Have you ever walked barefoot in a store parking lot?

Answer 1

Yes, all the time. I have been barefoot everywhere for over ten years now. When you habitually go barefoot, feet quickly get a lot tougher than most people think! And they're fully washable too. Heat isn't a problem in my climate, sorta wish it was... we've had lots of rain and 60's/70's for weeks now, this weekend was a bit warmer but still overcast & loads of thunderstorms. Anyone's got hot pavement send me some sun & I'll send some rain to cool it down in return!

Answer 2

Absolutely YES, all the time, every time I go to any stores.
This is because I have been completely Barefoot for well over 20 years since age 16. The bottoms of my Bare Feet are now permanently Black from doing this, but I dont care, because I love walking Barefoot everywhere and I also like having Tough and healthy Feet. Feel free to email me to discuss at [e-mail]

Answer 3

Yes, and it's very easy. Only one year, when my feet weren't ready for the hottest asphalt in the middle of the afternoon on a 95 degrees F day *and* I walked as slowly as possible did I get any heat blisters. Otherwise, I can handle an entire hot parking lot even if I have to walk more quickly, without using parking lot white lines or shade patches, at temperatures up to 100 degrees F and hottest summer afternoon hours.

Answer 4

Absolutely! I go barefoot everywhere. Yesterday, I went into at least 5-6 stores, and crossed the parking lots to get there. It was very sunny, and pretty hot. A few of the parking lots were pretty hot, and tested even the toughness of my bare feet. The cool floors inside are always a welcome relief.

Keep 'em Bare!

Barefoot Tex

Answer 5

Yes I have, but store parking lots aren't even a challenge anymore, since they are too short of a hot walk. I've even stopped and stood for a while to increase the heat before walking again. The burning has never increased so much I needed to walk faster or go for shade. I can even walk slower and it still doesn't burn enough.

Here's where I am at this time--and whether or not it inspires other barefooters to get used to barefooting in progressively hotter heat that eventually intensely burns the feet is up to them:

My hot asphalt walks have to be longer and on darker smoother blacktop that burns the most, especially during mid-afternoon peak heat hours. If the asphalt isn't at least increasing the burning every few steps when walking on it, and if not it's too hot to stand on for more than a couple of seconds with feet fully on the ground--then it isn't even close to hot enough.

I continue to find that burned soles are absolutely REQUIRED for getting used to hotter heat. I'll repeat that: every hot surface barefooting *MUST* end with *BURNED* soles, or for sure I find that heat tolerance will not significantly increase. (At least every other day is needed for hot surface barefooting, but every day is best for me.)

I also find that the *minimum* acceptable burning is when the soles are burned red and they also remain stinging for a while after barefooting is done--only burned red and that redness goes away within minutes. Even better if a pulse can be felt in the soles--that means heat tolerance is starting even below just the very surface of the soles. Better still if the soles feel consistently hot--sometimes even overnight. Best if walking needs to be done more slowly and delicately from being burned that much until the next afternoon when walking can be done normally once again. Also noteworthy is that more burning on hotter asphalt will end up with more blackened dirt baked *into* the sole, so the sole will be blacker even after removing any surface dirt as a known side effect.

*BLISTERED* soles are what need to be avoided, unless deliberately trying to push past a heat limit faster than it would normally take getting used to. Blisters do set back barefooting a few days while theyare healing, even though the end result is even more heat tolerance that much faster once the blisters have healed.

I have many years of getting used to hot blacktop asphalt by deliberate and progressive burning of the soles. Every other day was closer and closer to mid-afternoon peak heat hours, until it was so hot I had to stop or at least cool down the feet to avoid blisters. I hate each fall and especially winter, since I know I'll lose several degrees of heat tolerance even if I go barefoot in colder weather (but anything below 40 degrees F is too cold, since I prefer heat).

I do also have previous experience getting blisters a few times when it was way too hot for me to go for that much of a longer distance. What can I say other than HOT! HOT!! HOT!!! All of the expected burned soles feeling but with extra and painful burning feeling where the blisters occured. Walking on even drained blisters is more than just more delicate, it HURTS with every step. Even so, the overall heat tolerance was much greater when the blisters healed. Some even reattached and I have great looking calluses there that show up even more when the sole is even slightly dirty.

Answer 6

Not a store parking lot, but at a bank parking lot to walk to the ATM, which was also in the parking lot.

Answer 7

In summer I walk barefoot absolutely everywhere I can (unless I get told to put shoes on, dress codes, etc)

Answer 8

Yeap, many times. I've also been in the middle of cities with no shoes on cos I feel like it some days.

Answer 9

i used to walk everywhere bare foot but then i moved to the city and there is a lot more broken bottles on the ground here!

Answer 10

I like to hunt loogies with my bare feet