The Pain of Stubbed Toes

As I was searching for something to “rant” about I thought to myself, what makes me angry? In my previous post you would’ve seen that referees making bad calls really gets my blood boiling, but at last I could not really come to a firm decision on what I truly wanted to write about, and while I was looking at other rants written by my colleagues I saw some very serious topics to which people spoke their outrage about. I have decided to take a step back from the seriousness and rant about one thing, stubbing my toes.

A stubbed toe can happen to everyone, it does not matter how careful you are sooner or later you are going to stub your toe. Although I do not consider myself clumsy, or anything in that nature, I do tend to stub my toes on a regular basis. The pain and frustration I feel when it happens ruins the next 5 minutes of my day. Most of my stubbed toes have occurred in pure daylight, and even though I have walked around my very own house a million times, there is always that one occasion that just makes me think “Did that (table/computer desk/ chair) throw itself in front of my foot at the very last second in order to cause me harm? What did I ever do to you?”

Many people are probably now thinking “Oh Kermit, stubbed toes are no reason to rant, it’s not like they can cause anything more than just a sharp pain for a couple of minutes” you people are wrong! Since I decided to rant about the pain of stubbing toes, I did a little research on the Internet and found that stubbed toes can lead to some very serious injuries, from bleeding to fractures to broken toes, the pain of stubbed toes can become astonishing, mostly because of the fact that the toes have very little tissue to take a hit, thus our skin and bone of our toes takes the majority of the impact.

In overall, the sheer pain, and sometimes bone crushing impact that brings a stubbed toe should not be taken in a joking matter. In the future I hope such things will be taken more seriously, and somebody will design “Stubbing free furniture” where the problem of stubbed toes will become extinct, and therefore not ruin 5 minutes of my day. For now I guess bubble wrapping everything will have to do.

Kermitthefrog@mru saying always beware of moving furniture!