Do people ever make a scene when they see you in a store bf?

I would have praised her for her remarkable skills of noticing what is so obvious, but NEVER allowing it to give up barefooting!

 

I agree, ppl should really mind their own business...going barefoot is the most natural thing a human can do...its not like we're carrying missile launchers around for people to see...

 

just with girls and small children, I guess, MatthewShane !

 

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A lot of establishments are becoming more "barefoot" friendly. I have been to several businesses, restuarants, malls, hair salons and department stores without shoes and rarely encounter any problems. On a few occasions I noticed that a few employee's of the establishments were barefoot also.

 

I've never been criticised for being barefoot in stores here in England, no one pays attention. The only place i've been turned away from was HMS Belfast in London, they said the deck was too rusty and sharp. Sometimes people do ask me where my shoes are, and i just say the truth;- i don't like wearing them!

 

There are no such signs, such as the dreaded "NSNSNS" signs, here in Germany. I only receive variants of "the look" (meaning, the disbelief/horror/disgust mix of emotions, when narrow-mindeds behold my naked feet).

Yesterday, I went to a mall to get an MP3 player. Of course, I was barefoot, wearing several toe rings, anklets, and a decidedly hipie outfit. The fun thing was, as I was reaching for the player of my choice, that immediately two staff people of that big retail store (for the Germans among you: Saturn) - one of those electronics chain mega-stores - came up to me to ask "can we help you?" They were not about to ask about my barefeet or to expel me from there, but (as I felt) to make sure, I was not going to steal the thing.
Sheesh, they still seem to have that notion of barefoot = poor and/or homeless. Even though the homeless people I met over here almost always wear shoes... weird world, really.
After buying the player, I went to a bookstore to get two anime books (one of them a quite funny rendition of Grimm's fairy tales by Kaori Yuki) without receiving any comments from the personnel, and afterwards made my way to the subway station. On my way home, I went to my usual Penny market branch to do some necessary grocery shopping. There, I did my shopping again unhassled.
I guess it depends on what you are up to buy in an electronics store. When I went to buy the laptop 'puter I'm using right now, I went to a Saturn megastore (barefoot as well) and made an effort to find a sales attendant in order to discuss the product features. After having chosen the machine, I went to the checkout to pay in cash for it. On that occasion, I didn't get hassled.

OK, to call the overly careful behaviour of those two guys a hassle would be too much. However, it still shows the above mentioned misinterpretation about barefeet.

Peace,

~*Ganesha*~

 

A) Glass usually lays flat.
B) You only get gangrene if you don't care for the wound.
C) I spend plenty of money... When it's something I want and need.
D) I'm a right-winger. Ha.
E) Is it a huge hassle to put on shoes? No... But like you said, it is my right to "get gangrene" and "put [your] store out of business for it." Because that is totally the reason why I go barefoot. And I love frivolous lawsuits.

Child of the earth? Not necessarily... But I care about the Earth. My family recycles and I never litter. Going barefoot makes your realize how stupid it is to throw shit on the ground.

Thank you for stereotyping every single person who doesn't like shoes. Please come again.

 

I wish there was a barefoot day or something like that, where everyone walks around barefoot and can go barefoot where they please without people making a scene. Once everyone tries going barefoot, they'll see how much nicer it feels.

 

Get your head out of the sand. That will never happen. The maximum in recent history was the late 60’s and early 70’s and I would estimate the bare footers at way less than .01% of the population…..and now I see a lot of feet but they are in sandals and flips. If you are not at a coastal community you are rarely going to see a barefooter, unless she or he is a homeless person. Sorry Dude, but these sandal and flip flop days are really better than the sneaker 80’s and 90’s.

Take care….Terry

 

Yeah I know it'll never happen, but you have to admit it would pretty awesome if it did.

 

The only time anyone really made a scene was in a US post office in the mainland US. An old, grizzled tatooed ex-marine decided that bare feet in the post office was the most unamerican thing he'd ever seen in his life.

<sarcastic humor>

Seeing that there was no reasoning with him, I calmly explained that my unshod state was a way of expressing my utter revulsion of the war-mongering, capitalist, baby eating, militaristic pigs living in his god-forsaken hellhole of a country as well as showing my undying support for the people's gay communist islamist front dedicated to destroying the American way of life.

Things kind of went downhill from there for some reason...

</sarcastic humor>

Discalimer: The preceeding story was partially fictitious. Although I did have an encounter with an old, grizzled tatooed ex-marine in the US Post Office, I'm not really a member of the people's gay communist islamist front dedicated to destroying the American way of life.

 

You Say "Things" Went Downhill.???? Can't For The Life Of Me Understand Why.....One Of The Funniest Posts Iv'e Read On This Site. Look Foward To Reading Many More....Cheers Glen.

 

false or true ... your my hero lol. and btw i dont think that islamism and gayness blend together easily.

 

Hence the <sarcastic humor> tags. The contradictory combination is my quirky idea of irony.