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Forever #1: That they always wear shoes in the house!!!

This

Oh, and that they don't find all those almost-threatening Christian billboards along their highways as horrifically creepy as I do.

Er, how do you know they don't? Such signs are common around here but frankly, it's the small, hand painted ones that are the creepiest. Billboards tend to be something most people ignore because well, they're billboards.

Oh man. I live in the heart of Silicon Valley California, and i drive past a Baptist church on my way to work. They have one of those signs where you have all the letters and spell your own messages out, and they regularly put up things like (no, really):

1 CROSS + 3 NAILS = 4 GIVEN

and

KNOW JESUS. KNOW PEACE.
NO JESUS? NO PEACE!

My favorites are the ones that say JESUS IS ALIVE BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT

like

no, motherfucker, that's not what that means

YES!!! Theres a big billboard on the corner by my house and that was on the billboard for a week or so earlier this year! My husband would shake his head and say "That's not what that means...." Every. Time.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

maximumhusky - 2018-05-13 00:24 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

(Anonymous) - 2018-05-13 01:15 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

maximumhusky - 2018-05-13 02:15 (UTC) - Expand

4 given, 0 fucks given....

So glad I live in coastal California and almost never see these. I don’t have the engineering expertise to rig a paintball catapult, but covering the creepiness with paint splatter is tempting.

I'm American and I find them creepy as fuck, but then again I'm an atheist.

They're creepy as hell TBH.

But... we don't

I'm Canadian and I thought you guys did? My aunt/cousins live all throughout the American South & always have to remind us not take off our shoes at the door. And I've been to a few parties in New York state where everyone kept their shoes on (even in the middle of winter!), so that's my experience.

I mean, it depends on where you are, and also what the circumstances are, and the kind of floor that it have, etc. There just aren't really any universal norms about it.

I think it's probably true that Americans are more likely to have guests keep their shoes on, especially if it's not a carpeted floor. But that's as far as I'd go with it.

That's still a pretty small sample size, though. I've been to parties where I've been told there's no need to take my shoes off, but that's the hosts trying to make sure I'm not uncomfortable running around in socks/bare feet. And I wouldn't expect formal parties to involve taking one's shoes off.

I live in western N.Y. state, where we get a metric fuckton of snow (roughly), and everyone i know takes their snowy/salty shoes/boots off at the door for most normal/informal occasions. (Most take them off all year round). If its a formal party, generally not, though.

Depends on the household. Some do, some don't. I wear my shoes in my house but...I also own a broom and vacuum. So I have the ability to clean my floors. Also, I am not running around in the mud or anything so they don't get that dirty.

Edited 2018-05-12 22:06 (UTC)

Okay. For starters, when you're talking about an entire country with a population of 300+ million people, there is no "always" for anything. No one in my family wears shoes inside the house. I can't think of a single person I know personally who does that. In summer, I'm barefoot. In winter, I wear socks and slippers for warmth.

Since most of the commenters so far are contrarians, I'm an American and I do this all the time. My dad and most of my relatives on his side do too. It's gross when I stop to think about it, tracking shit from the outside, but it's too ingrained in me now. XD

I never wear shoes inside. My parents do, but they both have specifically indoor shoes. My dad stubs his toes all the time when he's not wearing shoes, and my mom is paranoid about worms and such.

As others have said, not everyone wears shoes in their house. I kick them off as soon as I come home and I also take them off when I go to a close friend's house. However, I keep them on when I'm visiting someone I don't know or am not very close to.

For the record, generally in the Southeast US and also in Hawaii it's pretty common to take your shoes off when you enter the house. My family (Mississippi) always had a big pile of shoes by the door because it was expected you'd take them off.

When I moved to Hawaii I noticed even when looking at houses with the realtor we'd take our shoes off before entering, when I had people come in and do work on my kitchen and ceiling fans the guys took their shoes off, pretty much every house has some kind of thing by the door for people to put their shoes, a condo I stayed in for a couple of nights on Kauai had something for people's shoes, as did a B&B I stayed in on the Big Island. So yeah, it's a big cultural thing here. (Of course, there's a heavy Asian influence so that probably has something to do with it.)

chiming in to say that in the Midwest you NEVER wear shoes in the house. Winter is gross and anyone who tracks salt, mud, and slush on my carpets will be destroyed.

like, I can see from the Canadian's example that formal parties might be an exception, but I've also never gone to a formal party. even our Halloween parties, when shoes might make the costume, shoes stay off. dirt and wet do not get spread in the house.

Echoing all of this. Anytime I've gone to friends' and relatives' homes I was asked to remove my shoes and leave them by the door. And I certainly never bother walking around in shoes when I'm just lounging at home.

No, not true. Northern Midwesterners definitely do not. Minnesotan here, and I had no idea other areas of the country did this until I moved to a coast. It's sure not normal where I'm from.

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