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I stepped on a nail in the backyard today. |
It felt like a bee sting. As soon as I felt it, I knew what it was. Right through the shoe. By coincedence, I bought new shoes just prior to this incidence, although I was not wearing the new ones. |
Luckily, it was a tiny finishing nail. |
Obviously it wasn't standing on its head when I stepped on it. I don't know how it ended up at an angle which could actually poke that far into my shoe. I took photos while Stacy grabbed some pliers from the garage. I decided to leave my shoe on until the nail was out. |
When I saw the tiny spot of blood on my sock, I was relieved. |
When I pulled the nail out, all the air blew out, leaving me with a flat foot. My foot was fine, except for a little hole. I didn't go to the doctor. I had a tetanus shot about 5 years ago, and they last for 10, so I think I'll be fine with a band aid. |
I stepped on a nail when I was a kid.
It went all the way through my foot.
It hurt. A lot. And was sore for a week.
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I stepped on a jar of point-up extra sharp pencils when I was ~7. Only one was in the right spot to enter my foot, but
it did so with a vengeance. Then of course the tip broke off inside. I still have a black spot on the bottom of my foot
13 years later.
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We had a horny dog once, it nailed my foot everyday, but I don't think that counts...
There's no state for outside USA, so I'm choosing where I'd wanna live if I was in the USA...
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the... the stigmata...
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I once got stabbed in the palm with a pencil and a bit of the lead is still in my palm. Never the foot though.
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My best friend/neighbor and I had to get tetanus shots about 6 months ago (He somehow put a screw through his ear, I
sliced open my thumb on a steel outlet cover, separate instances), and we both got tetanus shots. We pretty much act
like we are invincible now when we are working around rusty nails. We've had tetanus shots, what's the worst that could
happen? If you want to join our club, it requires an accidental event resulting in 5 or more stitches and a tetanus
shot.
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I stepped on a bee when I was a kid. It did NOT feel like a nail.
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I stepped on a fingernail once. It didn't hurt me so much as the chick it was attached to.
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I once cut one of my toenails too short. It hurt. I think it was my 'index' toe on my right foot. Ohh...AND I had a
hangnail once too...I think it was on my left foot. I didn't have to get tetanus shot for either of those incidents.
Phew!
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I stepped on a large sewing needle. Extra points since the eye of the needle went in first? Wow, force! I must stomp
around like a super mario brothers 3 castle boss.
Anyhow, the eye broke off in my foot. After it healed, I got half out on a boring day with some nail clippers. But the
other half is there forever!
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I can't remember how many times I stepped on nails or sliced my foot on something. One of my most vivid memories of
childhood is stepping on a nail and thinking to myself, "Oh no! That's a nail!" as I felt it slide into my foot. Ouch!
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Step on a crack, break your mama's back.
Step on a nail, ???
Good thing you had your camera!
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I stepped on a decking screw after I built my deck. I had to unscrew it from my foot while keeping my composure and
telling all the kids to get out of the backyard.
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Rob, you're just an accident waiting to happen. Tie your shoes for pete's sake, man! Good thing you only stepped on a
nail. You could have tripped on that shoe lace and the nail could have poked your eye out! Just thought I'd try to offer
you some friendly advice...I wouldn't want to see you get hurt any more.
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I haven't really stepped on anything, although I did nearly slice off a finger when I fell and ran my hand down some
wood.
Honestly, though, I just wanted to see what image I'd get when I picked "DC" to represent me.
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I got stung by a wasp in the toe once - I may have stepped on it. It felt like someone methodically pushed the tip of a
paring knife into my toe. Also not like a nail.
But stepping on a nail still sucks, Rob.
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You really need to get a tetanus shot, Rob.
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My daughter got nailed by her boyfriend, but it is OK because they are going to get married.
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I clipped off the end of my big toe with a lawnmower when I was 14. It hurt. I'm fine now.
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Put it this way - lucky it was you and not your daughter! I also can't believe you left the shoe on long enough to get
the pictures!
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When I was a kid, I was "helping" my dad demolish an old shed in the backyard. He pulled the nails out of the old
boards. He went to go get something, and I grabbed the hammer and pounded one of the nails back into a board. When he
came back, he stepped on that nail and got hurt bad enough to go to the ER. I never told him I did it.
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Ever had a metal rebar go through your foot? THAT hurts. It's funny too, because when I lifted my foot, the 20-pound
piece of concrete it was poking out of lifted into the air too. It took two friends to yank it off my foot, which healed
nicely. That was in 1992 if I recall.
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This is actually a reply to Washington state from the top. About twenty years ago, I had a broken bit of pencil
graphite stuck in my foot, and I still have the black mark, too! Prison ink be damned, I say real states use pencils!
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My friend stepped on a nail once and it went right through his foot and out the top. I rushed him to the hospital where
a doctor pulled the nail out.
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Do yourself a favor and DON'T google "tetanus" and look at images. It will make you want to go get a shot even if you
haven't been impaled. Or at least take a shot, preferably with some Kentucky Bourbon.
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I was walking along the road at night and somehow got a spike from a palm frond in the top of my foot (just behind the
"ring" toe). I had to walk about a block to get get to some light to see what it was before I pulled it out.
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I'm glad you are up to date on your tetanus shot. However, I think you should install a Gangrene Watch webcam in a
specially built pair of hi-rise platform shoes.
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I shot my buddy in the forehead with a framing nail gun. He's fine, but I still have the shoe in my ass.
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There is no state of confusion so I picked Florida instead.
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It was raining when I got off work one night.At the exit of our lot was a row of "tiger teeth," used to keep people from
driving in through the out gate or stealing cars. I stepped over the five-inch teeth and my foot slipped. One spike went
right through my work boot and into my foot. It took me a minute to work myself free.No stitches!
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holy crap
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I stepped on a nail in the backyard when I was a kid. It was a big one, too. It went all the way through my shoe, but I
guess the bottoms of my shoes were pretty thick because it just barely poked me and there was no blood at all.
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your typeface choice for the title is hilarious.
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i staplegunned right through my fingernail, and into my thumb. Sadly, it didn't go all the way through the thumb as
well. That would make for a better story.
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I threw a nail at this guy. it did nothing.
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I was so hammered last week that the cop nailed me.
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Hi My name is Ed Jones.
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Compared to some of these stories this isn't much, but when I was 15 or so I stepped on a sewing needle and it went
literally THROUGH MY FOOT. It was sticking out the other side and everything! It was one of those with the little
plastic balls on the end, though, so my mother convinced me to stop screaming long enough for her to grab hold and yank
it out.
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I have a black spot on my heel from stepping on a pencil at least 15 years ago
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Ouch, nail through the foot. Not as bad as a wine glass stem through the palm of ones hand. FYI, look out for cats
sleeping underneath pillows on the floor when carrying your empty wine glass for a refill.
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My cat knocked over a glass in my room, and I thought I had gotten all the pieces until I lodged an inch long shard of
glass into my big toe. Cats are such joys.
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Hovercraft
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Those shots last 10 years when you don't have an incident. You should probably go get a shot to be sure. I stepped on a
nail once. It was in a fallen fenceboard.
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When I was about 5 or so I stepped on a cactus one Wednesday evening before we were supposed to go to church. I was
hoping this would get me out of going (yes, even at such a young age). But my parents wouldn't let something as
insignificant as a bleeding foot with cactus needles sticking out of it get in the way of being in the house of the
lord. besides, it was probably satan anyway
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Hi Rob, now you kinda know how it feels to be me.
Love, Jesus
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tetanus requires rusty iron and manure, typically horse. That nail isn't rusty and if you don't have pets that use the
yard then the odds of tetanus are pretty low. Just go with typical antibiotic ointment and you'll be fine.
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When I was about 7 I was fishing with my father and brother and when I went back to cast I somehow caught my brother
through the ear (treble hook). The bad part is that I thought I was caught in a tree and proceeded to yank and yank the
line while wondering why my brother was screaming so much. I don't think he ever forgave me.
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How about that catepillar stuck in the groove near the nail, did it make it out okay?
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I stepped on a snail once. It didn't hurt at all.
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I stepped on a golf tee once that was in my brother's pocket of some shorts lying on the laundry room floor. I still
have a great scar, and since it was wood, assumed I didn't need a tetanus shot. I also vote for the Gangrene Camera.
Great idea.
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I once put a thumbtack on my moms dinner chair before she sat down. I saw it on a cartoon and thought it would be
funny. I thought what a hoot it would be to see her fly up into the ceiling with a loud "Yeeeoowwwp!" Luckily she
spotted it before sitting down for dinner.
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What's a nail?
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Stepping on legos hurts just as much as stepping on nails. I used to be a messy child...
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In 5th grade I stabbed a bully in the back of the neck with a #2 pencil after he had pissed me off too much. After
that, we were friendly. Good times, good times.
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I nailed on a step once.
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I stepped on a nail. I went and got a shot and I would dafinetly say by the next day, it was worse than the nail wound.
I was wearing shoes that were only about 2 weeks old.. .that bugged me too.
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When will the nail be up on ebay?
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You should've left it in - iron is good for you.
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When I was 10 I was walking through the local YMCA in sandals when someone opened a door in front of me. It slid right
over my big toenail, and when it closed...off went the toenail. I'm much better now.
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Pac Man!
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Hi Rob, now you kinda know how it feels to be me. Love, Jesus
that comment made me shoot pink lemonade out of my nose. that was painful.
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I fell backwards off a beanbag aged 10 and in reaching for the table behind me, landed my hand on a cactus instead. My
dear father tried to vacuum out the spines.
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The memory of gazing, mesermised, into a running car engine and wondering what would happen if I touched the interesting
belt that was going round very fast has stayed with me very clearly since the age of 7. My mind goes blank after that.
I'm told I lost a fingernail.
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Yeah, I stepped on a nail once... playing in a construction site. I saw a board with nails sticking up, so I turned it
over and stomped on it to pound the nail into the ground. Surprise! There was ANOTHER nail in the other side. So the
board was attached to my foot through my shoe... gushed all kinds of blood when I pulled it off. Ah the golden days of
youth.
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I nailed a gal, and she didn't need a tetanus shot. She got one anyway. :(
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i never stepped "on" a nail, but i did drag my ENTIRE NAKED FOOT across a carpet tack. i had 7-8 v-shaped rips along
the bottom. *shudders*
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I once burned my tongue on some hot chocolate. It hurt a lot, but no nail was found either in the chocolate, my tongue,
or my shoe.
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I've stepped on a nail enough times to have many "I stepped on a nail" stories, but once I stepped on a two-inch long
shard of glass. It didn't come through the top of my foot, but did start swearing like a wounded pirate. Pulled it
out, it made that scary movie-style glass-coming-out-of-skin noise.
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I was searching for lost treasure in Florida one time, and a big ol' blue-coloured crab scared me. I jumped backwards
and sliced the bottom of my foot open on an open clam shell. The gash was about 3 inches long. I never found the
treasure and we had to move into a trailer park. I hate the Goonies.
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why does a box of 10 penny nails cost 2.40?
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i was so drunk that I nailed myself.
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My dad once stepped on glass getting the newspaper
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When I was a kid my next door neighbor (another kid) was playing with a board of wood that had a big nail sticking out
of it. He accidentally stepped on it and the nail went through his boot into his foot. When he lifted his foot up, the
board was firmly attached.
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I stepped on a jack once, you know the toy, jacks with a bouncy ball. That sucked.
The worst was though; I casually slipped on the gravel in the driveway, landed gracefully down on one knee, tore my
pants about a tiny half an inch, but I had fileted my knee on the rocks and ended up having 60 stitches around my knee
to sew the skin and muscle back on.
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Would have been funnier if you posted a pic of the face you made when you stepped on the nail, Rob.
I didn't step on a nail, but I did plow my naked big toe into a thick wrought iron banister at full force. I do
believe I crushed it. That was years ago, it's fine now.
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I stapled my thumbs together once when I was six. I don't know how that's possible, but even at six I was a genius in
my own right.
Thank goodness for your tetanus shot. I just got mine again this year. Going to go step on some nails now.
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I got stabbed in the big toe with a toothpick when I was a kid. I didn't even feel it though and I just pulled it out.
I was surprised to find my sock covered in blood when I got home from school later that day.
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Good luck on your fast recovery! I stubbed my
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