I thought of these one day, in a sort of Jeff Foxworthy mode. There isn't anything wrong with you if you display any of these symptoms. There isn't anything wrong with you if you DON'T display any of these symptoms. It's just supposed to be funny.

But then, I went "yup" to most of these.

  • You've already planned what you'd say if you ever saw mall security trying to throw out a girl who decided today was a good day to leave her shoes at home.
  • You know, to the second, how far into U2's "Numb" video the feet appear.
  • You once filled a whole hard drive with feet pics.
  • You think Maxim photographers are personally out to get you.
  • Other people keep a stack of Playboys behind the bathroom sink - you keep a stack of Barefoot Mara.
  • You wore out your DVDs of Cruel Intentions and X-Men.
  • You've ever gone to great lengths to get front row at a concert of some female musician you don't even like, because someone on the Pad said she tends to perform barefoot...
  • ...and you cried for days because this was the one day she decided to wear the knee-high boots.
  • You tape obscure shows like "Drum Corps Summer Games."
  • You cried when you found out those weren't really Kim Basinger's feet in the Tom Petty video.
  • You've been fired for visiting the MousePad at work. Not because the boss objected to the site's content, but because you were neglecting your work.
  • Foot Patrol, etc. have your shipping address memorized.
  • You know by heart the first ten hits you get searching for "barefoot girl" on each of the major search engines.
  • Your homepage is in the first ten hits you get doing the above search.
  • You HATE country music but you never miss a Deanna Carter video.
  • You rush to the store to buy the latest issues of all the women's mags, hoping to "scoop" the Pad.
  • Your scanner broke and you just barely survived the suicide attempt that followed.
  • When in conversation with a barefoot woman (hey, it can happen) she notices you're not staring at her breasts, but she can't quite figure out what you are staring at.
  • You marked your calendar for when Charlotte Church turns legal, because you found out she likes to leave her shoes backstage.
  • You hate Survivor and Real World but you watch them religiously anyway because there's almost always some female feet visible during the show.
  • You don't want people to know of your fetish, so the "feet" section of your browser's bookmarks list is called "mortgage" or "quantum physics" or something else boring-sounding that will discourage anyone else who uses your browser.
  • You realized one day that you'd rather see a woman fully clothed and barefoot, than naked and wearing shoes and socks.
  • You went to Lilith Fair and your neck hurt the whole next day because you spent the whole show standing near the busiest part of the lawn, looking down.
  • You remember the exact date they stopped showing the Target commercial with the girl on the trampoline.

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