I found this posting in The Hipforums. This poor barefooter girl is misunderstood....what a shame!!!


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1st time going barefoot = horrible experience for me
I'm a newbie to this site. Although I really like my feet and love the look of being barefoot but, I've always been too shy to actually go out barefoot out in public, despite wanting to for a while now. This past weekend, however, I finally worked up enough courage to go out without my shoes.... But I hate to say it ended up being a really bad experience for me. I showed up to meet my friends at a bar early Saturday evening, barefoot. They wanted to know what had happened to my shoes, and were dumbfounded that I had chose to go out that way. I was too nervous to attempt to offer any kind of real explanation – that I liked how it looked and felt going barefoot – so I just tried to play it off as no big thing. They told me how unlady like they thought it was of me to be out without shoes. On top of that, the bottoms of my feet had gotten dirty from walking there, and one of my friends, actually one of my friend's cousin, made a big deal about that, saying she didn't know how trashy I was. At one point later on, she grabbed the bottom of my jeans and held my feet up to show some guys we knew how dirty my feet were. The guys didn't seem to think that much about it, though, but the two girls with them each made a grossed-out face, and either asked why or how I could go out without shoes – I can't remember.... It had became humiliating for me, by that point.... I didn't know what to say, I was so embarrassed... My jeans weren't long or wide enough at the bottom to cover my feet at all, especially while sitting down, so I just sat there the rest of the night with my knees together, trying to hide my feet by holding one foot on top of the other... Maybe it wouldn't have bothered me so much if I'd thought more on what to expect, but I hadn't anticipated feeling so nervous, like I did from early on, or it being so humiliating or embarrassing for me as it was later on.... I left and stayed at my friends like we'd planned, and the next day I had to hear more about my barefeet, like the night before, until I they took me home.... I hate the idea of calling the same type and amount of attention to myself that I did Saturday, so much that I don't think I'll ever go out barefoot again!

ANNA
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