# Things you don't want your bare feet to step on at 2am **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884 "2014-06-16T05:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/41 "2014-06-16T20:07:26Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Quoting this completely because it’s so good! I love it. I can just exactly imagine how the potato felt. Gaah. Big Orange Cat is a mighty hunter indeed. Thank you. His name was Mike. He lived with us for 19 years, died 18 years ago, and we still think of him. A good-natured gentle giant. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/42 "2014-06-16T22:35:26Z")
Very large millipede (Stepped on not at 2 AM, but while coming out of the shower in the morning. Still not pleasant.) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/43 "2014-06-16T23:01:37Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Very large millipede Oh god. This is the only one I wish I could un-read. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/44 "2014-06-17T01:00:42Z")
Ants, doing the conga line. Personal fav - pile o’ vomit going cold from kid 2, who has finally summoned me to his room in the wee hours of the night. Everything’s nice and set into the carpet and bedding now. And I’m adding to the comic fun hopping on one foot with vomit on the other. Ah - memories. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/45 "2014-06-17T01:27:26Z")
While the OP mentioned soggy dog chewy as a problem, some of us consider dog bones to be a bigger one. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/46 "2014-06-17T02:46:30Z")
I really do always wear slippers, exactly for all of the above reasons. Rubber bottomed slippers, because socks won’t cut it with my cats around. If I didn’t have animals, I might risk it. I’m cringing right now just thinking about squishing or crunching anything in bare feet in the dark! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/47 "2014-06-17T03:54:10Z")
Spider. Hairy. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKindWorld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@HelloKindWorld](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKindWorld)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/48 "2014-06-17T06:07:58Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > Discarded condom. Not your own. I would like to include my own discarded condoms on the list as well. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/49 "2014-06-17T06:15:34Z")
Shit on a shag carpet. Even worse is when your ex-army grandfather serves that for dinner… ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/50 "2014-06-17T06:22:52Z")
A snake. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/51 "2014-06-17T06:53:45Z")
I’d have to assume that landmines top the list. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/52 "2014-06-17T18:34:20Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > I’d have to assume that landmines top the list. Post #25 ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/53 "2014-06-19T03:00:16Z")
Your cardboard and balsa wood model castle … due for homework tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/54 "2014-06-19T03:37:06Z")
The knuckles of the person hiding under your bed. ---
**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/55 "2014-06-19T08:15:44Z")
glass ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/56 "2014-06-19T14:03:04Z")
A Mysterious Wet Patch on the carpet (is it water or is it dog urine? Spin the wheel and we’ll find out!) Cat puke - wet is nasty, but never underestimate the feeling of cracking the dried surface on top and having it all cling to your foot . . . Your glasses, which you _swore_ you left on your nightstand, but somehow they ended up at the foot of your bed, and now they’re smashed and the eyeglass place isn’t open tomorrow and oh God oh God oh God . . . Special mention for those times when you know you’ve stepped on them, but there’s this little moment of uncertainty and hope as to the extent of the damage right before turning on the lights. The weird little crunchy gray bugs that seem to delight in committing seppuku in the middle of your bedroom. Cup of any sort of liquid - extra points if it’s milk. [Legos.](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/legos) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/57 "2014-06-19T21:52:38Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > Wet tile floor. > I have combined that with jacks. Even the Russian judges gave me a 10. Coming home from a cross-country flight, wandering blearily into my apartment, hmm, it feels a little chilly in he---- Wheee–Whump. Slipped and fell on a patch of ice on my kitchen floor. You know the cartoons where someone slips on a banana peel, catches air and then Whump? Like that. Yes, the furnace did break and a pipe leaked – I wrapped up in my electric blanket and told the guy to just come fix it in the morning.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/58 "2014-06-19T22:50:42Z")
Slightly off-subject: I used to work with a carpenter, from Germany, who used a lot of mechanical equipment. One was a compressor, which he used to power an air hammer that drives nails into wood. It had a hose, about half as big around as a garden hose, running from compressor to air tool. He was very particular about me not stepping on the cord and scolded me whenever I did. When HE did, which he did now and then, I did not hesitate to point it out. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/59 "2014-06-20T04:11:58Z")
[ol] [li]dougie’s hose.[/li][li]A large, gnawed nylabone.[/li][li]A buckeye.[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/60 "2014-06-20T18:36:47Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Goathead- Those really sharp stickery things > > Goat Head- Severed head of a goat …Goatheads and Sand Spurs - my poor kid feet seemed to attract them like magnets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884.md?page=4)