Worst thing to step on with bare feet:

[undeterred]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. In a different way...

Cold cat vomit.

[kedrys]

3. I was going to say

*warm* cat hork...

[Ptah]

2. City dweller? meh

[Crystal Clarity]

4. Slugs

Their guts squish up between your toes. :puke:

[REP]

28. First thing that came to my mind

Of course, I'm slugaphobic, so they're worse than animal poo or cat barf to step in to me.

[DarkTirade]

5. An armadillo that's been dead long enough to be squishy.

Thankfully when I stepped on that, I had shoes on. Walking home from work at 2ish in the morning. Gods only knew how long it'd been sitting out as roadkill. I could smell it, but I couldn't see it in the dark.

[Roon]

7. I was walking down the street in New Orleans in an industrial areal

and just as I was lighting up a cigarette,the smell of a dead armadillo hit me like a brick wall. Then I saw it too.

Every cigarette after that smelled like dead armadillo,I had to switch brands.

[Redstone]

6. A rake left on the ground with the teeth up. Trust me, I know.

I was only five years old, but I remember what the inside of the bottom of my foot looked like, before the doctor stitched it up.

Redstone

[Roon]

8. I stepped on a rake when I was a little kid

and the handle popped up and hit me square in the face, just like the cartoons. It was a shock, I tell you.

[Brother Buzz]

40. I was wearing shoes, but I did the same thing

My attack rake was leaning against the wall. I stepped up to grab it and it just whacked me. It didn't travel more than two feet, but it hit me so hard and fast on my cheek, I had a shiner the next day.

[sakabatou]

43. Ah yes, Sideshow Bob

[rurallib]

9. probably the squirmiest thread ever on DU

for me ****almost **** a dead bat.

[Avalux]

10. A jack. Several of them.

These horrid things:

[hobbit709]

11. Rattlesnake

[Bucky]

12. a human brain

really any brain matter, but if it was a dude with his skull cracked open, and then you like accidently stepped in it, and like his cerebrum and cortex and shit squished all up between your toes... I'll bet that would really hurt. I mean, hurt the dude more than me, obviously, but I might cut my heel on his jagged skull or something too. Suck city, either way.

[LeftyMom]

13. A d4.

[undeterred]

15. What's that?

D4, D04, D.IV, D IV, D.4 or D-4 may mean:

D4 Creative Group, a full-service advertising agency located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
D4 framing standard, a framing standard for traditional time-division multiplexing
D4 Princess, a 1999 Japanese manga series
D4 (programming language), a programming language of the Dataphor system
D4 video connector, a type of analog video connector found on Japanese consumer electronics
Albatros D.IV, a World War I experimental German fighter aircraft
ATC code D04 Antipruritics, including antihistamines, anesthetics, etc., a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
Auster D.4, a 1960 two-seat British light aircraft
Bavarian D IV, a 1878 German tank locomotive model
Bavarian D IV (Ostbahn), a 1867 German steam locomotive model
Caterpillar D4 a Small crawler type tractor built by Caterpillar Inc.
Dewoitine D.4, a Dewoitine aircraft
Dopamine receptor D4, a human gene
Dunne D.4, a 1907 British experimental aircraft
Fokker D.IV, a World War I German fighter biplane
GSWRI Class D4, a Great Southern and Western Railway Irish steam locomotive
HMAS Voyager (D04), a 1949 Daring class Australian Navy destroyer
LFG Roland D.VI, an aircraft powered by the German Mercedes D.III engine
Mercedes D.IV, a World War I German 8-cylinder, liquid cooled inline aircraft engine
Mercedes D.IVa, a 1917 German 6-cylinder, water cooled, inline aircraft engine
Motorway D4 (Slovakia), a motorway in southwestern Slovakia
Phönix D.IV, a KuKLFT D-class designation aircraft
PRR D4, a 1873 American steam locomotive model
Schütte-Lanz D.IV, a 1917 German fighter prototype aircraft
Siemens-Schuckert D.IV, a 1918 German fighter aircraft
SP&S Class D-4, a steam locomotives class
The D4, a rock band from Auckland, New Zealand
Also:

Dillinger Four, a punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Driver: Parallel Lines, the fourth videogame in the Driver series
Dublin 4, a Dublin postcode
d4, a 4-sided die
1. d4, the second most popular opening move in chess and begins the Queen's Pawn Game
Alidaunia IATA code
A model of tractor made by Caterpillar, Inc.
Discwasher D4+ LP Record Cleaning Fluid
The symmetry group of a square - Examples of groups
D04 : Carcinoma in situ of skin ICD-10 code

[Dr Morbius]

16. A "d4" is a 4-sided die. It is a regular tetrahedron, and really pointy.

And I would guess you never played Dungeons and Dragons.

[nickinSTL]

18. one of these

[Common Sense Party]

45. Aren't those called pyramids?

[nickinSTL]

50. not when they're used as dice

with numbers on each side...then they're called d4s.

And, they're really painful to step on in bare feet, little pointy bits of plastic.

[Richardo]

51. Pyramids have a square base.

[Deep13]

52. Pyramid has a square base. nt

[Orsino]

64. Yes. Nerd caltrops. n/t

[unpossibles]

68. LOL

they work two ways - not only do you not want to step on them, but nerds would stop and take a roll.

[Dr Morbius]

14. Daryl Hannah's eyeball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki42ZSIJjaU

[Mopar151]

17. Porterhouse steak bone

After the dog has chewed it- sharp, nasty,, jagged.....

[Lars39]

19. legos

[undeterred]

20. The child of a friend of mine stuck one up his nose.

Way up. Like go to the ER to get the lego out of your face. That had to hurt.

[Lars39]

22. ouch

Just fishing around up there for anything hurts, but legos are kinda sharp...:(

[Lindsey]

21. Dog poo poo (and I LOVE dogs). n/t

[undeterred]

29. There's nothing like the warm soft love pie made by your new puppy

as it squeezes up between your toes in the morning.

[cherokeeprogressive]

47. Uh uh. CAT shit in the bathroom in the middle of the night when you get up to pee.

Yeah, from experience.

[snooper2]

61. Yep, there is nothing worse, I'd rather step on a rusty nail

and deal with cleaning the wound and remembering how many years it's been since last shot....

[Frosty1]

55. I agree

:cry:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. I have stepped on

a bee


a jellyfish


and almost stepped on a black snake, eek!

[Maine-ah]

24. my 3 year old's wooden blocks...

those fuckers hurt.

[ellaydubya]

25. A yellowjacket

It was my 6th birthday party in my backyard- I am now 50 years older and I,to this day, remember it well.

[raccoon]

53. Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. They are aggressive, and their venom is potent. nt

[Mojambo]

26. Worse than a thumb tack? Hardly. n/t

[Robeson]

27. Snakes.

[blockhead]

30. blew out a flip flop...........

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/59957/59957,1219858135,2/stock-photo-old-soda-pop-top-with-clip-path-16622599.jpg

[Rhythm]

31. One of these... Happened when i was 5, and i have NEVER forgotten

[undeterred]

32. When I was about that age I touched one of these

with a flat palm to see if it was hot. It was.

[Dappleganger]

33. Orange tree branches...

because nothing feels so natural like being pierced by a 3-inch thorn while wearing 1-inch soles.

Ugh.

[old mark]

34. Cold cat vomit. Believe it.....nt

[BreweryYardRat]

49. Ugh, seconded.

I've stepped on electrical cord plugs, d4s, and all sorts of other stuff -- at least the pain wakes you up.

Cold cat vomit provides no such ancillary effect, and you have to wash it off your feet.

[old mark]

56. ...and it puts the cat in jeopardy.....nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

35. From the stumblin', grumblin', mumblin', tumblin' night before...

.
...cold MiddleFingerMom vomit.
.
Believe it.
.

[Lil Missy]

36. kitty barf. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

44. Yup. I was just about to post that.

But I can't decide which is worse: warm cat barf, or room-temperature cat barf.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. Sea urchin.

I sincerely wanted to cut my foot off.

[undeterred]

42. Did you find someone to pee on it for you?

[JCMach1]

74. Tell me about the spines went through my fins which were about the thickness

and toughness of car tires LIKE BUTTER...

Then the lovlies broke off in my foot...

[WinkyDink]

38. From experience: Large piece of jagged glass.

[EndersDame]

39. A used needle discarded in the street?

[csziggy]

41. Asphalt paving on a Florida July day with full sun

If you haven't worked up to it, you WILL have blisters on the sole of your feet.

We used to 'train' up to that since we went barefoot most of the summer when I was a kid. Asphalt roadways and sand spurs were the biggest hazards. Here is a sandspur:


But they don't just come in one little stalk - they come in large patches with hundreds of stalks of the insidious things. And the points break off in soft skin and fester.

So we worked at toughening our feet to take those things. When we could walk on hot asphalt, we were ready for sandspurs. The trick was to curl up the toes so the sandspurs did not find the soft uncalloused areas.

[madmom]

46. The business end of a pierced ear-ring lost in the carpet by young daughter.

[AllenVanAllen]

48. One of these.

One of the dangers of working barefoot.

[Dogtown]

54. Punji stakes.

Oh. And land-mines.

[HopeHoops]

57. Fresh cat barf

[Common Sense Party]

63. Or already cooled cat barf.

Both are yucky. (I'm getting the gag reflex just thinking about it.)

[JCMach1]

73. Cat Scat is the worse

[Heidi]

58. Spit.

:shudder:

[charlie and algernon]

59. I stepped on a nail while wearing Shoes

went through the shoe and into my foot, hurt like hell for weeks. I couldn't imagine how much worse it would have been had I not been wearing shoes.

[bikebloke]

60. Sea urchin

Then you can't pull the spikes out. You just have to suffer and wait for then to dissolve.

When I worked barefoot in the Negev Desert (I was poor and was saving my shoes), I was always getting foot wounds. Aubergine stems are nasty on the feet.

[BarbaRosa]

62. Goat head

Dogs and cats love to bring them inside.

[Arkansas Granny]

65. The two worst things that I have personally stepped on barefooted are

these


and these


It's almost impossible to get the slime cleaned off your foot.

[Blue-Jay]

66. Dogshit.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

67. Puncture Vine

It's horrible here.

It's bad enough when you step on it but I have reactions to it. It itches for hours after I pull it out and the one time I spent an afternoon pulling it from my dad's yard I had so many pricks in my hand I thought I was doing a porn shoot.

j/k

Seriously though even gloves won't help you. I was so sick that night my dad almost took me to the hospital.



Evil, evil stuff. Daddy calls it Devil Weed.

[MiddleFingerMom]

70. Where are the DUZY's when you need 'em? n/t

[unpossibles]

69. thumbtacks hurt quite a bit

but I would say they are the worst thing. A poisonous sea-critter would be worse.

[dugaresa]

71. jacks! they hurt like hell! second runner up are small sharp Legos!

<>

I stepped on a jack and had it break off a piece in my foot. a blunt edged object piercing your skin is never pleasant and then having it break in your foot is the "next best" experience.

Legos are annoying and hurt but never had one embed itself in my foot yet.

[LibDemAlways]

72. When my daughter was little I stepped on one of her

Barbie doll's shoes. The spiky heel pierced the bottom of my foot. A memorably painful experience.