my mental meanderings...

So this week Northwestern University's national championship women's lacrosse team was invited to the White House to meet the president. When they took a picture with the president, four women in the front row were wearing flip flops! Flip flops are perfectly fine for the beach, but what were they thinking wearing them to the White House to meet the President?! Now mind you we only saw four women in the front row wearing them, there could have been more standing in the rows behind them. Have we as a nation become so casual that flip flops are acceptable footwear to meet the President? If you were invited to the White House to meet the President (no matter who s/he happens to be) would you wear flip flops?

Personally I think flip flops are ok for the beach or weekends when it's more relaxed, but what really annoys me is when people wear flip flops to work. There happens to be two ladies who work in my building who love to wear flip flops, especially during the summer. They are probably not the only ones, but the reason I point them out is I can hear them walking down the hall from a mile away because of the annoying flip-flop sound that flip flops make. Thank goodness last year there was a memo to everyone to wear appropriate warm weather attire to the workplace, which does not include flip flops. Since then, the flip flop noise pollution in my area of the building has decreased.

By the way, in some cultures the feet are considered the dirtiest part of the body. So I don't quite understand why people like to show off their feet so much, and I don't care how well manicured your feet and toe nails are!