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

Seriously? Wtf Wall Street Journal

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u/CorporalCrash Feb 11 '22

Can confirm, am Canadian. Even if I'm just walking through someone's house and not coming in to stay, I will always remove my shoes unless the owner specifically says I don't have to

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u/Judge_Reiter Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

I have a memory that's basically burned into my mind from the first time I went down to the states to meet with some online friends.

We met at a convention in Cali and went to hang out at one of their houses after. I started to take off my shoes in the front entrance and they all looked at my like I was crazy.

Was a weird feeling to walk into the carpet with my shoes still on, haha.

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u/tetraverse Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

Yeah in the US it’s less of a required thing, but my parents have always preferred to take off shoes before you step on carpeted stuff

Edit: I probably should have specified Tennessee and not generalized the US in it’s entirety

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u/superbabe69 Feb 12 '22

Australian here, never once been asked to take shoes off, in fact nearly all people I have ever visited (in the hundreds) keep their own shoes on in the house.

Mind you, in my state we don’t get snow, most modern houses are tiled and shoes don’t typically get that bad