Do you wear shoes in your house??
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omg.. I'm laaaughing right now. No, we don't wear shoes in the house. There are exceptions, but Missie I agree, yuk, might as well walk barefoot in the street... and some people do.
Anyway, I have to tell this, true story. My SO had his condo on the market. So you can imagine everything is tidy, in it's place, relatively clean, smelling good.
Okay, so a lady wanted to come and look at the place one day after work. Great! We ask that people take their shoes off or if they preferred we had booties to go over the shoes... to help keep the floor clean.
The lady arrives, really nice as she walks through the door, just got off work. She takes off her shoes. Not even 2 minutes into the showing, I start smelling something.
It got progressively stronger and all of a sudden, he obviously smelled it too, my BF instinctively blurts out, " oh I'm sorry, I think my cat may have just gone to the bathroom". 
Yes. It smelled like that.
No problem. Darn cat. We all laugh about it and move on. Shortly after she leaves. We literally open all the windows and doors. We then go right to the cat box to remove........ nothing? You got it.
Poor buddy got the blame.
It was her feet! and more than her feet, it was her SHOES! We thought, why on earth didn't she take the booties?! It's like she had no idea.
Once we realized what it was and then remembered what he said about the cat , we laughed.
Anyway, I have to tell this, true story. My SO had his condo on the market. So you can imagine everything is tidy, in it's place, relatively clean, smelling good.
Okay, so a lady wanted to come and look at the place one day after work. Great! We ask that people take their shoes off or if they preferred we had booties to go over the shoes... to help keep the floor clean.The lady arrives, really nice as she walks through the door, just got off work. She takes off her shoes. Not even 2 minutes into the showing, I start smelling something.
It got progressively stronger and all of a sudden, he obviously smelled it too, my BF instinctively blurts out, " oh I'm sorry, I think my cat may have just gone to the bathroom". Yes. It smelled like that.No problem. Darn cat. We all laugh about it and move on. Shortly after she leaves. We literally open all the windows and doors. We then go right to the cat box to remove........ nothing? You got it.
Poor buddy got the blame.It was her feet! and more than her feet, it was her SHOES! We thought, why on earth didn't she take the booties?! It's like she had no idea.
Once we realized what it was and then remembered what he said about the cat
, we laughed.
i don't wear shoes in the apt...bc it's cleaner this way. but i wear house slipper all seasons. i just don't like my feet touching the kitchen/bathroom floor. it's old apartment and they aren't clean regardless how much i clearn them..they just never look clean.
even when i go back home in HK....we also wear house slippers...just the way it is i guess.
i find it very disgusting to have your guess take off their shoes and your house aren't that clean. it happened to me and i was pissed off on the inside.
sometimes it's bad when ppl have smelly feet. i'd rather they keep their shoes on.
even when i go back home in HK....we also wear house slippers...just the way it is i guess.
i find it very disgusting to have your guess take off their shoes and your house aren't that clean. it happened to me and i was pissed off on the inside.
sometimes it's bad when ppl have smelly feet. i'd rather they keep their shoes on.
omg.. I'm laaaughing right now. No, we don't wear shoes in the house. There are exceptions, but Missie I agree, yuk, might as well walk barefoot in the street... and some people do.
Anyway, I have to tell this, true story. My SO had his condo on the market. So you can imagine everything is tidy, in it's place, relatively clean, smelling good.
The lady arrives, really nice as she walks through the door, just got off work. She takes off her shoes. Not even 2 minutes into the showing, I start smelling something.
No problem. Darn cat. We all laugh about it and move on. Shortly after she leaves. We literally open all the windows and doors. We then go right to the cat box to remove........ nothing? You got it.
It was her feet! and more than her feet, it was her SHOES! We thought, why on earth didn't she take the booties?! It's like she had no idea.
Once we realized what it was and then remembered what he said about the cat
I see this with a lot of drunk girls who can't wear their heels anymore, and every time I see it, I think to myself, "Eww, how can you into your home like that!?" If I wear sandals outside, when I get home I even wash my feet in the tub!! I don't even want me feet to touch the floor or goodness forbid the bed!! Although my foot is in a sandal, we all know that it touches other things as well. This also goes for when people wear loooong pants that touch the ground, I can't imagine them sitting on my bed with those icky bottoms touching the ground. (I know, a little OCD of me over public floors!!)
And for your story.. I just threw up a little bit in my mouth. Some people have really icky smelling work shoes. She was probably just used to the stank.
I don't wear shoes inside the house - it's just the way I was brought up. We do wear slippers though in the kitchen.
Only when I get in the door (we go in through the garage to the laundry room, not through the front door), then I take them off. It's not for any particular reason other than it's more comfy.
When people visit, they can do whatever, we're usually in the tiled areas anyway, not on the carpeted areas.
When people visit, they can do whatever, we're usually in the tiled areas anyway, not on the carpeted areas.
im the odd man out. i wear shoes in my house as does my family and any one that visits...i don't like to be bare foot [im weird!]. we have a basket by the door for shoes to go in, but that is mainly for the boys to put their shoes in so they don't misplace them.
we have wood downstairs and carpet on the stairs and in our room. our carpet is clean. the boys room is another story, and that is my 4 yr old's fault. he continues to sneak food and sippys in there...grrr. i vacuum/sweep/mop about twice a week.
we have wood downstairs and carpet on the stairs and in our room. our carpet is clean. the boys room is another story, and that is my 4 yr old's fault. he continues to sneak food and sippys in there...grrr. i vacuum/sweep/mop about twice a week.
I can't believe no one has mentioed this but - in Canada we always take our shoes off. Liek the Scandanavian comment - our weather is nasty so wearing shoes in the house would be gross.
It would be considered very rude to keep your shoes on here.
BUT I always think it's so weird that on TV shows they keep their shoes on in the house so I asked an American friend (that I met on TPF) about this and she said it was an American thing =)
OMG - this made me actually LOL and I snorted too
It would be considered very rude to keep your shoes on here.
BUT I always think it's so weird that on TV shows they keep their shoes on in the house so I asked an American friend (that I met on TPF
) about this and she said it was an American thing =)OMG - this made me actually LOL and I snorted too
omg.. I'm laaaughing right now. No, we don't wear shoes in the house. There are exceptions, but Missie I agree, yuk, might as well walk barefoot in the street... and some people do.
Anyway, I have to tell this, true story. My SO had his condo on the market. So you can imagine everything is tidy, in it's place, relatively clean, smelling good.
The lady arrives, really nice as she walks through the door, just got off work. She takes off her shoes. Not even 2 minutes into the showing, I start smelling something.
No problem. Darn cat. We all laugh about it and move on. Shortly after she leaves. We literally open all the windows and doors. We then go right to the cat box to remove........ nothing? You got it.
It was her feet! and more than her feet, it was her SHOES! We thought, why on earth didn't she take the booties?! It's like she had no idea.
Once we realized what it was and then remembered what he said about the cat
that is hysterical!
Her feet and shoes both must have been smelling
I used to do this too, until my Mom told me it's illegal in California to drive w/o shoes.
Wow! Is it? haha Good thing I'm in the Lone Star State then!