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Comments

[melayka]

In my understanding there are two main reasons why we generally keep them on in America:

1) Safety. In school or at work, if there is a fire or robbery or some emergency where you have to run outside, it is safer for you to have your shoes on (if you have to step on debris or glass or hot concrete, or just to enable you to run farther without slowing from foot pain). Your feet are protected for whatever-happens.

2) It's usually considered impolite to remove your shoes at someone else's home unless they invite you to, because it's considered very casual, and implies you are going to relax and stay a long time. A person who barely knows you does not necessarily want you to stay for hours, and also does not want the personal invasion of having your potentially sweaty, smelly feet exposed to them or touching their furniture. Shoes have more bacteria, yes, but they also create a shell between your moist skin and the person whose home you are in. Leaving your shoes on gives the sense you are still fully dressed and can easily and quickly leave if asked. Friends and family are more apt to be okay with you taking your shoes off because they know you/like you/actually want you to stay.

[making_excuses]

1. Children in Norway have clearly labelled boxes with their names on with shoes and their jackets hanging over them, so it is fast and effective to make them put on shoes in an emergency (and seriously we love fire drills over here, bot the kinds everyone knows about, only the teachers knows about and then we got the ones where only the fire dept. and the principal know it is a drill). At work we do have our shoes on.

2. Really? I guess that is one way to think. If you are getting past the hallway you take of your shoes and also if you are past the hallway you are in a house to stay for at least a short while and you take your shoes off. I guess with growing up in a society that does this I never thought about feet as dirty, only shoes are dirty in my mind.

Oh and thank you for explaining it to me!

[tabaqui]

What they said. As well as - i don't want to take my shoes off in some random person's house and get who knows what on my clean feet/clean socks. No, thank you. I wipe my shoes off going in, and don't put them on the furniture and such.

[(Anonymous)]

1. Seems like that still adds a step to delay evacuation by at least a minute. Chances of that minute mattering are probably small, but still, as quick as it can it be, it is still an additional thing to do.

[making_excuses]

Somehow I managed to forget about one vital part of how school works up to 10th grade (In my defence it is years since I was young enough), everyone have indoor shoes on, so if it was an real emergency they can just walk outside in those...

[(Anonymous)]

My school had very strict rules about never ever taking shoes off inside classrooms. Except dance, because of the wood floor, and drama, though I've never been sure why shoes weren't allowed in the drama room.

It was partially because of danger if there was a fire, but mostly because it was considered a) obnoxious behaviour- too informal for a classroom and b) unhygenic to have sweaty, smelly feet around.

I remember a point in in year 11 or 12 where a handful of people got particularly enthusiastic about breaking this rule and it was hilarious how annoyed some of the teachers were getting.

As far as I can remember, most teachers didn't like people taking off even muddy and/or wet shoes before walking on the carpet.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I also went to a school where you were more likely to get yelled at for taking muddy shoes off than for tracking mud onto the carpet.

Reading these comments is so weirdly interesting, because the idea of taking shoes off anywhere other than your own home (or if they had so much mud on them it wouldn't come off on the doormat) is so utterly foreign to me.

[deadtree]

I think you hit the nail on the head with the level of "casual" that Americans perceive when they take off their shoes in someone else's house. I would only ever take off my shoes in a VERY close friend's house, and only rarely, unless I was asked. For me it's less akin to taking off a jacket and more like taking off a main article of clothing. I lived in Japan for years and never really got comfortable with the taking-shoes-off thing, either in houses or in restaurants (I was also always afraid my shoes would get lost in a restaurant lol)

[(Anonymous)]

I picked up plantar warts from someone's home because I was 'forced' to remove my shoes. Never had a problem until I went to their house and went barefoot.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't you wear socks in your shoes? That sounds sweaty and disgusting.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they were wearing flip flops.