Before getting out of the shower do you dry your feet?

[seaglass]

Isn't it normal to dry your feet before stepping on the bath rug to prevent bathroom users after you from getting wet feet?

What would be a good non-nagging, non-crtitical way of asking someone to please dry their feet?

[dolo amber]

1. I used to have this argument with my ex all the time

I say that's the purpose of the rug. He disagreed. Plus, I'm not coordinated enough to stand on one foot in a slippery tub. :D

[seaglass]

7. I think he must stand there naked and just shake himself off or

something because the rug is not just a little wet, it's SOAKED.:-)

[malta blue]

2. Keep a small towel as a bathmat and then the rug

won't get wet. Old habits are hard to break, especially for people who lived alone for some time. My husband leaves huge, wet footprints on the bath rug, and I solved it with the small towel.

[seaglass]

5. You mean put a small towel on top of the rug? With the size

of our bathroom it would have to be the size of a facecloth or the door wouldn't close.:-)

[malta blue]

6. I just keep a hand towel draped over the tub, so that

when he gets out, he tosses it on the rug and steps on it. Then he has to put it back on the tub and it dries. Not the most attractive idea, I know, but like I said, old habits...

[seaglass]

9. That makes sense, now to get him to remember to do it

is a whole 'nother story. But thanks for the suggestion.:-)

[riderinthestorm]

43. I do this too.

I trained the kids and husband to just pick up the damp towel before they leave the bathroom and drape it over the bathtub edge to dry for the next person. The decorative part of the shower curtain hides the towel (the wet plastic liner stays inside the tub).

I wash the towel once/week. I do use one though that is a tad bit bigger than a hand towel.

No nagging, no wet socks.

[jukes]

3. hide the rug

make him find his/her own!

[eyepaddle]

4. I do, I had a roommate who didn't.

Wow, that used to piss me off. He got so much damn water on the floor I don't know if he shut the shower off before he got out! And he NEVER closed the diverter, he just turned off the valves, so as soon as you started to run the water you got an icy spray if you forgot about his "idiosyncracy."

He was (is) one of my best friends so I sorta got used to it, I always took my socks off before I walked into the bathroom, got really good at remembering the diverter thing, etc.

I brought it up, but he just couldn't picture how water DIDN'T belong on the bathroom floor. It really ground my gears, but I coped. (He had some fairly sever depression-issues) so I didn't make much of a stink.

They are having a roommate move out at the end of May, and the two remaining guys are trying to talk me into moving in; I think I'm too old to put up with that shit anymore.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Of course one dries one's feet before stepping out onto the rug.

The only time you don't dry your feet is if there is no rug, and an old towel is used as the placemat, which is picked up immediately after the showerer is finished.

But for a permanently placed shower rug, no wet body parts should ever touch it. It's not there to soak up water, it's there to keep the feet warm on cold tile after a shower.

Wet bathroom rugs piss me off no end, because then when I go into use the toilet, my socks get wet.

[seaglass]

11. That's exactly it, I hate wet socks. Then I have to change my

socks even if I just put them on.

[amitten]

25. Umm...not everyone has "cold tile". I live in Texas, and that rug

is thick, absorbent, and definitely there to pick up post-shower moisture.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. But should only be picking the barest traces of residual moisture.

I would also think that in Texas, excess moisture could lead to mold in the rug.

Bathroom rugs are not designed to be soaked with dripping people who are drying off outside the tub/shower. They are designed to absorb the trace residual moisture of the person who is already mostly dry before they leave the tub/shower.

[amitten]

35. I dry off inside the shower, so yes, the rug is only for my feet.

Not a whole hell of a lot of moisture there--I'm a size 6!

And the rug is laundered weekly. No mold because I use the A/C.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

55. May I ask a question?

What doesn't piss you off to no end? :shrug: :D :yourock: :hide:

[Cathyclysmic]

10. Um, Beast Man has to remind me of this from time to time...

:blush:

[seaglass]

13. How does Beast Man remind you without you feeling

criticized? I don't mind reminding, I just hate appearing like a nag.

[Cathyclysmic]

14. Nothing special

He just points out that he doesn't like walking in water. I guess my advice(if you're asking) is to not bring it up three days after it happens (Beast Man will attest to this), but he brought it up when he saw me getting out of the shower in the morning.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. No, I just tumble out onto the tile....

Don't even use the rug! MUAHAHAHA!

:evilgrin:

Edited to Add: And THEN I stumble wet and naked and DRIPPING (:evilgrin:) all over the bathroom until I find the towel, and then I dry off some. Not all. Just some. I'm always invariably still a little wet when I redress/put on pajamas.

:evilgrin:

[NewWaveChick1981]

15. That's exactly how I do it.

Still standing in the tub, I dry one foot and put it down on the rug, then I dry the other one. My husband soaks down the bath mat drying off after he steps out. At least he doesn't soak down the whole bathroom! :) (We have our own bathrooms, so he can do whatever he likes in his.)

There are terry bath mats that you can use if you're particular about colors or matching towels or whatever. I used to use them until I bought a rug (just 'cause I wanted to try it!). It's super easy to throw the terry mats in the wash along with towels, so you can wash them more often than the rugs. Plus, terry mats are more absorbent than rugs, so if they insist on drying off after getting out of the shower or not drying off at all, at least the water has somewhere to go.

Edited to add: Forgot to say that when I was a kid and started taking swimming lessons, my mother insisted we dry our feet completely whenever they got wet because of athlete's foot. Plenty of other kids got it, but my siblings and I never did. That cured me of ever wanting to get out of the tub and leave my feet damp. :)

[seaglass]

16. You know what - that might work. We go through 6-7 towels

a day (which makes my husband crazy) and if I added one more towel, it might be the incentive he needs to dry his feet:)

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. Yeah, for the rug-challenged, terry mats make sense.

They're not quite as attractive as rugs, but if you buy a nice one(s), it's just fine. :) I hope that works for you!

[Ramsey]

18. I thought I was picky!

Seriously, I am pretty particular about toilet seat down and such, but I do not dry my feet before stepping on the bath rug. And I don't care if it's already wet from my hubby using the shower first.

[seaglass]

32. I am picky about some things and not others. For instance I

really don't think the sky is falling if I find a hair in my food (as long as it's a head hair)- it just doesn't make me freak out. :shrug:

[Ramsey]

45. Really!

Now that is a total gross-out to me, unless I can 100% confirm it's one of my own hairs. Otherwise I cannot eat another bite and want to puke.

[seaglass]

52. I know it makes most people sick, probably if I understood why

it would make me sick too because I can get extremely queasy when people just TALK about gross stuff (which amuses my son to no end).

But you don't have to tell me why, I'll just merrily go on not being bothered by hair in my food.:-)

[DS1]

19. That's the weirdest thing I've heard all week

:crazy:

[Misunderestimator]

26. Did someone read that aloud to you?

[DS1]

27. Yes. Stephen Hawking called me up and said

Ho-oly shit mahtim check it, yo

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Hmmm.....I guess I must be in a minority here......

Both my husband and I use the bath mat to step onto when we come out of our shower.....

It never gets all that wet.......maybe we shed most of the water before we get out? :shrug:

And then we just dry off in the usual way....with our bath towels....

Works for us!

:hi:

[seaglass]

34. I wonder if there's a difference in the amount of water on the bath

mat if you take a bath vs. a shower.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. That could be......

It makes sense to me, anyhow!

Interesting thread.....

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. With a towel.

;) MrG doesn't do a very good job. My problem is not my feet getting the rug wet, it's my hair. It drips all over the place...getting everything wet while I'm drying the rest of me. :hi:

[riona]

22. Bathmat works for us

[realisticphish]

23. electrify the floor

you bet your ass, they'll dry their feet

[amitten]

24. I just step onto the rug. Doesn't make it very wet. n/t

[azmouse]

28. Wow. I didn't know this was such an issue for people.

I always figured the rug was there to absorb any water that drips from your body when you get out of the shower. It's never been an issue in my house and never will be.

[kid a]

29. my dog licks it up

[leftofthedial]

31. and the least they could do is bathe before they get in the shower

and they should be completely dry before they touch any of the towels

get a mess of that Barf-B-Gone stuff they use for wet cleanups in schools, wait until the end of their shower, dash in and sprinkle it all over the rug and their feet. That'll show 'em.



I feel a need to be honest here. I think you're all wet.


Which is what the whole damed bathroom is by the time I'm done with a shower.

[seaglass]

33. OK. If you don't think it's a pain in the ass to get your socks

soaked through because of a sopping bath mat, then good for you. To each his own, right?

[DS1]

36. Put your socks on an a different area

or better yet, different room, your feel will thank you for that extra little bit of airing out

[seaglass]

37. I don't put my socks on in the bathroom. n/t

[DS1]

38. Then how are you getting your socks soaked through

?

[seaglass]

40. We have one bathroom. As soon as you step out of the shower

you are standing in front of the toilet, the bathroom is very tiny. I don't wear shoes in the house.

[leftofthedial]

41. sorry for your soaked socks

that sucks. just tell them. what's the worst that could happen?

[dr.strangelove]

39. I don't dry them, thats what the rug is for

I don't think my wife dries her feet either. I'll check to be sure.
I never thought to do this. Interesting.

[kwassa]

44. Never in my life have I done this

That is what the bath mat is for, after all.

[ET Awful]

46. What I do is this . . . .

I have a HUGE towel/bath sheet. As I step out of the shower/bath, I let one end of it sit on the bath mat and step on to the towel. This dries my feet and leaves VERY little water on the bath mat. I then proceed to towel off the rest of my sexy sexy self.

[politicat]

47. 1. Wear house shoes. 2. Wash the rug regularly. 3. That's the point of the

rug. It's to keep the water off the floor.

But we have hardwood floors in the bathroom and getting the floors wet would be a bad thing. Also, I don't trust either my joints or my husband's joints to manage to stand on one foot in a slippery tub while drying the other foot, then putting the foot down 18 inches away. That's a recipe for a nasty accident and at least more damaged joints, if not a head injury.

It really is safer to either dry off completely outside the tub or to dry off except for feet in the tub. Standing on one foot on a wet slippery surface while moving around is a good way to get badly hurt.

If you don't like it, get a pair of slip-on sandals you can wear with your socks. More people die in bathrooms than die in car accidents every year (there are about 42,000 bathroom deaths and 150,000 injuries requiring professional treatment every year; there are about 40,000 car accident deaths per year).

[seaglass]

50. Well, I'm not putting shoes on just to go pee, that seems silly.

I'd rather put up with wet feet/socks.

[underpants]

48. I dry off head down IN the shower

and then step out and dry all over once again.

TMI?

[Left Is Write]

49. My shower, my rug.

Rug gets wet.

Do you know how many times I've had to hurriedly run out of the shower because of some kid-related "crisis"?

[SmokingJacket]

51. I use the bathmat to dry my feet, then hang it up to dry.

I have three fluffy cotton mats for this purpose.

Sometimes there are my husband's wet footprints on the mat, but so what?

It doesn't bother me at all. In fact, I never even noticed it.

[seaglass]

53. It might have to do with the fact that our bathroom is so

small that you cannot use the toilet without stepping on the mat. It's not just wet footprints, it's soaked through wet.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

54. No - that's what the rug is for.

And no, it's not normal. Sorry!! :hi: :hug: :D