FEET in Japan

ARE A BIG DEAL. I already wrote about the sandbox, now this happened today....

We were in a hurry to get Noi to daycare, today was her first day in a new classroom with older kids, it's Spring, so all the grades are changing and she moved to the BIG KIDS room.

Hideto was already in the car, so I grabbed my shoes and ran out to the car barefoot.
No problem right?
I spend my summers as a child running around our grassy yard barefoot and at our cabin almost never wearing shoes on our property, so this is natural to me, on our property.

I jump in the car put on my socks and shoes and we drop off Noi. When Hideto and I get home, Hideto's mom comes r u n n i n g down the hallway carrying a cut open milk cartoon and a wet rag. She wants me to take off my shoes, stand on the milk cartoon and wash my feet.

Ok..........are you laughing or crying?
I just pretended like I had no idea what she was doing and went up to my office to work.

:-)