When I go to to someone’s house for the first time I like to try and casually discover if they have a shoes on or shoes off policy. Usually a shoes off place will have an elaborate shoe removal and storage area just inside the door. If it’s ambiguous I will begin to take my shoes off and then wait for either “Put your shoes over here.” or “Oh, you don’t have to take your shoes off.”
This is a courtesy that has never been deployed by any person I have paid to come into my house to repair something. I doesn’t matter what snow, rain or mud they just walked through. It’s now being tracked back and forth through my living room.
That ain’t Bigfoot – Them’s my brother’s foot prints. Why didn’t I get an invite too..?
Is it just me, or does Biff have GNOME logos on his floor? They’ve got one toe print too many, but still …
Don’t you have foot rug’s at your house’s entrance, in the US? to clean your feet?
Sure we do.
Mud still gets in, when there’s enough of it.
See, the solution here is when they track crap through your house, you bring them either a mop (if wood or linoleum) or a steam cleaner (if carpeted) and say “Now clean it up.”
Seems to be an American thing. Here in Canada, we always take our shoes off.
Mystical creatures week?
@Rhiakath: We do have doormats. They just don’t use them.
I have found that the solution is to not wear shoes in the first place. However, I do carry a rag with me to wipe my feet and I have socks standard issue in some of my bags.
OMG, he knows big foot?? I do wonder how a garden party would go over with a fellow like that.
@maskedman those are also my sisters foot prints
@mysteryman203;
OK, now I’m worried… Is there something my brother hasn’t been telling me..?
I don’t get those crazy countries where people have shoes on all day long. You get smelly feet, you’re never comfortable and you bring in roughly 600% more dirt indoors which you then spread around everywhere. Maybe it’s a remnant of the age of dirt floors?
LOL! Petunia in the movie “The Stupids” does this with a watermelon, though the results are not hardly as messy
And I just commented on the wrong cartoon… That’s the danger in multitabbed cartoon browsing lol… I was meaning #795