eww, putting cream on your feet in public, is yuk

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and then not washign your hands. afaik. not immediatley at least.

a mother was doing this at side of swimming pool during lessons.

Yikes, that's gross! When my mum comes to visit she sits on the sofa and picks her feet, then touches my kids/crockery etc. Yuk yuk! My DH wants me to raise the issue with her...

I had a new pair of sheepskin boots for Xmas (the kind you do not need socks with) and before I'd even worn them MIL put her grubby dead-skin-covered feet into them and wriggled her toes into the pile, commenting on how comfy they were.

they're only feet, and if they were clean feet......

what if it was suncream or a bit of moisturiser? think you are being unreasonable!

Bum cream would be much much worse though.

LOL at Bucharest!

It is rather yucky, I agree.

A friend come over to fetch her son who had spent a few hours at ours with my DS (can you see I am trying not to say "playdate"???) and she proceeded to pick dirt out of HIS TOENAILS and flick it on the floor before she put his shoes and socks on. Another time she sat on my couching picking her toenails and when she got up, there were bits of nails on the couch.

She has not been around for a very, very long time. [grossed out emoticon]

Don't you put sunscreen on your feet?

I do use sunscreen, sure, at the beach or outdoors or something. Or I put it on before going out.

But the OP had me imagining someone sitting beside an indoor pool (I guess because most public pools here are inside) and just randomly removing shoes and moisturising dry feet to pass the time. Which is a bit odd, I reckon.

And the feet of someone who is not literally just out of a bath are, frankly, never really quite so clean that you'd want to shake hands with someone after seeing them rub their own feet.

fair enough if she had the ped egg and flexitol out, but she may have just come out of the showers at the pool....

but i don't think you ABU, just overly squeamish

having your feet out in public is 'yuck'... hate summer as every bugger, no matter what disgusting state their feet are in, slips on a pair of flip flops. gives me the dry boak.

I am def squeamish about feet. When folk nonchanlantly slip their shoes off and put their bare feet up and I can see the grimy soles. HAve they no shame?

Really can't see the problem TBH.

Why are people so odd about feet?

Although it makes a nice change from breasts - only on MN could the shout "urgh, cover them up" be aimed at feet

I dont know why I am odd about them. I just am. Its one of my things. I look at popeles feet all the time, and am absurdly jealous of anyone with petite pretty feet

I like seeing people in flip flops, it makes me feel happy

in a vicariously carefree sort of way (my feet are trotters)

apart from fennel because she has lovely flip flops and I covet them

I detest dh's feet though. They are like big blocks of stilton on the ends of his legs

Men in flip flops make me deeply suspicious. they ahve to have VERY brown feet to carry it off

men in flip flops are the pits. especially when teamed with those beige cut off trousers. seems to be some sort of uniform round these 'ere parts.

yes and their legs and feet are the same shade as the trousers

i think it was for dry skin, i think it was aimed at the heels,
eew, then she rubbed her hands together, to get the nice cream into her hands

defintely odd i agree, imo she should have waited til she got back to the car at least.