Shoes indoors

[catorman]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> I guess someone has to be the resident freak around here, so where 
> do I sign up?
> 
> I'm wearing shoes at home *right now*.  In fact, they are clogs, so 
> I could easily move my feet 8 inches and they'd be off my feet.  
But 
> then I'd feel . . . well . . . kinda naked.  So the shoes stay on.  
> If I go to someone's house, I quietly observe whether anyone over 
> the age of 1 is wearing shoes.  If not, I disrobe, I mean, remove 
my 
> shoes.  
> 
> I don't own a pair of slippers.  Every few years, someone gives me 
> slippers, and I quietly donate them to charity.  I walk around in 
> socks for the few waking moments each day I am not wearing shoes of 
> some sort.  Slippers are for hospitals.
> 
> I like tights a lot.  I can imagine that I have Halle Berry's legs 
> if I wear a pair of tights.  I don't like stockings because they 
> run, which causes helpful people to come up and say, "Do you know 
> you have a run in your stockings?"  I always want to reply, "Yes, 
> but I'm a bag lady, so it's OK."
> 
> Cindy (who is also wearing a jacket inside right now, even though 
it 
> is a rather warm day)

Thank god I'm not the only one!  I am one of those people, who in my 
own home, doesn't own slippers (hate the things - and they are 
slippery, and therefore a health hazard).  Instead, I have a very old 
pair of loafers which are very comfortable, and which I can wear in 
the house easily, because I can kick them off and put my feet up on 
the bed/ sofa without impunity.

I also hate being told to take my shoes off in other people's houses -
makes me feel like a child, when parents used to tell us to do so if 
we'd been making mud pies or something outside in the garden.  I also 
hate sitting in Japenese restaurants where they have a shoes off 
policy - you have to be very careful about who you want to eat 
sashimi with in this situation...

Catherine