Those of us wearing shoes for fall/winter: Get comments on your shoes?

Kia Ora Ni Hao!

I have received some comments, a few of them funny, from clerks who are used to seeing me barefoot. My favorite was a lady who said "hold on! we can't serve him!... he's wearing shoes" I thought that was funny because it is usually the other way around. I have also gotten more than a couple "wow, youre actually wearing shoes!" or "nice shoes". Does anyone else "get crap" when they finally start wearing shoes?


Cheers!

 

Ah, yes, those attempted jocular comments, such as "it must be really cold - he's wearing shoes..." - I get those on a regular basis as soon as colder times set in and early morning frost makes me wear my foot coffins on the way to work...
I hope that these times will be rare, though. I would opt for a mild winter after the last rather cold and long one.

Wiggling toes, still bare in cool but nice autumn weather,

~*Ganesha*~

 

Whenever the weather makes me wear shoes, someone always says something like "what's up John, going soft are we?"

 

"no shirt. no shoes. no service!"


i have always wondered, what would happen, if i walked into a restaurant wearing only shirt and shoes and, nothing else!
:biggrinjester:

 

I've had a few comments on this already on the two days in recent times where I had to wear shoes, one for a job interview, the other a visit to the vet's office. Otherwise still shoe-loose and fancy free - still mild here in the UK (10C to 15C temp-wise)

 

Well, Johnny Knoxville did just that in one older episode of "Jackass", freaking an elderly Asian woman out in her little general store.

Wiggling bare toes, but wearing pants - or sometimes a skirt (well, outside my apartment, that is),

~*Ganesha*~

 

Check out the Vibram fivefingers shoes-the Flow model is insulated for colder weather,but they still feel barefoot! Pricey though...

 

well there is a huge second-hand goods shop i roam looking mainly for books where this Albanian guy is employed and he welcomes me with an eloquent
«ah-haaa!!!!» in the fairly rare occurrences of me stepping in shod, to emphasize the triumph of footwear and cold weather over my foolish barefootedness.

 

apart from the whooping price i find 5-fingers (btw, shouldn't they be called 5-toes ?) utterly ridiculous, it takes more nerves showing up in those bizarre cartoon-like foot gloves than being simply and cheaply barefoot. just my opinion of course. also, if the large public gets to know the price god have mercy on us... a ticket to become a laugh piece.

 

One of the benefits of being an original hippy is that I am old enough to not give a fig if someone laughs at my shoes. When I was young,they laughed at my hair,my clothes,my car.....just another example of how some things never change. Peace.