# There's a pen on the ground. Can you pick it up with your feet/toes?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 6, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-pen-on-the-ground-can-you-pick-it-up-with-your-feet-toes/617968 "2012-04-06T02:18:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![TaoPilot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TaoPilot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaoPilot)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-pen-on-the-ground-can-you-pick-it-up-with-your-feet-toes/617968/81 "2012-06-04T05:18:55Z")

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I do this quite often to pick up an article of clothing that I drop. Haven’t tried with a pen, I’ll have to attempt that!

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**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-pen-on-the-ground-can-you-pick-it-up-with-your-feet-toes/617968/82 "2012-06-04T13:36:27Z")

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> [@iftheresaway](#):
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> Hey, I’m 6 months pregnant. Picking things up with my toes is far preferable to the involved process of bending down to get a stray sock or pen.

How _do_ people who don’t have prehensile toes get through pregnancy?

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**Author:** ![Yaxche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8dc957/32.png) [@Yaxche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yaxche)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-pen-on-the-ground-can-you-pick-it-up-with-your-feet-toes/617968/83 "2012-06-04T15:00:04Z")

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Hell, I can pick up a golf ball with my toes.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-pen-on-the-ground-can-you-pick-it-up-with-your-feet-toes/617968/84 "2012-06-04T15:06:55Z")

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Heck yes.

For some reason this creeps my wife out though, but it doesn’t stop me. Why shouldn’t I use my feet to pick up the remote for her and toss it over without any hands, or pour her a glass of wine with my toes?

Eat your heart out, prehensile thumbs!

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-pen-on-the-ground-can-you-pick-it-up-with-your-feet-toes/617968/85 "2012-06-04T18:27:25Z")

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I break boards with my feet.

I can also pick up a pen with my toes.

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