Barefoot day in town
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Today I went out with a proper camera to make a short video showing my day going barefoot everywhere that's a little more interesting than a POV video shot with a cellphone. I went do the groceries...

It’s midsummer day today and the weather was nice, so I went to town for a beer after doing the groceries. And I went out with a proper camera to capture some enjoyable barefooting action 🙂

  • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 days ago

    Honest question: Aren’t you worried about broken glass, needles, hot asphalt etc. when barefooting in a city? Or about getting a small cut and a nasty infection via that? Personally I love going barefoot when hiking or backpacking or just on local walking trails, but I’d never consider doing it in the city.

    Not criticizing you by any means, just curious.

    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      Not really. I’ve lived in 7 countries and went barefoot for 20 years, and I never really had a problem. I’m not saying something bad can’t happen, but in my experience, glass and needles just aren’t really a thing. And if you develop enough leather under your feet, the odd nasty bits you may have missed have a surprisingly hard time to pierce the skin.

      The golden rule when going barefoot is to look ahead and scan the ground. If I can’t see what I’m walking on or it’s to sketchy, I don’t go there or I put shoes on - or my trusty chainmail “barefoot” shoes. That includes streams, rivers or lakes I can’t see the bottom of, or grassy parks with junkies.

      I think in 20 years I might have stepped 5 times on something that I had to spend 5 minutes digging out of my skin, and I got caught only once without shoes on a properly hot black tarmac surface that was only minutes away from burning me for real (in Belgium of all places 🙂).