Timberland Homme Are there really this many people that havent encountered shoes off as an everyday common practice

Are there really this many people that haven’t encountered shoes off as an everyday common practice? It’s every Timberland Femme day life. How is it possible that there are soooo many people this clueless about common curtsey?

You’re joking right? This is a bunch of off site lurkers trying to force an argument and drive up hits for apartment therapy, right. Shoes off is so every day, its remarkable there are this many people that aren’t used to it. Shoes off is the default everywhere I go in the SF, Oakland, SJ, Berkeley, etc. Small parties and big parties included. It’s really NOT a big deal.

Sure, if you have a serious foot or health condition, then wear your shoes. BTW I’ve never seen anyone confronted about wearing their shoes, but once they come inside and see EVERYBODY else isn’t, they normally go back to the porch/entry/front door and remove their shoes. Mind you, I’m not talking about at my house, it’s TN Requin everywhere, and I go out enough to be referring to more than just a dozen situations. It’s all the time. This is really mind-blowing that so many people are so upset about taking off their shoes that they’re actually trying to defend wearing shoes at someone’s house party!

Even indoor/outdoor parties are mostly shoes off. There are normally plenty of flip-flops around and a lot of people are used to bringing their own. This isn’t the Cold North, or Canada, or the Bowery, its North Beach, Jack London, Marin, Palo Alto, Richmond Dist, Santana Row, Haight, Berkeley Hills etc. Not a single cookie cutter suburban home with wall to wall beige carpets. Still, it’s no shoes and no big deal. No temper tantrums, no missing Manolos, no big deal. Sweaty feet? Wipe ‘em off in the bathroom. Hole in your socks? Ask the host for a pair or grab one of the extra pair of slippers. It’s really not that difficult.

If you don’t have a medical condition, what’s the problem? Is your personal self image THAT tied to wearing shoes? What parties and what people do you hang out TN Requin with where having ugly socks or being short is grounds to be dismissed and/or ignored at a party?

Glass on the floor? Come’on. Things get broken at parties ALL THE TIME. Everyone freezes and it gets cleaned up. NO BIG DEAL. Infants play on carpets, toddlers run on the hardwood, nobody gets sick from foot lice, or contracts athlete’s foot, or dies from foot odor. Got any more wild excuses?

Look, if you’re that hung up, leave your shoes on. You’re still welcome to hang out. After a while you’ll get over yourself and join everyone else in relaxing and end up removing your shoes anyway. Until then, just know, nobody is as hung up as you over fashionable shoes, your ugly feet, your holey socks, your sweaty pads, your hairy toes, your corns, your thin ankles or whatever it is you’re so self conscious about. If your “condition†was that bad to begin with, you wouldn’t be going out in the first place.

Here’s one last word of support. Recycling took a small learning curve. Now you’re used to it. Organic food was once, Huh? Now it’s becoming every day. You’ve learned how to use email and surf the web. You’ll be able to master removing your shoes at parties and eventually it will be so common place, you’ll be as amazed you ever gave it a second thought. Be pissed all you want, but it’s not that big a deal. Really.