Shoe Condoms

[Ben]

A company is selling "shoe condoms". They seem to be gearing them to people that buy $500 sneakers and want to keep them clean, but many a time I wished I had shoe condoms when using a public bathroom, while wondering what disgusting substance was going to follow me into my car and home later in the day. 

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/waterproof-shoe-condoms-protect-footwear

[230RN]

I started to get a little concerned about that when I used to "go" in King Soopers (City Market, Kroger) wearing slippers. Normally this outfit keeps the men's rest room pretty clean, but I guess you get "shotgunners" testing their patterns at the urinals every once in a while.  Can't attest to the ladies' room cleanliness.

I now wear shoes ("sneakers" actually) and decided to rely on molecular wear and tear to dispel the ickies before I got back into my car.

As my mother used to say in that kind of situation, "Don't worry, you'll eat a pound of dirt before you die."

It was just one of the inevitables.  You'll probably get exposure and spreading just while removing the booties anyhow.

The other solution-component is to not buy $500 sneakers.

Y' gotta be practical.


Side issue, related, sorta-kinda.  There's a  photo of a bunch of dignitaries wearing booties as they examined the Trinity Site in 1945:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/robert-oppenheimer-and-general-leslie-groves-examine-the-news-photo/615305238

Terry

[WLJ]

* Normally this outfit keeps the men's rest room pretty clean, but I guess you get "shotgunners" at the urinals every once in a while.  Can't attest to the ladies' room cleanliness.

One of my top pet peeves of life. For the life of me I can't understand why there has to be puddle around just about every darn urinal. How ^$#*%! hard is it?

[Ben]

One of my top pets peeves of life. For the life of me I can't understand why there has to be puddle around just about every darn urinal. How ^$#*%! hard is it?

And it's not like it's right there underneath - it can go out to a couple of feet. Which I guess I can see if people do what I do, and stand beyond the pee rather than in it. Every time someone stands farther back and misses, the next guy stands back beyond that point, and so on. 

[230RN]

Maybe they should figure out some way to flush the floor, too.