"No shoes, no shirt, no go"

Alone in a hotel room in Arizona tonight, a young Jay Thomas gleefully spread out his toes and laughed. "I could be doing the electric slide right now with a bunch of cousins in suits and shiny shoes, but instead I'm jumping from bed to bed. Who's having more fun?! Yeeaah" said a young, shoeless Jay Thomas.

Two days ago, the Thomas family boarded a plane from the Marshall Islands to the States for a wedding. Unbeknownst to him at the time, Jay would be required to wear the one item of clothing he truly despised at this event - shoes. "I want to live as nature intended - shoeless. Do animals wear shoes? No. I need to feel mother earth." When Jay's parents refused to allow him to attend the event shoeless, Jay refused to attend. "If I make concessions now at this young age, imagine what a tool I'll be by the time I'm 12."

Jay's feet refused to comment.