Generally speaking, people prefer wearing shoes than going barefooted. However, there was a time in when kids couldn't wait to start going barefooted in the spring. They would start pestering their parents to allow bare feet from the first sunny day in March until they capitulated. Most parents had surrendered by April 15th or so. Arriving at school barefooted was a testimony to your toughness. Any boy wearing shoes after May first was considered a "sissy", and held in contempt by other boys. Girls looked forward to going barefooted as much as boys. Never mind cold temperatures, mud on rainy days, dust, grass stickers, gravel, rocks, broken glass, thorns, wire, sticks, and cockle burrs..................all that bedamned! Kids just wanted to go barefooted!
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