# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/61 "2014-06-20T18:42:06Z")
I haven’t seen a Goathead plant in forever - nor the striped Blister Beetles that ate them… Glad of that. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/62 "2014-06-20T18:58:47Z")
A puddle of dog diarrhea. @\*^$ kid keeps sneaking him her brussels sprouts. Also, for the lego sufferers: [http://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/455228\_526406-LegoWalk.jpg](http://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/455228_526406-LegoWalk.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/63 "2014-06-21T21:55:41Z")
Big toad. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/64 "2014-06-21T22:00:37Z")
Ah, waking up to the sound of the cat bringing up a hairball. You leap out of bed in your bare feet and as your right foot hits the carpet the cat barf squishes up between your toes. Urk. ---
**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 21, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/65 "2014-06-21T22:25:40Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Ah, waking up to the sound of the cat bringing up a hairball. You leap out of bed in your bare feet and as your right foot hits the carpet the cat barf squishes up between your toes. > > Urk. It could have been worse! …Our cat Archie was better behaved; he wasn’t so careless. I cannot say the same for myself. :o ---
**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 21, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/66 "2014-06-21T23:22:48Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 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. A place I used to work at had an air compressor in the back, used mostly as a high pressure air blower. As often as not the hose would be left on the floor when not in use. My boss was an older Irish guy, which I mention only because he had a strong accent. One day he and I were manhandling a small piano across the cement floor. He was lurching backwards, accidentally stepped on the nozzle button at the end of the hose. The resulting instantaneous **LOUD HISS** made him jump halfway out of his shoes- had he not been clinging to a piano he might have gone through the ceiling. I laughed. After his heart started beating again, he glanced my way with an embarrassed grin and said “Thought a bloody snake had me by the clunks!” It’s funnier if you could hear me do it in his voice. 40 years ago and I remember it like yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/67 "2014-06-22T07:07:07Z")
> [@PurpleClogs](#): > > If it looks like a roach, walks like a roach, and squashes underfoot like a roach, it’s a roach. Palmetto bugs are 6" long and they _ **fly** _. I’ll take the roach. you can have the palmetto bug. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/68 "2014-06-22T13:15:55Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 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. Yeah, it’s best to stay off of those. But you will REALLY catch shit for stepping on a climbing rope. For good reason really. That grinds dirt into it and will make it wear quicker. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/69 "2014-06-22T14:30:22Z")
Slug. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884/70 "2014-06-22T17:02:13Z")
My mum once got up in the night to investigate noises in the back yard and spent some time trying to put her slippers on by the back door in dark. When she turned the lights on, she found she’d been trying to put on a dead hedgehog. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-want-your-bare-feet-to-step-on-at-2am/690884.md?page=3)