Re: Shoes on or shoes off?
The only person who kicks her footwear off here is my friend Diane, if she calls in on her way home from doing her horses.
She is usually wearing wellies suitably decorated with horse muck, grass, mud, and even the odd bit of dogs muck!
I am quite glad she leaves them outside.
I should think most people who had thick mud on their shoes would have the sense to slip them off, but I have never asked anyone, nor have I been asked.
If everyone took their shoes off when they came indoors here, they would find at least one of them gone missing when they wanted to put them on again.
Young Gertie collects things like that.
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As a matter of interest, when I do my yoga classes with the Hindu people, they never enter the hall with their shoes on. They have to be left outside.
Same with their temple (church), no shoes allowed in the temple.
They have loads of racks and shelves in the entrance hall where shoes are expected to be left.