Feet. We all got them, but in Thailand it seems like they're always in your face. Although people do where shoes, sandals or flip flops are by far the more common footwear.
It's odd because showing your foot - or at least the bottom of your foot is equivalent to giving the middle finger, but the first thing you do when you visit someones house is take off your shoes. On the Sky Train, everyone tries to avoid eye contact, so they all look down on the ground staring at each others feet. Office girls will wear high heel shoes on the way to work, but put on bedroom slippers once they get there. Kids, at least in rural Thailand, don't wear shoes until they start school.
It doesn't matter where you go - the movies, the temple, restaurants, construction sites, factory floor, the opera... There are thousands of feet everywhere you go, splayed out before your eyes - and nearly 10 times as many toes!!!
Also, disturbing is that toes that rarely see the inside of a shoe start to look more like little fingers. In fact, the word for toe in Thai is "foot-finger"
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