... and I was wearing shoes. LOL! I work in an a business environment so it's 'business 'casual', which means no jeans or tee-shirts and of course shoes. I usually wear comfy shoes - dressy sandals or flats. Today I wore dressy opened-toe shoes and as I was leaving a meeting a gentlemen in front of me backed up a little and in doing so his heel came back over my big toe and bent the nail back. I actually heard a little 'snap!'. When I looked down the nail was cracked and it instantly started bleeding. Hurt right when it happened but is just a little sore now - no big deal. I thought it was funny that one of the few times I hurt my foot I was wearing shoes!
A friend of mine also injured his foot at work, and it was actually caused by the "safety" shoes he was wearing. He cut the top of his big toe on the steel insert, and because of the lethal bacteria that thrive inside shoes he quickly developed blood poisoning and had to go into hospital and spend three days on intravenous antibiotics. And he tells me its dangerous to go barefoot!
That probably wouldn't have happened to you if the guy were barefoot! I could imagine a shoe being able to pry a toenail back. The feedback of a bare foot being scratched by a toenail, though, would have alerted the guy to step away from your toes! Or at the very least, he wouldn't have been able to pry it back without wearing shoes. Shoes suck! I could imagine what the guy with sepsis from his steel toe boots thought... he probably has the erroneous belief that you can easily get cut if you walk barefoot, so what happened to him could more easily happen to someone going barefoot. He doesn't know, however, of our experience with going barefoot and not catching sepsis!
