ShindoNinja
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« on: April 12, 2010, 05:42:47 PM » |
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I wear one pair of my VFF exclusively for weight lifting and every once in a while I need to go to the washroom. I find the floor feedback a little disgusting in this situation. Anyone else feel that way?
Another thing that freaks me out is the old naked guys that use the urinals barefoot on the way to/from the shower. Not sure why they can't do everyone a favor and wear the towel around their waist instead of draping it over their shoulder.... that is a completely different discussion and sorry for the visual.
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« on: April 12, 2010, 05:42:47 PM » |
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Rana
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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2010, 06:41:09 PM » |
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I hear you. I don't mind it when the floor's dirty but dry (I mean, ugh, but no worse than sidewalks, really). But when there are puddles... EW.
(One of the worst moments wearing VFFs I ever had was going up stairs in a parking garage, only to hit a floor that homeless people or delinquent teenagers had clearly been using as a urinal. I reversed myself right away, rather than daring tip-toe through that. Ugh.)
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ShindoNinja
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2010, 11:09:58 AM » |
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I hear you. I don't mind it when the floor's dirty but dry (I mean, ugh, but no worse than sidewalks, really). But when there are puddles... EW.
(One of the worst moments wearing VFFs I ever had was going up stairs in a parking garage, only to hit a floor that homeless people or delinquent teenagers had clearly been using as a urinal. I reversed myself right away, rather than daring tip-toe through that. Ugh.)
That is disgusting! I just ordered a pair for indoor use, my basement gets cold. |
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 09:40:46 AM » |
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In my student venues, pub and nightclub, you get beer puddles which dry and makes the floor feel really sticky. It feels like i'm walking on a large sheet of flypaper!
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 09:40:46 AM » |
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Rana
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« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2010, 09:22:03 PM » |
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Hee. Once, when I was an undergrad, some of my housemates had a jello fight in the kitchen. Boy, were those sticky floors!
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Mule Ears
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2010, 09:50:22 PM » |
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Seriously, you do need to keep your VFFs/shoes and feet as clean as possible, particularly if you use 'em for outdoor activities where cuts or punctures are possible. At least this is what the doc told me as he was writing a prescription for antibiotics to fix a painfully swollen, infected toe. I got a stick from a yucca plant and the spine jammed bacteria into the joint. Mine was a run-of-the-mill staph infection, probably just my own skin flora; I shudder to think what I could have caught if I'd been tramping through sewage.  |
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Rana
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2010, 11:23:27 PM » |
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I got a stick from a yucca plant and the spine jammed bacteria into the joint. Ouch. Yucca spines are nasty, in any case. I still have a lump in my leg from where one got me - and it wasn't even infected.  |
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2010, 11:34:30 PM » |
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Definitely. I little bit of moisture on the ground I figure I can handle if i tread VERY lightly. But sometimes I don't even try, even if I have to go really badly, I will look for another restroom.
I remember I was gonna do the Tom's day without shoes, and almost left home without my VFFs. Then I thought, if I needed to go to the bathroom, things would get really nasty really quickly.
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barefootnyc
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2010, 09:46:49 AM » |
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It's the ick factor more than any actual concern for me. Every time a toilet is flushed human waste is vaporized, and every time you touch a restroom faucet or door handle there's countless bacteria present. Hand to mouth, nose, and eyes is known to be more frequent than foot to the same. But facetiousness aside, I grit my teeth in dirty washrooms--whatever I'm wearing on my feet--but don't worry about it much.
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Mule Ears
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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2010, 11:33:34 AM » |
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I got a stick from a yucca plant and the spine jammed bacteria into the joint. Ouch. Yucca spines are nasty, in any case. I still have a lump in my leg from where one got me - and it wasn't even infected. I initially neglected the injury for just that reason--it's like being stabbed with an icepick wielded by a Sumo; it's supposed to hurt. Wasn't until it got red and hot and started to look like the uh-oh pictures from a Boy Scout first-aid manual that I knew I had a problem. |
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Rana
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2010, 08:26:25 PM » |
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But facetiousness aside, I grit my teeth in dirty washrooms--whatever I'm wearing on my feet--but don't worry about it much. Yeah, I find it more gross than dangerous. I figure, I have a nice, strong immune system, and I wash my hands. But it's a good reminder that I should take the VFFs off when I come home, just like I do all my other shoes. (Our carpet is horrible and nasty, so it's less about keeping the house clean and more about being able to walk around barefoot inside.) |
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Scoutleaderky
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« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2010, 02:13:38 PM » |
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Yes public restrooms freak me out anyway. Some people are downright disgusting (Piss all over the floor, Not cleaning off the toilet seat, leaving stiff still in the toilet, using the urinal as an ashtray, smearing feces on the walls, stuffing in so much toiletpaper in the comode as to purposly overflow it, soiled toiletpaper in the trash stinking the place up to high hell) I shudder to use them.
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« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2010, 02:39:26 PM » |
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HAHA I love this post... you know before I read this post I wouldn't have even thought that my VFF's were breeding ground for infection. Now I am going to look at situations differently, although... what is really the difference between the bathroom floor and just walking on concrete? Everything you can find in a bathroom you can usually find on a sidewalk. Either way I am going to try and forget that this post was ever made and continue eating my food with my toes in my VFF's. JUST KIDDING  |
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« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2010, 03:52:01 PM » |
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I have the same feelings. Was weird a creepy even though the bathrooms at my work are not dirty just the mental idea is enough to make one shudder. In some cases though bathrooms are cleaner than most other things since they are more regularly cleaned than things like door handles. Now we have all been to "that" bathroom that we wouldn't want to enter with a haz-mat suit on, in someone else's body. I think in that case I might go seek out a tree. Funny to see everyone else has had similar thoughts/worries.
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Rana
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« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2010, 05:06:05 PM » |
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Everything you can find in a bathroom you can usually find on a sidewalk. True, that, what with dogs and stuff roaming around... what bugs me about bathroom mess isn't so much that it's dirty, but that it's wet and dirty. Maybe I should carry a couple of plastic veggie bags to slip over my feet when faced with such encounters. |
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