Can someone explain why the Germans leave behind their shoes at the beach?

49 comments

1. *stealing

2. Imagine all the Germans walking around in only their socks on this beach…

3. The French steal shoes????

4. A) That’s not shoes its slippers.
   B) Sand feels nice
   C) They are worth like 5 Euro who would steal those?

5. I bet the Czechs are wondering why are Germans going to the beach in their climbing gear

6. Wow even flip-flops. The world wide accepted beach wear

7. My guess is they just don’t want sand in their cars. Enjoy the beach, get your feet wet. Dry the feet on the way back. Dust them off at the big shoe dropoff and enjoy your dry, sandfree toes for the rest of the day.

8. My friend once pranked them and cleaned all of those and hid them in the bushes 😅 it was funny to see all the people looking for their slippers

9. So. Much. ADIDAS.

10. Feeling sands in you shoes, even flippers doesn’t feel good I guess.

    But it’s better than burning your feet on hot sand.

    But I’ve heard peer pressure is high in Germany, maybe a couple started to do this and everyone followed?

    I mean, if one of them put their trash out, the entire street is like “sh*t it’s garbage day!” and put their trash out. Even if it’s not garbage day.

11. Just here to say that Vielle-St-Girons and all the places around (Moliets, Messanges, Seignosse, Léon) are very nice.

12. Wow free slippers!

13. Oooh free Birkenstocks😉

14. you know its is summer when locals all over europe are puzzled by the germans behaviour

15. Reason? Lazines.

    Too much of a pain to grab a pair and walk.

16. they’re ugly af who would want to steal *that*

17. 1.  Leave shoes behind. 

    2. Go somewhere dirty. Like the mud you get when combining sand and water. 

    3. Slip back into shoes. 

    4. You won’t leave dirt everywhere you’re going.

    Basically, this way you don’t have to deal with cleaning up behind yourself as much – and don’t have to carry an extra pair.

18. They love to walk in the sand with socks

19. They actually don’t know. They see everyone else do it, and they do it without questioning. We do that a lot in Germany.

20. I do the same in any beach I go and I’m not German. You just put them on when you leave and that’s it. Nobody has ever stolen my flip flops.

21. I find that Germans are generally very trusting of strangers.

    Growing up in the UK I learned basic safety precautions like never leaving visible bags in a parked car, or putting my chair leg through my bag strap when I put my bag under my seat in a restaurant. I find that Germans don’t really take care about things like that because they don’t expect someone to steal their stuff. I’ve even seen somebody leave their phone unattended on a table as a placeholder while getting food from a buffet. In the UK it would be gone immediately but in Germany it’s pretty safe.

22. It’s a site of mass alien abduction

23. Looks like an album cover. Lower the saturation amd adjust the hue and you can do it

24. They are cheap, but they take up space in your luggage. Space that you will need for souvenirs on your return journey. Cheap souvenirs.

25. They abandoned the classic german tourist style of sandals/ flip flops and socks and continued just in socks? I don’t know, maybe some german can explain, why this is more effective way

26. They tend to leave shoes everywhere, have you seen what they left in camps?

27. Where the British tourist is loud, drunk, and red, the German tourist is borderline autistic and leaves his towels (and apparently shoes) near bodies of water.

    Any other stereotypes we know of?

28. We leave the slippers at the entrance so we can dig holes better.

    .. No I can’t explain either behaviour.

29. As a German I can only say. WHAT? This is not normal beach behavior. not at all. Yes bare feet on the beach all day but you simply take them with you. You never know if you need then, in case there are spiky bits or the sand may be to hot.

30. It’s a cold country and the sand isn’t hot enough to be a roblem?

    Like a beach in holland on the hottest day of the year… just lie down on it. Any tropical country that’d give you a burn.

    Also, walking with those on a beach just flips sand up your shorts. I’d keep them off too if it wasn’t so hot.

31. That’s an outdoor moskee

32. in Portugal is often very difficult to walk across that sand bare footed as it’s scorching hot

33. So the poor counties recycle and sell then of course

34. Because bringing your shoes to the beach is the easiest way to bring .4 tons of sand back to your car.

35. To add up to 6 million.

36. No one would actually steal these, no one worries about that. Also, people usually leave these before they come to sea. Why at the beach entrance tho, I have no idea

37. The sand is so hella hot that no, I can’t really understand why you would leave your slippers behind. I have beach slippers and I use them until 17 in the afternoon at least.

38. why would anyone want to steal some flipflops? its better to walk barefoot on sand, healthier too

39. Not to dirty the sand.

40. This is pretty standard practice in Australia, who the fuck is wanting to half inch some shoes

41. Or it is the ammunition of a latino mother

42. Something something D-day Omaha beach

43. I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

    I have shoes I wore a decade ago on the beach and to this day there’s still sand in them. Fuck sand. All my homies hate sand.

44. Better odds of survival if they step on a mine their grandpa left 80 years agi

45. They probably don’t want to get sand in them

46. Is this the road to the mosque?

47. Who takes wellingtons to the beach?

48. I can only assume it’s a hangover from swimming pools. In Germany you wear pool shoes (flip flops, slides) from the changing rooms to the pool side and then leave them by the side of the pool. You often have to change out of your real shoes *before* you enter the changing room proper.

49. Untill they step in a jellyfish