How dirty can your feet get if you went barefoot all day and you were up the cit!


Question: my girl friend sent it to me as she was asked as a dare, (as u do) to go barefoot up the city centre for a whole day


Answers: my girl friend sent it to me as she was asked as a dare, (as u do) to go barefoot up the city centre for a whole day

well ive walked home with no shoes on at times and your feet are black by the time you get in, and watch out you dont step on any glass, or dog poo!

You may not believe it, but if the city, sidewalk, house, and the places that you go are clean, then it might hardly get black, but of course it will not be as clean as if you wore shoes. Well I think your feet will still be clean

Dirtier than the country. Be careful of glass!

Depends if it rained lately.

I go barefoot everywhere for well over ten years, and my feet rarely look black, they're more like a greyish color even walking in the city all day. Only at bus stops and on the platforms of the trains do they occasionally get black but half a block down the road they're back to light grey.

It's no big deal that feet get dirty; the dirt on the ground may be more visible than the dirt on all the surfaces that many people touch with their hands like shopping carts, stair railings, door knobs etc, but the dirt there is no less germy, often more so! Also it's with our hands that we're at risk of transferring the germs to our face and food, where they can enter our body -our skin is made to keep pathogens out and unless we prop our feet up on the table or lick our toes we're at very little risk from the germs on the skin. For others, germs are no more likely to jump or fly off the bare sole than of the sole of a shoe, or off the skin of a bare foot than off the exposed skin in a sandal. Last of all, the inside of closed shoes is one of the worst places when it comes to germs; since bacteria and fungus love warm, dark and slightly damp places to grow, the shoe provides a great place for them to multiply, while on the bare skin they don't do so well. A survey showed that people suffering an injury from a nail piercing through the sole of a shoe were *much* more likely to get an infection because of the shoe-borne bacteria than those who had been barefoot at the time of the injury, yet most people who say going barefoot is dirty, never wash or otherwise clean the inside of their footwear!

And the risk of accidents/injuries is very low. In all the years of going barefoot, I pick up a tiny splinter maybe once a year, and I have NEVER had a cut. Yet I walk and often even run at littered places like the train station, I go to the recycling center barefoot, I've cleared a big bramble bush, etc. Feet get very tough very quickly if you regularly go barefoot. If your gf is not regularly barefoot but only walks barefoot on a dare she should be a little more careful, but I don't worry when I see glass on the street. The most important thing to remember if she's new to this is not to drag her feet; that way she could cut herself even on a pointy rock because you make a cutting move, sliding along rather than coming down from above and lifting off. Try it with a piece of scrap leather and a knife; if you only push down on it, it's hard to make a cut unless you use the point, but drag the knife along like you normally would and you'll make a cut easily with the straight edge, and you can damage the surface even with a much duller knife, a pointy rock or other slightly sharp item.

If you're in the US it's also good to know that in spite of persistent myths, there are NO health department laws requiring shoes in stores and restaurants, nor do insurance companies require footwear for customers. Stores can set their own dress codes but it's not required by health codes, and while it may seem that 'all stores' have a no shoes, no shirts, no service sign, in fact there are many places that don't have such sign and don't care either. Here in the Netherlands I've never even seen such a sign, nor on my trips to Belgium and Scotland, and it's never a problem, which is as it should be.



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