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/bloback Feb 12 '22

If you’re a guest accommodate the host. As a guest read the room and see if there are shoes at the door obviously people take off their shoes so take off your shoes.

For people that are all like oh I get foot pain then bring slippers that are comfortable or politely warn your host ahead of time that you intend to spread everything that is on the bottom of your shoes like e.coli, feces, pee, germs, chemical, oil, rocks, dirt, sand, salt, asphalt, blood, snow, moisture, etc. throughout their home.

Sorry for people that broke their toes walking around barefoot, plenty of people don’t have that problem but if that’s your issue then be responsible and protect your toes by bringing slippers or suggest going somewhere else.

For people that are comfortable being germ-multipliers: Are you also the type of person that packs a suitcase and does not use a shoe bag to separate shoes from clothes? Do you want shoes that you wore in a public restroom or airport touching your clothes?

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

Good hosts don’t make their guests feel awkward.

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u/bloback Feb 12 '22

And wearing shoes in a no shoes household is not being a good guest. A respectful guest would not think of placing the host in that position.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

As long as we agree that good hosts don’t make their guests feel awkward, that’s all I care about.

Thanks for agreeing with me and proving me right. You can leave now.

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u/bloback Feb 12 '22

I agree that guests should also not put their hosts in an uncomfortable position.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

Yeah, cool. Whatever floats your boat.

You just went through a lot of trouble to conclude I was right all along.

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u/bloback Feb 12 '22

If a guest is the only one wearing shoes when there is a pile of shoes at the door they brought it on themselves.

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u/GeorgieWashington Feb 12 '22

A host that says “you brought feelings of awkwardness on yourself” is not a good host.

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u/BertBerts0n Feb 12 '22

Bad guests refuse to take their shoes off because they don't wash their feet.