Yes, it 42 degrees C this morning. But I go barefoot to work anyway. So, having exited the commuter train and walking through the downtown building on my way to the exit (having been left completely alone---thank you all!), some clown yells out, most empatically: NO SHOES! YOU FORGOT YOUR SHOES! Neither did I turn around to see the moron not did anyone else respond to his spectacular behavior. I'll be going barefoot to work EVERY day now. There's NOTHING like encouragement!
Wish I could work barefoot. Although at the same time the requirement for steel capped boots has proved itself over and over for me. My feet would have been messed up a few times without them. Although at least that's the only place I wear shoes
I also ignore idiots who shout 'where are your shoes' in a very loud voice, usually after they've passed you and are (to them it seems) at a safe distance. I just ignore them. As does everyone else who's near me at the time. If people genuinely make the time to ask me why I'm barefoot, I'll happily engage with them. If all they want to do is shout and point out the bleedin' obvious, they don't even get the benefit of my attention... (well, clearly they do because I hear it, but I don't acknowledge it). Thankfully the nice comments continue to outweigh the bad, but the vast majority is either the double-take look, the 'omigod' gasp, or (my personal favourite) surprising comments like 'I like your hat' and no comments at all about my feet : more of those please !
Quite right! Sometimes, it can be oddly encouraging, as in "Oh, yeah? Watch THIS!!!" People aren't usually idiotic, just often enough to remind us all...
I usualy take of my shoes and socks after work,and working permanent nights,12 hour shifts on your feet,nothing is so exillerating as to feel the cool early morning ground under your bared feet.One morning,a man at the station in a show off in front of his buddies,asked me why i was barefoot.My Response was..."Sir ,first tell me,if i should answer you,how will it impact your life,and secondly,should i answer you,will it improve your life quality and mine?"he could not answer me.But,if someone asks me politely,and genuinely sincere,i use the oppertunity to witness,or as a touch point to educate people about naturism/nudism,because,being barefoot in the city,is the closest i can get to nudity untill I'm home and can get naked.
A friend of mine once had a nasty accident caused by his (compulsory) safety shoes. He stepped off his fork lift truck onto a wooden pallet which broke under his weight, and his foot shot forward into the toe of his shoe, and he cut the top of his toe on the exposed steel insert. Because of all the lethal bacteria that infest shoes, he developed cellulitis which quickly spread up his leg, and he had to go into hospital for intravenous anti-biotics. Yet he is still critical of my barefooting!
safety shoes and boots give you a false sense of total safety which eventually leads to nasty accidents. once i got a long nail in a wood board through the sole of my boot, injuring my foot. if i had been barefoot, sure i would have watched my step carefully enough to avoid that. your friend discovered that safety shoes only give you some degree of protection.
I like to go everywhere barefoot. There have been a few times when people ask me if i have forgotten my shoes at home but i just told them i dont like wearing shoes... and i have a neighbor that always has bitch fits that "its gross because i am walking on the sand barefoot." I work at goodwill and i wish i could walk barefoot... i got wrote up for half of my shirt coming out i would either get wrote up for fired for not having shoes on.
