by billyboy 59 Replies latest jw friends
Was there ever an issue as to whether you were / weren't allowed to wear shoes at a group book study in someones house , so everyone had to dump their shoes at the door?
We always took our shoes off......that's just common courtesy going in to someone else's home.....and if the floors were cold, I just put my feet up on the coffee table.
and if the floors were cold, I just put my feet up on the coffee table.
Ok, I can overlook that. As long as you don't knock my beer over we'll get along ok.
W
judging by the posters on here it would seem that its the done thing in Canada... oh well that's another thing Canada should be proud of, that and Terrence and Philip
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We had this come up at my congregation, there was a sister that demanded that shoes be taken off. We brought this up to the CO and I do not know if the CO had it correct but we where told that a book study was an extension of the hall and would we ask people to take their shoes off entering the Hall. So we were advised to move the book study to a different location if the sister was going to demand this. So that is what we did.
BTW, you will find many non-JWs in many countries who will expect their guests to take off their outer footwear.
Blondie, it wasn't so much that they asked us to take of our shoes it was the way they asked us that bothered us, so we went elsewhere for the BS and service meetings.
lola
This isn't generally done in Scotland. We'd rather people kept their sweaty feet inside their shoes and Wellington boots, rather than wiping them all over our carpets and floors, or popping them inside atheletes-foot ridden communal footwear.
It's polite to wipe ones feet on the floor mats provided. In the case of visiting friends and family, for anything more than an evening or meal, I bring my own slippers
Andi:
...but looking back it is kinda funny to imagine the CO or DO or a guest speaker up on stage with just his socks.
But didn't the counsel him for his nudity?
Welcome billy boy!
BTW, you will find many non-JWs in many countries who will expect their guests to take off their outer footwear.
Oh yes that is so true...In all my life, most of it as a NON JW, I can only remember having to tell 2 people to take off their shoes...a repair man and a JW!
It is just automatic here something that polite people do, you don't ever even think of walking in with your shoes on, polite people that is!
I like keeping my shoes on, because I'm not too tall...
We took off our boots at the door, and I put my shoes on. The only thing was that often my shoes were in the car for many hours, and they were ice cold.
