Why aren't you wearing shoes?

First off: my first run in 6 months: 3.10mi @ 9:49/mi WOOHOO! 10K in May, here I come!

I ran by a group of highschool kids and one of the "young punks" (get off my lawn) ran along side me for a minute:
Young Punk: Mr.. hey! Where's your shoes? Did you know you don't have shoes on? Don't your feet hurt?
Me: No, they don't hurt. I'm a man.
Young Punk: ....

DISCLAIMER: I am not a misogynist, "I'm a women" would work as well. :) Maybe better. :)

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First off: my first run in 6 months: 3.10mi @ 9:49/mi WOOHOO! 10K in May, here I come!

I ran by a group of highschool kids and one of the "young punks" (get off my lawn) ran along side me for a minute:
Young Punk: Mr.. hey! Where's your shoes? Did you know you don't have shoes on? Don't your feet hurt?
Me: No, they don't hurt. I'm a man.
Young Punk: ....

DISCLAIMER: I am not a misogynist, "I'm a women" would work as well. :) Maybe better. :)

You are making me miss adventure sports. NO matter what someone complained about (bad landing, broken leg, broken fingernail) we always had to finish with"well , you know, this activity ain't for sissies....." can't get away with that in my current job, but I will definitely use it for my next bf running comment.
 
just remembered. was running through my neighborhood and this older man sees me bf and very angrily yells "what, you think you're tough?"

not really sure what i said back. something along the lines of being too weak or lazy for shoes. didn't matter to him. i have never wanted to come acros so insecure like that who will want to fight you just because you're having fun and they don't know how to.
 
I have always just smiled at people who acted like that... but now I have to wear shoes all workday long - old job I'd take them off to drive from patient to patient, new one is in a dialysis center.. wearing them is a must in case of chemical or blood spill.. but they are minimalist and they come off as I go to get in the car on the way home.
 
I actually hate when I'm not doing so well (like at the North Shore Marathon) and people are passing me saying how "hard corps" I am for running barefoot. No, if I was hard corps I would still be two hours ahead of them and they never would've seen my feet. LOL.

I did have one lady (non runner) ask me, "Was that intentional?" I said, "Yes, I meant to have a mohawk." (for those that don't know, I have a mohawk...lol).

Best compliment I've received was also at the North Shore Marathon. Girl caught up to me and as she was passing me she said, "I like your shoes." hahaha

I also get tired of hearing near the finish line of a race, "Here comes a guy running so fast that his shoes fell off!" No, if I were running that fast I would have been done waaaaaaaay before now.
 
It does make me laugh if I get accused of being tough. I once had some comment about the SAS wanting people like me when I was running one particularly wet & windy morning; somewhat ironic as the thought in my head at that precise moment was "Ooh, I'm early enough to curl up under the duvet with a mug of hot chocolate for a bit when I get home." - yeah, dead tough, me!
 
I reply to the query of why Im not wearing (or do not wear) anything on my feet thus: For the same reason you arent wearing chain mail!” Then, of course, I usually have to explain what chain mail is.
To the more usual question which SBL abbreviates “WAYS” (where are your sh**s?) I have two responses. The first, more common. accompanied by a condescending look, is, “I dont wear such things” implying that doing so would be beneath my dignity. The second, usually to evoke a laugh, said with an expression of extreme disgust such as would be exhibited by the reaction to putting ones hands in excrement, “Ewwwww! You said the ‘S’ word!” which makes the asker review what was said to figure out to what “S word” I am referring. Then the question in the forum title is asked.
One thing I often am asked about barefoot running is, “How do you do that?”. Now that has to be one of the stupidest questions a person could pose! My answer, with a raised eyebrow, is, “I just put one foot in front of the other!”. Naturally, that makes the asker feel really dumb!
So, when asked such questions, try to come up with something like this.
 
I reply to the query of why Im not wearing (or do not wear) anything on my feet thus: For the same reason you arent wearing chain mail!” Then, of course, I usually have to explain what chain mail is.
To the more usual question which SBL abbreviates “WAYS” (where are your sh**s?) I have two responses. The first, more common. accompanied by a condescending look, is, “I dont wear such things” implying that doing so would be beneath my dignity. The second, usually to evoke a laugh, said with an expression of extreme disgust such as would be exhibited by the reaction to putting ones hands in excrement, “Ewwwww! You said the ‘S’ word!” which makes the asker review what was said to figure out to what “S word” I am referring. Then the question in the forum title is asked.
One thing I often am asked about barefoot running is, “How do you do that?”. Now that has to be one of the stupidest questions a person could pose! My answer, with a raised eyebrow, is, “I just put one foot in front of the other!”. Naturally, that makes the asker feel really dumb!
So, when asked such questions, try to come up with something like this.
but as someone who routinely asks questions that other people think have obvious answers, I am quite open to others who might be asking about things more obvious to me....:)