Okay what is it with people dragging their feet??!!

United States
August 30, 2007 3:55pm CST
Okay call me old fashioned, but I cannot stand it when my kids or the clients that I work for drag their feet... I just want to tell them to pick up their feet when they walk, I do tell my kids that. I cannot exactly say that to my cleints without being criticized for doing it, as most of my clients have a mental or physical handicapp. Anyway the noise that it makes just absolutely gets on my last nerve. I used to moan at my mom for telling me the same thing. "carissa pick up your feet!!!" "whatever oh gosh mom" yeah and now I am just like her, Well you know what they say, we all grow up to be them someday. I even go as far as telling some strangers to pick up their feet!! Like didn't your mamma raise you better than that? LOL What is your outlook on this? Does it drive you as crazy as it does me? Are you a feet dragger?
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@Rollo1 (16677)
• Boston, Massachusetts
30 Aug 07
I have to admit I am a foot dragger, or rather a scuffler. I do it because I have MS and my left foot often doesn't listen to me and sometimes doesn't quite clear the floor, other times it just catches on the floor and stays there sending me sprawling. So I guess I am a dragger/scuffler/sprawler. I don't take offense that the noise drives you crazy, especially as you listen to it all day. A few years ago, I had a bad bout of sciatica that affected my right leg as well as the general weakness of my left leg and coming down a hallway on a cement floor, I listened to the "clop, drag, shrrrppp" of my gait and thought "If I heard that coming up behind me, I'd think it was Jack Nicholson from The Shining with an axe". I work in an office and I type all day and so does everyone around me. Most times I don't notice but once I sat near someone whose clackity-clack keyboard and style of typing sent me raving mad. It's weird how noises can get to you like that.
• United States
30 Aug 07
LOL. I had to laugh when you said that hting about the shining... It isa good that you can look at it that way.. I really don't have a problem when the clients the I work with have "dissabilities" that doesn't bother me, it is the people who can and don't pick up their feet that do it the most. The others do every once in a while, but I tend to look at it differently if I know they can't help it.. Thank you for posting, and making me laugh I needed that maybe I can do the same sometime for you...
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@Rollo1 (16677)
• Boston, Massachusetts
30 Aug 07
Actually sometimes I wish my kids would drag their feet, they are usually running everywhere with great big clomps. The only time kids shuffle along is when you need them to get moving, like when it's time to leave for school Hey, life is what it is - sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry.
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• United States
31 Aug 07
What is it with kids they ALWAYS seem to go slower when you mention the "s" word. LOL I hear ya sometimes I wish my kids would slow down too, I don't think that it will happen though..
@roniroxas (10559)
• Philippines
31 Aug 07
it is really quite annoying. my older sister is a feet dragger she is flat footed. so my mom sew her what she calls foot socks. my sister wears it around the house and sometimes at school. with this she doesnt make much of a sound that teachers do complain about specially inside the library or during exams.
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• United States
31 Aug 07
Well at least your mom sewed her the socks so she wasn't annoyed with that and the teachers too.. Thank you for posting.