Well shit, I guess I have plantar warts.
This article in the Times yesterday totally depressed me. Basically since I’m a big closeted ex-hippie and I used to go to Phish concerts (Great Went ‘98 woot woot! Or something!) I love to walk around barefoot during the Spring and Summer, but according to the article New York City and it’s parks may be so filth-infested that from just a couple of hours in Prospect Park yesterday I may essentially have foot-herpes:
“People could be vulnerable to infection from three main types of organism from going barefoot in the grass, he said, including pseudomonas bacteria, the type of fungus that causes athlete’s foot, and the virus that causes plantar warts.”
Should I buy a pair of Simple Shoes, the eco-friendly men’s slip ons with hemp uppers? (I need a hemp upper right now.) Or should I let my feet stew in the filth of the City? Are other cities this disgusting!? Boo.
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I have a pair of hemp Simple Skiffs myself. Definitely a better alternative than being barefoot.
easy for you to say you let your BABY roll around in bacterium all afternoon.
Thanks for the pre-lunch panic attack a-hole!
whatever babies get Plantar warts all the time.
Plus in big cities when it rains, there’s a high risk of getting infected with flesh-eating bacteria. No joke.
AHHHHHH!
mmmm. flesh.
whatever. wear shoes, you fucking hippie.
Great Went baby! So muddy. And high. Whoa.
I hear those shoes are gay… so wear them! Actually, I too am anti-shoe on account of my exotic eastern ways…so we can have plantar warts together and bask in our true communion with nature (cause your still a hippy dippy on the inside.)
You know, I grew up walking bare foot through all sorts of bacteria, rot, fungus, pesticides, and frog spawn. I’m surprised I have feet left. I refuse to wear shoes if it’s not specifically required.
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