<p>^^you wear shower shoes rom your room to the shower and back. its not like you'll walk barefoot down the hallway.</p>
<p>and stepping on leftover dust or something in your room is better than stepping on body fluids (ex. blood, semen, etc.) in the shower. just bc u can't see that there's stuff on the shower floor, doesn't mean there isn't</p>
<p>Just use flip-flops!</p>
<p>i bet somewhere online there are stats regarding the number of random fluids & related bacteria hanging around on shower floors in college...</p>
<p>Yeah, but who eats with their feet? Skin is a good barrier against foreign bodies so you're fine as long as you don't have cuts on your feet.</p>
<p>Two words: foot fungus.</p>
<p>Oh and one more thing. Always let the water run on super hot for a few seconds (like 10). I have read that shower heads themselves are a breading ground for bacteria, b/c when you turn off the shower, water get stuck in the head and mildews. You should do this at home too!</p>
<p>I'm bringing flip flops. I have to share a shower with just 3 other people, but I want to be safe.</p>
<p>My dorm has showers that I think I'll be sharing with about half my hall (co-ed dorm, no co-ed bathrooms, so it'll just be other women).</p>
<p>I am definitely bringing shower shoes. The last time I was in a public shower, I was spitting blood everywhere because I'd gotten my nose broken from a fight, and the shower had to be sanitized and everything. The fungi that grows from blood is scary and you do not want to put your feet in it, or any fungi.</p>
<p>They have really good flip flops for the shower at this site along with a lot of good dorm supplies. I ordered the men's ones with the holes in the bottom for my s.
<a href="http://www.dormbuys.com/index.php?action=category&id=6%5B/url%5D">http://www.dormbuys.com/index.php?action=category&id=6</a></p>
<p>Flip flops are a must for college bathrooms. Even when I visited a friend, I used his flip flops even though there were 4 sizes too big or just remembered to bring my own. YOU'LL look stupid if you're NOT wearing them to the shower. 2 for $5 at Old Navy, order them online and get a present come day 1. End of discussion.</p>
<p>On a side note: i'm living in an apartment on-grounds (aka campus) with 5 other girls come fall. We've decided that each room (3 total with 6 people) will have a different "area" in the apartment to clean each week: kitchen/living room, bathroom1 and bathroom 2. So, the bathroom will generally be clean. I STILL plan on wearing the good ole Old Navy flip flops. I don't care if they make fun of me, I won't be the one in shame during a pedicure.</p>
<p>"i pee on the shower floor b4 i use it to sanitize it. so barefoot works just fine."</p>
<p>This is just one of many reasons why I wear flip flops in the bathroom - you consider it a method of sanitizing, but I really don't want to be splashing around in someone else's urine (much less my own). It's really unbelievable the number of people who get athlete's foot, warts, and other infections from not wearing flip flops in the shower - you assume everyone else must be wearing them so you decide to skip the balancing act without realizing that the other half of you floor is thinking the same thing. No thanks, I'll pass.</p>
<p>ok, Im sorry if this is going to sound to explicit, or grossing, but i just have to get this out. Once in my my floor, this guy from another residence hall slept in this girl room, this all happened in my floor. So the next day, they decided to take a shower together in the GIRLS bathroom. They ended up having sex in the shower.
So then, when this girl went to go take a shower, she found the whole shower covered in blood, that poor screamed, and we all came out of our rooms to see what was happening. That girl was soo traumatized after that. So that why its important to wear flip flops or what ever. Do not trust the showers thinking they are clean.</p>
<p>By all means if you want to end up with some nasty foot disease or having no feet don't wear any type of shower shoes. </p>
<p>I'll stick with wearing them, especially if you have community bathrooms. Luckily I'll be in an apartment this year, so I only have to share with 3 other girls.</p>
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<p>wow, didn't think of that. i'm a bit of a clean freak, so i use flip flops and spray them down with lysol every couple of days. my dorm last year was abysmal...</p>
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How do you wash your feet if you have to wear flip flops in the communial showers? I am serious.
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This is the funniest thing I've heard in a while!</p>
<p>Wear flip flops! I had the craziest people living on my floor freshman year. This one jackass took a dump in the shower. So yeah....</p>
<p>BEWARE of Wal-Mart Flip-flops!!!!</p>
<p>I'm using my crocs...I guess that's ok ?</p>
<p>Yeah, people get blood, throw-up, and human waste on the floor of the showers. I wear an extra pair of slides that I have. Others will think you are the digusting and stupid one if you go in barefoot.</p>
<p>I don't know what kind of people go to your schools, but the nastiest thing I've ever seen on the bathroom floor is pubic hair, and that's not even nasty.</p>