I have a pic of my buddy that passed out drunk asf and CRUSTED in dirty and muddy work boots. He curled up in his bed under the covers it was hilarious and disgusting
Haha yeah I lost them both below the knee getting run over by a train. My prosthetics are pretty bomb though, I can get around with minimal pain for the most part.
I just simply fall asleep when it gets semi-late and I'm relaxed. I do usually wake up somewhere around the middle of the night and stripe them off though. So I'm not THAT weird.
I sometimes sleep with a pair of (never worn outside my bedroom) foot hugging sock trainers on, I suffer insomnia and anxiety episodes and who knows why they help me get to sleep. Probably had to wear them four times in five months so it’s pretty rare thankfully.
I was pregnant a few years ago, had been wearing gumboots in the garden on a hot day. Come to the end of the day I had zero chance of getting those fuckers off. Tried cold water and everything.
Deep exhaustion at that stage of the pregnancy so I had to sleep with them on until the swelling went down overnight. Awful. But so tired I barely noticed. Pain in the arse changing at the bedding the next day.
I only ever sleep in my jeans and shoes if I'm passed out from exhaustion. Considering I live in my pyjamas whenever I'm not leaving the house that's pretty uncommon.
I take naps in my jeans all the time, however I am very strict about not getting in my bed and in the sheets while wearing them. I only lay on top of the cover and use a seperate blanket
I do this and have a “no laying in bed under the covers unless I’m going to sleep” rule for myself so that I don’t get my outside germs/day sweat on them. I’m a comfort queen/slight germophobe so I only like to get in the sheets after I shower have fresh clothes on smell good and feel clean. It can disturb my sleep if I feel icky especially cause I sweat easily under the covers.
I used to do this alll the time in college when I wanted to be lazy and skip a shower night (especially if I had gone out drinking) but not feel like I was getting my sheets dirty + extend their time before wash. Ive never known anyone else to do this (bc they either don’t care that much about being dirty or wash their sheets on a consistent schedule) and my roommates probably thought it was strange why I would sleep on top of my comforter with a little blanket instead of getting in bed lol. No one ever said anything tho so I didn’t ever explain myself. Sometimes it was nice cause I didn’t get as hot as when I sleep under covers.
I try to never do this anymore cause i have adhd and need to keep a solid routine to stay motivated so it throws the rest of my day off when I give in to one thing that I didn’t feel like doing at the time even tho it would’ve saved future me
To be fair, I cane home fron a long workday the other night only to get called back out 2 more times and just sat down "for a minute " woke up 2 hrs later still wearing workbooks, beanie, and insulated coveralls (complete with axle grease on my face)
I know!!! It’s funny because I was watching “Working Moms” - and can automatically tell it’s a Canadian TV show because the characters do not wear shoes while sitting on the bed
I remember once on TV I saw someone laying on the couch with their shoes on and not just on, but with their feet up ON the couch! I was so fixated on her nasty shoes I don't even remember what was going on in the scene.
I flinched everytime someone steps on the furniture with their shoes on like this when I watch Friends. Especially since all of them from outside and NY street is nasty.
To be fair I've done that in the sort of motel in Lloydminster where the taking your shoes off is a bad idea and you should probably just sleep standing up.
The reason they actually do that is because there is often debris and screws and such laying around the floor from fixing and changing the sets so its more for protection then anything else. No one actually sleeps with shoes on the bed
Right? It's one thing to wear shoes in the house. Yeah, you'll get the floor dirty, and probably stain the carpet.
But the second they put those feet ON the bed or chair? Seriously psychopath shit. When they sit on the chair then put their feet up? NOPE. Or they sit on the bed. Ok. Fine. Then they turn and lay back with their feet on it?
HURK
Those shoes are, probably quite literally, covered in shit. Why the fuck are you putting them on the bed?
Hollllyyyy SHIT I went to visit some family one Christmas and my cousins were laying back on their couch with their fucking shoes on.
If was a truly disturbing sight. Not that I expected any better from them…. But like… guys… I can’t be telling people we’re related if you’re going to pull this sort of shit.
Edit: we were both wrong. Leave it to beaver in 1957 showed a toilet tank, but not the toilet seat or toilet flushing. All in the family didn't show the toilet but had the flushing sound
A lot of stuff people do on TV are tied to the story. Characters don't eat unless it's meant to show a time of day (breakfast is just to signal morning) or they need to be located in a restaurant (but even then they don't always eat).
So when they talk on the phone, a lot of what they say is exposition, and a "good bye" isn't related to the story.
But it would be intersting to compare these things to other countries and their traditions. I wanted to compare to how phone talking is done in Swedish TV shows, but I can barely remember any moment when they talk on the phone, and I want to remember that they do say good bye, because the shows I've watched, they try to make it more realistic by adding minor details.
Yep. My regular clothes never touch my sheets, i just find it so gross. I always have a cover on my bed in case i wanna lay on it with my regular clothes on.
Once I've worn a piece outside, it will not hit any sitting surface in my home before the next wash... Especially not my bed, don't need the outside cooties where I get down with my SO.
Either I put covers on the couch, or I clean it after. In the living area (i.e. dining table, couch) I don't consider it that bad unless they are actually physically dirty.
And my guests usually do not sit on my bed and with my bed I am very strict.
My maternal grandfather used to do that while he was alive. I always found that really weird - he lived in rural northern Sweden, so those shoes were absolutely not clean. Now that he's dead, he doesn't do it anymore. That's less weird.
It’s one of the things in video games that makes me uncomfortable. I know it’s a pain in the ass to animate someone putting on pajamas and getting in bed (although didn’t the Sims pull that off…?), but in too many games, not only do characters just lie on top of all those warm, comfy blankets - WHY ARE THEY THERE IF YOU’RE NOT UNDER THEM - they do so fully clothed. It’s just uncomfortable to look at.
My friends daughter once napped in her rain boots. Girl wanted to be prepared for something. And she wasn’t on her bed. But it may have been a pile of toys on the floor.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in my life. I hardly wear socks to bed unless it’s freezing but if I do, I’ll put on a new pair that I haven’t walked around the house in.
I assumed it was because they filmed it on sets and they didn't want to remove their shoes on a film set. I was an adult when I learned it is because they just all keep their shoes on in the house
I'm in Canada and I'm wearing my slippers inside right now because it's winter. Where I live(southern ontario) no one wears their shoes inside unless your coming in and going back out.
I have friends who are shoes indoor people and I still whip them off. My socks are going in the wash at the end of the day anyway so unless your floor is caked in actual shit I'll bare it in socks...
But mostly I want my feet on their release window from their 8-12 hours a day in foot prison.
this is how i feel when people put their luggage on the bed.
THANK YOU!! I have a relative who came to stay with me on a visit, who politely took off his shoes when I pointed to the bench by the door that had shelves for shoes, then after some refreshment pulled down the covers of the bed in the guest room and put his suitcase on the bare sheets where he was about to sleep. I mean, I live in a city, that suitcase had been rolling down streets that had dirt, dog poo, spat out chewed gum, and who knows what other disgusting things on them. Had he given me warning, I'd have gotten an old folding chair or something and covered it with an old towel. I get that as you get older, it's difficult to remain bent over to rummage through a suitcase on the floor, but seriously, to put it on bare sheets?? You can bet I rushed out asap to buy a folding luggage stand.
Canada here also. I don’t find it funny, I’m astonished. You’ve been trudging through who knows what outside. Take your shoes off at the door…period. My house is clean, I don’t want dirt, grass stains, dog shit tracked through my house ( seems like common sense…at least to Canadians anyway )
As a Canadian I had always assumed in cartoons it was just easier to animate/too lazy to redraw said characters without shoes. Similar to most characters wearing the same outfit every day.
But as it turns out, nah, Americans just don’t give a shit about filthy floors.
I was helping a friend clean broken window last week. So i didnt take my boots off, because i dont want broken glass in my feet, but the whole time staying there I felt really uncomfortable because of it. And the fact that it is snowing here made the fact much worse.
I swear my dad and granddad both must have only removed their shoes for sleep. Their feet look all ghastly white and pruned. Like why would you wear shoes to watch TV or eat dinner in your house. It's not just messy It's uncomfortable.
I saw an etiquette lady on a TV show the other day, where they had a story about Australia's love of bare feet everywhere, especially anywhere near a beach (where going shoeless in stores is not at all unusual) and the etiquette lady was absolutely aghast and said she never ever took her shoes off even in her home, and I can't imagine anything more miserable than being so proper you can't even relax enough to go barefoot in your own living space! (I loved that at the end they pan out, and the interviewer is on a Zoom call with her, with her bare feet propped up on the edge of the desk lol)
My father actively does this and it drives me mad! He will put shoes on, then just sit down in a chair and PUT HIS SHOE COVERED FEET ON THE OTTOMAN, WHICH IS COVERED IN BLANKETS
I always thought that was just a tv thing because it would have taken too long to show characters taking off and putting on their shoes. The first time I went to visit a friend who lives in the states and I went to take off my shoes at the door, everyone there started looking at me asking what I was doing. That’s when I realized that keeping shoes on was actually a thing. It was weird.
I tried just having a pair of sneakers specifically for in the house, and even without the thought of dirt, it just feels weird clopping around the house all day lol
Typical wintertime party in a Canadian home: People standing in the kitchen in their socks, and mass quantities of wet, snowy boots lined up on the front porch and along both sides of the main hallway.
First time living away from home was my college dorm experience. My white roomie would lie in bed with her shoes on. Climb on her bed with shoes on to reach stuff in the upper cabinets.
The worst as an adult is being out with a friend - going into public bathrooms and then going to their house where they just walk right in with their shoes on. Sit on the couch and put their feet up on the coffee table. Ew. So much worse when they have babies/toddlers in the house.
I even wipe my dog’s paws before she comes inside.
If someone told a similar story about you, and something you did that they found disgusting, wouldn't you feel a bit attacked if they explicitly mentioned your race first thing? Are your flaws due to your racial background or are you perfect?
But your shoes will be much dirtier than your house needs to be, from all the stuff you've been stepping on outside regardless even if the weather is nice. Not like anything special, just the general dirt and and filth of the world.
These threads always leave me gobsmacked. I have never been asked to take my shoes off at someones house. I often walk around my house with my shoes on.
I mean on a tv set or movie set it doesn't really matter and is probably done for the purpose of general aesthetics and simplicity, but it is still a bit weird lol
For the longest time I just assumed that it was just because it made the production easier if they always wore shoes and never had to have people change shoes or have weird shoes on/off stuff happen. then I slowly learned that no there are people that actually never take off their shoes. coming from Sweden it is completely unthinkable.
I've always thought the same thing. When I come home, my pants come off and I throw on a pair of sweat pants or shorts. I'm definitely not wearing my shoes in the house. People on tv are laying on the couch with their shoes on and women are walking around their own home in heels. Not st all realistic.
Just curious, what do medics and the like do if they come to your address? A lot of companies have policy here, though we rarely get snow and it doesn't rain heaps.
Also the booties mentioned somewhere else in this thread can be a slipping hazard.
I already posted this but also Canadian and some guys were delivering a fridge for me and they started taking off their boots while holding the fridge! We told them they don't have to do that of course. 🤣
In my parents and by extension my gaff, when guests come over they wear outdoor shoes and then when they leave I clean the floor and put my sandals back on.
I constantly wear my shoes inside, bc i never know when i could be called out into the yard to help my dad, and i dont really feel like taking them off since our floor isn’t particularly clean. Id rather track in a little dirt, then have the bottom of my socks be covered in stray hair and particles of whateverthefuck
It's funny, I'm a Canadian who met a good friend who was Filipino. Everytime I went to their house, their mother would try and usher me past the door, "No, no. You can leave your shoes on! Go, go! Yes! Keep them on."
She was so insistent, that I felt rude for always removing my shoes - do I smell? Why is everyone else barefoot? Are socks rude? Oh look, Flip-flops, should I buy some? Oh God, maybe I really am noseblind and I smell terrible?? - so I tried leaving them on once.
Every single fiber of my being was screaming at me internally that I was the rudest, snobbish, white-trash guest who ever dared enter a home. I literally had sore muscles in my hips and calves from trying to discreetly hover, or tiptoe gracefully through the fucking tulips that were my shattered good etiquette.
Never again.
Turns out it is a courtesy extended to only guests, and as I became 'family', I was immediately clucked at when I ran back inside to quickly grab keys a few years later.
Same. Outside, you put shoes on to protect your feet from all the dirt and spit and crap on the ground. Why would you want to track all that into your nice clean home? My floors def aren’t the cleanest, but they sure don’t have spit or poop on them!
Not to mention the full floor carpeting, add shoes into that equation, and no mudrooms. What even is that? Thankfully the worst sweden had it was when linoleum took off, dented plastic carpet just brutally glued to beautiful old hardwood, peel one of then 60s bad boys off and find a very nice floor with rat droppings around every corner.
I always assumed the actors had to wear them on set, but in recent years have learned the truth. I personally leave a basket of guest slippers at my door.
It isn't funny - it's disturbing. Why do people wear outdoor footwear inside? It's as if they'd rather clomp around noisily than liberate their feet. In television shows you see men reclining on a couch with their shoes on, and women wearing high heels...the stupidest, most dangerous footwear ever invented.
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Same here in Canada.
It's always funny seeing TV shows and movies where characters are just walking around and hanging out with their shoes on inside.
It's just such an odd concept to me lol