Feet Washing...it's a dangerous endeavor

Length of Shower: 9ish min.--How many times a week do you wash your feet?  I thought so….you haven’t washed them this whole week have you?  I admit that most of the time I don’t get down to washing my feet.  I figure, “Hey, they get dripped on.  They’re fine.”  So I only wash my feet about once a week.  But that’s not being lazy, that’s being safe.  See, I think that feet washing in the shower is one of the most dangerous things a person can do in a day.  Think about it.  You are standing on one foot in a small room with only 3 walls (most of the time) and that entire room is covered in nature’s lubricant: Water.  Then you are adding an even slipperier substance, soap, to each foot one at a time while your hands are NOT free to support you because they are doing the cleaning!  This is dangerous people!  I bet all those “household accidents” that occur every year would be drastically reduced if we would all stop washing our feet in the shower.  But alas, we are perhaps an overly clean American society and so we feel the need to wash our feet too often. 

I like to call the day of the week when I wash my feet: “Danger Day.”  My designated “Danger Day” is normally Tuesday or Wednesday because that way if I slip and fall and hurt myself I have several days to recover before the weekend….plus those are the most boring days of the week so they need all the help they can get.  But feet washing isn’t the only thing I do on “Danger Day.”  I also take that day to actually walk around with my wallet in my back pocket, tempting those would be muggers out there.  One time I took true advantage of my “Danger Day” and tried to feed a raw steak to my neighbor’s dog, Rusty.  He was tied to his tree in my neighbor’s backyard per normal, and he was sleeping.  I tip-toed into the yard (up wind so he wouldn’t smell the steak) and very quietly laid the raw steak across his food bowl.  I saw him start to wake up and I ran for it, but he barked and ran after me and got a hold of my pant leg.  I jerked my pants out of his mouth and pointed at the steak as I screamed like a little girl.  He saw the steak and ran over to it and I made my get-away.   That was a close one for me.  I have never tempted a miniature poodle like that ever again…and the thing is he didn’t even eat the steak!


I'm not saying you have to take that much of a risk on your own personal "Danger Day", but I am saying that we all need to take a good long look at how often we wash our own feet.  And then maybe consider taking a day or two off from washing them too often.  Or in my friend Joe's case, consider washing them period.  Whatever you need to do, just consider the dangers involved in washing your feet in the shower and then wash them accordingly.  Happy Danger Day!!