Since i first joined an internet barefoot community - it was the SBL by the way, with all of its good and woes - I started reading account of unsuspected things from my regional point of view, like great chains of stores placing NSNSNS signs or people in public buildings being harassed because of nonexistent laws or highway patrolmen questioning barefoot driving etc. Btw this induced some thought about the differences between the USA and Italy, the most prominent being that in the general contempt for laws and rules in which we live bare feet are never questioned because of written prescriptions here, both existing or not. It seemed strange to me that a store expelled their customers renouncing to their money but one of the good outcomes of a very bad situation like the current italian one, where the justice system is purposely not working and civil trials last for 10, 20 or 30 years (i am not kidding) , no one dares to sue anybody over trivial things, so , at least...store owners are not nervous about customers suing them over a cut sole. But i was thinking, it is easy to carelessly kick ONE barefoot customer from wal-mart but what if there is a crowd of them ? Hence the idea of the barefoot flash mob . This kind of happenings usually involve doing something weird, and in the common opinion of today being barefoot is weird. Do you think it is possible to make critical mass and explode into a big barefoot unfriendly store,getting possibly media coverage ?
Hi Jagerhans, i have been following your anti-corruption tirades with interest as i have some minor experience of it myself. In the summer of '05, i was voyage crew on the sail training ship STS Stavros Niarchos, and we called at Gaeta, Civitavecchio (for Rome) and Naples. We had a good time in what are beautifull cities, but in Naples, when the ship tried to leave, we were told our papers were not in order (no problem anywhere else). In order to put them in order, the captain handed over a sackfull of cigarettes, and off we went! It's a pity such a beautifull country has such ugly politics. By the way, in one of those ports,(i can't remember which) two local men came on board and one of them was barefoot, and judging by their super-tough appearance he was a full timer, so you're not the only Italian barefooter. Unless that was you...
