Weird premise, but I’ve seen it enough I think it may be the case.
Inspired by a dude at work who randomly brought up his “big” size 10 feet in front of a female coworker and made a big deal about how hard it is to find shoes for himself.
Wow.
I never thought of trying that. I’m 5’7” with size 11 feet…
Since size 10 isn’t very large or hard to find your assumption may be correct.
It’s lost on me if they are. How strange.
Probably.
That said, size 10s aren’t particularly big; this site indicates that the average shoe size for an American adult man is a 10.5.
Maybe, but I think guys also tend to be more unaware of, and consequently more impressed by, the extent of potential difficulty and frustration in garment shopping.
Generalizing oversimplistically, men are perhaps more likely to expect that buying clothes or shoes will be like buying tools or groceries: you know what you want to get and what size you want to get it in, you go to the appropriate aisle in the appropriate nearby store, you get what you’re looking for, end of story.
So if the process turns out to be unexpectedly difficult, you’re gonna hear about it.
However, I share your [ETA: and everyone else’s] puzzlement about why a reasonably clueful American man would be at all inclined to consider, or describe, a men’s shoe size of 10 as “big”. AFAICT the average American male shoe size is 10 1/2, so your coworker actually has slightly smaller-than-average feet.
Size 12 W. If I apologize because my feet get in the way I am not bragging.
I am apologizing.
I once heard some men bragging about their shoe sizes while I was using the urinal in the men’s room. I just smiled silently, shook my head, threw my penis over my shoulder so I could burp it, washed my hands, and exited.
While I agree with this, being a size 10 myself, I’ve almost never had an issue in which I chose a shoe style, only to find that they didn’t have my size in stock.
It sounds to me like he’s either trying to imply genital size (eeeew), or to say something that sounds impressive. Either way, he’s coming across as either skeevy, or clueless, or both.
And either way, it sounds as though replying mildly “Huh, that’s odd, the average shoe size for American men is 10 1/2, you’d think any shoe store would have lots of size 10s” would probably shut him up pretty effectively.
While I would generally not be looking for a reason to make a reference to the comic strip Dilbert (because the creator went around the bend a long time ago), there’s a minor character in that strip named “Topper,” whose one schtick is to inject himself into a conversation by making outlandish claims about himself, in order to “top” whatever someone else has said.
It sounds like this guy may be a bit like him.
Slightly related - my son had to explain to me what “hung like a baby” meant. [20 inches/8.5 pounds]
I know a guy who’s a size 14 A. He’s had to special order his shoes since high school.
So, impressive length, but minimal girth.
More likely he is talking about how he has one of the most common shoe sizes, so stores are often out of that size, making it difficult to find what he wants. (Because everyone else is buying them up)
Nobody would ‘brag’ about having a size 10 foot. If the coworker had a size 13 or something, then maybe.
Maybe this guy is the guy with the largest feet in his tiny family who have tiny feet.
Or just stupid.
The Lady should tell him she wears a 12 woman’s shoe, they could share.
She has some heels she’s tryna get out of her closet.
I would have parsed that rather tasteless phrase as more referring to a specific portion of the baby, which would be a LOT less impressive.
I think 13 is the new size 12. I always wore a 12, and typically still do, though some shoes I wear a 13. Used to be I never had trouble finding a 12, but 13s weren’t always available. They’re pretty standard now. If someone talked about how big his size 10 feet are, I’d find it odd.
I always thought the wives’ tale was that hands were supposed to suggest penis size, not feet.
I mentioned my size 13 feet last night at a dinner party. But we where talking about airplane seats. My big feet are one reason I prefer the aisle seat. With my long legs and big feet at least I can stretch one leg into the aisle for a couple of seconds.
Being someone with “gigantic” size 10 1/2 feet, I can say that the correlation is absolute.
I don’t drive a monster pickup truck though.
And how big is the schnoz on Bigfoot? I find some noses very sexy on their own. Not really into feet.