Pyjamas at hotel breakfast

[flyingpigsinclover]

We were staying overnight in a hotel last night (after a small domestic emergency so had left the house in a hurry), over breakfast this morning a family of five came down for breakfast with all the children in pyjamas and dressing gowns and barefoot. they were aged about eight to fifteen or so.

Aibu to think that this is not really acceptable?

Good grief. What do you do in those vast areas of the world where pretty well everyone is barefoot? Shudder non-stop?

But that is just it, its context appropriate behaviour - in parts of the world where this is the norm then of course you adjust accordingly. Wearing pyjamas and bare feet in a hotel dining space described in the OP is, thankfully, not the social norm and therefore people should dress accordingly. Hence, why the 98 year old man remonstrated with them.

'Good grief. What do you do in those vast areas of the world where pretty well everyone is barefoot? Shudder non-stop?'

It's unconscionable, isn't it? And they don't even have showers twice a day! But well, at least there's no reason to clutch the pearls when they come to a house and you don't have to ask them to take off their shoes.

But the flight - so not specifically bound by any cultural foot-related taboos - was not OK? Is it iffy if I am barefoot, as I have my
father’s white colouring, but not DP as he has his father’s Asian colouring, even though we are both mixed-race?

'How can you tell?'

Oh, Lweji, of course she can tell!

I would say that social convention dictates that reasonable and polite behaviour on a night time flight is not to take your shoes off and present your sweaty feet to your fellow passengers who don't know you from Adam.. really is this a controversial view?

You didn’t say ‘I don’t need to see bare feet in cold countries’ you said bare feet per se. The foot-repulsion appears to transcend place.

Foot fungus, motherinferior. Is that clear enough for you? I don't like to walk around in the wake of manky feet in a place food is being served, even if I'm wearing shoes myself.
Some may find that odd; I find your assertion that everyone's feet are worthy of being sculpted by da Vinci and smell of Chanel no 5 equally strange.
Such is life.

The point about barefoot countries is even more daft than the asserattaion they've fled a house fire

I was always told that the sign of a truly classy hotel, is that they would not give a fuck about what you were wearing

They give many fucks. Some places admittedly don't always let you know how fucks they are actually giving.

There won't be any complimentary Champagne cocktails at dinner though.

I didn’t say all feet were equally lovely. Nor do I think most feet are repulsive. They’re just feet, and walking around barefoot or taking your shoes off on a flight is hardly controversial. You seriously expect the poor sods to keep shoes on while they sleep?

I’d perhaps take little ones, up to 4 in pjs but older than that we got them dressed. Wouldn’t stress too much. Not sure how dirty and disgusting children get when asleep. Mine don’t sweat and have a bath or shower at bedtime and would be lying in clean hotel sheets, then eating their own breakfast and not swimming in Someone Else’s so not sure why it’s grim? I wouldn’t shower them in a morning?...
I would ensure they wore slippers or shoes Mind you

Lots of fuss over nothing

No but they can put some socks on and cover up their feet so I don't have to look at them! I do not want to see hairy toes on bare feet that have been encased in shoes all day thanks...

Why wouldn't they? They keep their clothes on (hopefully)

This thread is totally bonkers

I doubt I would have noticed. I'd be too busy enjoying breakfast and chatting to my own family.

Who's we, Green? Please, speak for yourself. Plenty of people just don't give a rat's arse what other people do if it doesn't impact on them personally.

So people disrespecting you and other diners doesn't impact you?

My post clearly said We aren't offended by PJ worn by those we chose to live with - I am offended by strangers having no curtesy in public spaces

motherinferior is doing some sterling work on this thread, IMO.

I also don't understand the bare foot repulsion to the extent displayed on this thread, but that said, I do find feet a bit weird. They're sort of naked and vulnerable looking in the wrong context. However in terms of germ transmission etc, hands are much more culpable, and although it's been a while since I've stayed in a hotel, the last time I checked, guests aren't expected to wear cotton gloves at a buffet.

'So people disrespecting you and other diners doesn't impact you?'

I don't find what other people wear, other than perhaps clothing with racist, sexist, terrorist or similar slogans or signs, disrespectful, no, thus, it would not impact me. Nope, I'd just carry right on enjoying my meal.

how long does it take to put a pair of trainers on?
Is that with socks or without socks? Big question.

I have pondered how flip flops are so much more "civilised" than bare feet. Would big fluffy slippers be better, or Ugg boots and a onesie?

Soooo yawnworthy when people trumpet that they never notice others. So if a nude person walked in, you'd not notice, and if by some extraordinary chance you did see, then you'd not remark on it because it was none of your business . Streuth.

'So if a nude person walked in, you'd not notice, and if by some extraordinary chance you did see, then you'd not remark on it because it was none of your business . Streuth.'

But these people weren't nude. They were wearing clothes.

So if Donald Trump/George Clooney/Kim Kardashian happened to be at the next table, you'd not see them? Fancy being so oblivious in life that afterwards someone might say, "Did you see Donald having the Eggs Benedict?" and you'd reply, "Oh, no. I was too busy chatting with my family ." What a lot must be missed in life by such self-absorption.

Why thank you, FindoGask.

I am not hog-whimpering wild about feet all the time, I should add in case anyone thinks I spend my days perving over them panting heavily: but I think they’re OK.

Pyjamas are for home. Not for hotels.