Everyone has an opinion and they really want to share it!

So although I have been running in watersocks for more than a year I have just recently started complete barefoot and have found that good God, everyone and their uncle now feels they need to shout things out to me when I pass them on a run. Thankfully they have been benign but jeez, think they've never seen a pair of feet before! Teenagers yelling out the car windows 'You forgot your shoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!' and a man on his lawn saying 'Where are you going?? That's what shoes are for!!' Well, actually at that moment my watersocks were happily sitting in my hands, should I come across broken glass, and if I hadn't been caught off guard I could have replied something witty about my hands being jealous. If I were more physically fit it also would have been funny to then flip onto my hands and start walking in my shod hands. I guess it is never easy to be different but it's worth it. :p

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I recently discovered the beauty of water socks myself :) They are quite comfortable...especially on those cold days :) And yes...people certainly love to have their say, don't they? That would have totally ROCKED if you could have walked on your "shod hands" LOL!!!!
 
I love the comments... and we have all heard them. :)

"Have you read Born To Run?"
"Where are your shoes?"/"You forgot your shoes."
"What if you step in (insert favorite organic, silica based, rock type object here) ___?

But, my all time favorite was an under breath mutter as I passed someone in a race.
"There's always one."

So, that makes me rather unique, huh? I am the one that always is. :)

Smile, move on, wave and be friendly. :D
 

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