<p>Is anyone else really skeeved out by people who go barefoot in dorms? </p>
<p>I was walking down the hall and this girl down the hall in front of me was walking barefoot to her room. The bottoms of her feet were pitch black with dirt picked up from wherever... the carpet, her room, the kitchen, the elevator, the stairs, the... bathroom. Presumably she was going back to her room to sleep in her bed... with those feet.</p>
<p>That's so, so gross to me. I always wear shoes or flip flops wherever I go. I can't stand getting my feet dirty. I actually don't mind being barefoot at the beach or in a grassy field or something. But a communal bathroom? The stairs of a dorm? The elevator? The kitchen? Uh....</p>
<p>Is it just me? I see people walking around barefoot to and from the bathroom and I just want to gag. Maybe I'm crazy.</p>
<p>eh I used to walk around in the stairwell and lobby barefoot, we had bathroom in our rooms though so it wasn't a big deal to go to the bathroom barefoot then. I can't go in a communal bathroom barefoot though, urgh. I love being barefoot though, I go outside barefoot all the time too. I wash my feet if they are gross before I go to bed though. I don't want my sheets to get dirty!</p>
<p>i definitely don't go into bathrooms barefoot, but i hate having shoes and stuff on my feet. i'd much rather get feet a bit dirty, and clean them later in some areas to feel kinda liberated.</p>
<p>I won't go into the bathroom barefoot just because there tends to be water all over because the shower portion is up higher than the rest, so within an hour of anyone showering, the floor is damp all over. </p>
<p>However, I walk barefoot everywhere, weather permitting. I grew up in the South and everyone went barefoot. I walked my dog around my neighborhood barefoot, walked to the pool barefoot, drove barefoot... it's just not a big deal. I was also a red diaper baby so it's weirder to wear shoes than not. :P</p>
<p>I go in the bathroom barefoot. Last year I wouldn't, because there was one bathroom for 25 guys. This year I only have 6 suitemates so I'll take my chances.</p>
<p>I don't walk anywhere really barefoot. I walk around my room and sometimes my floor with just socks on. When I go into the bathroom, I always have flip flops on even though we've got a triple suite so we've got our own bathroom.</p>
<p>I couldn't believe the other night when I was at work and saw a kid walk in barefoot. Now, he was headed to judo and the mat room where they do the judo they can't wear shoes, but still. We've got a lot of construction right outside our front doors and the concrete is all busted up anyway. Couldn't believe it.</p>
<p>I saw a guy walking barefoot outside yesterday, walking between classes... he wasn't even going to judo or karate, just walking barefoot.</p>
<p>As for me, I never leave my room without flip flops, and I never leave the building without shoes. I'll walk around my room barefoot sometimes though.</p>
<p>In general I have no problem with it and I prefer going barefooted around and outside my parents' house, but I agree that dorms can get gross and really, it's not that hard to put on a pair of flip flops. But I say try not to judge too harshly - after all, it's not affecting you.</p>
<p>I walk around my room and floor barefoot. a few times i walked around the rest of the dorm without shoes. i will never go into the bathroom without shoes/flipflops on though. that place is too disgusting.</p>
<p>I walk anywhere carpeted barefoot, wood floors barefoot, bathrooms and stuff with shoes. This shall continue when I go to college (already had experience with CTY).</p>
<p>^^^dood athlete's foot comes from ummmm...BEING an athlete, and not taking care of your feet...i.e., not changing your socks, not airing out your feet after practice/heavy walking/ or w/e, and not keeping them clean (by scrubbing them and cleaning them. in the bathroom is where you definitely don't wanna go barefoot cause there's a lot more things floating around. on regular carpet you're pretty safe, not much more dangerous than walking about anywhere else as long as you change your socks and wash your feet from time to time.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks going around barefoot, especially in communal bathrooms, is majorly iffy.</p>
<p>For those who think its perfectly fine to go barefoot in your dorm: have you actually considered what's on the floor? For instance: in the bathroom. Some people really never learned their way around the toilet. Or they're drunk and aren't too "on aim" with properly directing their urine or vomit. That goes on the floor. Some people use showers as "toilets" as well as doing other "activities" in showers, the after effect of which might also end up on the floor. Not to mention strands of hair from various parts of the body, not to mention soap scum. On the floor. </p>
<p>How about the kitchen? People spill soda, coffee, ramen soup etc on the floor and don't always wipe it up, along with assorted crumbs. That ends up on your feet. How about the halls and stairs? That's where people walk after having walked across campus or through various streets to get to class. Which means everything from the outside: dirt, sewer waste, animal feces, fertilizer from perfectly manicured campus lawns, filth from the floors of other public restrooms etc-- ends up on that nice dorm carpet eventually, tracked in by student shoes. And that carpet gets cleaned how often? Who actually knows at some schools.</p>
<p>Do you really want all that on your feet and eventually in your sheets? By your bare, filth-blackened feet alone you might as well ask random people on your hall to shower, eat and defecate in your room and in your bed.</p>
<p>You know - those feet aren't necessarily as disgusting as shoes - which have accumulated debris from all kinds of bathrooms and rough surfaces - often for months.</p>
<p>Unless there is a key difference in "stickibility" between shoes and bare feet - shoes still don't seem to get all that dirty despite all the crap that they seem to step on.</p>
<p>Personally I always wear socks in the house - since it's really easy to switch them whenever I step on something disgusting</p>