Don't you hate when your flipflops hit the concrete, slide back and let your toe get ripped open

[JVS]

[evlbstrd]

1. I don't wear flipflops.

But my daughter has threatened to buy me steel-toed socks. I've broken three different toes.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Yes

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. What's worse is when you play basketball in flipflops on a blacktop.

I never wore flipflops after that. My feet were horribly blistered, and I could barely walk for several days. :(

[petronius]

4. It's not as good as when your foot slides under the edge of a couch

and your toenail folds back until it tears off, but it's pretty good. That rush of agonizing pain makes you feel alive...

[JVS]

5. are you making fun of my accident this summer when I ripped off my toenail?

[petronius]

7. Yes - your pain makes me giggle uncontrollably (nt)

[JVS]

8. doh!

[ghostsofgiants]

6. "Don't you hate flipflops?"

Fixed.

[idgiehkt]

11. I do

I don't like thongs, whether phalangeal or buttock-al.

I was counting at school the other day just how many girls in my class were wearing them. I don't know how they stand it.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Lots of guys wear them as well.

Such as my roommates.

[Blue_Roses]

9. hmmm...

haven't had that happen yet...

[idgiehkt]

10. or when you blow out your flipflop by stepping on a pop-top

and you hurt your heel and have to limp on back home. On the other hand, if there is booze in the blender, which soon will render, that frozen concoction...I forgot the rest. :shrug:

[Critters2]

12. I love sandals (ask me about my Okabashis!),

but can't wear the ones with that thing between your toes. I just find them painful.

Oh, and here's an example of how easily I'm distracted...I was watching footage from Burma, of the streets after the crowds were attacked by troops and had left their sandals in the street. And all I could think was, "They all wear flipflops. That's gotta hurt when you're dodging bullets. Flipflops...huh."

Call 'em thongs, call 'em flip-flops, I can't wear 'em.

[alphafemale]

15. I noticed all those sandals left in the street too.

But my thought was that you can run faster barefoot than with those damn things flapping on your feet.

[Kali]

14. I hate when you have to hike up or worse down some kind of rocky,

sticker-infested hill in 'em because you are a barefoot fiend and those are about all your feet can tolerate in terms of coverage, yet you just HAD to go see whatever it was that caused you to be hiking around in flip flops when you should have at least put on your teva-knock-offs.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. If your toe got ripped open ...

then you were walking way too fast.

FlipFlops are for casual, easy walking, all the time in the world, "that magic feeling - nowhere to go".

"A" types, go-getters, time's-a-wastin' folks should put something a little more substantial on their feet.

FlipFlops are great. If they made thermal flipflops, I'd wear them all year.

:hi:

[JVS]

18. Or I didn't see the 1.5 inch rise between pieces of concrete

[Debbi801]

17. Yupp. That is why these are the only flip flops I'l wear....

They have a toe guard in the front. :)

[Felix Mala]

19. I did that on vacation one time.

At a gas station. A half inch pipe sticking a half inch out of the concrete parking area. My flip flop caught it. Only tore my toenail half way off... Had to suffer through getting the rest off and the thing bled and throbbed the entire vacation. Thanfully it wasn't a beach vacation. I stayed out of the pool, though. Should've sued the gas station.