Barefoot and Bizarre

I went to a seminar for work yesterday. I walked into the room, which was more like a dungeon than a lecture hall. The walls and ceiling were all black; the tables were black; and there were small lights placed around the room, like those you would find over a bar in a house. It was also freezing cold. Anyway, I looked for a spot when I came in. I found an open seat at a table with a guy who looked fairly normal...upon first glance. After sitting down, I first noticed that he had taken his shoes off. He had been wearing loafers with no socks, and then took them off to sit with his legs crossed on his plastic chair. Every now and then he would also bend one leg completely up, and sit with his arm wrapped around it. He was wearing khaki shorts and a biker's shirt with his barefoot-ness. I get very grossed out when people take their shoes off at inappropriate times. It isn't that I don't like feet, because I have nothing against them in general. But I just don't understand why people need to take them off in seminars or on planes. Or at least, if they take them off, they could keep their feet discreetly hidden. Like under the airplane seat in front of them, or under the table---anyplace where I don't have to see them or hallucinate that I'm smelling them. This seminar guy also asked several questions of the presenter; he even made some "suggestions," which mostly seemed to irritate the presenter. The funniest part was that a couple times he was asked what business he was in. He answered (in as many words as possible) that it was extremely long and complicated, and he really couldn't go into it; there just wasn't enough time. I had trouble not laughing. It's humorous (and slightly ironic) when people spend as much time as possible telling you that they just do not have the time to explain something.