Anything especially gross/painful for anyone? I just wanted to share my story. I was walking home from my man's house- barefoot of course- and arguing on my cell with him... I wasn't paying any attention and almost stepped on a (FRESH) dead animal in the road. FUCKING DISGUSTING!
I broke my pinky toe in my bedroom when going to the bathroom at night, hit it against the vacuum cleaner I had left out. Worst thing about it of course was the people telling me 'see, that's what you get for going barefoot' while it happened at a place and time when almost everyone would've gone barefoot (I only know a few people who put bedroom slippers on for nighttime restroom breaks!). I've hit my toe a couple other times in stupid places (one time against a rock that I'd passed daily for the past ten years without mishap, and one time against a loom that stood sorta in the path, and I'd warned people 'don't trip over the loom' all day long -guess what I did myself at the end of the day!). But that one time in the bedroom was the worst. Of course, I didn't start wearing bedroom slippers, but I no longer leave the vacuum out in the middle of the floor, LOL!
I've had plenty of painful incidents over the many years I've been barefoot. I've stubbed toes like crazy, walked on glass, stepped on bees, gotten nasty blisters... Perhaps the truly worst though was the time I stepped into a HUGE pile of fresh coyote crap in front of my house. It was nighttime, and I was helping my family move their boxes of stuff into the new house, while barefoot. Bad idea.
I'm always surprised about crap-stories being called 'unfortunate barefoot happenings' -do you think you wouldn't have stepped in that pile if you'd been shod? I hate dog doo, but if I have to step in it, I would MUCH rather do so barefoot than shod... barefoot at least I notice before I track it all over the place, and it washes off very easily off the bare foot too, which can't be said of some kinds of footwear (try suede shoes, or shoes with thick profile soles).
Uch, glass is awful too. I'm terrified of glass/blisters, and the only way I'll take it out of my foot is if I get too drunk to feel it.
