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I remember watching TV growing up... Full house or whatever family sitcom. The kids laid the bed with their shoes on, school clothes. My mom comments on how dirty that is.

Additionaly it seems like only textbook are Americans using paper towels to open bathroom doors after washing their hands. My mom instilled that at a young age (I'm 36 now). Now it irritates me to see a Dyson hand dryer, and have to open the bathroom door by pulling it.

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From a European perspective, I so often notice this in American movies. Everybody constantly with shoes in beds an sofas, apparently without a thought. Always grosses me out - it simply would not ever occur to me to put my shoes on furniture.

Even when I'm completely black out, shitfaced drunk, I still manage to pull my shoes off before falling onto my bed.

The one time I couldn't manage to get my boots off, I just sort of awkwardly slept with my legs hanging over the edge of the bed.

But you wore them right up to your bed, not taking them off at the door? :O

I have wooden floors, so I'm not too concerned about wearing shoes inside.

This chain has made me curious; has there been any study of the negative health consequences of people's behavior with shoes within their living space? I'm not aware of any health concerns (major or minor) over such a thing.

For example, if such things were a worry then I'd be more concerned over my dog's bare paws while outside and his nonchalant attitude of not wiping them as he comes inside.

I've only taken to using paper towels to open doors, after realizing how everyone touches that thing after using the bathroom. Why do bathroom doors open to the inside?

It's even worse in the cinema, where there's a lot more people using it and only those dyson things. Plus not everyone washes their hands. Some only sorta wave their thumb and index finger under a bit of water.

In my family shoes are left outside the house; they never come in.

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