• Optimus
      • Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 5:41AM
      • Optimus
      • So I was playing euchre with a few friends. This one girl, who I hate with a passion, was sitting at the table watching the game. Basically she's one of the most pretentious people I've ever met. She'll never admit she's wrong about anything, thinks her way is always the right way, and is very condescending.

        Anyway I mention something about forgetting my socks in the bathroom once after I took a shower. In the mornings I get up (I sleep with my socks on) and walk to the bathroom (I live in a dorm at college) and take a shower.

        Immediately she asks "Wait, you don't wear sandals when you shower?. I said "No, why?" She says "That's disgusting..." At this point I'm thinking shes just a germ freak and there's no way she'll think differently. I say "Whats disgusting about that?" She goes on to mention this extremely obscure foot fungus you can get from just having you feet in the shower without protects, and sandals act as a foot condom I guess. I said "Well sorry I don't worry about every little disease I might get..." Then we stop talking about it.

        Anyway is this a common thing? Do you wear sandals to the shower?
    • Of course
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 5:47AM - in reply to Optimus
      • Of course
      • Yes, I wear sandals and socks in the shower. I also wear a wetsuit, gloves, balaclava, goggles and a swim cap.

        I heard that there's chemicals in the water that make you impotent so I don't take any chances of it contacting my skin.
    • maybe so
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 5:53AM - in reply to Optimus
      • maybe so
      • She might have a point, since it sounds your showers are shared with many others? I think the sandals thing is done by some people in public showers, like locker rooms and such. I don't wear them, but I could see how some could, especially like if its like a grungy old public shower at the beach, or in jail, or wherever.
    • Conundrum
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 5:55AM - in reply to Optimus
      • Conundrum
      • As a kid living in a dorm, NO.

        As an adult, when I visit the YMCA, always!

        Of course dorms are different now. Diseases are different now. They are more virulent.

        Face it kid, living in a dorm is like living in a petri dish that's incubating a number of nasty organisms.

        Don't worry too much about the germs though its just part of the natural selection process of college.
    • Cancelled
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 6:07AM - in reply to Conundrum
      • Cancelled
      • I never did because I already had athletes foot, so I wasn't too worried about getting it. Plus I hated having to deal with the wet sandals afterwards
    • redux
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 6:43AM - in reply to Cancelled
      • redux
      • In a communal shower, definitely.

        Have you ever seen a toilet seat? I'm always surprised at how dirty they are after people use them. Granted, I'm male and men are typically disgusting, PsOS so I should never be surprised at how gross everything they encounter is. Anyway, on the toilet seats at work there's always stray hairs and lint detritus where some fat morons butt crack was. It's like a butt-crack impression in lint and sweat and grease. Sometimes I even see poo smeared in. It's freaking disgusting.

        Have you ever seen stray hairs on top of the urinal? I have. Guys are terrible. And why do some people feel the need to pick their nose and wipe boogers on the wall above the urinal? If your unhappy, go find another job and stop exposing me to your pathetic, passive-aggressive, sociopathic glitches.

        So, sandals in communal showers are a must because people can be gross. Socks are better than nothing, but its easier for evil to seep in and infect your feets.
    • Rotini
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 6:54AM - in reply to redux
      • Rotini
      • This thread is another example of the further gay-ification of LRC.
    • Optimus
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 8:51AM - in reply to redux
      • Optimus
      • redux wrote:
        In a communal shower, definitely.

        Have you ever seen a toilet seat? I'm always surprised at how dirty they are after people use them. Granted, I'm male and men are typically disgusting, PsOS so I should never be surprised at how gross everything they encounter is. Anyway, on the toilet seats at work there's always stray hairs and lint detritus where some fat morons butt crack was. It's like a butt-crack impression in lint and sweat and grease. Sometimes I even see poo smeared in. It's freaking disgusting.

        Have you ever seen stray hairs on top of the urinal? I have. Guys are terrible. And why do some people feel the need to pick their nose and wipe boogers on the wall above the urinal? If your unhappy, go find another job and stop exposing me to your pathetic, passive-aggressive, sociopathic glitches.

        So, sandals in communal showers are a must because people can be gross. Socks are better than nothing, but its easier for evil to seep in and infect your feets.
        Haha just a clarification, I don't actually wear socks in the shower. I wear them at night, walk to the shower, take them off (like the rest of my clothes when I shower), but one time I dried off and got dressed and forgot my socks.
        I take showers in my bare feet and have never had any disease or fungus germ freaks always worry about.

        Redux your comment is exactly what I'm talking about. I bet you also wash your hands after every doorknob you touch, don't you? People do not put their butts on shower floors like toilet seats. The worst thing that can happen is someone pees, but it goes down the drain with the water.
    • split pea soup fog
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 9:12AM - in reply to Optimus
      • split pea soup fog
      • Optimus wrote:
        Immediately she asks "Wait, you don't wear sandals when you shower?. I said "No, why?" She says "That's disgusting..." At this point I'm thinking shes just a germ freak and there's no way she'll think differently.
        Sounds like she has a valid concern to me. Not only can you contract a difficult-to-treat foot fungus, but you also can get various warts and skin diseases [look up molluscum] from public showers and pools.

        I won't step foot in a public bathroom or pool without adequate foot coverage. In fact, I stay away from community pools and will only swim in private or semi-private pools.
    • genuine random a hole
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 9:40AM - in reply to Optimus
      • genuine random a hole
      • The chick is a psycho. Trust your instinct. If the shower appears to be clean don't worry about showering barefoot. Life is too short to obsess about every possible affliction.
    • redux
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 11:53AM - in reply to Optimus
      • redux
      • I'm not a germophobe, but where do you think the poo particles from people's butts go when they shower?
    • Another woman
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 2:32PM - in reply to redux
      • Another woman
      • redux wrote:
        I'm not a germophobe, but where do you think the poo particles from people's butts go when they shower?
        Read the "tighty whities" thread. That will explain it.
    • Bang
      • RE: Do you take your showers with sandals on? 3/1/2013 2:53PM - in reply to Optimus
      • Bang
      • Only on my hands when I attempt the Guinness Book of World Record's Longest Continual Handstand Shower.