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⌈ Secret Post #4253 ⌋

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Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

Walking around barefoot at home and outdoors in summer. I did kind of realise young enough that people didn't like me walking barefoot in shops and things, but it really did surprise me later on how much people are weirded out by me being barefoot in the house, or walking the dog barefoot in summer, or what have you.

Also, sitting on the floor a lot. At home it's fairly common for my family to sit on the floor if need be, even for dinner, because we often eat together in the sitting room and it's easier to do that on the floor where you can lay things out. But in my Nan's house it's only acceptable to sit on the floor if you're, like, five or under, and a few other places I've sat down on the floor because we ran out of chairs or whatever a good few people seem upset about it.

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

Wait what. Who wears shoes in the house? That's disgusting. Think about what you're tracking in...

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently around here they do. The only place I've ever been where people took their shoes off once indoors was my first primary school, where we were supposed to have little indoor slipper-shoe things. Every other house and public building I've ever been in, short of a swimming pool, people seem to prefer you to keep your shoes on.

I have seen people go around in socks at home, or slippers. Pretty much never barefoot, though.

Outdoors, it might be partly a generational thing. Several older people I've talked to have been more accepting and/or admiring if they've met me barefoot outdoors, while a lot of middle aged and younger people really aren't.

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

I wear shoes in the house, but only because my feet are fucked up. I'd prefer to be barefoot. Also, I don't wear the inside shoes outside.

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[cakemage]

Same. I have plantar fasciitis, which put an end to my barefoot days. Sure do miss going shoe-less around the house, I tell you what.

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

If you're going barefoot outdoors, you're going to track everything in, anyway.

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

That's what doormats are for.

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

I still walk around barefoot a lot because I don't like shoes, but I don't think I could walk my dog barefoot because stupid people like to smash their glass bottles on the sidewalks and the asphalt's burning hot for most of the day.

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

Temperature would defintely be a consideration, yeah, but I live in a pretty temperate area. We'd usually top out around 30 degrees C at an absolute maximum, so it's usually okay. My sisters and I did memorably walk through semi-melted tar once when we were younger, but it was fine, it just peeled off once it was solid again. Glass mostly doesn't bother me, since I'm fairly conscious of where I'm putting my feet, and they're also pretty tough. It's a running joke in my family that I basically have hobbit feet - I've spilled boiling water on them to little effect, pulled slivers of glass out of them with little blood, and one particular summer as a kid, when I started shedding some of the dead skin again come autumn, a small rain of splinters got shed with it that I'd basically never noticed going in.

I just have hobbit feet, I think. Short of me actually bashing them with rocks, the only thing that bothers them is the cold.

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

That's not abnormal at all here, at least the indoors part (outdoors people would be worried about stepping on sharp things/burning their feet since it gets super hot here). I don't think I know anyone who wears shoes indoors (or at least if they do, they don't think it's weird that other people don't).

And sitting on the floor is not considered weird here either. It's super common to have meals on the floor because it's easier in certain circumstances, and people make jokes about "having a picnic". People like your nan exist, but they're considered uptight and needlessly prim and proper, not that they're normal and everyone else is weird.

Honestly, I think a lot of the things in this thread are regional/cultural.