taking your shoes off when you go to someone's house.
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I feel offended when people come into my house* (that I don't own so technically is just the house I live in) and don't take their shoes off (without good reason to leave them on, ie moving furniture).
Why would any civilised person walk around a carpeted house with dirty outdoor shoes on? It's incredibly disrespectful.
No, doesn't bother me at all.
I normally go to take my shoes off anyway, it was how my parents brought me up and seemed to be the norm among my parents friends, and my friends families.
Besides anything else I find it more comfortable with shoes off.
eh? if it is wet then yes you're offended?
Think it goes deeper than that - not something I've really thought about before but I come from Somerset and an area that largely is quite rural and a lot of people have dogs, etc. and would largely be a losing battle so it may be that generally in this area it hasn't really taken off the same as other areas.
Offended. No.
When I was installing kit for my work I used to go into other peoples houses all the time and only ever took my boots off if I was asked. Carpet, tiled, stone, whatever floor. Boots stayed on as I was working (drilling holes etc).
Also a good mantra we developed for the houses we went to who had dogs and they didn't clear the dog poo before we arrived;
"If it goes on my boots, it goes in your house!"
When I was installing kit for my work I used to go into other peoples houses all the time and only ever took my boots off if I was asked. Carpet, tiled, stone, whatever floor. Boots stayed on as I was working (drilling holes etc).
Also a good mantra we developed for the houses we went to who had dogs and they didn't clear the dog poo before we arrived;
"If it goes on my boots, it goes in your house!"
I don't get why shoes aren't the same as, say, a raincoat...
Why wouldn't you take them off as soon as you come indoors? Esp if you have carpets, which I'm guessing almost everyone does?
You wouldn't continue to wear your scarf, hat or raincoat indoors... why shoes?
Why wouldn't you take them off as soon as you come indoors? Esp if you have carpets, which I'm guessing almost everyone does?
You wouldn't continue to wear your scarf, hat or raincoat indoors... why shoes?
So basically you always take your shoes off?
Nope. I thought it was the standard when visiting a house?
I always make sure I've got nice socks on before visiting anyone, and always ask if they want me to remove my shoes.
It's polite.
Of course, if I was working there I wouldn't nor would I ask a workman too.
I always make sure I've got nice socks on before visiting anyone, and always ask if they want me to remove my shoes.
It's polite.
Of course, if I was working there I wouldn't nor would I ask a workman too.
I dunno I've always worn shoes as a normal thing without even thinking about it and that mindset it completely foreign to me :s though quite often I will come home and change out of boots into shoes and continue to wear them until I go to bed.
No.
I'm a shoes off kind of guy myself - take them off without asking as I also don't like wearing shoes indoors.
Our house at the moment is in such a state with the redeveloping (and decades old carpets from before we moved in) that it won't make a blind bit of difference! But I still ask people to take off their shoes in case they've got **** on them.
100% this.
I'm a shoes off kind of guy myself - take them off without asking as I also don't like wearing shoes indoors.
Our house at the moment is in such a state with the redeveloping (and decades old carpets from before we moved in) that it won't make a blind bit of difference! But I still ask people to take off their shoes in case they've got **** on them.
100% this.
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I don't get offended no, but I do forget to ask sometimes.
As for workmen, I don't ask them, but some have asked me and a few have worn shoe covers when they see I have a carpet.
As for workmen, I don't ask them, but some have asked me and a few have worn shoe covers when they see I have a carpet.