I found a drawing pin yesterday, which was a bit of a surprise as I didn’t know I’d lost one.
They say that an elephant’s foot is so sensitive it can tread on a stick without breaking it. This may not be true – I’ve never checked it out in person. However, it may well be true, and it makes a good opening.
Just like an elephant, and despite my age and size, I can still detect a drawing pin underfoot if I tread on it with the front end of my foot in normal walking, and I can normally stop myself putting my full weight on it. After a major spillage of pins last week I had a couple of near misses and went round the floor with a magnet to clear the area.
Well, to be accurate, I thought I’d cleared the area.
The situation when planting your heel on a drawing pin is slightly different to the front of foot scenario.
By the time you realise there’s a pin under your heel you’ve already put your weight on it.
Fortunately Number One Son was on hand to lever it out for me. I’d have been able to get it out without help, but it would probably have hurt more.
The moral of this?
Buy the biggest magnet you can afford.
I stepped barefoot on a wasp once. Indoors. In December.
That can be quite serious. Did it sting you?
My niece once put a shish kebab stick through her foot by stepping on one. I have been nailed by hawthorn stuck through a boot.
I am still wincing as I type. Kebab stick – that’s a whole new level! I’ve never had trouble with hawthorn, which I always regard as fairly harmless – just goes to show you can’t relax with anything.
I can’t say that I’ve ever trodden on a drawing pin but I have had blackthorn and pyracantha thorns in my feet which are probably just as painful. Nice to have No 1 son close by.
When I did something similar with pyracantha it came through the sole of my shoe and was a much more painful exper]ence, though easier to pull out. Moral of that was to wear heavyweight footwear when cutting pyracantha.
Ack! I had to look up drawing pin and when I did (we say thumb tack), off, I felt bad for your heel!
Sorry – I realised they were also thumb tacks but forgot to include the translation. 🙂
Good moral!
🙂
I can see the point of a good magnet. Mrs T has one for her embroidery fall out.
Yes, I can see it being an essential for embroidery. 🙂
Oh dear, ouch!!
Yes, ouch covers it. 🙂