taking your shoes off when you go to someone's house.

If you ask they will say no it's okay (even if it isn't) or if you don't mind terribly, which is just awful. If they ask it comes across as little aggressive, and if they don't ask they seethe with rage the whole time and never invite you again.

Easiest to just take them off - although if there's a dog in the room they can provide slippers or I keep my shoes on. Dogs are nasty.

Why does no-one have guest slippers in this country? And don't get me started on the taps...
 
i take my slippers to my mums and sisters houses, might be a bit weird to do that at a friends house though.

but yes shoes off at the door totally normal to me. Likely hood is that if someone has asked you then they have nice carpets and a clean house.

I would also remove shoes if i knew them to be dirty or wet anyway.
 
psd99 said:
do u feel offended when you go to someone's home and they ask you to take your shoes off?
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Why would they need to tell you?

If you've been brought up like a civilised human being, then your automatic reaction would be to take your shoes off, at which point they will go "oh no no it's fine,or thank you... Either is perfectly normal.
 
No. And if they don't ask, I ask if they want me to take my shoes off. :p

Unless of course its obvious that they don't want you to because they have just traipsed through their house in muddy boots.
 
Dave M said:
Why does no-one have guest slippers in this country?
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Is this a thing? A selection of slippers by the front door? I'll crack out a spare pair or two of hotel slippers for guests if they're staying over but not when people are visiting for a few hours.
 
Always take my shoes off after I come in. If someone comes to visit I'll ask if they can take their shoes off if they're going upstairs but the downstairs is all hard flooring or tiled, so I'm not fussed.
 
CaptainComedy said:
only chavs don't take off as default.
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And those with FREEZING cold stone rural floors... or the slippery polished wooden ones.

CaptainComedy said:
I have tiled floor in my house, I still assume people will have the decency to not bring poo into my house.
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You're only allowed past my front door if you're not stupid enough to walk in poo in the first place!!

Kemik said:
Walk into my house with your shoes on and you'll get the British glare until you do. It's good manners to take your shoes off at the door. You shouldn't need asking.
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It's always been a Japanese thing to us, never a British thing. I never knew taking shoes off for indoors until perhaps the late 90s at the earliest.
We never did anything of the sort when we were growing up and it's only once the UK started importing things like foreign furniture retailers that people seemed to do this shoe thing. Slippers were for Grandad and for giving to kids at Christmas when they've already got enough itchy jumpers.
 
I take my shoes off at everyones house except my nans as I'm always in the kitchen and she really doesn't mind but otherwise the shoes come off all the time.
 
I think it's bloody rude if someone comes traipsing into your place with their shoes on! Especially when they clock onto the fact that nobody else has their shoes on...
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Is this going towards a point or is GD taking 'How do I Life?!' to a whole new level?
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It just seems logical to take your shoes off as you come in and leave them at the door and to put them on as you're leaving the house, but if you were to keep them on when do you decide to take them off? There's not such a set point bar maybe to shower or to go to bed?
 
I guess when people don't want to wear them anymore?

When i lived in university accommodation in first year in their halls i only took my shoes off when i went to my room. The floor/corridor/kitchen was cold and hard and with the usual spillage of stale beer/wine.
 
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