Bowling shoes? YUCK.

I called bowl america a couple of minutes ago and they say that you're not allowed to bowl barefoot or socks. Doesn't that suck?

 

bowling shoes rock, people use to steal them here^^

 

i thought the reason they made them so ugly was so that people WOULDN'T steal them....ehh.

 

Maybe you should just go and try to bowl barefoot anyways. Most places when you ask them the usual can I go shirtless/barefoot question theyll usually say no even if they dont have a rule or dont enforce it. So just go and try it barefoot and most likely they wont do anything. I dont know what theyre so worried about anyways. If getting hurt is a problem then its none of their concern cuz they basically told you to wear bowling shoes and if you dont and get hurt then its basically your fault so I mean I dunno what theyre so worried about.

 

No its not... it happened on their property.... they're still at fault for not enforcing the rule..... its just like now... a bar can get in trouble if a drunk guy gets in an accident that was just at your bar becuase i guess you're technically reliable for how drunk your customers get.. and what even puts a bigger nail in the coffin is that the owner of the building, who may not be the owner of the business, also gets in trouble as well.. aint that some bullshit.... government is more or less telling people that, hey some drunk people arent responsible with their drinking... so you're responsible for them.. aint that a bunch of BS.... sorry for rambling

 

I don't care what they say... You drop a bowling ball on your barefeet, it's gonna hurt like a mother.... on the other hand, you drop a bowling ball on those ugly ass bowling shoes, you won't even feel it. It will just feel like you dropped a feather on your foot. THose things are very re-inforced ya know.
Uhh, hello? Shoes or no shoes, you are gonna be hurting either way.

I can understand not bowling in socks, because you will go slippin and a slidin all over the place. but with barefeet, you have plenty of traction. Thats why we have toe-prints, and finger-prints, and hand-prints, and foot-prints. It's all for traction. and ofcourse for the Government so they can all watch us as if we were mice in a cage, or little ants working on a farm.

I always think about calling places to ask if they allow barefoot patrons. Then I realize like what NudistMike07 said. It really is worthless, and you will most likely get "No's" whilst you could probably do many places 4 and a half trillion times before anyone would approach you, and quote Lloyd Christmas, and say in a snotty nasal voice... "You can't do that."

Just take your chances.

 

You're supposed to be able to slide. Watch a pro bowler, or someone good at the bowling alley; it's part of the follow through, keeps the shot smooth. Thus the bowling shoes.

 

Yeah, not being allowed to go barefoot anywhere really SUCKS. What does it fucking matter? I bet I could bowl better barefoot.

 

I was a serious bowler at one time, thus I personally would wear bowling shoes for the purpose of sliding when delivering the ball on the alley. Although if I had a choice either to wear bowling shoes that others have worn or bowl in barefeet, I'd take barefeet any day. I could just imagine the swarms of bacteria that are swimming in those bowling shoes, talk about being unhygenic!!!

Ever since I started with bowling I've always had a pair of my own shoes, and one of the few pairs of closed toed shoes that I own.

I'd say go ahead and try it barefoot, the management may not see you do it anyway.

 

Yeah, but you're not supposed yto be sliding as much as you would in socks.
That's just an accident waiting to happen.

 

If you really care about your score, you probably need the slide bowling shoes will give you. On the other hand, if you're just bowling a friendly game and if you're happy the ball hits something, then bare feet should be fine. And I agree, I wouldn't want to wear rented shoes! Since learning what foot odor comes from, I don't want to wear shoes that are worn by all kinds of people all the time... even if they use some kind of disinfectant spray as I've seen done sometimes.

 

Hey if im dumb enough to go barefoot then I obviously would know the risks and know my score would be different than if I wore shoes. That oughta be my choice instead of some fruitloop telling me I have to wear shoes just so I dont slip or so I get a better score. Thats my problem not theirs. Im old enough so i dont need anybody runnin any business taking care of me and telling me whats best for me.

 

Thats why the laws need to be rewritten so that it is clear what you can and cant sue a business for and what they can and cannot make you do or deny you service someplace for. Also lawyers should be smart and if they know that some lawsuit case is just crap then they should tell the people that its a waste of time and they dont have a case and then that would eliminate alot of these friviolous lawsuits.

If the business has a sign saying that you wear shoes for saftey and then you chose not to and then you get hurt, its your fault because you read the sign, you knew what the rules were and you chose willingly not to follow them. Thats not the businesses fault if yorue obnoxious and dont chose to follow the rules. The business cant enforce rules with everybody all of the time and even when they do people get hurt. People are just sue happy and lawyers dont know when to say enough is enough and not take frivolous cases.

 

I wouldn't mind this so much if they weren't so inconsistant about their 'concern'. Okay, I suppose a bowling alley probably wouldn't allow high heels & such (that *would* make it hard to do any bowling, and they'd likely be concerned about their floor, spike heels can make little dimples in soft wooden floors). But all those stores/malls/various places that cite 'safety' as their concern? They all allow platform shoes, high heels, loose flipflops, brand-new designer shoes with slick, leather soles, etc, etc. For them, putting up a sign 'wet floor' after they've mopped is enough, but bare feet need to be banned entirely? They may SAY their rule has to do with a genuine concern for your safety, or with their insurance, or with a fear of being sued, but as long as they allow all those other things, it's nothing but a false claim from people who either have a personal problem with bare feet, or who are afraid of anything that is 'different'. Bare feet are different, they're considered weird, there aren't many of them so it doesn't cost much loss of business to turn us away... That's why bare feet are not allowed, not because any genuine safety concern (apart from those places where, indeed, the manager/owner/etc insists on 'sturdy shoes' but I've never seen a store/mall like that... maybe some hiking guides, sports schools etc, and of course construction sites and the like).

 

Yeah its just like places that ban shirtless men but still allow women to wear skimpy revealing clothing. You cant tell me thats because of health or saftey concerns because a few inches of fabric that are different between what the man and woman has on isnt gonna make a whole lot of difference health or saftey wise. When stores or malls have rules like this its simply because of some personal problem and not because of health or saftey because if it was then both men and women would have to be equally covered up.

 

Not to be an ass or anything, but you would go barefoot where others have gone barefoot, but you wouldn't put your feet in shoes that other people have?

Hmmm.

 

This reminds me an an urban legend special I saw on TV once, where they talked about picking up germs from toilet seats, and they had some science team go into a local tavern's bathroom and swab everything for bugs. The toilet seat was almost completely clean, but the faucet handles and door handles were swarming with bacteria. And yet people will open the door bare handed, but will put toilet paper or those little paper doilies on the toilet seat before they sit down. We're a weird species.

But yeah, I see where Myranya is coming from. The streets/floors/etc. are open to air typically and so bacteria and fungus, etc. might not have anywhere to breed. In shoes, they will find every corner and crevice and they will breed like gangbusters. I think that it's pretty common of barefooters to view shoes as "bacteria traps". I wouldn't necessarily think the same thing of the floor...at least not in my neighborhood.

 

True, bacterias can't breed very easily on the ground, but they can still live there for a limited time. If a bunch of people with athletes foot, or any other foot fungus, or diseases walk somewhere, and you walk there shorty after, Whatever they are carrying will be transmitted to your feet too.

I know the chances aren't all that high, but it's still a point worth discussing.

With bowling shoes, they do spray those with disinfectant, and unless you're retarded, you wear socks with them. So when you get home, you take off your socks, and wash them, and wash your feet. You're not really running much of a risk. It just seems like it. Same as barefooting out in public.

 

Not like in a closed, dark, warm environment like the inside of a shoe. It's not the exposure of bacteria I have a problem with, it's what happens afterwards Think back of highschool biology; that's exactly the kind of environment bacteria & fungi love to multiply, they don't do half as well in a light, well-ventilated place. Since I've been going barefoot and have given it some thought, I think closed shoes are disgusting in any case; wearing a pair many other people have worn is out of the question. If I'd be bowling for an entire evening, I do believe the risk would be higher than when my feet are out in the open, even if many other people were barefoot. Even with socks; many barefooters, who're really used to having their feet breathe, will sweat quite a bit when in closed shoes so it'd get pretty nasty in there pretty quick (even quicker than for most people who're used to wearing closed shoes), and the bacteria would easily make it through a sock.

 

That is true, and I do agree with you mostly. However, there are always pro's and con's to everything. I trust the disinfectants pretty much. I hate wearing shoes too, but sometimes, it is very difficult to avoid shod situations.

I used to own my own pair of bowling shoes, but I grew out of them, and I think I have bowled maybe twice in the past 6 years, so this problem doesn't really affect me much.

I hate that I have to wear shoes at work. I wore my flip flops twice at my current job, and no one seemed to care. I don't think I could get away with it every day though. I asked them if it was ok to wear jeans to work, and they said as long as you don't do it every day, and as long as they are nice looking jeans.
So I assume the same would go fore sandals, or flops.

So I have to wear slacks a couple times a week, and sandals and slacks is a fashion no no.

So I know what you mean about how sufficating it is to have footwear on.

If I had it my way, I would never ever put on another sock, or shoe in my life, but we don't live in a prefect world. (That's why there's Wallgreens)