# I sit at home, with a busted toe.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 9, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sit-at-home-with-a-busted-toe/665829 "2013-08-09T19:54:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sit-at-home-with-a-busted-toe/665829/21 "2013-08-13T20:27:15Z")

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> [@KRC](#):
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> Don’t worry. Your toe will heal and then you still may walk funny for the next 6 years and possibly have a game leg for the rest of your life.

All because you had to go pee, Bosda. Think about that!

😉

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sit-at-home-with-a-busted-toe/665829/22 "2013-08-15T13:45:36Z")

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> [@KRC](#):
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> Don’t worry. Your toe will heal and then you still may walk funny for the next 6 years and possibly have a game leg for the rest of your life.
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> Though my problem wasn’t caused by an encounter with a dresser, a piece of furniture which with I’ve usually dealt fairly well. I jumped off a building because I was frightened by a thunderstorm.:smack:

Well, it worked, didn’t it? You didn’t get electrocuted!

Sympathies to you and to all the other toe-busters. I’ve been trying to join your ranks for many years, being one of the clumsiest people I know. My efforts have been along the lines of catching the toe on a part of the furniture in such a way as to attempt to rip it away from the main part of the foot. So far I have failed. That’s probably a good thing, because having one foot wider than the other would make shoe-buying even more of a challenge than it is already. Of course I could do the same to the other foot but somehow I suspect the pain from the first one would make me chicken out :p.

That said, I did manage to shatter one of the metatarsals in the foot itself, in an ill-advised disagreement with a flight of stairs. I thought there were 3 steps left, it insisted there were 4. I lost. It was eye-openingly painful.

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**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sit-at-home-with-a-busted-toe/665829/23 "2013-08-15T16:03:23Z")

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Because of this, I lift my toes up when I walk barefoot. This way, if I hit something, my toes get pushed up and it hits the ball of my foot instead. I wonder if anyone else will find this useful.

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