no-right-to-shoes: SOUELENE OSECURODIO (DIRTY SOLE DAY) July 13th is Souelene Osecurodio (Dirty Sole
no-right-to-shoes: SOUELENE OSECURODIO (DIRTY SOLE DAY) July 13th is Souelene Osecurodio (Dirty Sole Day) in Val Verde. On this day, thousands of farms across the country start taking on temporary workers to help with their crops. A large amount of Val Verde’s population use this time to get cash to help with their hefty tax bills or credit card debt. This work is not mandatory but is one of the few ways debtors can raise funds to pay their debts before the government or private banks are allowed to initiate court proceedings. There is a rich culture surrounding footwear in Val Verde and its main tenet is that shoes symbolize freedom. Those in debt bondage are therefore unfree. All workers have to go to their farms and remain barefoot until they have paid off their debt. The sight of thousands of dirty soles pounding the pavements of Val Verde’s towns gave name to this day. There’s even a Val Verdian saying, “Lasse souelene osecuromenes, lemente dinaerohom conente” which roughly translates to English as “the darker the soles, the happier the banker”. Since most fruit picking doesn’t require any physical strength, the majority of citizens choosing to take it on are young women, meaning that Osecurodio also attracts lots of men that delight in being able to taunt the defenseless workers. It’s not all bad, however: seeds of many a happy marriage were planted during Osecurodio as lots of men decide to pay someone’s debt to save them from work. DID YOU KNOW: there’s a significant spike in child births in Val Verde in April. We’ll let you do the maths. -- source link