# Ahh! I stepped on a slug.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673 "2005-04-29T04:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/21 "2005-04-30T01:27:26Z")
Is there any topic [The Master](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_073.html) hasn’t covered? I can only recall seeing one slug in my life, in my mom’s front yard. It was a little tiny one; a pinch of salt took care of it. I believe if I’d seen something like **hillbilly queen** ’s giant mutant slug I’d have had to go for a shotgun. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/22 "2005-04-30T05:27:36Z")
My sister stepped on a pidgeon. She heard it crunch. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/23 "2005-04-30T05:34:19Z")
On a visit to the Seattle area, I was in a camp shower washing my hair when I noticed something moving on the wall. It was a BIG honkin’ spider. Screw the shampoo, I came FLYING out of the shower stall, shrieking like a maniac. Fortunately, there was another woman in the bath area brushing her teeth, and she took pity on me, killed the spider, rinsed it down the drain and assured me that I was safe enough to rinse my hair. After my heart stopped pounding, I did so, then dried off, wrapped myself in my bathrobe and started walking barefoot back to my cabin. That’s when I stepped on the banana slug. Only somebody else has stepped on the banana slug before I did, so when I made foot contact, the banana slug was already _inside out_. I will never visit the Pacific Northwest again. ---
**Author:** ![DarkPrince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DarkPrince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkPrince)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/24 "2005-04-30T10:30:56Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > They taste kinda bitter, too. > > What? My mom loves to tell people about how, when I was young, I’d spend time in my daycare center’s garden and eat the snails. I was a weird kid. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/25 "2005-04-30T11:24:45Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > My sister stepped on a pidgeon. She heard it crunch. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/26 "2005-04-30T18:59:06Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Is there any topic [The Master](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_073.html) hasn’t covered? Ah, I thought this was going to be about the time he stepped on Mr. Signorino. I imagine that would also be an unpleasent experience. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/27 "2005-04-30T21:26:07Z")
Other Slug Memories… My mom had flowers planted around our mailbox and bordered with red bricks. The bricks were stacked loosely. One day I was helping her relocate some of the bricks, (they were the type with 6 round holes going through them, not solid). I lifted a top brick… There were 6 fat slugs, sticking out of each hole in the brick below. They completely filled the holes. I threw the brick down ontop of them and it made an audible _SQUIIISH._ When we first moved to our current house, they would crawl under the backdoor, into the kitchen. One night, I walked in and found one on the kitchen counter! I threw a handful of salt on it, and slug juice ran down the cabinets and puddled on the floor. The next day, the puddle, lifted up in one piece, but it took forever to get it off the cabinets. You know what slug babies look like? Picture a pile of pale squirmy ovals, in a transparant pouch-like thing, dangling by a rope of thick snot. I could’ve lived the rest of my life, without seeing THAT, within inches of my face. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/28 "2005-04-30T21:55:37Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Slug? Slug??? Slug! Slug! Ahhh, it’s a slug! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/29 "2005-04-30T22:15:03Z")
I was outside on the patio, smoking, drinking, eating potato chips and reading a novel. (Bliss.) In my nightgown and some sandals. (It was summer, and it was a granny gown.) I felt something on my inner thigh, just above my knee. Brushed at it absently, and kept reading, drinking, munching, and smoking. (Bliss.) Felt it again…higher up. Thought it was the nightie brushing against me. Stood up, drink in one hand, cigarette in another. (Lovely sight, I’m sure.) Still felt it. Put drink down, lifted gown. Slug. Little slug, but slug nonetheless. It was oozing its way up my thigh, heading for… :eek: The dance I did, shuddering and shrieking with revulsion, to get that thing off me, will likely be a source of much amusement to any possible witnesses for years to come. 😛 I do not like slugs. And also, banana slugs are even worse. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Dinaroozie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dinaroozie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinaroozie)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/30 "2005-05-01T14:32:25Z")
God damn, I was about to go to bed, and then I decide to read this thread. You are all tainted, and now I am too. Urgh… the vileness is overwhelming. > [@](#): > > From **Atheist Princess** : > I sat on a toad once. Okay, yeah, that’s definitely the worst thing I’ve ever heard. For my part, I stepped on a snail barefoot once. It was especially traumatic for me, because snails are among my favourite critters. Poor guy. ☹ ~ Isaac ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/31 "2005-05-02T06:47:44Z")
Nothing is worse than having a lizard drop on top of you. _shudder_ Cold clammy feet. Clinging to your ears, while you struggle in shock, and it tail bouncing on your shoulder. _whimper_ ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/32 "2005-05-02T11:40:54Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Hey, at least the frog’s suffering is over :D. And he didn’t have to face being sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose Tasty 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/33 "2005-05-02T14:23:59Z")
So, slugs come in the house? ISN’T THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO KEEP THEM AT BAY? They sound positively revolting. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/34 "2005-05-02T15:12:36Z")
_You read it, you can’t **un** read it!_ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/36 "2020-03-31T22:36:27Z")
I have thought of starting a topic about a slug related topic for a while. A year or so ago someone I know IRL mentioned that they never see [slugs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limax_maximus) any more. I hadn’t noticed it at the time, but realized that I hadn’t seen one in a long time, and haven’t seen one since then. They used to be fairly common to run across, and almost certain to see after rain, so now that I’m aware of it the absence is pretty glaring. Has there been some sort of slugpocalypse? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/37 "2020-03-31T22:47:54Z")
I slugged a zombie once, about 15 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/38 "2020-03-31T22:51:08Z")
I stepped on a snail this morning. Except for the crunch, there’s not much difference. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/39 "2020-03-31T23:03:08Z")
My cat Sullivan, the black menace is longhaired and cursed with long furry bloomers and a sassy tail, has brought home a slug incased in a web of sullyhair hanging off his bloomers like a booger. better that than an errant turd but he’s quite fastidious in that regard, however he found a moist patch of grass outside and got slugged. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/40 "2020-03-31T23:11:05Z")
When we were kids, going barefoot all summer long was expected. In the evenings, when it was time to go home, you’d frquently hear a crunch-scream-_wipewipewipe_ as we walked across the lawns. You knew when somebody stepped on a snail, barefoot. I certainly stepped on my share. (mentally doing the _wipewipewipe_) ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673/41 "2020-03-31T23:40:31Z")
Stepping on a huge red wiggler earthworm is nearly as gross. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-i-stepped-on-a-slug/301673.md?page=1)