shoes are terrible

i grew up in the country and did the nature boy thing for most of my childhood. luckily, did not go wook but still not a shoe guy.

i grew up wearing shoes all of the time, even inside. when i would run in the backyard, even the soft grass blades felt like gripping needles ripping through my innocent smooth flesh. but the kid down the block had no problem running barefoot.

fast forward 30 years: i invite my nephew to run around with me in my mom's backyard, and dare him to do it for barefoot. he cannot. the soft grass blades horrify him and he's like a dog wearing boots on top of boots, tip-hopping around. within 10 seconds he's back inside the house, whipping his shoes on.

epilogue:

i started taking my shoes off in early 20s. i love it, and my callouses are strong.
my nephew died of foot punctures. while stepping out of the shower, he accidentally stepped on edge of a nearby newspaper and immediately died of shock.
my mom is currently under investigation for negligent foot raising

My Callouses Are Strong

superb memoir title

my rooooooots are strooooong and deeeeeeep
i'm swaaaaaying in the breeeeze

part of my childhood country home was a gravel driveway and i somehow convinced myself to "train my body" by walking up and down it barefoot for hours at a time. I remember it being really fucking painful but it eventually worked! It wasn't until I ran on chucks for several years that my arches fell though so i'm not sure what the moral of the story is.

shoes are the arch enemy?

"train my body" lol

arch nemesis!
my achilles heel!

holy sole batman

Nike Killshot = instant douche

Really? They're not my style, but they just seem like some pretty basic, nicely designed, slightly vintagey looking classic Nikes?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uztfu2Eh_Bk/T-NasavpLhI/AAAAAAAAAGI/jArkba8585U/s400/long+toenails.jpg

Reason 1 for not going barefoot in the South: Red bugs. Reason 2: Sand burrs. Reason 3: Fire ants. Reason 4: There's a good chance that some of these may come back as the US slips further into third world status. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil-transmitted_helminthiasis

it was a simpler time.
had never heard of "red bugs" but boy do i know about chiggers. apparently also called "berry bugs" which was also new to me.

I went barefoot all the time in my childhood and will only slip into sandals at home when I need to go outside.

Footwear Back to basics: just five toes in a little room

I used to play drums in bare feet all the time. Gotta get that grip

Also, an old injury to my heel makes it painful to walk in flats, let alone bare feet.

https://i.imgur.com/3LcPUhy.png

Look at this bullshit

Got a pair of Nike Pegasus to run in and they caused blisters on the first time out. Shoes are terrible

i have a pair of shoes like that calstars

i hate them

but they're my only pair of shoes. i go barefoot most of the time these days for real

i have to say i am extremely here for calstars' shoe saltiness

i have a pair of shoes like that calstars

i hate them

but they're my only pair of shoes. i go barefoot most of the time these days for real

I have to admit slip on shoes are increasingly appealing to me, not because I think they look great but because I give less of a fuck about that aspect.

Also, I kind of want to just have cheap slip ons at each of the entrances to my house at all times now because otherwise it's a pain to go in and out.

espadrilles are good for this

crocs santa cruz slip-ons are ideal for that

the real problem here is feet. you got these perfectly serviceable legs under yr butt and then just past the ankles — i won’t even get into the ankles, fuckin ankles, sheesh — everything goes to hell. SNAKE BODIES FOR EVERYONE RIGHT NOW OR SO HELP ME I WILL CONTINUE TO GRUMBLE ABOUT FEET AND THEIR STUPID USELESS AWFUL LITTLE TOES

useless toes?! have you ever needed to pick up a pencil that fell to the ground? if you ban shoes and socks, you just pick it up with your little primate toefingers and smoothly pass them to your hands

also think about a situation where you're hanging off a cliff by _only your toes_

bet you'd respect toes more after that!

snakes seem to do better than this asshole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm24TJsS7VA

as a compromise i might accept tentacle toes

“zis snek iz ubset wid me!” exclaims dude dangling a snake by its tail

https://i.imgur.com/Ey5vrmH.jpg

Need more

https://i.imgur.com/Nzn5dXl.jpg
Sensible