Is your spouse embarrassed by your barefoot running in public?

[Sid]

My wife (that's her in my new avatar) is from a place where only poor people and villagers go barefoot

Perhaps, you need some bling? That would indicate that you can afford shoes, but choose not to.

That strategy has seemed to work throughout the years. "I'm wearing gold jewelry and chose to get a perm and bell-bottoms, to wear a jogging suit, to wear oversized/baggy clothes."

 

[clawhammer72]

Ha! That would totally work....gold chain, rings. Or maybe this is my change to spend the change for a heart rate monitor, new ipod, and some cool shades.

 

[clawhammer72]

Well, if SO's are truly embarrassed by BFR, then you could always augment your running by flapping your arms like a bird and making farting noises with your mouth. Suddenly, the barefoot thing will drop straight to the bottom of the list of concerns. Drop. Like a friggin rock.

+1 lol

 

[Lomad]

See, now when I read that, I automatically thought of Hank Azaria in The Birdcage...

Agador Sparticus!

 

[Bare Lee]

Perhaps, you need some bling? That would indicate that you can afford shoes, but choose not to.

That strategy has seemed to work throughout the years. "I'm wearing gold jewelry and chose to get a perm and bell-bottoms, to wear a jogging suit, to wear oversized/baggy clothes."

Ha! Kind of like this?:

(Thanks Zetti).
But actually in Africa, just being white meant I have money, which is why it was so confusing for people to see me barefoot.
And here in America my wife doesn't leave the house unless she's decked out, so even if I'm dressed down like a typical middle class white guy, in nondescript Target shorts and a pocket-t, I pick up a little of my wife's glamour (why doesn't the BRS spell checker like that word?) by association.

 

[Bare Lee]

My wife didn't mind me running barefoot, it was the walking everywhere barefoot. When I go to the shops, pub, party's and especially weddings, suited and barefooted. But she's coming round to it slowly

Are you a member of the SBL? I appreciate folks like you paving the way, so to speak, for the rest of us.

 

[Enso108]

My wife has said I'm not allowed out in my new Invisible Shoes and asked when was I going to grow a ZZ top beard.

 

[Twisty]

Clawhammer72, don't know if I'm hard core:/

Running pirate, had to google the "Bird Cage" it made me laugh!!!

Bare Lee, I'm really new to all this. No I'm not a member of the SBL.......what is SBL????

 

[Bare Lee]

Bare Lee, I'm really new to all this. No I'm not a member of the SBL.......what is SBL????

Society for Barefoot Living. Check it out: http://www.barefooters.org/

 

[Twisty]

Thanks Bare Lee will have a wee gander at the site.

 

[Big Joel]

My wife has said I'm not allowed out in my new Invisible Shoes and asked when was I going to grow a ZZ top beard.

My wife said the same thing. I just keep wearing them around and she is starting to get used to her husband in "strappy mandals." Its a war of attrition!! She also cant stand when I wear VFFs to work on fridays or when we go out with friends. hahaha (or how they stink when I take the VFFs off)

 

[barefootn]

I made some pretty ugly huaraches. They were always coming loose in the store, and she got tired of me stopping to tie them. I threw them away and now she complains less. However she still dosen't like me pumping gas BF in the snow.

 

[RunningPirate]

However she still dosen't like me pumping gas BF in the snow.

So long as she doesn't force you to move to New Jersey, you're still good..

 

[clawhammer72]

I think my wife is on the road to acceptance. She wants to buy me a flag that says, "Let your freak flag fly."

 

[rbondi]

My wife brags about my barefoot running every chance she gets.

 

[Bare Lee]

My wife brags about my barefoot running every chance she gets.

You married well.

 

[Mike R]

My wife doesn't care. Maybe that's due to the fact that I run after work in a town 26 miles away