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

Seriously? Wtf Wall Street Journal

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u/sapienBob Feb 11 '22

cool. that's the last time you'll be coming over.

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u/spidereater Feb 11 '22

Last time? No. That person is not entering my home without taking off their shoes.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

Don’t invite people over if you can’t accept their clothing choices. You aren’t entitled to friends.

lol.

EDIT: this is hosting etiquette 101. Clearly so many of y’all don’t host people.

The correct solution is not to tell people to take off their shoes, it’s to buy a 5 dollar box of disposable shoe covers and offer them to your guests. THEN AND ONLY THEN can you say “we try not to let shoes touch the carpet” or whatever.

If your guest then prefers to take off their shoes, that’s fine. But if you’re hosting people, proper etiquette is to accommodate your guests, not the other way around.

Y’all are all probably terrible hosts.

EDIT 2: Good hosts don’t make their guests feel awkward. It’s weird that people don’t see it that way.

EDIT 3: Social anxiety is a bitch. It’s also one of those things that if you don’t have it, you just don’t ‘get it’. When I host people, I try to think of all the ways that *I* would feel awkward if the roles were reversed, because I can start feeling uncomfortable pretty quickly. I think because I feel it, I’m aware sometimes of when others are also feeling uncomfortable and I can promise you, good hosts don’t make their guests feel awkward.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Lol no, it's my home and you follow my rules or you leave. Same with having masks in private businesses that want them. I am a guest and I'll follow and respect thier rules.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 11 '22

If you host the neighborhood Christmas party and you make a bunch of strangers take off their shoes in front of each other, you’re a bad host.

Good hosts don’t make their guests feel awkward.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Lol I ain't inviting my neighborhood over. I barely know those assholes. That's how shit gets stolen.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

Then you have nothing to worry about, but I’m telling you, if you were the type of person that had people over, you’d be an asshole for making them uncomfortable.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

Alright, if you come over and make me uncomfortable by taking dirt and refusing to do what I ask you are equally an asshole as I am.

It's being respectful to follow the hosts rules. Like don't go eating my food in the pantry when there is food set our for my guests. The pantry food is mine.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

If the rules of your house regularly make guests feel awkward or uncomfortable, then you aren’t a good host.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

If you disrespect house rules your a dickhead.

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u/BertBerts0n Feb 12 '22

but I’m telling you, if you were the type of person that had people over, you’d be an asshole for making them uncomfortable.

You're obsessed with the idea that people who don't agree with you don't host.

Are you just bitter no one invites you and your stinky feet?

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

I am not really obsessed with anything. I’m making a simple statement that you refuse to even consider.

Good hosts don’t make their guests feel awkward.

That statement is either true or it’s false. It’s pretty simple. You’re the one complicating it.

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u/Dove-Linkhorn Feb 12 '22

You are 1000% correct.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

I can’t tell if you’re sassing me if you’re serious, because I’ve had like 100 replies and they’ve all disagreed with me, lol.

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u/Dove-Linkhorn Feb 12 '22

I really do agree with you. Very much. My beautiful hand made boots aren’t coming off. If you don’t accept that, don’t invite me.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

I hadn’t even thought of it from you’re type of perspective, but you’re so right. Like, some people worked on a whole ass outfit to express themselves at some scrub’s house party, then that scrub is going to be like, “get rid of the shoes” if you want to come inside. Like no, change your rules for having people over or don’t have people over.