Manhattan. There is no personal space on a crowded rush hour train. You are squished so close to people that I feel they should at least buy you a drink first.
Fuckspackles. I like that – can I steal it?
All excellent, mutex. And welcome!
I was told by carpet installer that going barefoot places body oils & sweat on carpeting. Creates stains that are difficult to remove since the oil attracts dirt.
London at rush hour and any time of day on some of the lines. Also Barcelona, Rome, Berlin. I think most underground trains are packed at rush hour.
A little photographic evidence of the London Underground probably wouldn’t go amiss.
Not my photo, but definitely my experience.
What’s especially gorgeous is being 6’ 4" and caught at the outer edges near the doors. In which case I have to bend over in order to fit in with the curvature of the carriage. This will force my head into the face / cleavage / lunch / backpack (delete as appropriate) of my fellow passengers; not a pleasurable experience for anyone involved despite how that might sound to some :eek:
Indeed. Good ranting, and welcome! 
As for taking your shoes off in the house, you can search on the five thousand threads we’ve already done on the subject if you want to. I don’t think I’ll bother telling you once again that it is cultural in Canada, and then listen to all the US Americans lose their shit because no one tells them to take off their shoes in the house! It’s their God-given right! Etc.
Shoes off, socks on, is fine. And of course they can do whatever the fuck they want in my house.
My sister came to my apartment for Sunday dinner. Took off her shoes, as she tends to do. She’s kind of … dotty … in some ways; not stupid, but overly focused. When she left the apartment she forgot her shoes. Evidently she didn’t notice she was unshod till in her car, where she put on the extra shoes she keeps there for JUST SUCH OCCASIONS.
Sometimes on Montreal metros (subways) and buses, it’s so crowded that I don’t even need to hold onto a pole - there are so many people crammed in that I can stay upright because people are pushed up against me on all sides. Did I just supply nightmare material for you, CanvasShoes? 
It’s a fact of life that Montreal transit users have come to accept. For what it’s worth, though, I usually try to avoid travelling at rush hours and/or try to choose less crowded subway cars.
That sounds like something I might do :smack: I hate wearing shoes & I prefer to be barefoot. I tend to have extras in the car because I’ll wear 'em to the store or something, then kick them off on the drive home and walk in the house barefoot. I do wear them in public, and I take note of whether hosts are shoes on or off in their own houses and follow suit. In my house I couldn’t care less if you wear something on your feet or not. Be comfortable. I don’t find feet gross, and I don’t find plain grass and dirt gross but city streets and places of mass humanity certainly.
Yes, you did, that sounds horrible! So did Nava’s post…argh.
If I’d been raised someplace where that was the norm, it might not bother me. I don’t blame Nava’s dad either, sheesh, I’ll sometimes pay the extra 50 cents and go to the first station downtown just so I can get a seat and avoid the afternoon crush going home on the light rail. Or if I see a crowded train pull in, I’ll just wait for the next one. Ugh. And on game nights when there are a gazillion insane drunken Seahawks fans?
Luckily the morning commute isn’t bad because I live near one of the first stations on the line. (Oh lord, I just looked at the pictures in EoD’s post, shudder and I’m so sorry for you people who have to deal with that.) My only experience with NYC subways is the scene in the movie “Adventures in Babysitting” (or was that Chicago?).
Want to become even more content? Stop stereotyping people.
Presumably one can know one’s own family well enough that a statement like that might be a description rather than a stereotype.
It’s clearly both: digs (the poster) is describing his family, and he’s using stereotyping to do so. What’s ironic is that, in doing so, he is showing himself to be just as judgmental as he claims those who raised him are.
So there’s no legitimate way of describing a type of family without it being a stereotype?
Of course there are, and I never said or even implied that there aren’t.
So there are no families of the type described by digs?
Whether there are or not has nothing to do with his use of stereotyping in describing his family.
I would recommend explaining yourself more fully. As it stands I see nothing wrong with what Digs said.