rocks and surfaced roots get me quite often, specially when I walk in woods at night. once i got a cut that just didn't stop bleeding and i was far from my bike. had to tear out the lining of a pocket from my jeans in tatters since quite some time. with this improptu bandage i got thru the creeks up the hill and out of the woods but still had to kickstart my old cranky thumper... good that i didnt cut my sole. note: trimming big toenails short is not a good idea because the nail can actually absorb some shock and make the experience less painful
i don't know if anything has been proven one way or the other, but it seems to me like it's worse if there's a long toenail because it's likely to crack or bend backward and end up with blood as well as a stubbed toe. on a side note, i also highly prefer keeping the big toenails short because it's damn near impossible to get the dirt out of the corners of that particular nail.
Funny, I haven't stubbed my toe real bad since I was a kid. Then last night, I get up in the middle of the night to pee, and stub my toe on a box I left in the hallway and forgot about. Just a cardboard box, but I must have hit it just right, because dang! it hurt. Didn't bleed, but turned all black and blue. Today I go to hang out with a friend at his house. He's a barefooter as much as I am, so we usually don't need to mention the fact that we're barefoot, or have minor cuts or scrapes on our feet. But even he noticed, and was shocked that I managed to bang up my toe so good.
Commented on this thread before, still afraid of a jinx but I don't stub toes going barefoot anymore then I stub fingers going bare handed. A stubbed toe is a teacher for like the sub conscious , does not take many to learn to watch wear you are going with out conscience effort even after a lifetime in shoes where you could just kick into things without consequence.
i rarely stub my toes barefoot or otherwise, but a stubbed toe in a shoe doesn't exactly feel good either.
I have a curved wicker sofa that the two end feet stick out further than the middle……………have whacked my toe on it a few times. Toe nail turns black and replaces itself. I'm a klutz inside but never stub my toes outside. I rarely fall skateboarding, but have sometimes tripped over a blanket hanging off the bed and sprained my ankle. DANG!!!