Last week when my wife went in, she noticed that the noSSS sign had come down. Yesterday when I went in (with my moccasins) to pick up a coupla racks of ribs, I too saw that the sign was down. I'll have to try to go in during the day this week and ask the management if they've changed their minds, or if it's just coincidence. I'm hopeful it's the former. Or I suppose I could just go in barefoot, and point out that they've taken down their sign if anyone gives me trouble, but it seems like I should take the most diplomatic tack possible.
Well, I have finally posted my blog article about the incident. Feel free to share on FB. I hope it comes across as thoughtful. http://dailyimprovisations.com/hand...tations-lies-and-intimidation-at-nampa-winco/
Thanks!Oh. I wrote that paragraph in the "Case For" article. Some of the other stuff there has since changed, but that still holds true.
I just got my first angry comment comparing us all to homeless drug addicts...
I just got my first angry comment comparing us all to homeless drug addicts.... I let it stay because it wasn't completely over the edge and so I could respond to it reasonably, but I added notice at the bottom of the blog about deleting rude comments.
I'm not looking for ways to be offended. Maybe he is just careless, but I think the whole tone of the comment is rude, as is his follow-up comment. One doesn't use all those descriptors without intending to give a certain sense of how barefoot people are judged. By including barefoot athlete in a list of implied negatives, he at least strongly suggests negative judgment in an unkind way. His imperatives at the end are phrased in a confrontational way. I really appreciated the Barefoot Professor's response.Personally I didn't receive this comment as "angry" or "rude" : the phrase about "not my job to judge whether you are a barefoot athlete or a hippy stoner or homeless and shoeless"
does not really compare the one with the other, it just states that the reason for being barefoot is not the root of the problem. The root of the problem are potential or imagined accidents and the implied potential for law suits. That means it would be quite easy to find a solution to accommodate everyone: A big sign "Barefoot at own risk" would do, would it not?
Definitely agree.I'm not looking for ways to be offended. Maybe he is just careless, but I think the whole tone of the comment is rude, as is his follow-up comment.
Definitely agree.
"What does make me a little bit annoyed is when a small demographic of people with fringe ideas..."
America is all about respecting "small demographics" with "fringe ideas", such as freedom of speech and religion, as long as one is not harming others.
When I was fighting for barefoot rights for the Royal Oak MI Arts Beats & Eats 5K/10K and Festival I brought that up early on. Almost a year later when the festival owner/promoter called me on the phone for a 30 minute discussion turned argument, the open carry firearm comparison was the major issue. He had backed down on his no guns rule when the local NRA group promised to have thousands of gun totin' folks all around the perimeter, but he stood his ground on the shoe rule until he saw that I was serious about having a very visible comparable protest. Here's where I first mentioned it on their FB site in the original thread:....in America you have the liberty to carry firearms wherever you go but you don't have the liberty to go barefoot wherever you wish - and strangely it's the barefooters who are treated as potential criminals!
Yes, this phrase about "small demographic of people with fringe ideas" did annoy me as well, but it reflects a profound American contradiction, which as a non-American, I've always wondered about:
As far as I've understood, in America you have the liberty to carry firearms wherever you go but you don't have the liberty to go barefoot wherever you wish - and strangely it's the barefooters who are treated as potential criminals!
I have done that, but I would rather not have to keep going back out to the car.
Sorry about the essay. I couldn't think of a shorter way of writing it.