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Q: My sister has beautiful hardwood floors in her home. She paid a lot of money and doesn't want them ruined. She insists her guests take off their shoes at the door, whether they have alternate footwear or not. It is difficult to get shoes off from a standing position unless one is young or there is someplace to sit (which there isn't). Is it OK to ask guests to remove shoes at the door?
A: Recently, I was in a public washroom and my needs were,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], er, pressing. There were three stalls; two were full,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while one was blessedly free. But on the door was that dreaded wheelchair symbol,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], designating that this was a "handicapped" stall.
I needed a quick translation. What does the "wheelchair" symbol mean? Is it the same as the sign on a parking spot - in other words, "You must be disabled to park here?" Or is it more invitational: "Hey, folks: This stall is big,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so anybody can use it, even if you're disabled"?
I solved the problem by deciding my need was quickly becoming a disability,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and I didn't give a flying fig whether someone else needed the stall. In fact,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], if someone in a wheelchair had entered the john at that precise moment, I might have rolled him back out the door.
Sometimes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's hard to know whether a sign,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a word,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a gesture is a prohibition or an invitation. You show up for a fancy meal at a friend's house; you've taken the time to dress nicely and choose just the right shoes to go with your wardrobe. When your host shows up at the door, she's in stocking feet - or (in my case,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I confess) bare feet. What does this mean? Is it a prohibition: "Don't you dare tread on my Mexican Cocobolo in your spiky Manolo Blahniks"? Or an invitation: "If you're more comfortable,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], feel free to take off your shoes?"
This is precisely the kind of problem that keeps people around the world awake at night. In the barrios of Latin America,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in the Horn of Africa and in Palestinian communities in Gaza, in the streets of Egypt and the homes of Attawapiskat,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this question gnaws at people,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], depriving them of sleep, driving them to stomach pills to reduce the anxiety-driven acidity.
Dear correspondent,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], your sister is a fool. Who, frankly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cares what she paid for her floors if you can't walk on them? That's like buying expensive fruit-flavoured condoms, then sleeping alone. And foolishness seems to run in your family. Why are you making a big issue of something that patently doesn't matter? You know how your sister is,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so put a pair of slippers in your purse and slip them on. If you need a chair,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ask for one. Or set those 10 little piggies free for the evening. Either choice is a good one; whining about it isn't.
The real sin here has nothing to do with taking shoes off. The real sin is wasting money on hardwood (the cutting of which destroys rainforests around the globe) or, I guess,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], on shoes that interfere with enjoying time with your sister.
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