1001 places to be barefoot

Oh, OK then. I understand now.

I am totally genuine, a freak living entirely in the real world , where original posts are completely factual and are generally relevant.

I must admit I missed the bit about the International space station. The tank I found quite odd but not out of the realm of feasibility...

 

multiple gas station bathrooms (ewwuhg)

 

Long muddy paths. Nice.

 

ja, mud is bliss, even better if it's not deep, the best during summer.

 

Working at a plant nursery...it's great. When I see a customer coming in I just slip on some flips

 

If you can go barefoot at the nursery, then why would a customer coming cause you to put something on your feet?

 

well! i don't know about you, but i'm surely not buying plants from a man that doesn't wear shoes!
ahahaha!!!

 

What's wrong with buying plants from someone who is barefoot???? Don't get it.

 

sarcasim (sp?) i wish i could buy all my goods from barefoot folks!

 

Let’s be realistic. The average retail customer does not want to see a barefoot sales person.

 

i think this would be true.. they would think you didn't work there possibly because you don't have on a full uniform..

 

How do you know what the average customer wants to see? Sounds like you've got about as much prejudice against bare feet as a lot of foot phobics out there. The fact is, the average customer is no different from the average anybody. A few people out there don't like bare feet for whatever sick reason. But most people, though they might think it's kind of unusual, either don't really care or may think it's kind of cool. Why be your own shoe police when there's no need to be?

So unless your store or your manager forbids employees from being barefoot while working (and you didn't mention that being the case), you have nothing to be ashamed of by being barefoot in front of customers or anyone else. That's because you're doing nothing wrong.

I'd love to have a job like you have where I could go barefoot all the time.

 

Theres a small local coffee shop I go to alot and one of the girls who work there is always barefoot!! We trade barefoot tales...

 

You obviously don’t work in the retail industry. People that do, know what their average customer is like and know how to present themselves so that they are in the best position to make a sale…not a lifestyle statement.

“Sounds like you've got about as much prejudice against bare feet as a lot of foot phobics out there.” How did you pull that out of your ass? I have been bare footing since my college years which started in 1973 and the significant women in life have all been barefooters. Seems to me that you are a bitter, argumentative ass hole. Chill out man, all I said was I slip on some flips when a customer came in….What the fuck!!!!

-Terry

 

Actually I work with clients every day, but I'm required to wear shoes as well as a dress shirt and tie. If I could be barefoot I would, and I don't see how that would make any difference to my clients. They come to me for a service, not because of the way I'm dressed.

For you, going barefoot must be some kind of lifestyle statement; I think that's your problem. You don't think of it as just being normal and natural. You must think you're doing something wrong, or you wouldn't be ashamed of it or feel guilty about letting somebody see you that way. Going barefoot is not a lifestyle, and it should not be a statement, any more than going bareheaded is some kind of lifestyle or some kind of statement. It's just a personal choice of attire.

FWIW, I'm older than you and have been barefooting much longer than you. There's not a thing you can tell me about barefooting or people's reaction to it that I didn't learn about before you were in diapers. So you can sputter and curse and call names all you want, but it won't change the fact that even though you may like to go barefoot, you obviously feel there's some shame or embarrassment in doing it. Otherwise, why hide that fact from certain people when there's no need to?

Come on. You say you work in a nursery. Are you really allowed to work there barefoot? Or are you just sneaking around doing it while hiding from the boss and hiding from customers? If that's the case, I can understand your putting on footwear before a customer sees you - you don't want anybody to know, because you're doing something you're not supposed to. But if you are really allowed to be barefoot on the job there, then why hide that fact from anybody? The only reason I can think of is you're ashamed of it and think people will look down on you or think less of you if they see your bare feet - like they're going to see so much more of your feet than with your flip-flops on. What's the difference anyway? Would flip-flops make all that big a difference to some customer, so much so that it would be the difference between a sale and no sale?

Like I said, you work in a nursery - nobody cares how you're dressed or what's on your feet. What's important to any retail customer is a good product for a fair price, plus friendly and helpful service. If you can provide all that, believe me, nothing else really matters.

 

You criticize me for slipping on some flips when a customer comes into the nursery, the one that I manage, and at the same time you are wearing a dress shirt, tie, socks and shoes. You are older than me and you still haven’t figured out how to get rid of the tie, much less the shoes. I see why you are a bitter old fuck.

 

You obviously didn't read my post very well. I don't manage any business like you say you do. I work for an employer who requires a certain dress code. My only choice is not to work for this company, an option which I choose not to take. You on the other hand are - or apparently are, based on what you're saying - free to go barefoot whenever you want. Yet you don't want to go barefoot in front of certain people - even though you have the free will to do that without breaking company rules (apparently). That means you have some problem in your own mind with showing your own bare feet. You as much have said that - you think customers wouldn't like it. But that's a problem in your mind, not in reality.

The thing is - it's not customers who wouldn't like it. They wouldn't care, really. It's you who doesn't like it. You're projecting your discomfort in letting others see your bare feet on the others, the customers, but it's really you that has the problem with bare feet in public.

 

Gee whiz, folks, chill out! Let's show some respect to Boogabaah and get back on topic:

The computex computer show in Taipei, Taiwan

 

I agree with that, Seohsreven.

Appalachian Trail

 

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