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To think wearing shoes indoors is disgusting?

542 replies

CJ2010 · 07/03/2011 20:24

I have a 'No shoes worn in the home' rule at my own house but I have noticed that a lot of people are not fussed if peps walk into their houses with their shoes on. Why do they allow this?

Last night when I arrived at my mum's, she ordered me not to enter the living room, as she had accidentially trod dog poo through the room and was busy scrubbing the floor. All because she bizzrely wears her shoes in her home. How hard is it to take your shoes off in the hallway, once you get home?

I tried to hide my annoyance as it is her home, but I wouldn't allow DD to crawl about on the floor. The room stunk of poo and i felt sick.

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BaroqueAroundTheClock · 08/03/2011 10:38

I've lived in some rough old places I tell you - but the only time I ever saw human shit on the floor was in Zimbabwe in an area where there was no sewage system and it wasn't pretty.....

I think you'll find that even the "shoes in house" people take their shoes off if they've stood in dog shit Hmm

SeeJaneKick · 08/03/2011 10:38

Omiran....I live in a city...if you live somewhere "naicer" then good on you.

Ormirian · 08/03/2011 10:39

Well even when I lived in a city I didn't see human excrement on the streets. And LOL at thinking where I live is 'naice'.

SeeJaneKick · 08/03/2011 10:39

Baroque....here there are a lot of drug addicts who defecate in various places.

FindingStuffToChuckOut · 08/03/2011 10:40

All shoes should be left parked up next to the toilet brushes Shock

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 08/03/2011 10:41

well yes we have drug addicts too - tey tend to congregate in the park at the children's play area at night and piss and vomit where the children play..........

They still don't shit (of it they do someone cleans it up before we get there Grin)

And besides dog shit, human shit, fox shit, any sort of shit EVEN THE SHOES IN HOUSE PEOPLE TAKE THEM OFF RATHER THAN TRAIPSING SHIT THROUGH THE HOUSE

inkyfingers · 08/03/2011 10:47

Insulting to be told to take your shoes off as it assumes that I have walked through dog shit and haven't noticed. that's what door mats are for and what I would use in someone's house.

do you have parties and expect everyone to leave their shoes by the door? What's so special about your £££ carpets? Do you live in a sterile space? What about people walking about with veruccas and foot infections? No doubt they have to leave at the door.

LemonDifficult · 08/03/2011 10:48

ROFL at where this has gone.

Look, if you've been out at night in a shanty town doing repair work on the sewage system in your Timberlands, then it would be best to take them off before you come in.

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 08/03/2011 10:50

oooo hell no my Timberlands woudln't be getting anywhere near the shanty town sewage system Grin

SeeJaneKick · 08/03/2011 10:55

inky....we can't always SEE what we have walked through.

Can you see the snotty spit that some filthy person has flobbed on the pavement near your house?

I can't and I don't want it waked through my house where my toddler sits.

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 08/03/2011 10:58

do you never let your toddler sit outside them? Go to the beach, the park, in the garden???

ChutesTooNarrow · 08/03/2011 11:02

I had to take my shoes off to view a house yesterday. I can't remember a thing about the house as I spent most of the viewing staring at the carpets and thinking they weren't even that nice or new to be so precious over. Then had the slightly unnerving experience of the estate agent talking to my arse about the price whilst I was bent over trying to lace up my shoes.

I don't think we will be putting an offer in.

KnittedBreast · 08/03/2011 11:03

when i was in slough i saw an old tramp have a poo in a busy under ground pass, i saw the poo fall. it was disgusting.

just thought i would share that

inkyfingers · 08/03/2011 11:03

No one wants filthy carpets, and we all hoover up regularly Wink and dog s on carpet is ab. disgusting. Has anyone become ill through microscopic dirt from snotty spit? I would def take my shoes off if asked - not sure you'll ask me in though Grin

SeeJaneKick · 08/03/2011 11:05

Well yes I do Baroque.....on a blanket or a bench! Not on the pavement!

There you go Knitted....they DO do it at times...some of them are too far gone to find toilets.

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 08/03/2011 11:06

I have very distant memories of making and eating mudpies at my mums allotment when I was very young.....

I dread to think what was in that soil, having gone back to see the place as an adult, near the woods, in the country, probably rats, foxes, every other creature imaginable

Actually I have had human crap on my carpets...........(and current wooden floors) DS1 and 3 were terrible when they were potty training and frequently it ended up where it shouldn't have done - blurghh.

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 08/03/2011 11:07

and they've never crawled off, and never picked at the soil, or stuck their fingers in the mud or licked the play equipment as one of mine did??

I could never keep any of mine on a blanket or bench when they were little Grin

expatinscotland · 08/03/2011 11:10

There's no way in hell I could keep any of mine on a blanket or bench once they started moving around.

LemonDifficult · 08/03/2011 11:10

To all posters -

I have said I'm happy for you to visit my house with your shoes on. However, if you have knowingly walked through tramp shite on an underpass please could you let me know beforehand? (And not mind when I howl with laughter.)

In the event of tramp shite we can have our coffee outside.

Ephiny · 08/03/2011 11:11

I never wear shoes at home and find it a bit odd that anyone would. Surely it's more comfortable to take them off, and maybe put on some nice soft cosy slippers in winter, or be barefoot when it's hot? And it does keep the carpets cleaner and stop them getting worn out so quickly (I think). I'm not particularly houseproud (not at all in fact) but it just seems obvious to me that you take your shoes off when you come in.

I wouldn't demand that anyone took their shoes off when coming into my house, though most people notice that I take mine off and do the same, which is the polite thing to do IMO. If I'm visiting someone else's house, I do what they do.

mhk1 · 08/03/2011 11:19

Its a strange one. in some countries like sweden and germany pretty much everyone takes their shoes off at the door no matter who they are going, and it is seen as pretty disgraceful if you dont. I was once at a party there and found it crazy that all 25 people or so took their shoes off at the door!
When i think of it, it does make a lot of sense and is so much cleaner. Ideally, i would love to follow the same rules for my house, but I'm simply never going to be able to follow these rules while carrying in shopping or nipping back in because i've left my phone...never mind the kids!

SeeJaneKick · 08/03/2011 11:49

Well of course they crawled off...but I have wipes and use them on their hands...I'm not a nutter.

expatinscotland · 08/03/2011 11:50

'I'm not a nutter.'

You chase your child around and wipe their hands everytime they get off the matt or bench?

Okay.

Hmm
MrsH75 · 08/03/2011 11:58

I take my shoes off by default in other people's houses but don't bother so much in my own - unless I know they are muddy.

I do like to get out of my shoes and into slippers, or barefoot/flip flops in summer asap though, but more for reasons of comfort than cleanliness.

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 08/03/2011 12:01

omg life is too short but be chasing a new mobile baby, or just learned to walk toddler around to wipe their hands if they stray off the mat.

I hope you wiped their knees and bottoms (the clothes that is not the flesh part - unless they were uncovefed) so that the germs on their knees and bums didn't transfer to your carpets at home later

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