Our home is mostly-shoeless not because we thought about it or some cultural thing. We don't really care or even think about it. It's just because we live in na

Our home is mostly-shoeless not because we thought about it or some cultural thing. We don't really care or even think about it. It's just because we live in nature, not a parking lot, and so our boots are naturally covered in at minimum mud, dust, etc. We kick them off at the door and slide around in our cozy comfortable sock-feet indoors. By the way, wouldn't your socks keep your feet safe from all them scary germs? Or for that matter that wonderful organ called your skin? But I digress... I once answered the door in my sock-feet (because of course, I didn't boot-up just to open the door...). The group of visitors all immediately without a word de-shoed themselves right on the front porch before I could even say hello, which was to me odd. I didn't even figure out completely why until I read this - they must have inferred this was the polite cultural thing to do. Now THAT is the right way to behave when a guest in someone else's house. Awesome. I hope someday I meet an entitled germaphobic idiot like this in real life and they have a really good reason to need to be in my house (clearly it wouldn't be social). And then I'd declare that fine, if the shoes stay on, then either the shirt or pants must come off. HA!