Wearing Shoes???

[Slow Puffs]

Why is it in Canukville we have to take our shoes off when we enter someone's house, even our own house.

In the USA, I understand that it's quite proper to walk into someone's house and not remove your shoes.

Now, why is that?

 

[puros_bran]

Bullhockey...


You don't take off your shoes around here you wont be invited back...
BUT by the same token..
If you don't offer to let me keep 'em on I aint coming back.

 

[puros_bran]

WHY? (took me awhile to realize you asked why... I'm going to pretend you want to know why we do it.)

It's a nod to the mans home that it is valuable enough to not destroy with dirty shoes...And its a nod to the woman that she keeps a tight ship and that you aren't willing to make her work 'extra' on your behalf.

Also.. its not right to accept the invitation to keep your shoes on..EVER. If you think it's to dirty for your sock feet either don't go or make an excuse to stay on the porch..

 

[pipetongue1]

You guys need a LIFE!!! :tongue:

 

[Hermit]

You guys need a LIFE!!! :tongue:

...or some slippers. :lol:

 

[gandalfpc]

It is quite proper and wise, if the woman of the house is of such a mind, to remove ones shoes and ask no questions - lest you end up with hands full of cleaning supplies, and a warm place on the couch to call home

 

[puros_bran]

Ken I have managed to keep my life by following some simple southern etiquette..
I assure you regardless of how bad a dude one thinks he is Granny will burst the chops with a wooden spoon real quick if you don't take your shoes off...lol

 

[Puff Daddy]

Looks like PB's back :lol:

 

[puros_bran]

Until tomorrow night anyway... Then its back to work.. internetless..

 

[J_Rock]

Ken I have managed to keep my life by following some simple southern etiquette..
I assure you regardless of how bad a dude one thinks he is Granny will burst the chops with a wooden spoon real quick if you don't take your shoes off...lol

My grandma would be in the back of the house and if you walked in the front door and took more than two steps without taking off your shoes she would know it somehow. You may as well just leave because you were in for it!

 

[Rad Davis]

I've never been asked to take off my shoes in anyone's house. And I wouldn't even think about asking someone to do it when coming into my house.

I know it's customary in some cultures, but not anywhere I've ever lived.

Rad

 

[Slow Puffs]

Looks like PB's back :lol:

It's like fishing.... you use worms, nothing happens... try a dry fly, nothing happens... put on a minnow, nothing happens.

Then you scratch around at the bottom of the tackle box and find a scratched up lure. Cast it out and Bang! before the lure enters the water the fish breaks water and you have to hold on to the rod and reel for dear life... :cheers:

 

[Muddler]

Here in SA, no-one takes their shoes off in someone else's house. It would be viewed as insulting to be asked to do so. Doormats are for cleaning off your shoes.

 

[Doc Manhattan]

This part of the country was founded by Puritans who were horrified/titilated by the sight of a woman's ankle. The Elect don't just go about flashing base flesh, and besides, half the year it's cold as a unburnt witch's mammary. So there are no traditions involving removing clothes of any sort--I'm surprised there isn't a tradition of offering houseguests a pair of hipwaders or a large burlap sack to wear over their clothes.

 

[puros_bran]

Oh we do the hip wader & burlap offering here.. but just take off your damn shoes. :lol:

 

[Irene Adler]

I am confused. My husband doesn't let me leave my shoes on in the house and we live in America.

Granted, I always take them off at the door regardless who's home I'm in - a habit my parents made sure I grew up with.

*shrug

 

[mark]

In the USA, I understand that it's quite proper to walk into someone's house and not remove your shoes.

:scratch: ,,,,,,what else has your source revealed about the habits of "all Americans"?

 

[gandalfpc]

You may be correct for the average house here, but a house is a castle here, and each is allowed to be it's own Rome as well

 

[Slow Puffs]

In the USA, I understand that it's quite proper to walk into someone's house and not remove your shoes.

:scratch: ,,,,,,what else has your source revealed about the habits of "all Americans"?

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain

 

[Natch]

Not a problem in Arkansas; shoes? What are shoes? :lol:

Besides, the dirt and mud floors inside our houses feels good between the toes.

Natch