Party requesting guests to take shoes off

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Anonymous wrote:OP if you asked guests to take off shoes, I would comply, but would be totally grossed out. That’s like asking your guests to walk around barefoot in a locker room! Your floors may have been clean at the start of the party, but in a large group someone is bound to have something funky and contagious on their feet - soooo gross!

I also don’t get this idea that there’s fecal matter on the bottoms of everyone’s shoes - in the suburbs, our sidewalks, cars, and grocery store floors generally do not have poop all over them. Just mop your floors regularly and all will be ok - there is no reason that floors need to be sterile enough for someone to lick them!

Just wear socks. Easy answer. Anyway, these shoe threads always go off the rails, so I'm not going to weigh in on OP, but re fecal matter:

The fecal matter was found when swabbing shoes. In other words, your suburban shoes can be swabbed, and fecal matter is likely to be found on them. Do what you want with the info, but know that it's not just a theory.

Um what do you think swabs would pick up on your bathroom floor? No matter what you’re wearing into the bathroom (outside shoes / inside shoes / socks / bare feet) - that will also get tracked around your house!

You’re not pooping on your bathroom floor, are you?

When a toilet is flushed, microscopic fecal matter is flung around the bathroom. It’s the same logic as the idea that you pick up fecal matter walking on a sidewalk - you’re not actually stepping in poop.

I’m just saying there’s no reason to get so hung up on this idea of microscopic matter being a risk. If you walk in and out of a bathroom, you’re tracking it around your house anyways. Just clean the floors regularly and all is good.

I have a feeling some of these people have house slippers, and then separate bathroom slippers to put on before they enter the loo. Regardless, I'm certain none of them have pets, which is really the saddest thing about this entire thread.

If any of the people who make their guests take their shoes off have a cat, I'm done with you.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to admit, as a Canadian, American’s requirement to wear shoes inside is completely bizarre to me. It’s another difference that, like circumcision and guns, I feel the complete polarities in our culture. I live minutes from the border so it’s not like the disparity should be so great, but it is.

This is part of why I love DCUM.

Requirement?

Sorry, worded it incorrectly. Requirements that people be allowed to wear the shoes. So many people here saying they would refuse to go, and piping in how disgusting wearing socks in a house is. I mean, isn’t that the point of socks?

People have said they have medical reasons for needing shoes, and shoe covers, even the ones with supposedly grippy soles, are too slippery. Some people use mobility aids that they also use outside. If people said, "Can I ask people to use a sanitizing wipe on their shoes or wheelchairs?" that would be a different question. So would, "Should I let people know that everyone needs to be in socks if they want to come?" But what people are saying instead is "You are filthy and you must come and be uncomfortable because my standards are higher than yours."

I am reminded that Canada does not accept immigrants with disabilities.

People don’t need to make their homes ADA compliant. People with these issues should just start bringing indoor shoes with them as a courtesy and because it’s sanitary. This is a no brainer.

And a brand new wheelchair? Because those wheels have been everywhere the shoes have.

And a new cane? A new walker?

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Anonymous wrote:OP if you asked guests to take off shoes, I would comply, but would be totally grossed out. That’s like asking your guests to walk around barefoot in a locker room! Your floors may have been clean at the start of the party, but in a large group someone is bound to have something funky and contagious on their feet - soooo gross!

I also don’t get this idea that there’s fecal matter on the bottoms of everyone’s shoes - in the suburbs, our sidewalks, cars, and grocery store floors generally do not have poop all over them. Just mop your floors regularly and all will be ok - there is no reason that floors need to be sterile enough for someone to lick them!

Just wear socks. Easy answer. Anyway, these shoe threads always go off the rails, so I'm not going to weigh in on OP, but re fecal matter:

The fecal matter was found when swabbing shoes. In other words, your suburban shoes can be swabbed, and fecal matter is likely to be found on them. Do what you want with the info, but know that it's not just a theory.

Um what do you think swabs would pick up on your bathroom floor? No matter what you’re wearing into the bathroom (outside shoes / inside shoes / socks / bare feet) - that will also get tracked around your house!

You’re not pooping on your bathroom floor, are you?

When a toilet is flushed, microscopic fecal matter is flung around the bathroom. It’s the same logic as the idea that you pick up fecal matter walking on a sidewalk - you’re not actually stepping in poop.

I’m just saying there’s no reason to get so hung up on this idea of microscopic matter being a risk. If you walk in and out of a bathroom, you’re tracking it around your house anyways. Just clean the floors regularly and all is good.

I have a feeling some of these people have house slippers, and then separate bathroom slippers to put on before they enter the loo. Regardless, I'm certain none of them have pets, which is really the saddest thing about this entire thread.

If any of the people who make their guests take their shoes off have a cat, I'm done with you.

Yes, because one indoor cat whose litter is cleaned daily or more is the same as 35 strangers in your house after their shoes tracking through mud, dog poop, and gum on the sidewalks.

Hyperbole reigns!

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Anonymous wrote:It's so bizarre to me that literally the rest of the world seems to manage removing shoes just fine. Like asian grandmas are without shoes and sitting on floors until they are 100, but everyone in the US has such ailments that going without shoes for 5 minutes is detrimental to their health. Honestly, maybe more americans should not wear shoes indoors to relieve some of these extreme issues.

If you want to make a point be realistic. The only people staying for 5 minutes are the people who leave almost immediately.
I might be OK sans shoes for a while but it would be tough. Fallen arches and weak ankles. I wear usually wear orthotics. Although with advance notice I would bring indoor shoes.

But how will OP know that they are indoor shoes? Do you bring them new in the box so she can check the soles to make sure they've never been worn? And then do you throw them away afterwards?

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Anonymous wrote:I have to admit, as a Canadian, American’s requirement to wear shoes inside is completely bizarre to me. It’s another difference that, like circumcision and guns, I feel the complete polarities in our culture. I live minutes from the border so it’s not like the disparity should be so great, but it is.

This is part of why I love DCUM.

Do you know what requirement means?

I have also never been in a Canadian house in which I was asked to remove my shoes (barring the obvious removal of wet or muddy footwear, which shockingly Americans will do as well). Canadian gymnasiums will often have a pile of shoes outside the door, but about half the people inside the gym don’t bother to remove their outdoor footwear, so what’s the point?

Just typical Canadian pretending to be better than Americans while not actually doing a simple task correctly or completely.

Well I already qualified my wording, but I guess you weren’t through enough, like I wouldn’t expect you to be through enough to wipe the sidewalk dog poop off your shoes before walking on my carpets!

And people wearing their shoes in the gym are generally known to be jerks, but we accept them too. It’s rude, and we know who is who.

We’re not better. This is just simple. What do you think you’re catching WEARING SOCKS? This kind of explains why the mask this was so hard for the US and fairly simple for most of the rest of the world.

Wait, what? You have people in your gym running on treadmills in socks? Are you serious?

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Anonymous wrote:I have to admit, as a Canadian, American’s requirement to wear shoes inside is completely bizarre to me. It’s another difference that, like circumcision and guns, I feel the complete polarities in our culture. I live minutes from the border so it’s not like the disparity should be so great, but it is.

This is part of why I love DCUM.

Do you know what requirement means?

I have also never been in a Canadian house in which I was asked to remove my shoes (barring the obvious removal of wet or muddy footwear, which shockingly Americans will do as well). Canadian gymnasiums will often have a pile of shoes outside the door, but about half the people inside the gym don’t bother to remove their outdoor footwear, so what’s the point?

Just typical Canadian pretending to be better than Americans while not actually doing a simple task correctly or completely.

Well I already qualified my wording, but I guess you weren’t through enough, like I wouldn’t expect you to be through enough to wipe the sidewalk dog poop off your shoes before walking on my carpets!

And people wearing their shoes in the gym are generally known to be jerks, but we accept them too. It’s rude, and we know who is who.

We’re not better. This is just simple. What do you think you’re catching WEARING SOCKS? This kind of explains why the mask this was so hard for the US and fairly simple for most of the rest of the world.

Thorough, before you leave me as an idiot.

You are one though

Thank you for your thoughtful and well constructed rebuttal. You must have been a force to be reckoned with on debate team.

No but your mom was. Why is a Canadian on this forum?

I'm a dp but also Canadian. There are quite a few of us

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Anonymous wrote:I would be so pleased if you didn't attend my party because we are a no-shoe household. It tells me everything I need to know about you as a person.

We keep guest slippers on hand in a separate basket.

Are your guest slippers single-use? Because if not that's disgusting that you expect people to wear shoes that a stranger has worn. Way grosser than letting people leave their shoes on.

Have you never ever tried on a shoe without a sock? Why is it so gross, are you eating with your feet or something?

No I have absolutely never ever tried on a shoe without a sock, that is so gross and disrespectful. They literally provide you with disposable "socks" at the shoe place.

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Anonymous wrote:OP if you asked guests to take off shoes, I would comply, but would be totally grossed out. That’s like asking your guests to walk around barefoot in a locker room! Your floors may have been clean at the start of the party, but in a large group someone is bound to have something funky and contagious on their feet - soooo gross!

I also don’t get this idea that there’s fecal matter on the bottoms of everyone’s shoes - in the suburbs, our sidewalks, cars, and grocery store floors generally do not have poop all over them. Just mop your floors regularly and all will be ok - there is no reason that floors need to be sterile enough for someone to lick them!

Just wear socks. Easy answer. Anyway, these shoe threads always go off the rails, so I'm not going to weigh in on OP, but re fecal matter:

The fecal matter was found when swabbing shoes. In other words, your suburban shoes can be swabbed, and fecal matter is likely to be found on them. Do what you want with the info, but know that it's not just a theory.

Um what do you think swabs would pick up on your bathroom floor? No matter what you’re wearing into the bathroom (outside shoes / inside shoes / socks / bare feet) - that will also get tracked around your house!

You’re not pooping on your bathroom floor, are you?

When a toilet is flushed, microscopic fecal matter is flung around the bathroom. It’s the same logic as the idea that you pick up fecal matter walking on a sidewalk - you’re not actually stepping in poop.

I’m just saying there’s no reason to get so hung up on this idea of microscopic matter being a risk. If you walk in and out of a bathroom, you’re tracking it around your house anyways. Just clean the floors regularly and all is good.

I have a feeling some of these people have house slippers, and then separate bathroom slippers to put on before they enter the loo. Regardless, I'm certain none of them have pets, which is really the saddest thing about this entire thread.

If any of the people who make their guests take their shoes off have a cat, I'm done with you.

Yes, because one indoor cat whose litter is cleaned daily or more is the same as 35 strangers in your house after their shoes tracking through mud, dog poop, and gum on the sidewalks.

Hyperbole reigns!

Yeah, your cat that jumps on your kitchen counters and you think that's fine but someone wearing a pair of heels in your house is disgusting. Please.

[Anonymous]

This is unbelievable. You should never ask partygoers to remove their shoes. Have the event somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to admit, as a Canadian, American’s requirement to wear shoes inside is completely bizarre to me. It’s another difference that, like circumcision and guns, I feel the complete polarities in our culture. I live minutes from the border so it’s not like the disparity should be so great, but it is.

This is part of why I love DCUM.

Do you know what requirement means?

I have also never been in a Canadian house in which I was asked to remove my shoes (barring the obvious removal of wet or muddy footwear, which shockingly Americans will do as well). Canadian gymnasiums will often have a pile of shoes outside the door, but about half the people inside the gym don’t bother to remove their outdoor footwear, so what’s the point?

Just typical Canadian pretending to be better than Americans while not actually doing a simple task correctly or completely.

Well I already qualified my wording, but I guess you weren’t through enough, like I wouldn’t expect you to be through enough to wipe the sidewalk dog poop off your shoes before walking on my carpets!

And people wearing their shoes in the gym are generally known to be jerks, but we accept them too. It’s rude, and we know who is who.

We’re not better. This is just simple. What do you think you’re catching WEARING SOCKS? This kind of explains why the mask this was so hard for the US and fairly simple for most of the rest of the world.

Wait, what? You have people in your gym running on treadmills in socks? Are you serious?

Yes in Canada we do all weightlifting with no shoes so dumbbells can land on our feet. Dafooook

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Anonymous wrote:This is unbelievable. You should never ask partygoers to remove their shoes. Have the event somewhere else.

Americans and their rights

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to admit, as a Canadian, American’s requirement to wear shoes inside is completely bizarre to me. It’s another difference that, like circumcision and guns, I feel the complete polarities in our culture. I live minutes from the border so it’s not like the disparity should be so great, but it is.

This is part of why I love DCUM.

Do you know what requirement means?

I have also never been in a Canadian house in which I was asked to remove my shoes (barring the obvious removal of wet or muddy footwear, which shockingly Americans will do as well). Canadian gymnasiums will often have a pile of shoes outside the door, but about half the people inside the gym don’t bother to remove their outdoor footwear, so what’s the point?

Just typical Canadian pretending to be better than Americans while not actually doing a simple task correctly or completely.

Well I already qualified my wording, but I guess you weren’t through enough, like I wouldn’t expect you to be through enough to wipe the sidewalk dog poop off your shoes before walking on my carpets!

And people wearing their shoes in the gym are generally known to be jerks, but we accept them too. It’s rude, and we know who is who.

We’re not better. This is just simple. What do you think you’re catching WEARING SOCKS? This kind of explains why the mask this was so hard for the US and fairly simple for most of the rest of the world.

Thorough, before you leave me as an idiot.

I am not leaving you as an idiot, although I do feel dumber for having read your posts. I will, however, label you as an idiot.

[Anonymous]

OP good riddance to the shoe warrior mob!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to admit, as a Canadian, American’s requirement to wear shoes inside is completely bizarre to me. It’s another difference that, like circumcision and guns, I feel the complete polarities in our culture. I live minutes from the border so it’s not like the disparity should be so great, but it is.

This is part of why I love DCUM.

Do you know what requirement means?

I have also never been in a Canadian house in which I was asked to remove my shoes (barring the obvious removal of wet or muddy footwear, which shockingly Americans will do as well). Canadian gymnasiums will often have a pile of shoes outside the door, but about half the people inside the gym don’t bother to remove their outdoor footwear, so what’s the point?

Just typical Canadian pretending to be better than Americans while not actually doing a simple task correctly or completely.

Well I already qualified my wording, but I guess you weren’t through enough, like I wouldn’t expect you to be through enough to wipe the sidewalk dog poop off your shoes before walking on my carpets!

And people wearing their shoes in the gym are generally known to be jerks, but we accept them too. It’s rude, and we know who is who.

We’re not better. This is just simple. What do you think you’re catching WEARING SOCKS? This kind of explains why the mask this was so hard for the US and fairly simple for most of the rest of the world.

Thorough, before you leave me as an idiot.

I am not leaving you as an idiot, although I do feel dumber for having read your posts. I will, however, label you as an idiot.

Oh look! Another articulate post with a well thought out position encouraging fruitful discussion!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to admit, as a Canadian, American’s requirement to wear shoes inside is completely bizarre to me. It’s another difference that, like circumcision and guns, I feel the complete polarities in our culture. I live minutes from the border so it’s not like the disparity should be so great, but it is.

This is part of why I love DCUM.

Do you know what requirement means?

I have also never been in a Canadian house in which I was asked to remove my shoes (barring the obvious removal of wet or muddy footwear, which shockingly Americans will do as well). Canadian gymnasiums will often have a pile of shoes outside the door, but about half the people inside the gym don’t bother to remove their outdoor footwear, so what’s the point?

Just typical Canadian pretending to be better than Americans while not actually doing a simple task correctly or completely.

Well I already qualified my wording, but I guess you weren’t through enough, like I wouldn’t expect you to be through enough to wipe the sidewalk dog poop off your shoes before walking on my carpets!

And people wearing their shoes in the gym are generally known to be jerks, but we accept them too. It’s rude, and we know who is who.

We’re not better. This is just simple. What do you think you’re catching WEARING SOCKS? This kind of explains why the mask this was so hard for the US and fairly simple for most of the rest of the world.

Thorough, before you leave me as an idiot.

I am not leaving you as an idiot, although I do feel dumber for having read your posts. I will, however, label you as an idiot.

Oh look! Another articulate post with a well thought out position encouraging fruitful discussion!

We all have different goals. Mine is to call out idiocy, not to have a "fruitful" discussion with anonymous randoms on the internet (particularly when their definition of "fruitful" is what our friend from the great unwashed North previously posted).