Received Monday, November 10, 2008 - Rant
To all you uppity, yuppity, slippery home owners who require your nanny to deshoe upon entrance to the manse, take notice; the next time I slip in socks on your hardwood floors or steps, I am going to dial 9-1-1 and let the ambulance take my shell shocked, broken arse to the nearest ER and demand a thorough battery of complex tests. My how lovely your carpets and how prim your rugs; but is or is not safety an issue?
Signed,
Your bruised and broken nanny
PS The third time was no charm.
Viva Skechers.
65 comments:
Have you asked your employers to give you some shoes for wearing only in the house? That would make the most sense and it's better than waiting to get hurt.
Or you could take your socks off. I never let my charge wear socks in his house because he would always slip on the wood floors, but it's Texas and not very cold here so maybe you need your socks...you could get the kind with the grippy stuff on the bottom.
This seems rather ridiculous to me. If you fallen twice before and not done something by now to remedy the situation, such as the two suggestions above, it's your own fault you fell.
Not to mention the oil from bare feet are far worse for flooring than shoes assuming you're not wearing cleats. I wear orthotics and can't walk around without shoes so I'd have to bring a pair of "indoor" shoes with me. I suggest OP get some of those socks with the grips on the bottom of them.
They make adult socks that have rubber thingys on the bottom to prevent you from slipping. Or there is a wonderful site where you can order some iron on thingys and turn any pair of socks in to non-slip
http://www.grippiesonline.com/home.html
nomdeplume,
what kind of orthotics and why? may I ask? I am a nanny and my employers house is hardwood floors and we all wear socks but it kills my feet!
Any help?
This was happening to me all the time until I got a pair of slippers. They are hard like shoes and super comfy.
I keep them in the front closet at work so I never forget them.
I must work for the best people in the world, they have hardwood floors throughout the first floor but they don't care what I wear inside. They care more about their child than a floor......
Walking in the house in shoes after walking on the street is disgusting. We take our shoes off in the house. Get slipers or take the socks off. It is not your house, if you don't like it leave. Entire countries of people remove their shoes before entering the house, get with the global program girlfriend!
Get some house shoes that you can leave at work.
bamboo. My mom, my grandmother, my great grandma, great great grandma....all wore shoes in the house and miraculously no one died from dirty shoes in the house. There are more important things to worry about that floor.
tc, Shoudn't you use the moniker "pigpen" instead.
People spit on the street. Dogs shit on the street. Think what you are dragging into the house. Thank god you don't work in my house.
Again I state no one has died because they wore shoes in the house. In fact people that are overly paranoid about germs are causing major problems like antibiotic resistant bacteria, which CAN kill you.
And calling me names shows your maturity level.
bamboo I bet tc thanks God she doesn't work in your house too, you're kind of rude.
TC
You are 100% right! For a long time I was careful about germs and what was allowed in my house... and the 1st year of my son's life he was always sick. My family did an intervention of sorts, and told me to get a grip, that what I was doing was actually harming my kid. They said he needed to be introduced to germs to be able to build an immune system. I was just paranoid because I had lost a child a few years before that, and thought I was doing the right thing. Now I know better, and after a few colds and mud pies, my kid is doing great!!
LMAO! This is the funniest rant ever! LOL... Seriously! On that note, OP, just get some cozy house shoes with the hard soles (got some at Macy's for like seven bucks-- it will be better and appease both parties. Good luck and please avoid the ER (unless your doc is Noah Wyle incarnate [sp?])
If this is all you have to bitch about.. sounds like a great job!!
Careful mom thank you and I'm sorry for your loss. I try to protect my son like keeping him away from sick kids and such but I'm not going to keep him in a bubble either. He needs to build up his immune system.
I don't see 'dirty' shoes being that big of a deal. We let kids play outside in the sand, grass, dirt where they can pick up things daily. As long as my son doesn't chew on the floor or the bottom of his shoes I don't see the reasoning behind no shoes in the house other than to keep it clean.
LL Bean sells the greatest hard soled slippers. They are brown clogs and look enough like shoes that I sometimes wear them out on a nice dry day. Get some of these and keep them at the house!
OP must be more than slightly dim, or flat out passive aggressive and sue-happy if it has never occurred to her to have some indoor footwear so as to avoid slipping repeatedly.
I think it's just common courtesy to take your shoes off before you enter a home. As 'bamboo' stated, entire countries do this. House slippers are the key, my dear!
I'm not uppity, nor am I any of those other adjectives that you described; however . . . I think it's good manners to take off your shoes.
Perhaps if you put a little more time into polishing your own floors, OP, you would realize that one pair of shoes can track up the whole floor.
Anonymous said...
nomdeplume, there are no sebaceous glands, hence no oil, on the soles of your feet. OP- go to target, buy a pair of $5 slippers, and quit whining.
10:04 AM
RE-POST FOR ANONYMOUS!!
YOU FORGOT YOUR MONIKER!!!
I have really nice wood floors, but would never ask anyone who enters my home to remove their shoes. Why? Because feet are ugly. Who in the hell wants to sit and have a cup of coffee with a guest, glance down at her feet, and see corns or fungus?
Just....ew!!
You may wear your shoes in my home, I just wash my floors every day.
Not wearing shoes is too informal. So, unless your spending the night at my house, please keep them on!
I know some people prefer that you take your shoes off, and I actually have a friend that came up with a brilliant idea to save her floors. When a guest enters her home, she gives them a pair of hospital-like booties that go on OVER their shoes. Very cool!!
When I've travelled overseas in Europe, most people just have house slippers for their guest to put on when they enter their home.
People also brought their own house slippers along.
Being barefoot is kinda gross is somebody else's home.
Cigarette butts, cat turds, pigeon vomit, dirty smooshed donuts, ACID RAIN!! These are just a few of the things this crackie is walking through to get to her employer's crack den. Get yourself some house slippers for hell's sake. If you can't walk upright on a hard surface without falling then you may be a bit too developmentally challenged for child care.
Have tp agree with goddoesen'tevenhateidiotslikeyou here. And Mrs. Robinson, I assume you meant that your HOUSEKEEPER washes your floors every day?
Cali mom
Let's not be an ass, dear. Whatever gave you the impression that I have a housekeeper? I didn't find my post snobby.... what, because I think feet are ugly, and don't want to look at them?
I get on my hands and knees and scrub my own floor, thank you very much. That way my little girl doesn't get sick because I refuse to my inconvenience my guests by asking them to remove their shoes.
...and don't get me started on hobo pee. You cant even steam clean that smell out!
I am fine with taking my shoes off, especially if there is a crawler in the house. It seems rude to expect people to walk around your house in their socks, or bare feet however. Guests should be provided with slippers, as they are in Asia.
OP, the consensus seems to be, get yourself some slippers.
To prevent my kids from crawling around on, and dragging their toys (which spent the majoity of their days in my babies' mouths at certain stages)across floors contaminated with the residue of lawn chemicals, pesticides, and all of the other horrible germs that one drags in on one's feet, we asked pretty much everybody to remove their shoes upon entering our house when we had babies and toddlers...unless it was one of those situations where it would have been really too awkward and inappropriate.
Now we take our own shoes off before walking on the carpets, but do not ask our guests to do so.
We just have clean slippers to wear. My son likes ot wear shoes all the time. We asked him to simply dedicate one clean pair to indoors. Simple, really.
Word. Anyone who thinks its 'uppity' to take stanky hobo pee shoes off in the house might also be the sort who 'warshes' their 'bits' with a rag on a stick.
LOL, what a visual! Love it.
Sometimes I wonder if goddoesnt and I would be friends... you are so funny... eccentric but funny
As I live in Europe, I have just become accustomed to taking off my shoes. It really is not that big of a deal to slip them off when you arrive, and back on when you leave! As for the OP, I live in a house which is mostly made of glass, and has glass floors. After nearly falling down the stairs because my socks were slippery, I merely went and bought a pair of slippers with a sole. Not that difficult. Quit whining, OP, and use your brain!
lovesthegirls, I don't know...you'd have to be able to stand the sound of my constant toots. And don't even get me started on my chronic halitosis. Just sayin'.
swiss nanny. Please describe the glass house. I am very curious as to how this is done and how it looks. I have never heard of glass floors.
I'm with Mom - very curious how you have glass floors!
Google. You would not believe all the beautiful floors....
Cool video... about glass floors, and "how do they do that?"
Hmmm. Learn something new every day! lol
goddoesn't----- are you by chance raising boys? You kinda remind me of a ten yr old boy... or someone that a ten yr old boy would love...
Just put a nice pair of slippers by the front door that you can change into when you come in. That's a no brainer.
What ever would give you that impression??! No, no. I don't care for (nor am I!) a 10 year old boy. In fact in my spare time I like to knit doilies and tea cozies. I also collect eerily life-like baby dolls.
hee hee, seriously, no, no boys in my household. I just feel that every blog needs an inappropriate troll...and nothing vexes fancy ladies more than farty talk.
Problems I would have:
1) need orthotics in my shoe
2) yellow toenails and foot fungus are an ambarassment, would not want anyone to see or witness the shoe exchange.
3) And with regard to #2, when hurrying, my brittle yellow toenails snag and pull off causing immense pain.
4) Foot odor, both in the shoe being transferred from and soon, the slipper.
5) Sweaty feet. When walking in socks, I leave a sweat print.
Suggestions Please...
goddoesntevenhateidiotslikeyou,
You are a troll. You are not funny. You are not adding anything to this blog except shit. You have no respect for the work people put in to this blog. Just crawl back into the rectum that puffed you out.
goddoesen'tevenhateidiotslikeyou,
i second that. sianara.
Oh but feety mcfoot problem gets to stay?? No fair. No offense to homegirl but she is just as gross in her way.
Trolls keep things light. Besides I'm not an evil troll. I am only mildly obnoxious and I suspect that for everyone that hates me there a couple that think my silly posts are a bit funny. So there. You sound like a real life troll. I am only a virtual one. In real life I look like a fairy princess. I bet you and pill buttocks live under a bridge.
you're an ass. and you are also destructive.
get bent.
well pill buttocks I'm sure the things you giggle about are few and far between, but I don't see what is destructive about injecting a little levity into a sometimes depressing subject matter. Anyway, who made you the Boss Hogg of this site? You don't have to read any of my posts you know! But you do, because they remind you a time long ago...when you weren't so constipated that you couldn't crack a smile...
Now it's just getting ugly. :(
This immature banter reminds me of a blogger we ran off a few months back.
Well, that wasn't me. But fair enough, the REAL Boss Hogg has spoken. I'm go quietly! But I have to say, I don't think hatesgod has been any more charming than I have been!
Hmmm, where to now...I guess I could go to 'Am I Hot' and make fun of people who post their pics...
Oh! Oh! *raises hand*... I know who it was! hahaha!
The Op sounds like a total ass! Call 911 and have them take her to an ER? umm, why not just get yourself some slippers and stop being such a bitch?
Let me just tell you, my house scares the crap out of me at night. I am not kidding when I say half the floors are glass. Our house has 3 floors, and all the stairs are out of glass. And at night, you cannot see where you are stepping, and I always think I am going to fall threw the stairs or bust my butt on the way down! We also one entire side of the house that is glass, and a glass elevator (Think Willy Wonka). Ever seen the movie The Glass House?? I swear, that is what I feel like I live in!!!
gimmeeabreak,
Why? Because they owe me. In not even two years, I have now fallen three times during the course of business. OSHA would declare that an unsafe work place. And while your slippers sound lovely, my employer would never allow me to park a pair of slippers here or there or anywhere in her home. We obviously don't all work for families like Emily does. My employer told me within the first three months that I should invest in some "cleaner socks". The way she said it, she was half kidding, but only half kidding. Some of these employers are just awful and that is a fact. I worked as a nanny for three years to a super family but they divorced and turned into nanny eating, child hating bastards, I swear.
Why am I or the family I work for being brought into this discussion thread? I didn't even comment here.
Swiss nanny, that's awful, and I have to say, after looking at the glass floors link, that I don't see the appeal whatsoever. Maybe for one little accent, like the fish swimming under the bridge, or in an office building, but stairs and floors made of glass in a HOUSE? what's the point?
I'm with Calimom on this one. It might be fun to do an accent area, or a fish tank under a glass floor...but all over the house? And the stairs? It's not my taste...too cold and uninviting for a family home. And I would constantly be afraid that my kids, if they were small enough to need a nanny, might fall on the glass stairs, or get hurt falling (as kids just fall from time to time) on such a hard and unforgiving surface.
In my old house we had a carpeted family room next to a marble entry. Each of my kids at least once ran from the family room into the entry wearing socks, unexpectedly skidded when they hit the slick surface, and plowed their little foreheads into the structural pillar that was there. Since it was a losing battle trying to 100% stop toddlers and preschoolers from running in the house, I made sure they all had plenty of those non skid socks to wear indoors.
My dad has some friends who complain that their grown children built a house with concrete floors and some other seriously kid unfriendly features, and that the grandkids are always banged up and injured because their parents were unable to wait to build a kid unfriendly home until their kids were old enough to live safely in it.
OK, what am I doing wrong? My choices seem to be either posting twice, or having my post not go at all sometimes. Help!
Wow sorry you work for such an A$$ OP and the uppity whoremongers who only want attention here seriously need help.
Miserly Bastard the right lawyer will eat your so called workers comp for breakfast because if she's not allowed slippers in your condemded house YOU and ONLY YOU provided an unsafe work environment. Suck on that.
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