoes?" I simply smile and say I prefer not to and when the act more questions it goes simply into the appresiation bit.

I'm always walking over glass, it's damn near impossible in this city but my feet have never got cut by it.

 

"Where are your shoes?" may be the most frequent question I get, to which I reply, "Home."

 

I get remarkably little, except at the few store confrontations. More on this store thing in a later thread.

In public generally, the comments are few. Nothing like the comments I get in winter for wearing shorts, and even that is lessening.

The very few comments in public run like "where are your shoes" or "OMG, you should be in shoes---" It happens too fast for me to give any useful response. I posted a few weeks ago how my son just said, "Too baaad---" to someone in Home Depot. Again, more on this to come in another post later.

I do see a few looks, and they seem to be split about 50-50, if I can read peoples' faces right:

About half taking it in, maybe thinking how strange I am. The other half, as far as I can tell, are interested, even admiring. A very few women may even be slightly turned on by it. But I really have no good way to tell.

Rarely, a nice comment like: "You get to do all this nice outdoor work, and you get to do it bare foot, too---wow (with obvious envy)" I could do with more of that!

 

I was at the county fair this summer where I live, barefoot of course as usual. After sharing a table for lunch with another family, when I got up to leave the guy just noticed I was barefoot and said, "Man, you're brave!" I really wasn't sure exactly what he meant by that. Was I brave because I could step on glass or something and hurt my foot? Was I brave because a security guard might see me barefoot and throw me out? (There was no chance of that, it was quite barefoot friendly there.) Or was I brave because the pavement was hot enough to fry an egg on? I wasn't sure, but I took it to be the last one, so I said as I walked away, "Yeah, it's pretty hot, but I'm used it."

 

I think mine is often about getting cold of all things. Glass comes up a lot as well, as does "but don't you worry about what everyone else thinks?".

 

Mostly 'aren't you cold?' -I've heard that one even on warm summer days when everyone was wearing shorts & sweating! But also hear the 'aren't you afraid you'll step in something' thing a lot.

 

usually, commenting about dirt, glass, germs, and when it was summer time, over 95 degrees, people would ask if my feet burn from the hot ground.

 

Personally, I think most people are fascinated by the idea of someone willingly going barefoot... well, at least those that aren't completely arrogant about it.

 

I don't get many comments from strangers. I notice some people staring at my feet occassionally,but they'll smile if our eyes meet.

 

I have to say that I think it's a different ballgame for guys going barefoot as opposed to girls.

 

funny how ppl always have something bad to say instead of a positive comment.
I remember the time i shave my hair off, shit anyone think have murderrd someone, and if looks could kill well i was dead..................lol

 

There is a double standard, regrettably. As a guy, I've had to fight it all my life, first with long hair when I was young, then being able to wear shorts (since most of us don't do miniskirts!) and now finally being OK to be bf in public. Women in general, girls especially, always had it easier. Some of us guys aren't so gross to look at, afterall!

 

people dont seem to relieze that just because you might step on something dosnt meen your gonna step down on it.
btw, i was watching a tv comerciel the other day for some potentialy damaging drug to fight toenail fungus, and it accured to me that i have never seen that on barefooters, probaly because the exposer to ultraviolet light.

 

Yeah, it's kinda funny...I mean, how many people, even wearing shoes have stepped on glass???

To be totally honest, I've never even seen any glass on the sidewalks I've walked on. And certainly I've never run into any glass in parks or anything. People make me laugh...

 

"What if you step on something?"

"Where are your shoes?"

"Why are you barefoot?"

"Isn't that gross?"

Some people are genuinely interested in it, though.

 

What the hell is wrong with you freak?

Get back to the barn loser.

You are going to burn in hell hippie.




no lol i dont know. The people i know dont ask and the people I see in public are obviously too intimidated to say anything because barefooters pose an extreme threat to society