Why even let them in at all if they don't take off their shoes?
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Blonde kid shoulda asked: "Do you want me to take my shoes off?" Typical answers are:
- No, it's OK
- Nah, just keep em off the furniture.
- I take em off once I get to my room.
- Yeah, but I got some shoe covers if you want to keep them on.
- Yes, thanks.
some folks are clueless to these things, and need to be treated like a complete puppy on your lodging rules.
Folks believe in “common knowledge/sense,” and it really doesn't exist.
Maybe in the anglosphere it makes sense to ask. Where I live you immediately take off your shoes and ask where you can put them and if you can get aome slippers.
came to make this exact post: the panel brunette messed up was panel 2: I’d be taking my outside shoes off at the front door, go inside first, pick up the guest sandals, and THEN welcome blondie in with them.
outside shoes stay outside.
All shoes stay outside. Inside you are either barefoot, in socks or cultured and wear slippers
cultured and wear slippers
guest sandals
dialect. same🩰
I assumed sandals to mean hard soled footwear. I percieve slippers as being soft. Might be wrpng though.
Like I said, it's a dialect thing. Some indoor sandals are soft, but open enough to let your feet breath. Southern parts of Japan are a necessity on hot summer days.
If someone came into my house, took off their shoes, and started walking on my carpets with their sweaty little pigs, I'd be uncomfortable
That is still much better than not taking of your shoes. Sure slippers is the best option but socks and barefoot is absolutely fine.
Also carpeted floors are disgusting.
If it's raining and muddy, then sure, but I prefer the dry outside dirt to wet foot sweat. I don't have a steam cleaner.
Shoes that have walked in piss stains and half-washed-by-rain away dogshit, spit and other, yummy!
But also, who goes to someone barefoot?
you got to explain it in a way @Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world can conceptualize your concern: Foot molds are sometimes be more dangerous than local dirt locals have biodiverse defenses against.
In carpet homes, even more dangerous.
blatantly LeninsOvaries can't afford a place WITHOUT carpet: a biohazard.
I'd prefer none of those then and force the use of slippers.
But I will never understand how people are okay with living in places with carpeted floors. I would rather have bare concrete than carpet on the floor.
Because it's not the end of the world? Shoes, carpet, no shoes, who cares - nothing fucking happens, you don't catch leprosy and die.
I could maybe see an argument in countries where it snows and shit, because lots of water could make it soggy and potential for mold but otherwise it's fine.
Here in Australia it's not even uncommon to walk around on the footpath/shops in barefeet. Slightly less common these days but you still see it and no one bat's an eye.
I never suggest you would catch leprosy and die. I live in a country where it often rains and (used to) snow in the winter. And even if it did not carpets are hard to clean. You cannot just nicely wipe them like hardwood or laminate or tile floors. You need specialised equipment to do it. We have a rug at home and even with everyone wearing slippers inside it gets dirty and impossible to clean.
I just cannot imagine myself being comfortable with a acarpwted floor.
Bare concrete is expensive.
What is under your carpet then?
My rental deposit
You definitely don't want to go barefoot in my house. The dogs and humans carry in sand. It really does get everywhere.
Shoes are taken off at the front door. What do you think we are? Barbarians?
who the hell uses shoes on the bed??
"ah yes, today i will dirt the bed with my shoes, much better if it's my friend bed"
I can understand ysing shoes on the floor of a host house because not everyone has slippers for guests and using just socks to walk can be uncomfortable(and cold) on any rock floor BUT ON THE BED(or a carpet)??
you should visit France
shoes in bed, dogshit on every street 😱
No
This is partly why I don't want to learn this language.
I am traumatized.
Ya stepping dog turds onto someone’s bed is rude.
What’s going on with these stories lately? Saw someone lean into their very limited understanding of ecoli the other day so much to make a comic out of it too.
As far as ideas These types of stories could be journal vent entries rather than committed into full drawn and colored comics.
what is the title of that book?
"A subject"
I hate you for making me do this. I dedicated more time looking at that image than I did preparing my dinner.
It says "A Subject", so implied to be some random school book
Literally me with my ex eating in bed.
Common sense has the top priority. Many people forget that when tell about openmindness/inclusiveness/etc.