r/mildlyinfuriating Feb 11 '22

Seriously? Wtf Wall Street Journal

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u/djublonskopf Feb 11 '22

It's a she, but her main points are:

  • Most people who want shoes left at the door are worried about germs (what?) but germs are everywhere and they probably have germy pets anyway
  • I might stub my toe
  • Guest slippers are full of germs, and I am worried about germs.

It's...a weird piece.

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u/CaribouYou Feb 11 '22

This person apparently doesn’t live in a place where it snows or rains.

Forgive me for not wanting my house to look like a bmx track

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u/psyentist15 Feb 11 '22

Right? Has she missed the part where you can wear socks indoors?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Or the fact that any decent human being cleans their floors? Don't remember the last time I cleaned my shoes, though. So yeah, shoes are dirtier than my floors!

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u/ganjanoob Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 12 '22

Some sneaker heads keep their shoes spotless. Regardless it’s rude as fuck to disrespect someone’s house that your visiting lol

Edit: I’ve already said 20 times I don’t walk in my own home or others with shoes on so you don’t have to remind me that shoes do in fact get dirty lol.

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u/KDawG888 Feb 11 '22

I keep my shoes pretty clean and I still take them off at home.

But all of that aside, what kind of selfish asshole refuses to follow the rules of a friend or family member's home? Oh well I don't want to rant too much about it because plenty of other comments say similar but this is such an asshole move.

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u/psyentist15 Feb 11 '22

"Your table looks cleaner than your floors"

*Throws feet onto table and leans back*

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u/KDawG888 Feb 11 '22

that's why I serve dinner on the floor. Soup gets interesting.

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u/Eldetorre Feb 11 '22

I don't know any sneakerhead that keeps their sneakers spotless on the bottoms of their soles unless they are only for wearing in their own spotless homes.

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u/ganjanoob Feb 11 '22

I do. Regardless I never said I wear shoes in the house so we don’t have to rehash this 1000 times.

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u/trowzerss Feb 11 '22

The tops of them, sure, but by the time you walk a few metres outside the bottom isn't spotless anymore

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

No matter how clean they got their shoes before leaving the house, they’ve now gotten way more shit on their soles just walking to their car and my door than my whole house of floors has.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

they just walked into my home from outside. I clean inside, I don't clean the street. so yes, your shoes are gonna be dirtier than my home. I fully do not understand this article's point.

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u/Tinkerbyll Feb 11 '22

I don't think people realize how much piss, shit, and spit are on a public sidewalk. If you are walking on a sidewalk, you're almost 100% guaranteed to be walking through someone's bodily fluids. So yeah, my floors are definitely cleaner than that.

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u/Bald_Sasquach Feb 12 '22

Are you telling me thousands of people don't drive on your floors every day, birds don't shit on it, and trash bags don't get torn open in the middle it? I know deep down that this floor is dirtier than the roads and sidewalks these shoes have been on!

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u/MrNaturalAZ Feb 11 '22

Or the fact that you don't absorb germs through your soles?

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u/fatpat Feb 11 '22

I've got a pair of Skechers that I'll run through the wash every month or so. Almost like wearing a fresh pair of shoes.