Shoes: re: xkcd #3057 (February 28, 2025) : Excusing Yourself

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3057:_Excusing_Yourself

One of the commenters remarks:

". . . in the United States, . . . hosts are unlikely to
request their guests to remove shoes at a house party."

Instead, removing shoes adds to the rudeness depicted.

Twice in my life I've appeared in a public place wearing
neither shoes nor a bathing suit, and both times I was
quickly approached by an employee who very politely
reprimanded me.

(I was forgiven both times; on the first occasion because I
was injured -- and didn't take my feet out from under the
table without putting my shoe back on -- and on the second
because I was on my way to the shoe department.)

(Great luck:  I'd intended to buy the cheapest flip-flops to
tide me until I got home, and instead found my size in
sandals I'd been looking at longingly in other stores.)



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