This location of Romantix on West Sunshine is completely barefoot hostile. If you're a dedicated barefooter like me, don't go there. You'll be told all sorts of lies about being barefoot. You'll be told there are health code laws that required you to wear shoes in stores -- which there are not. The Health Department regulates businesses -- not customers. There are not any health code regulations regarding customers -- none. You'll be told that you could contract all sorts of diseases through the bottoms of your feet including COVID and STDs. Utter nonsense. And as the manager told me several times, being barefoot is just disgusting. It's very unlikely that you'll ever see a clearer case of podophobia.
She asked: "Why do you think stores have no shoes, no service policies?" However, she refused to allow me to answer. In fact, although she was very happy and pleased to spew lies all over the place, she was not at all willing to listen to the truth. In fact, several times she told me to just stop talking when I would try to explain something to her. She didn't want to hear it.
Feet are not disgusting. Being barefoot is not disgusting. You can't catch diseases through the bottoms of your feet. There are no laws requiring you to wear shoes in stores. This is all just podophobia gone wild.
Although it was obvious that she'd never heard the word podophobia before I said it, she immediately considered herself an expert in what it entailed. Podophobia goes way beyond a mere irrational fear of feet (which she clearly has) to include such things as; believing you can contract untold diseases through the bottoms of your feet, believing feet are disgusting, believing it's disgusting to be barefoot, believing it's just common sense that everyone should wear shoes all the time, believing that feet are irrationally prone to injury even when conditions are ideal for being barefoot (like inside a store where health code laws require hazards to be quickly cleaned up), believing all stores have (or should have) "no shoes, no service" policies (and her store doesn't even have such a policy), and refusal to listed to logic, reason, and fact regarding feet and preferring to espouse irrational fear. This is podophobia.
When I tried to explain the law regarding contributory negligence and how that relates to liability, she said I could't possible know the law because I'm not an attorney. When I told her she had podophobia (which is more obvious than the nose on her face), she told me I couldn't possible know that because I'm not a psychologist. I told her that I've done the necessary reading. How preposterous of me that I think I can know something merely because I've done the required research.
The item I purchased requires batteries. Oddly enough, she was able to read and determine what size batteries it required -- and, yet, she's hardly an electrical engineer. I would think a non-electrical engineer would need to try various sizes of batteries and then just hope for the best. How can she possible know something like that without being an expert in that field of study? [Thick with pointed sarcasm.]
If you're a barefooter, stay away from this store. Rather, go to their other location on North Kansas Expressway. That location is barefoot friendly. When I explained to the manager at the Sunshine store that the people at the Kansas Expressway store had no problem with bare feet, she essentially called me a liar.
Even if you do wear shoes, you're probably better off not going to this location. read more
