I bet many of the people in this thread wear their shoes in the house. Now THAT I consider disgusting.
Ok. But what good does it do if we take our shoes off and the dog doesn’t even wear shoes outside and trots through most rooms?
We had a thread about shoes in the house.
I treat it as a matter of personal dignity. I peed on myself until I was potty trained - approximately when I hit my first birthday. I will not pee on myself voluntarily and hope that I die before I become too ill or too senile to use the toilet. As far as shoes in the house go… ewww… ditto hospital scrubs outside the hospital.
The shoes in the house thing is cultural. When and where I was growing up, there was simply no such thing as taking off your shoes when entering your house, or anybody else’s house, unless they were muddy, maybe. (Although we kids often did not wear shoes in the house, or outside either, for that matter.)
No shoes, no peeing on self (utterly disgusting), and no outdoor animals in the house, ever!
@splashmom – that is one weird story. I’m glad you had already met the parents or you might have considered calling Child Protective Services!
I had never heard of people not wearing shoes in the house until I read about it here on CC. I think it’s silly but that’s just me.
I’ve watched Below Deck, they go barefoot and it baffled me how their feet stay clean. But I guess those decks get washed frequently, someone said multiple times/day.
My home is old. No matter what, there’s an expression about old homes making their own dust. My feet get dirty. I don’t get how that beats wearing shoes. (Except in dead of winter, I’d love to go barefoot.)
And btw, I don’t get how peeing in the shower equates to peeing on yourself. Lol.
The spinoff show Kelsey Grammar had after Cheers finished also had a reference to peeing in the shower. Kelsey told his uptight brother that he was tired of hanging out with people who get out of the shower to pee. Of course it sent little brother into fits. I won’t tell you when I think of that episode 
Ah, Niles… I loved how he’d whip out his hankie to wipe the cafe chair before he sat down. My kind of guy. 
Proud shower pee’er here! Urine is mostly water, it gets diluted with shower water, and down the drain it goes! I do clean my tub regularly. I am a little tired of the same people calling me disgusting repeatedly. If you don’t like it, don’t do it!I
As for shoes, the idea is to not track all the outside dirt around your house. Seems a no-brainer to me. If you walk through my yard you are likely to step in rabbit and deer poop without even knowing. I wear slippers in the house often, those are my indoor shoes. We don’t have a dog either, partly because of the mess they are. If your feet get dirty walking around barefoot, take a shower!
There have been funny threads on another board I visit about how some people won’t reuse their towels after showering, have to use a clean one every time. I find that odd.
Hahaha. Peeing in the shower is not peeing on yourself. It is like peeing standing up anywhere. I assume most of you have not been backpacking or primitive camping or you would understand. In the shower, at least it is washed away.
Also in some cultures woman pee standing up all of the time. It can be done w/o peeing on yourself.
We do not wear shoes in the house. No running water going over the rest of our floors like in the tub. So not being inconsistent in our health standards.
^ those awful hole in the ground facilities that still exist in places.
http://www.grimmy.com/comics.php
Not sure whether this address the original topic or the shoe in the house topic.
oops, you need the one from yesterday, Sept. 20. Not sure if I can get the right link before the edit window closes.
^^LOL. You need to search for 09-20-17 one.
Just click on the blue arrow to the left of the current comic; it will take you to yesterday’s!