Barefooting Day 4

Another post to help me catch up.
These events are from Sunday September 12, 2009:

Today is another wrestling show day.

First boyfriend and I head up to the camp where he trains. I wear shoes to this, there’s a good 50 or more people in a very small space and I’m just not ready for that step quite yet. Maybe that sounds bad, but I’m still not really all that confident yet. I do kick the flip flops off as I sit, and even stretch my legs out across the bench barefoot when saving some seats, but sadly the shoes are very much there.

Boyfriend and I get in the car to go to West Virginia, there’s a show him and I are both working there at 6. The shoes are discarded for the entire trip, Boyfriend finds this to be acceptable behavior; I think it’s the public bare footing part that really confuses him.

We get to the building and I drop my shoes off with my bag in the locker room. We’re in an empty skating rink, it’s the same guys from the show in Virginia yesterday, and still no one cares. Much to my dismay I do need to wear footwear of some sort into the wrestling ring. I have a pair of vibrams for the task- They aren’t the same as being barefoot, but about as close as I’m going to get while doing my job.

Once I’m done refereeing for the night the shoes come back out, they’re in my bag, and I relax in the car.  For Boyfriend’s sake I deal with the flip flops for the 5 minutes we’re inside McDonald’s- I might take the risk alone, but I don’t want him to have to deal with the risk of getting booted. I don’t have West Virginia Health Department letters saying there are no laws on going barefoot in a restaurant on hand in any case.

We get into his house and the shoes still don’t come out. His finally come off and I still wonder how anyone can deal with socks and shoes all day.