Well Ive made it 50 years pounding the ground getting where I need to without go into Sallys nails and getting a toe job by a guy named Johnny Cakes. Maybe I could live with it if a woman did it but even then I'd think about the $ I spent on toes that were going to end up in work boots all the time anyways.
I will however proudly say in this forum that when it comes to giving a woman a foot massage I am the Foot Master. Ive been chased down the street by female hordes begging for foot massages.
Mom does have a point, though.
I don't know about other branches of service but, in the Army, foot care is in the top 5 of important pieces of equipment to look after.
Keeping feet warm, dry, blister/fungus free, no ingrown nails and problem free, in general, is an integral part of soldiering.
Battles have been won or lost on the condition of the Army's feet. A soldier that cannot hump from battlefield to battlefield, is of no use.
In addition, having to make a trip to sick-call for ill maintained feet in the US Army is an infraction punishable by Article 15, depending on how bad they are or how badly they have been neglected.
Pedicures are not to effeminate once one considers that ingrown toenails are casued 90% of the time by clipping the nails too short.
Carrying over this
crazy habit from Army life has not hurt me one bit. I always make they are clean and dry, and have some foot powder on them before they get stuffed into a work boot.
Lastly, the human foot has more nerve endings per square inch than any other body part. They register pain or pleasure more intensely than any other appendage. That is why these women chase after you. That is also why Reflexologists get away with charging exorbitant sums of money. Why
wouldn't one take care of them?
Keeping that in mind, there is nothing "girly" about keeping all of your "equipment" in fighting trim.
