38-year-old refuses to take off shoes at DnD host's house, host "Alex" cancels entire game night: "I overheard his wife telling the other guests... I made a huge scene"

Once you start taking your shoes off when you enter someone's home, it's hard to break the habit. It's kind of nice to leave your outdoor shoes in the hallway, keeping your socks on in the house. You leave all that dirt and dust outdoors, and only your clean feet touch the tile and wood inside your home. 

It's just not a thing in every household, and it depends on the circumstances, too. For example, you might usually ask guests to take their shoes off. But that rule goes out the window during big parties — for some reason, people don't seem to mind that when they're having 40 people over to celebrate a birthday or hosting an indoor/outdoor BBQ. 

It's polite to just ask the host if you should leave your footwear at the door, or you can just follow their lead and see if they leave their Nikes outside. This person, however, has a medical condition. It's not that his feet stink — instead, he has very fragile skin on his feet, so he simply cannot walk barefoot without causing skin tears or blisters. However, as a few commenters pointed out, he should've been prepared for this. A lot of people have aching feet or foot issues that require constant footwear support, and they have specific shoes for indoors and others for outdoors. Easy!

It seems like there were some overreactions on both sides, as you can read all about in the story below. 

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