Halftime Hope Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 You've been warned. :sad: This afternoon, I saw a sprinkler head center still popped up, so when I ran the sprinkler tonight, I went outside to check it, a bit after dark. When I got near the the front door, I knew there would be water on the driveway, so I took off my socks and stepped out onto the coir doormat just outside the door. As I stepped through the door and down several inches, I stepped on something squishy that squeaked. I jumped out the door and through the sprinkler spray, looking back at what appeared to be a frog about three inches long. I went out to the front lawn rubbed my foot off on the wet grass, tried in vain to activate the motion sensor light and then finally braved going back through the door to turn on the porch light. Whatever was there was gone, but there was frog sitting behind the wide open glass storm door. Gahhhh! Why do these things happen to me? What are the odds? I've washed my feet several times and they still feel dirty. Worse yet, I'm afraid I'll find a dead frog behind the door in the morning. :bored: Poor frog: why did he think my coir mat was a desirable place to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Yuck. I stepped barefoot on squirrel entrails left by the neighbor's cat a few days ago. :gag: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I was thinking about squished frogs and toads earlier while walking through the yard. One of my dd stepped on one accidentally, good and hard, when she was about 8. Ugh. Really gross. It was big too. And on the paved driveway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plink Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I stepped on a partial deer leg today. Luckily, I was wearing shoes . Barefoot frog squish must be an awful sensation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halftime Hope Posted June 8, 2014 Author Share Posted June 8, 2014 Thanks for the commiseration, ladies. It's official, there was a frog removal this morning. Poor frog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowing Brook Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Now you just have to be on the look out for warts. :001_tt2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I'm so sorry!!! Gak!!!!!!! :grouphug: :grouphug: Hugging you, but only gingerly, because, you know, well, you squashed a frog in your BARE feet. ::shudder:: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingiguana Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I stepped barefoot on a decomposed mouse. There was a lively population of maggots. My husband, rather than commiserating, ran to get the camera. I guess he always wanted a good picture of maggots on a corpse. Thanks to him, I also stepped on some kind of dead fish (catfish?) that was about a foot long. It had died in one of his tanks and he had (thankfully) decided not to flush it down the toilet. He'd dumped it in the yard instead. To "decompose". Problem is, it had some kind of horny skin that was not going to break down any time soon. I hurt my foot on that one. He didn't flush it because he'd learned his lesson when he tried to flush a rather large, somewhat rotten tomato. We didn't have a garbage disposal at the time, and somehow he thought this would be a better choice. As a result, we now own a plunger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeacherZee Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I once stepped on a wet dead baby rabbit the dog had carried inside. I still shudder when I think about it. But the frog sounds worse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 We always get out of bed carefully because if our cat catches a mouse while we're sleeping, she shoves its little corpse under our bedroom door. I guess she assumes we want it. We do not. I did step on a slug once, and it squirted and oozed rather extravagantly, but i was, at least, wearing shoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 EEEEWWW to the whole lot of you! Gross!! I go out of my way to avoid stepping on worms, so something like that would put me over the edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I've stepped on a frog barefoot too. .as well as a slug.. both are gross and I'm not sure which was worse. I used to own a pool. The stuff I had to pull out of the returns, after falling in and spending the better part of winter slowly bloating and rotting, will make your stomach curl. Fun stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiMi 4under3 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Oh poor frog!!! :D DS has severeal frogs/toads as pets. We love them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Yikes. I often take my dog out late at night for a last potty before bed. I guess I will make sure I am wearing shoes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingiguana Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I did step on a slug once, and it squirted and oozed rather extravagantly, but i was, at least, wearing shoes. Oooo, you're lucky you had shoes. Slugs are the worst if you're barefoot. Their slime takes forever to come off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoseInABook Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Uuugh, I feel for you. I've stepped on frogs and toads barefoot. So unpleasant. Those huge banana slugs are the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Last week my teen daughter stepped on a full tick that had fallen off our dog. She was barefoot. Shudder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaNYC Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Ugh you poor country folk. Actually we had a summer house in the country for many years and I will NEVER forget the barefoot slug squish I experienced one wet night. I still skeeve whenever I think if it. And I did a barefoot frog squish once when I was about 4 as I chased a frog all around my country backyard - he stopped, I didn't. That was bad. I remember getting my foot hosed off. :ack2: :ack2: :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I chased a frog all around my country backyard - he stopped, I didn't. That was bad. :ack2: :ack2: :ack2: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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