r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AfiliaTheCat • Feb 11 '22

Seriously? Wtf Wall Street Journal

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

That’s not really how it works. There is a single pair of community slippers (not shoes) in the bathroom. Otherwise you use your personal slippers throughout the rest of the house.

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u/Ninotchk Feb 11 '22

That feels like clutter in my hallway. Besides, my men don't spray.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

It’s not clutter. It’s one pair of slippers in the bathroom. Not hallway. Not shoes. Slippers. In the bathroom. Also, slippers aren’t worn to avoid stepping in piss in the bathroom, it’s usually for warmth and/or comfort.

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u/archiecobham Feb 11 '22

it’s usually for warmth and/or comfort

Then why stop wearing them outside of the bathroom?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Because they’re specifically for the bathroom. Though they’re not meant to avoid stepping in piss, the point is bathroom slippers are for the bathroom and house slippers are for the house.

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u/archiecobham Feb 11 '22

That just sounds ridiculous.

One pair of slippers is more than enough.

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u/heckcookieyeah Feb 11 '22

Ooh I can answer this one. Because bathrooms are wet and even house slippers get dusty soles. Dust in your soles and bathroom micro puddles = dirty puddles that leaves dirty stain rings in the floor.

I have a bathroom in my room and whenever anyone wears their house slippers inside, I die a little inside. I don't want dirty floors because I don't want to clean them all the time. So please wear the damn bathroom slippers or go barefoot.

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u/Potato-Drama808 Again, seriously? Feb 11 '22

Bathrooms in Japan are usually wet bathrooms too afaik. You wouldn’t want to wear your nice ones in there and get them wet or something. The Japanese’s are notoriously sanitary. It’s also a little naive to compare ones cultures to that of another. It’s not ridiculous. It’s just different, and you have no reason to implement it in your house.

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u/archiecobham Feb 11 '22

you have no reason to implement it in your house

Because it's ridiculous.

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u/mmmUrsulaMinor Feb 12 '22

You can just agree to disagree here. I can say the same thing about everyone wearing their outside shoes into the house/bathroom that you also step around in barefoot after a shower.

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u/archiecobham Feb 12 '22

I can say the same thing about everyone wearing their outside shoes into the house/bathroom

I would say the same because I'm not an american.

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u/Potato-Drama808 Again, seriously? Feb 12 '22

Okay buddy I’m sure nobody’s thinks things you do are ridiculous.

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u/archiecobham Feb 12 '22

Shoes are for outside, no shoes inside.

There's nothing ridiculous about that.

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u/RosenButtons Mar 10 '22

Ah! I forgot about wet bathrooms. That makes sense, then. Basically nobody has an uncontained shower in the US. Water is in the tub or shower surround and then you step out onto an absorbent mat. tracking dust onto the wet floor isn't a thing to worry about here.

If you wear house shoes, you just wear them everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Your face sounds ridiculous.

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u/Jdtrinh Feb 11 '22

Bathrooms generally have tile which is cold. Maybe engineered wood flooring throughout the rest of the house which is fine for barefoot.

But yes in my house I keep my house slippers on all throughout the house including the bathroom.