Joe Harker
A former prison inmate has told people they should never, ever let their bare feet touch the floor in prison and given a pretty compelling reason why.
TikToker and former prison inmate Amanda Dove explains what life was like behind bars on her channel @prison_story and had been giving people some major advice when one bit stood out in particular.
She'd been telling people that if they ended up in prison they should not speak unless they were spoken to and stay out of other people's business.
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In particular you should avoid that old trope from TV and movies of asking other inmates 'what are you in for' as it was 'disrespectful' and if you did get an answer, you might not like it.
Amanda also advised people to identify a useful skill they might have and 'market it' so you had something worthwhile to offer others, and to never volunteer for anything especially if you didn't know exactly what it was.
However, one particular piece of advice which a lot of people latched onto was her instruction to always wear shoes in prison and never let your bare feet touch the floor.
"If you ever were to end up in prison you do not want your feet to ever hit the floor, here's why," Amanda began as part of her response to a follower's question.
"Prison is a breeding ground for infectious diseases. Staph infection, MRSA, foot fungus everywhere in prison. Okay, picture this, maybe someone's in the shower and they cut themselves shaving and they bleed.
"Then maybe they urinate or defecate, but they have their shower shoes on. They then leave the shower walking in their shower shoes and they go to their cell."
She added: "That means all that stuff is on the floor just traveling with them so you always want to keep your shoes on even when you're changing. You don't want your feet to ever, ever, ever hit the floor."
Some viewers wondered why that was and asked if they rarely cleaned the floors in prison, only to be told 'it's prison they don't gaf about clean cells'.
One person said: "I don't ever plan to go to prison, but I'm thinking few ppl do, so I might need this information."
Lots of other people said they were 'taking notes' should the worst come to the worst, while others said their 'feet don't touch the floor' in other places like hotels and hospitals.