CycleChat Investigates - Pain!!!

[matiz]

I jumped into a lake to retrieve a football once straight on to a upturned broken bottle having the sole of my foot stitched up was agony, and I've trod on a few large nails on building sites over the years, but I still think the 3 pin plug just about edges it.

 

[Threevok]

Worst thing you can tread on - a broken calcaneus

Even worse if it's your own

 

[raleighnut]

A slug in bare feet.
Psychological pain.

Many years ago we had a delivery (postman) on a Saturday morning so I got out of bed and went to the door in my dressing gown to find my Labrador cross had suffered an upset tummy in the night. You try opening the front door with that squidging between your toes after a hefty Friday night session

 

[ColinJ]

I think my dad beat all of those...

He worked for George Wimpey in the 1960s/1970s in the pre-'health and safety gone mad' days. He had been up on some scaffolding fitting some window frames, then needed to go off somewhere else. Rather than walking the boards to a ladder at the far end of the building, he clambered over the guard rail and jumped down. Unfortunately, he had not noticed that directly below was a length of timber with a 6" rusty nail sticking out... The nail went straight through the sole of his boot, through his foot, and out through the top of his boot!

His workmates failed to get his foot free using a claw hammer - they ended up having to use a crowbar!

It made his eyes water just a little...

 

[tyred]

It wouldn't be a good idea to stand on a wire brush without shoes.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Nothing compared to stubbing a toe though. That can initiate a priority call to all the emergency services.

 

[tyred]

I think my dad beat all of those...

He worked for George Wimpey in the 1960s/1970s in the pre-'health and safety gone mad' days. He had been up on some scaffolding fitting some window frames, then needed to go off somewhere else. Rather than walking the boards to a ladder at the far end of the building, he clambered over the guard rail and jumped down. Unfortunately, he had not noticed that directly below was a length of timber with a 6" rusty nail sticking out... The nail went straight through the sole of his boot, through his foot, and out through the top of his boot!

His workmates failed to get his foot free using a claw hammer - they ended up having to use a crowbar!

It made his eyes water just a little...

Years ago my brother did step on a nail sticking out of a piece of wood and had it push out the top of the foot too but he had only stepped on it, he didn't fall on it from a height.

 

[ColinJ]

Nothing compared to stubbing a toe though. That can initiate a priority call to all the emergency services.

You may make jokes about it, but...

I did a forum walk on 6th May this year, during which I stubbed a toe. This is what it looks like 6.5 months later...

 

[classic33]

You may make jokes about it, but...

I did a forum walk on 6th May this year, during which I stubbed a toe. This is what it looks like 6.5 months later...

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Another eighteen months and you'll have nowt but memories.

Unless you keep the nail.

 

[ColinJ]

Another eighteen months and you'll have nowt but memories.

Unless you keep the nail.

I am surprised how long it is taking to grow out. It was about 25% worse than that originally so at this rate it could well take another year and a half!

I can't keep the nail because I keep cutting it. I would have to let it grow 2 or 3 cm beyond the end of the toe before cutting it in order to be able to keep it in one piece!

 

[Gillstay]

There is a tropical caterpillar that can kill you if you step on it due to the hairs it is covered with.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I haven't stood on a 3 point plug as far as I can remember, but I have suffered 'plug pain' when the flex suddenly wraps itself round your ankle as you catch it with your foot and it cracks you on your boney ankle joint!

 

[Captain Sensible]

Need to add gout in the big toe to the list!

 

[ColinJ]

Need to add gout in the big toe to the list!

In my b-i-law's case... Being recently told by 2 doctors that he had gout, only to find that he actually had gangrene due to the diabetes that they hadn't spotted. Bye bye toe!

Hopefully, the rest of the leg won't eventually follow...

 

[Julia9054]

I once stood barefoot on a sewing needle my sister had left sticking in the carpet. It went in blunt end first and you could see it sticking out both sides. I remember being surprised at the time that it didn’t hurt nearly as much as I expected.
Pulling it out did though!