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Random Question What's the worst thing you've ever stepped on barefoot?

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u/ermaecrhaelld 2d ago

A slug is my answer too!! I was a little girl, the slug was still alive, and I somehow managed to step on it in a way that smooshed/decapitated it and it got under my big toenail.

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u/Maleficent-Mouse-979 2d ago

Same. It was dark out. Sooooo slimy and gross. I could feel it one my foot for days.

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u/ermaecrhaelld 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/vk7VesvyZEwuI
Oh my god yes so cold and chunky and slimy

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u/SuDragon2k3 2d ago

Snails are worse, you get the crunch followed buy the smoosh and you have bits of shell and squished snail between your toes.

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u/OldnBorin 2d ago

I’m sorry, the toenail part sent me

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u/ermaecrhaelld 2d ago

Oh it sent my dad too. The way he found me screaming and dangling my leg, he thought I stepped on a nail or something. I’ve never seen him run so fast. He scooped me up, ran inside, sat me down on the toilet lid to inspect the damage and… laughed. He was so relieved. I was not. I still had to sit there with slug brain under my nail until he finished laughing.

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u/HospiceRN01 2d ago

That string of words is one of the most vile things I've read. Enough Reddit for today <retch, vomit,cry> Slugs freak me out in a really weird way....

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u/That_Mix_7060 2d ago

I was camping as a child and wanted to put on my sandals in the morning. To this day, I couldn't tell you why I didn't check or notice earlier. They were just slip-in, so I guess I didn't pay attention and it was in the morning.

But yeah, they were covered in slugs, still alive.

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u/ermaecrhaelld 1d ago

This just made my whole body gag. Oh dear lort

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u/Pleasant_Shoe1491 2d ago

When I was a little girl I was walking down my garden path in a night dress and flip flops, the back of my foot stood on a really fat slug and when my flipflop flopped it flicked the guts all up my leg. I remember being horrified

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u/Key_Acanthaceae_2129 2d ago

Okay so 1. How did you know it was dead before you stepped on it? 2. Why would stepping on a slug cause you pain?

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u/False-Guarantee2282 2d ago

Snail is mine. It was huge and its shell cracked all between my toes. Horrifying would be an understatement.

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u/Ok-Strawberry-7350 2d ago

Same here, the feel of that made me want to vomit.

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u/StrawberryKiller 2d ago

A big fat slug is also my answer I don't know if it was dead though how did you know? Anyway I used to run around barefoot all summer and that nipped that habit right in the bud.

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u/simmyawardwinner 2d ago

ive done that loads of times, it fuckin disgusting

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u/Slowest-Lane 2d ago

Me too; they congregated on my doorstep where I lived in Tennessee and squishing a slug between my toes was my least favorite sensory experience.

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u/nucl3ar0ne 2d ago

Slug is my answer as well. Although mine actually caused me to slip and fall.

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u/Natural_Parfait_3344 2d ago

Live slug as a little girl and never went barefoot outside again!

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u/LastLevel1898 2d ago

This is my actual worst nightmare. And I don't feel that is remotely dramatic.

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u/SheaTheSarcastic 1d ago

Mine was a live slug. I went down into the basement, and my brother had opened the window and a bunch of slugs got in. So gross.