SHOES

Next week is a British cousin’s birthday.
We regularly exchange gifts on birthdays and on Christmas.

We bought the gift; found a card; wrapped up the lot with a newsy letter – and took it to the post office.

Walking along the sidewalk outside said post office was a very attractive young woman, skimpy top, short, short shorts – barefoot!

One of the thoughts which occurred to me was – forgive me – what should a host do if such a young woman was say, coming over for dinner?

Some of our favorite people routinely require all guests to remove street shoes upon entering their homes.
We do not particularly care for this practice. We do not expect it of our guests. We clean our rugs regularly.
But we do as we are asked.

To the point: what if such a household hosted the above attractive young woman and she arrived similarly unshod.
Should the host house require her to put on a pair of shoes???

Again, please forgive me.

I could not resist sharing the thought.