College Lesson Learned #24

#24- Always wear shoes. Just trust me.

I grew up having a wonderful childhood. I played outside, we didn’t have any of this “video game” crap. That is why to this day I still don’t care for video games, I would much rather toss a Frisbee around outside. My mom, aka the second most wonderful person on the planet (second only to Nana who I think is the second perfect person ever to walk this earth), wouldn’t let us play outside without footwear. We didn’t listen all the time and it wasn’t usually a big deal. However, if we were playing a sport like soccer or especially basketball, tennis shoes were mandated. No exceptions.

Because of my origins I always wear shoes when I’m playing basketball. Some people do not, and that why when my friend Terry busted open his foot because he played basketball bare foot, I laughed at him. He did this within the first two or three days at school.

I learned very quickly while at school that playing basketball isn’t the only time you should have on some sort of footwear. The showers are quite possibly the most important place that a student should wear foot protection. The first time I took a shower at school I did not wear sandals or flip flops in the shower. Bad mistake on my part. There was… stuff on, in, and around the shower area. Community showers are disgusting.

Just trust me.

Moral: Always wear some sort of footwear. You might as well sleep in shoes too just to be safe. You never know what's in those dorm mattresses.