<p>I forgot to pack some and I want to know if I should go buy some, or if they're only necessary for regular dorm bathrooms (I live in a suite)</p>
<p>I dunno, I might just to be safe. At this time of year flip flops are on clearance anyway, so they’ll probably only cost you a couple dollars. You might be okay, but it depends a lot on how often and well you scrub the shower, and if your suite-mates might contract athlete’s foot from, say, the gym.</p>
<p>Ask your suite mates if any have fungus or the herp (though I don’t think herp can be transmitted in that way (don’t have it so don’t know much about it)). Say a cousin got a nasty infection that way and you just want to make sure.</p>
<p>how can you get herp on your feet. -.-</p>
<p>This is college she should be lucky they aren’t having orgies in the shower.</p>
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Lol. I love this.</p>
<p>if he is talking about herpes, it is an STD. which means it (most of the time) is transferred only sexually. yes, i know it can appear anywhere on the body (somebody correct me if wrong), but this is the shower…where this is water and soap and stuff…i don’t think the virus would be able to survive -.-</p>
<p>I have never worn sandals in the shower, and the last two years I shared with 3 other girls.</p>
<p>Seems like total overkill anyway. “The herp” wouldn’t be able to survive, and while peeing in the shower is nasty, if your roommates do this it is sterile (and will have washed away anyway before you get there).</p>
<p>If your that paranoid, just get a little bleach and splash it all around before you take a shower.</p>
<p>With three other people, I’d say just ask them if they have fungus or something. But if that’s a bit awkward, just get a pair of sandals. There are some mad cheap ones out there.</p>
<p>It depends on who the people are. I wasn’t planning to last year (also sharing with three other people), but one of the girls I was sharing with was just GROSS, and left all kinds of hair and unidentifiable substances and things in the shower, so I bought a three dollar pair of rubber flip-flops from Target and wore them all year. But obviously, if the three people in question are clean and probably don’t have foot-herpes or whatever people are talking about here (which, really?), you may not need them. Rubber flip-flops are cheap enough that you might as well invest in some if you’re worried about it.</p>
<p>I assume it’s a regular one-person bathroom, right? I would only break out the flip-flops if you’re using a communal bathroom designed for multiple people at once. But hey, that’s just me, if you are worried about germs or whatever I guess you could wear them. But in theory one might share a bathroom with three others in your home, right? So to me it’s sort of the same thing.</p>
<p>But as silversaline said, if someone you share with winds up being gross, I do recommend the flip-flops, lol.</p>
<p>I never did and neither did my suite-mates AFAIK. </p>
<p>If anything the bathroom floor is way nastier than the shower will ever be and if you don’t grab some footwear every time you pee then whats the point of doing it when you shower?</p>
<p>“If anything the bathroom floor is way nastier than the shower will ever be and if you don’t grab some footwear every time you pee then whats the point of doing it when you shower?”</p>
<p>The difference is that, especially with a shower being used by multiple people daily, the floor of the shower remains damp most of the time while the floor of the bathroom is mostly dry. This means that if someone in the suite has athlete’s foot or another similar type of fungus, it could thrive in the moist environment of the shower and be passed to other barefoot people. That’s the primary concern when it comes to wearing shower sandals.</p>
<p>Would you wear flip-flops at home if you shared it with three other people? No.</p>
<p>I always wore a pair of cheap rubber sandals in dorm showers.</p>
<p>Lots of gross bacteria. A pair of $3 flip-flops is worth it. College dorms are a very dirty environment, which is why Hepatitis and SARs is so common.</p>
<p>I shared a shower with three other girls last summer and I never wore sandals. At home, my three siblings and I share the shower, and I don’t wear sandals there, either! I think it’s a bit unnecessary.</p>
<p>OP, just do whatever you want. Just as long as you guys keep the shower clean from time to time, then having or not having flip flops shouldn’t be an issue. </p>
<p>I usually just splash a bit of bleach when I go to the shower stalls and let the water run for a minute. You can do the same if you feel skeptical. Or simply just get flip flops.</p>
<p>Your only real health risk in this situation is athlete’s foot. Here’s info about it:
<a href=“What Is Google Health? - Google Health”>What Is Google Health? - Google Health;
For just a few people, it’s probably not worth worrying about unless one of them already has it.</p>
<p>If you guys keep it clean, then no. However, if you don’t so much, then absolutely!</p>