What do you wear on your feet when you hear a bump in the night?

[gun papa]

I am not a lover of going barefoot, not even just in socks.  What is something you can have on your feet fast to fight with?

[Dakotaranger]

Bump in the night.  Nothing.  I don't leave the room.  I'm armed up and if I have to go hand to hand I can still kick but knee strikes and elbows are my bread and butter.

[crusader rabbit]

I sleep nekkid.  Have for many, many years.  I don't like PJs.  So, when I hear a bump in the night, I have to cover before I find something for my feet.  Unless I think it's really serious, then nekkid is going to have to do.  Seeing 215 pounds of 65-year-old white guy could be a greater deterrent than a weapon.

Fortunately, I keep a pair of what the Vietnamese call fisherman pants right by my bed.  They're the same thing "Charlie" wore when we fought them in the '60s and '70s--kind of like large, draw-string pajamas.  They are very large in the waist, roomy legged cotton pants with a cotton belt sewed to the back.  I can be in them and cinched up, ready to go in seconds.

I wear a pair of flip-flops on my feet.  They live right beside the fisherman pants which lives adjacent to my Glock, which is immediately beside my tactical flashlight.

Just a couple of nights ago I had occasion to test the efficacy of my plan.  I was out the door and checking the perimeter in under 30 seconds.  Turned out to be a neighbor messing about in his shed in the middle of the night. 

But to answer the original postulate, I wear flip-flops.

Crusader Rabbit

[bulldog75]

My wife bought me a pair of leather mocassins with the tread on them. They work great.

[PegLeg45]

My Justin boots.

One of them stays on 24 hours a day....  .......

I have a prosthetic left leg, so the boot stays on all the time, and I keep my right boot next to it on the floor next to the bed. I just leave my pants already on, over the prosthetic, so if I have to jump up for something, I just have to put on the right boot, roll on my leg liner and pop on my leg.
With nine years of practice, I can go from a dead sleep to fully dressed about as fast as anyone else.

[Sponsor]

[Timothy]

I wear my footie PJ's like everyone else! 

Actually, I bought some bison hide, moccasin slippers with shear-ling wool from LL Bean about 8 years back.  Things wear like iron and there at the bedside every night and morning.  I even run errands wearing them they're so comfortable.

[alfsauve]

If I have time and it won't make too much noise, then Sperry Topsider loafers are my everyday house wear.   They're by the bed.

[Strider]

unless I have visitors in the spare bedrooms, I don't worry too much about footwear. I keep a pair of treaded slippers by the bed. My plan is to deadbolt the bedroom door, grab the 870 and dare them to come in.

[mortdooley]

 Once a long time ago we had a late night visitor banging on the front door, turned out to be a would-be burglar making sure no one was home before he came inside. I met him at the front door in my briefs, bare foot and holding a Star PD .45. (He left in a hurry, end of story)

 Now I am older, fatter and not as good natured so I role out of bed barely dressed the same way and yelling at three barking Newfoundland dogs to be quiet and probably don't even need a gun. With the hounds of hell on my side of the door I probable will never know if someone was really outside.

[tombogan03884]

Darn Mort , From what I've seen of Newfoundlands they are 250 lb lap dogs . 
Not sure whether I'd rather be sat on by a Newfoundland or bit by a smaller dog .
Damage would be about the same .