Well you are right, at our local pool you leave shoes at the racks before walking barefoot down the hallway to the dressing rooms, but when leaving the pool I still go sock-shoe because that is a public outdoor shoe mat.
Similar principles to food-safe cross-contamination prevention.
If the floor is wet like at the pool, it’s sock shoe sock shoe.
Any other time it’s sock sock shoe shoe, because I am not tracking the outside world into my house or bedroom, and the shoes are at the front door.
You wear socks to the pool?
Oh, you don’t use the dressing room?
Well you are right, at our local pool you leave shoes at the racks before walking barefoot down the hallway to the dressing rooms, but when leaving the pool I still go sock-shoe because that is a public outdoor shoe mat.
Similar principles to food-safe cross-contamination prevention.