Having carefully pre-hardened my feet
over a lifetime of never wearing shoes (running around the garden, rockpools on holiday, walking home from school shoeless and even now negotiating as much as possible without footwear)still didn't help me when my three ankle-biters came along in quite quick succession.

As previously mentioned, Lego is painful but their bigger brother the Duplo brick wins by a mile. Especially when you stamp on it as you are running to stop your two year old son emptying the contents of his juice beaker into the video. Matchbox cars really hurt too, especially when they are on their side with both doors open. Even old fashioned building blocks are similarly lethal to an adult foot. Kids feet fit nicely into the little curve on an upturned arch shaped one, but my giant feet are far too big and undainty to avoid the excruciating pain that comes with full throttle contact while attempting to stop said son giving his little sister a Baldrick haircut.

As they get older you have to contend with, Polly Pocket, Wolverine pen lids and drawing pins. I have extracted many of these particular bastards from my feet after a foray into kidspace and every one of them really hurt.

Even now, although i have further hardened my feet considerably, I still spend at least some time each day removing thistle thorns from our recently hacked overgrown garden which not only hurt when they go in but also hurt for a few hours after you have pulled them out, the bastards.

Length - about 9 inches (oh yes, they're big too) but you could sand your table or hammer in a medium sized nail with them.

If i feel like it i will regale you with my back pain saga later on, but even though it makes me look really hard and tough i was also reduced to doing some quite gross things during my period of invalidity so i might decide spare you that one.
(faghag, Sun 1 Aug 2010, 9:58, 1 reply)

If they were three inches longer they'd be a foot...er, wait, er...

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Sun 1 Aug 2010, 16:53, closed)