I work in a library, and every day I have to tell people to put their shoes back on, but, ultimately, I don’t personally care if people want to be barefoot. If it were up to me, we’d just ignore it and let people be barefoot. The person most harmed by someone being barefoot is the person who makes the bizarre choice to be barefoot. I’m keeping my shoes on in public, because I know that people walk through all kinds of gross shit and then track it all over the place. You couldn’t pay me to go barefoot in some random restaurant, store, or library. If someone wants to walk around barefoot and catch toe fungus, athlete’s foot, ring worm, or plantar warts, why should other people save them from themselves?
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For all intents and purposes, I am the Barefoot Contessa.
If we let people walk around barefoot fungal infections would skyrocket. Ringworm can spread between people and animals and as someone who’s dealt with a ringworm issue from one of my cats keep your damn shoes on so it doesn’t spread so much.
It legitimately impacts others when it comes to certain fungal infections you can pick up.
Edit: to add you can infect someone with ringworm and then give it to their animal which can be extremely expensive to treat and hard. A cat I got who had it passed it to another one of my cats and having to treat her for it stressed her so much she legitimately got sick and died. Imagine how many more animals that would happen to if people were constantly passing it around.
This is Murica. We do dumb stuff here.
If people were allowed to walk barefoot in public they would most certainly go to the hospital when they inevitably caught some form of infection. Hospitals can’t refuse treatment and therefore you would be needlessly wasting hospital resources treating a preventable infection. Yes, quite a few people go to the hospital needlessly or for easily preventable problems but that doesn’t mean you should add to the issue by not wearing foot coverings.
You said it yourself. People walk through all kinds of gross shit and then track it all over the place, including through daycare centres, schools, movie theatres, grocery stores, ugh I’m going to make myself sick. It would be one thing if the gross shit stayed on the floor (maybe) but it’s constantly being kicked up and in the air. Bleech no thank you.
When they turn around a sue you for stepping on something…I also work in a library and we can’t afford lawsuits haha
It definitely doesn’t harm in a lot of places. But makes sense to enforce keeping shoes on in grocery stores or anywhere where broken glass or other hazards could potentially be on the floor. All you need is one person to step on something barefoot to get a lawsuit against your business.
If you didn’t have that rule. They would sue you the moment they did something barefoot that got them hurt. If they do that now, it’s their fault for not following your instructions.
Also if everyone did it and we didn’t try to police it at all this would lead to a health crisis.
This opinion is giving me toes-hanging-over-birkenstocks vibes
Come to Australia, we sometimes walk around outside barefoot lol.
I don’t want to see your hooves. Leave the dogs away.
Not in indoor public places but on the grass and the earth? Wonders for your mental health
I think there’s liabilities when indoors such as stepping on a rusty nail. Also you might more susceptible to germs or warts.
But I’m not against walking barefoot outside where it can be safer from potential germs.
Go walk in the sand, on the grass, or if you’re feeling adventurous, on a hike. Stay away from places that have poop around. Like farms or dog parks.
Another day, another “unpopular opinion” that’s just ignorant of why things are the way they are lol
This is an insurance issue as well as a gross issue! NO
This is one of the first TRULY unpopular (and rightfully so) opinions I’ve seen on here. Congratulations, you’re wrong (and gross), have an angry upvote.