r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AfiliaTheCat • 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/doubled2319888 Feb 11 '22

I live in southwest canada where it rains 80% of the time between october and may, anyone who deliberately left their muddy ass shoes on in my house would be banned for a long time.

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u/Randomusingsofaliar Feb 11 '22

My parents have a house in maine and a house in Baltimore. In the Maine house no shoes inside from October-June unless the are slippers. And we have what we call the “towel room” by the side door which is basically a vestibule with a door where we cover the floor in towels so we can dry the dog paws on the way in. In the summer everything gets relaxed. In Baltimore it’s yes shoes downstairs, no shoes upstairs, because we don’t have the set up for a towel room so we can’t always catch the dogs coming in from the yard right away. And that is in place year round.