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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not particularly weird, but I’m not a fan of situations where the host asks you to remove shoes and there’s no advance warning that it’s a shoe-free house and no provision of slippers. From cold feet, to holey socks, to athlete’s foot, there are a lot of reasons why some of us are more comfortable with shoes on and need some sort of heads-up if we must remove them.[/quote]

This is such a common expectation now its weird to be put off by it. And as there’s so much supporting evidence of all the literal crap shoes bring in-I find shoe wearing homes gross. [/quote]

This.  I would never expressly ask someone to remove their shoes but I'd hope they'd be polite enough to notice our shoe shelf by our front door with everyone's everyday shoes on it, the fact that we have all removed our shoes, etc..... [/quote]

They're politely assuming that you wouldn't impose your footwear choices on your guests, or that if you're really obsessive about it, you'd politely let them know beforehand.[/quote]

If you notice that the hosts all have their shoes off its just rude to notice it and deliberately not follow suit out of principle (if you have plantar fasciitis, or a medical condition that causes your feet to be soaking wet with sweat like another poster claims- that's different. But most people notice and just don't feel like it because they aren't that polite.  Personally I had plantar fasciitis for years and I'd always apologize in homes where the hosts were not in shoes, to show that I did notice and I really just can't take them off right now. And it was always fine.)[/quote]

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