shoes: a short revisit

i finished "who's camus anyway?" last night, and while i don't intend to give anything away, the end of the movie is the "murder scene," and was worth the wait.


the boy/actor enters the house to commit the "ultimate crime."


the old woman is cooking.... he sneaks in the door..... grabs a hammer... closes the door quietly.... then... he.....





TAKES OFF HIS SHOES!!! he actually stops to take the time to TAKE them off and put them (with great care, mind you) on the ground, carefully placing them side by side to face in the 'correct' direction (facing the door).


my question is : at this time, why are you still bothering with this crazy!? (see previous post, 8-1-09) if it is a cleanliness issue, i'm sure the blood from the murder is a MUCH bigger concern, no? or if it is some kind of respect issue, i think you've blown that one too.

slippers.

after a while, the 'shoe thing' really gets on your nerves. i don't mind taking your shoes off before you get into the house- i even support and understand that, but here (like with everything else), it comes with more rules and more confusion. if i have to take them off, and put on these slippers, where do my feet touch in the meantime? inside? outside? carpet? not at all? seems simple - but it causes confusion almost every time i leave my room. THEN there are the bathroom shoes. so it is no longer good enough to wear your 'inside slippers' to the john, you have to switch to the 'toilet slippers.' this part is always a severe act of balancing, because the bathrooms are small and cramped, and the shoes take up the whole thing. during the switch i find myself balancing on one foot, resulting in more confusion as come crashing to the ground, feeling extremely guilty as my uncovered foot meets the ground. leave bathroom, switch shoes, illegally touch ground, walk back to room, take off slippers, walk into the hallway of our room, in slippers, and take them off before entering the "sleepzone." i assume the hallway in our room is a "safezone," so i walk here with both slippers and barefeet (reality is, i do this because no one will know).

apologies for using the term "zones" too much.

ps. we still get up at 5:30.