Dear The Kid:
So, okay. Why do you go barefoot?
You on a budget?
Signed, Proud Yet Protected

Dear Proud Yet Protected:
Thanks for your profound yet emoticon-free email. I’m going to assume you’re not my neighbour’s teenage kid, so I’ll take the high road and dive into your questions.
Question 2. Yes, I am on a budget.
Question 1. That’s not why I go barefoot.
Here’s why I go barefoot:

And here’s why I go barefoot: Chris McDougall’s Excellent TED Talk
It seems like we humans have been doing this for a while – that would include yours and my great (x 10,000 generations ago) grandfather and grandmother. Let me know if you need any more “rationale”, Proud Yet Protected.
And you see how smoothly I avoided the whole thing of going barefoot because I’m on a budget – and getting drawn into that whole so-funny-I-forgot-to-laugh thing? That too is a learned skill.
Which I will share with you on another day, Proud Yet Protected.
Oh yes.
Signed, Most Assuredly, The Kid

Dear The Kid
Touche. You win.
Signed: Humbled – Yet Strangely Still Protected

Dear Humbled – Yet Strangely Still Protected
Naturally. What?
Signed, The Kid

Dear The Kid
Touche. It means you win.
Signed, Humbled – Yet Strangely Still Protected

Dear Humbled – Yet Strangely Still Protected
I knew that.
Signed, The Kid