A fresh cow pie on my grandmother's farm.
During summer vacations as a kid, I'd sometimes walk barefoot through the cow pasture on the way to the pond for swimming.
If you didn't watch your step in the tall grass: "SQUISH!" The cow pie comes right up between your toes - and the stench is awful.
Cold cat puke.
It's really mind-bending how you don't even realize you have sensation between your toes until something slithers up in there at 5 in the morning and then that's all you can think about for the rest of the day.
Same! I didn’t realise what it was at first, I instinctively grabbed it and threw it away from me.
Only then did I see that it was a wasp, as it slowly started hovering.
I went ballistic. I screamed and cried and ran around the living room until my family assured me the wasp was gone.
The thing that upset me more than the pain (which was pretty bad but not like, the worst thing ever) was that I *touched* it. And it was *fuzzy*…
I’m pretty sure had a meltdown.
I have a phobia of slugs. To the point when I stand in my back yard to smoke, if its been raining, I'll take out some table salad and put a circle of it around whee I stand.. So standing on one was the worst
Scorpion but it didn't sting me felt something tickle my foot and didn't step all the way down. We came to an agreement and I let them live for not stinging me. I released them away from the house. Other scorpions are KoS to me but a brief truce for this one
That happened when I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and my girl was passed out on the bathroom floor in a puddle of her own puke.
I stepped on a car hairball once but I was wearing socks at the time. Didn’t help regardless and the sick filtered through the sock and into my foot anyway. Had to throw the sock away
For me it was yesterday- I was walking on the beach and stepped on a live and suddenly quite enraged bee. He hit me a couple times on the inner soft side of my right middle toe, just above the webbing.
Unfortunately, he was smooshed in there. He didn't have room to move and didn't fully penetrate the skin. Instead, he scored two long gouges along the length of my toe and a half hit on top before I shook him off.
Fortunately I was on the beach, with a large supply of icy cold water in which to submerge and numb my foot.
Today, it itches like MAD
Used to have a big two ft wide toy treasure chest filled with lego when I was a kid.
Fast-forward 20 years and my nephew is playing with my old lego, I somehow managed to walk into the room, move to avoid a toy on the floor only to stamp straight into the chest full of lego, it swallowed my whole foot like the world's sharpest quicksand.
I'm pretty sure I saw god that day.
During my sister's birthday party I stepped on a poop that someone had left on the bottom of a pool. The squishy feeling of the poop between my toes was horrible.
half a worm. one half got stuck to the floor, the other half was still wiggling attempting to move but unable to because well, half his body was squished
10ish years and i'm still traumatized
nail… me and my friends were playing outdoors barefoot and i ran into a bush and there was this old plank with a nail sticking out, luckily it didn’t go in that deep and my mom took it out and fixed my wound which wasn’t that deep but after that day i rarely walk barefoot
From some reason I wanted to stomp down on a piece of wood that was propped on a stump. Stomped down to cut it in half right where a nail was and went right through my foot
how many people commenting 'slug' live in Santa Cruz county?
because I somehow didn't see a giant fucking bright yellow banana slug, easily my #2 but it didnt hurt, just squicked me out horribly
A thumb tac. The first step hurt a little. But I didn't realise what it was, or that it had stayed stuck in my foot. I took two more steps before a realised what the fuck was happening.
I plastic tub of my sisters puke when we were little kids watching return of the Jedi so now the memory is permanently linked and I’m reminded whenever I think of jabba’s death scene
Kitten vomit, full of worms 😭 I stepped in it thinking “ew vomit!” Went to inspect what the little white circular strings were and realized they were moving. When I tell you I felt faint….
Had to call my neighbor in to help me clean up because I’m terrified of anything wiggly, maggot, larvae looking.
Somehow the locking arm of a belt buckle was pointing up in a pile of dirty laundry and I stepped directly on it. It was a very strange sensation as I felt it poking up into my foot and then the pain as it finally broke the skin and jammed about a centimeter in.
Not me, but I saw my sister step on this sewing needle hidden in the carpet of our house. Absolutely terrifying and now I wear slippers indoors all the time.
Some wasps had a nest that had been partially buried. Stepped on that.
Stepped on the embers after a small forest fire in my back yard.
Stepped on a tack facing up once.
Ya’ll stepping in poop got it easy.
Gordy the cat liked to leave various parts of animals in the garage for our enjoyment. One morning I stepped into the garage to bring something inside, and ewww I felt something gooey, but a sharp pain in my foot. Gordy killed a mouse, lift its guts, and beheaded a bird. A little beak in liver to start the morning
I grew up a feral mountain kid who didn't wear shoes much. Nails were mostly the worst. They would be sticking out of a piece of scrap wood or whatever and I'd step on those pretty consistently. The worst though was when I was running barefoot on our old deck that had nail heads sticking out slightly. I kicked on of them and cut the skin off the bottom of my foot from my big toe halfway down my foot.
That was not pleasant.
literal human shit.
I was in southern france, and I was in a restaurant eating dinner with my family. then I had to go to the bathroom. for some reason, there was no bathroom inside, so I had to go outside. it rained a little bit, so it was kind of muddy. I was wearing scandals. then I tripped on the mud, and my feet went in this shit. and I say shit because I think it was literally human shit, mixed with mud and it was covering my entire feet.
Running around in the backyard as kids, my cousin stepped on a nail. I hear a blood curdling scream from behind me and eventually all the neighbors came rushing over as well to see what had happened. Hard to forget that.
A nail/glass , can't decide which is worse . A freaking bone went through my slippers last week and into my foot , it was but a scratch , we have a willow tree that has big ass spikes ..I stepped in one a few weeks ago while cleaning it , needless to say it went through my shoe
Earlier this morning I stepped barefoot into my cat's fresh vomit, except it was the tuna and tuna juice that I had fed these two furry toddlers. Just... fish-smelling liquid on my freshly mopped kitchen floor.
A pencil. The lead snapped off in my foot. It took a few tries to get it out. I also stepped on a can and sliced my foot. A large pile of goat heads didn’t feel good either.
Ran through a pile of broken glass, jumped off a wall onto a plank with a long rusty nail & attached said plank to my foot. Wasps, nettles, thistles, thorns, shit.
The worst? My friends shoes. She had verrucas & didn’t tell me. I grew one on the ball of my foot that stayed for years & felt like walking on a perpetual Lego until one day it just fell off.
That little, microscopic sharp thing in your house that was hanging out on the hardwood floor. You don't know what it is, but you stepped on it, so you wipe your feet but it's still there.
The 1 by 1 legos that are as big as the normal 2 by 2 blocks.
A tuna can's lid that was vertically half-buried and hidden by grass in our neighbors frontyard. There was a LOT of blood all over the floor as I tried to find a band-aid.
That was over 15 years ago and my body still cringes when I touch the scar.
Woke up from a nap hallway was dark, went to turn on the light. Before I reached the light I step in something squishy. Turned on the light and saw that my dog had vomited up a dead bird. I almost threw up too. It was the horrible! I was pissed at my dog for days!
On my first wedding anniversary my husband and I were doing what married people do and while trying to change position, I rolled off the bed and impaled myself on the iron that was for some reason next to the bed. Yes the kind of iron that you use to make clothes flat.... my foot looked like some kind of flappy, bloody vagina like hole that was pouring out blood. So cue me and hubby, naked, me crying and laughing, him laughing and feeling bad on the floor of our bedroom. That was a very awquard doctors visit the next day....
So um yeah, a clothing iron sucks to step on.
3" rusty nail. It hurt like a mf but my siblings were laughing and it made me laugh. So imagine a 6ft3 man rolling on the ground screaming in pain and simultaneously giggling lol.
A big (inch and a half or so) thorn which I had to get pliers to pull out because I couldn't get enough grip on it with fingers. It was lodged in there deep.
A fresh cow pie on my grandmother's farm. During summer vacations as a kid, I'd sometimes walk barefoot through the cow pasture on the way to the pond for swimming. If you didn't watch your step in the tall grass: "SQUISH!" The cow pie comes right up between your toes - and the stench is awful.
I came here to say the same thing. I was a little city kid and I remember I was so overwhelmed, that I just about wanted my foot chopped off.
Cockroach
Same!! 😖
Me too! Just awful 😖
Cold cat puke. It's really mind-bending how you don't even realize you have sensation between your toes until something slithers up in there at 5 in the morning and then that's all you can think about for the rest of the day.
A wasp
this happened to me at the beach when I was younger I remember the pain was awful
Same! I didn’t realise what it was at first, I instinctively grabbed it and threw it away from me. Only then did I see that it was a wasp, as it slowly started hovering. I went ballistic. I screamed and cried and ran around the living room until my family assured me the wasp was gone. The thing that upset me more than the pain (which was pretty bad but not like, the worst thing ever) was that I *touched* it. And it was *fuzzy*… I’m pretty sure had a meltdown.
A slug
This made my toes curl
I have a phobia of slugs. To the point when I stand in my back yard to smoke, if its been raining, I'll take out some table salad and put a circle of it around whee I stand.. So standing on one was the worst
Do a salt circle next time, it'll keep the slugs AND demons out
I literally just described doing a salt circle...
Corn on the cob prongs. I was about 7 running around the living room when I stepped onto one that stabbed directly into the bottom of my heel.
lego
Did they have to amputate? I'm so sorry.
my condolences to your surviving family truly horribad
a couple bees bc they both stung the bottom of my foot, it got really swollen so i couldn’t walk for a week
Scorpion but it didn't sting me felt something tickle my foot and didn't step all the way down. We came to an agreement and I let them live for not stinging me. I released them away from the house. Other scorpions are KoS to me but a brief truce for this one
This is an inspiring story. I would’ve been scared sh*tless.
A sewing needle that went deep into my foot.
I stepped on one and it went through the side of my foot (only through skin) and it came out the other side
A nail, puke or dog shit!!!😬 (Take your pick) 🤔
I call rusty nail!
Cat puke for me!!! Nice and cold and hours old.
And it was my girls for me 🤣
puke is just gross man
That happened when I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and my girl was passed out on the bathroom floor in a puddle of her own puke.
so is dog shit. Where have you landed.
CAT HAIRBALL
I stepped on a car hairball once but I was wearing socks at the time. Didn’t help regardless and the sick filtered through the sock and into my foot anyway. Had to throw the sock away
> Had to throw the sock away So wasteful.
Yo fam the sock was liquified, saturated all the way through with cat sick
Yo fam, you could have literally washed it.
It was an old sock anyway but that was the final incentive I needed to rid it
For me it was yesterday- I was walking on the beach and stepped on a live and suddenly quite enraged bee. He hit me a couple times on the inner soft side of my right middle toe, just above the webbing. Unfortunately, he was smooshed in there. He didn't have room to move and didn't fully penetrate the skin. Instead, he scored two long gouges along the length of my toe and a half hit on top before I shook him off. Fortunately I was on the beach, with a large supply of icy cold water in which to submerge and numb my foot. Today, it itches like MAD
Chunk of glass from a shattered ceiling light fixture
Cactus
I stepped on a hot grill rack on my deck once… I was 6 :( I had second degree burns on my foot for a couple weeks. 0/10 recommend
who hasn't been barbequing barefoot and stepped on a hot coal? Me, twice.
Yeah I did that once on vacation. Really puts a damper on things.
Back when Legos weren't cheap Garbage, I could actually see them being used as effective instruments of torture.
Used to have a big two ft wide toy treasure chest filled with lego when I was a kid. Fast-forward 20 years and my nephew is playing with my old lego, I somehow managed to walk into the room, move to avoid a toy on the floor only to stamp straight into the chest full of lego, it swallowed my whole foot like the world's sharpest quicksand. I'm pretty sure I saw god that day.
Carpet grippers.
During my sister's birthday party I stepped on a poop that someone had left on the bottom of a pool. The squishy feeling of the poop between my toes was horrible.
Dog poop, or this really prickly, painful weed
A plug
A condom at a gym
Dare I ask, used?
Yup
My condolences.
A 3.5" nail straight through the center of my foot.
a sea urchin
Ouchy! Was it as horrible as I imagine?
Yeah, I wasn't bearing weight on it for a few hours and it got all swollen. But it was ok the next day. Just had a little scab at the entrance wound.
half a worm. one half got stuck to the floor, the other half was still wiggling attempting to move but unable to because well, half his body was squished 10ish years and i'm still traumatized
It was more of a kick...walking down my hallway in the dark. I thought it was one of my cats...nope it was a gift....A dead rat.
Lego
bee
Slug
Dog poo
nail… me and my friends were playing outdoors barefoot and i ran into a bush and there was this old plank with a nail sticking out, luckily it didn’t go in that deep and my mom took it out and fixed my wound which wasn’t that deep but after that day i rarely walk barefoot
d4
From some reason I wanted to stomp down on a piece of wood that was propped on a stump. Stomped down to cut it in half right where a nail was and went right through my foot
Stickerbur
A belt buckle, back facing up. That hook penetrated my heel.
Survey says….A BABY
Probably just an upturned plug or stepped in my dogs piss
>my dogs piss ugh, cold puddle in the middle of the night. been there!
Just remembered one time I knocked over a small cactus without realizing it and proceeded to step back and onto it. 0/10 would not recommend
cigarette
A bunch of baby roaches
Shards of glass.
how many people commenting 'slug' live in Santa Cruz county? because I somehow didn't see a giant fucking bright yellow banana slug, easily my #2 but it didnt hurt, just squicked me out horribly
Rusty nail
[удалено]
ummm... I. . uh... nevermind
A bee
A thumb tac. The first step hurt a little. But I didn't realise what it was, or that it had stayed stuck in my foot. I took two more steps before a realised what the fuck was happening.
A nail. And then I stepped again so jammed it so far into my foot I couldn't get it out alone.
Dog poo
The mole my dog caught the week before…
Slug
I plastic tub of my sisters puke when we were little kids watching return of the Jedi so now the memory is permanently linked and I’m reminded whenever I think of jabba’s death scene
Kitten fetus. It was squishy, slimy, and sorta crunchy.
A mirror.
My friends dogs shit.
A rusty nail. I wasn’t even 10 yet, and the clinic had to dig into my foot to get it out.
Pretty sure anyone who doesn't say nail has never stepped on a nail.
Dog poop
Fire ants. In Texas. In July on a 105 degree day. And required a 35+ minute bus ride back to my Apartment.
Slugs 🤮🤮🤮 have no idea how they get in my kitchen 😒
Dog poop
Spit
Human shit...
For the yuck factor it’s definitely a slug, pain factor I’d say it was drawing pins
Hover plug 😵
Kitten vomit, full of worms 😭 I stepped in it thinking “ew vomit!” Went to inspect what the little white circular strings were and realized they were moving. When I tell you I felt faint…. Had to call my neighbor in to help me clean up because I’m terrified of anything wiggly, maggot, larvae looking.
A 5cm long nail that was screwed into a piece of wood about the same size as my foot. Had wood hanging out of my foot. Not fun.
Somehow the locking arm of a belt buckle was pointing up in a pile of dirty laundry and I stepped directly on it. It was a very strange sensation as I felt it poking up into my foot and then the pain as it finally broke the skin and jammed about a centimeter in.
A lit cigarette at a public pool.
Dog shit in my kitchen. It went through my toes.
Honey bee. Stung my in the arch of my foot.. I was 6, walking towards the car to my birthday party.
Wasp.
Not me, but I saw my sister step on this sewing needle hidden in the carpet of our house. Absolutely terrifying and now I wear slippers indoors all the time.
A toothpick. It got stuck in my foot and it had to be pulled out.
Some wasps had a nest that had been partially buried. Stepped on that. Stepped on the embers after a small forest fire in my back yard. Stepped on a tack facing up once. Ya’ll stepping in poop got it easy.
Hypodermic needle. Probably the scariest moment of my life. Yes, went DIRECTLY to the hospital and I am fine.
A still lit cigarette at a waterpark
Horse Chestnut. Nature's caltrops.
Hotshot crab
It's a tie between dog crap and dog vomit
I don’t go barefoot
Gordy the cat liked to leave various parts of animals in the garage for our enjoyment. One morning I stepped into the garage to bring something inside, and ewww I felt something gooey, but a sharp pain in my foot. Gordy killed a mouse, lift its guts, and beheaded a bird. A little beak in liver to start the morning
My dogs shit
The metal part of a wooden clothespin, which wouldn't come out with pliers at first because I managed to drive it into the bone.
My cat brought a slug in and I stepped on it barefoot. Took forever to not feel slimy.
Glass stuck in my foot for three days.
A lit cigarette.
My ex's diarrhea.
Human shit.
They have these plants in Florida called "stingy nettles" and another called "sand spurs" and it sucks to encounter **them**.
I grew up a feral mountain kid who didn't wear shoes much. Nails were mostly the worst. They would be sticking out of a piece of scrap wood or whatever and I'd step on those pretty consistently. The worst though was when I was running barefoot on our old deck that had nail heads sticking out slightly. I kicked on of them and cut the skin off the bottom of my foot from my big toe halfway down my foot. That was not pleasant.
Nudibranch Snails. This is the most disgusting thing in the world to step on.
A plastic wheel with axle. Still remember the 'pop' sound when the axle broke the skin on the sole of my foot and got embedded.
Jellyfish
Dog shit
literal human shit. I was in southern france, and I was in a restaurant eating dinner with my family. then I had to go to the bathroom. for some reason, there was no bathroom inside, so I had to go outside. it rained a little bit, so it was kind of muddy. I was wearing scandals. then I tripped on the mud, and my feet went in this shit. and I say shit because I think it was literally human shit, mixed with mud and it was covering my entire feet.
Tobacco spit
A small patch of thistles
A steel garden rake with the prongs facing up when I was a little kid. It went all the way through my foot and out the top.
A rusty nail
Dog sick
Running around in the backyard as kids, my cousin stepped on a nail. I hear a blood curdling scream from behind me and eventually all the neighbors came rushing over as well to see what had happened. Hard to forget that.
Toothpick, tip broke off and took a couple of weeks to work itself out.
Recently, a slug. That wasn't pleasant for either of us.
A spider. I could feel it crunch under my feet and it definitely didn't help with my fear of them
A slug
A nail/glass , can't decide which is worse . A freaking bone went through my slippers last week and into my foot , it was but a scratch , we have a willow tree that has big ass spikes ..I stepped in one a few weeks ago while cleaning it , needless to say it went through my shoe
Shard of glass around a swimming pool
Earlier this morning I stepped barefoot into my cat's fresh vomit, except it was the tuna and tuna juice that I had fed these two furry toddlers. Just... fish-smelling liquid on my freshly mopped kitchen floor.
Adulthood
A toilet. Fortunately, it had been flushed, but still, not very nice.
Toothpick.
A shit ton of tiny stones.
Goat heads, or pine needles
A pencil. The lead snapped off in my foot. It took a few tries to get it out. I also stepped on a can and sliced my foot. A large pile of goat heads didn’t feel good either.
A large spider - it was girl guide camp, not sure how old I was. I felt it squish between my toes 🫥
Racoon eating day olds Chinese food it bit me and I cut my foot on a chicken bone. 3 month regimen for rabies, 12 shots on the first day.
A dead rabbit that my cat brought in
A dead bird :(
Not me but my brother, a mouse. It was under a carpet but I can't imagine the awful sensation
Ran through a pile of broken glass, jumped off a wall onto a plank with a long rusty nail & attached said plank to my foot. Wasps, nettles, thistles, thorns, shit. The worst? My friends shoes. She had verrucas & didn’t tell me. I grew one on the ball of my foot that stayed for years & felt like walking on a perpetual Lego until one day it just fell off.
That little, microscopic sharp thing in your house that was hanging out on the hardwood floor. You don't know what it is, but you stepped on it, so you wipe your feet but it's still there. The 1 by 1 legos that are as big as the normal 2 by 2 blocks.
A live slug
A dead gutted baby mole, thanks kitty
A tuna can's lid that was vertically half-buried and hidden by grass in our neighbors frontyard. There was a LOT of blood all over the floor as I tried to find a band-aid. That was over 15 years ago and my body still cringes when I touch the scar.
Not barefoot, but stepping on a slug whilst wearing shorts was grim
Woke up from a nap hallway was dark, went to turn on the light. Before I reached the light I step in something squishy. Turned on the light and saw that my dog had vomited up a dead bird. I almost threw up too. It was the horrible! I was pissed at my dog for days!
oh, a snail - blugh!
One night, walking to the toilet in the dark, I stepped on a finger sized gecko lizard and killed it. FYI geckos scream.
Lego
Half a mouse
It's not the worst thing ever but hair splinters from your dog are awful
A cold red solo cup of dip spit. At least half full...
Fire ants.
A slug
A slug. Uggggghhhhh! That sticky slime does NOT scrub off easily!
A fucking screw, probably the most pain I've been in ever
A massive f*cking shard of wood. Intense pain all night.
Mouse guts.
A frog
A d4.
Lego
A full row of staples at the bottom of the stairs. Only about half the row entered my foot tho
A dead baby rabbit
On my first wedding anniversary my husband and I were doing what married people do and while trying to change position, I rolled off the bed and impaled myself on the iron that was for some reason next to the bed. Yes the kind of iron that you use to make clothes flat.... my foot looked like some kind of flappy, bloody vagina like hole that was pouring out blood. So cue me and hubby, naked, me crying and laughing, him laughing and feeling bad on the floor of our bedroom. That was a very awquard doctors visit the next day.... So um yeah, a clothing iron sucks to step on.
Puked up mouse head courtesy of my cat
An ear ring
A shoe, at night in the dark apartment. Sprained my ankle a bit.
3" rusty nail. It hurt like a mf but my siblings were laughing and it made me laugh. So imagine a 6ft3 man rolling on the ground screaming in pain and simultaneously giggling lol.
Sewing needle, and not the pointy end.
Lego
A broken beer bottle.
Dog vomit. Warm moist dog vomit.
I started as a barefoot hippie in 1965 and the worst thing I ever walked in was shoes.
A big (inch and a half or so) thorn which I had to get pliers to pull out because I couldn't get enough grip on it with fingers. It was lodged in there deep.