If these are your feet, stop it!!!
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Bare feet on a plane (or anywhere other than the beach, really) are my biggest pet peeve. Maybe FAs should have a box of disposable socks, like shoe stores do, to hand out to the poor soles who have none. I'd make them bright pink for men and white tube socks with stripes for women - sort of a sock of shame
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i've seen people do this - with bare feet!!! on a table top that other patrons place their foods and drinks unaware that matter of callous and jam rested there just moments before...
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Bare feet on any table in public is over the line. But a low cheap table in an airport lounge not used for anything or alternatively used by this man in socks with no one anywhere near him? We don't know the circumstances. Maybe he is stuck in the airport for 2 hours after an intercontinental flight. Who knows. In any case, it's on the acceptable side of my line.
P.S. I always wipe lounge table surfaces, regardless of who or what was sitting at it previously.
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I don't go barefoot in a plane but that's more about protecting my feet than your eyes. As a Floridian I spend 75% of my life without shoes and even more without socks which I only wear when I must. Sometimes a pair of oxfords is required but usually I can get away with loafers or even better my dress flip-flops. I think if you're worried about toe jam you need to clean and air out your feet more.
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This. Who cares? Before anyone asks, no it wouldn't bother me if it was my office or house. I routinely sit with my feet on the wall in my office when I'm thinking.
I don't go barefoot in a plane but that's more about protecting my feet than your eyes. As a Floridian I spend 75% of my life without shoes and even more without socks which I only wear when I must. Sometimes a pair of oxfords is required but usually I can get away with loafers or even better my dress flip-flops. I think if you're worried about toe jam you need to clean and air out your feet more.
I don't go barefoot in a plane but that's more about protecting my feet than your eyes. As a Floridian I spend 75% of my life without shoes and even more without socks which I only wear when I must. Sometimes a pair of oxfords is required but usually I can get away with loafers or even better my dress flip-flops. I think if you're worried about toe jam you need to clean and air out your feet more.
2. we're not exposing our toes so our feet hygiene is not an issue
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Bare feet on a plane (or anywhere other than the beach, really) are my biggest pet peeve. Maybe FAs should have a box of disposable socks, like shoe stores do, to hand out to the poor soles who have none. I'd make them bright pink for men and white tube socks with stripes for women - sort of a sock of shame
This. Who cares? Before anyone asks, no it wouldn't bother me if it was my office or house. I routinely sit with my feet on the wall in my office when I'm thinking.
I don't go barefoot in a plane but that's more about protecting my feet than your eyes. As a Floridian I spend 75% of my life without shoes and even more without socks which I only wear when I must. Sometimes a pair of oxfords is required but usually I can get away with loafers or even better my dress flip-flops. I think if you're worried about toe jam you need to clean and air out your feet more.
I don't go barefoot in a plane but that's more about protecting my feet than your eyes. As a Floridian I spend 75% of my life without shoes and even more without socks which I only wear when I must. Sometimes a pair of oxfords is required but usually I can get away with loafers or even better my dress flip-flops. I think if you're worried about toe jam you need to clean and air out your feet more.
He was rubbing his bare feet on the airplane carpet? Yes, that's disgusting, for the man in question. Those carpets are filthy! But they're his feet, so who cares?
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Going back to the pilot's comment, would you want a visitor to your office to prop his socks-covered feet on your wall?
#30
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I wouldn't store my belongings in a cabinet in someone's office. I wouldn't ask a receptionist (or a company's safety officer) for a blanket at someone's office. I wouldn't accept someone trying to sell me alcohol, cigarettes, perfume, and earbuds in someone's office.
Football coaches don't tell players "Excuse me, I know you're actively training, but this is my workplace. Would you sweat like that in someone's office? Thanks."
Doctors don't tell female patients "Excuse me, I know you're giving birth right now, but this is my workplace. Would you scream and drip afterbirth like that in someone's office? Thanks."
No, the main cabin on a long-haul flight is not the pilot's "office". Admit it or not, it's more like a bizarrely-catered open-bay hostel.