This morning's commute and other commuting stories

stepped on a slug once with bare feet. gross.

:edit: i had bare feet, not the slug. although i guess the slug also had a bare foot.

I heard stepping on an upturned UK plug is even worse.

Worse than child birth is what I've heard. Though having neither children, nor a womb, I cannot confirm.

i had bare feet, not the slug.

Ha rep

The clever safety features more than outweigh possible hobbling IMO.

I have both stood on an upturned plug and electrocuted myself so, for once, I can talk from experience :-)

for once, I can talk from experience :-)

That's a shock. etc etc

bare foot

Love it :-)
Tried to explain to my daughter that snails/slugs eat with their feet yesterday. We had a go at eating with ours, which was pretty fun.

Ohm my god, you went there

I'm not sure I want to step on a plug to find out if this statement is true for a sample of one :)

Eeew ....!

I was thinking of slug touching this morning, unexpected slug to skin contact is very eek. Fair play to the birds that dare eat them.

I was thinking of slug touching this morning

worrying...

Nobody wants to. Still the sun sets in the west, the tides come in and out and people still step on plugs. C'est la vie

I've never understood why people find slugs and snails gross. Snails you can pick up by their shell without touching their body (they'll probably retract into the shell, anyway), and while slugs are a little harder to pick up, they're just slightly slimy and you wash your hands (after relocating them, for instance). Obviously, stepping on one by accident is terrible.

When we were kids, we used to have a path near our house that after rain was always full of snails (the really beautiful large ones, Helix pomatia, the Internet tells me) and we used to take them off the path so they wouldn't get stepped on. Needless to say, they were back pretty quickly (for snails). Sadly, they don't occur near that path any more--there's a different, smaller kind of snail now. No idea if they out-competed the large ones.

I've never understood why people find plugs and sockets gross.

No, wait ...

My daughter spent a reasonable amount of time stacking snails up in our garden the other day. I was horrified at how many snails she'd been able to locate in the garden, but the little, slowly moving teetering tower of them (stacked in height order, from largest at the bottom to smallest at the top - good innate sense of engineering there) was hilarious.

I don't mind slugs or snails, I quite like watching snails when they come out. And I avoid stepping on them/move them out of the way as well.

But touching one when you can't anticipate is just...weird.

Was very gastropoda-like this morning, but there was a lot of wind.

just to clarify, the slug squishing incident i shared earlier was purely accidental.

to add to the grossness, the incident occurred indoors in a ground floor student bedroom, in the middle of the night, after consumption of alcohol, and i didn't know it had happened until the next morning.

Uurgh does that mean there was liquefied slug all on your feet which you then transported into your bed??!

The slug was drunk?

How do you not know??

Daughter likes to collect snails and attach them to her arm. Slugs can do one - especially away from our veggies.

The slug was drunk?

we'd been out on the lash together (just as friends), that's what made the whole thing so traumatic

Uurgh does that mean there was liquefied slug all on your feet which you then transported into your bed??!

nah, it had gone crusty by the morning so i just picked it off, a bit like picking a scab.
went lovely with a cuppa

I've managed to avoid upturned UK plugs.

Lego 2x2 blocks on the other hand...

Lol at the guy on a motorbike pulling in to the asl box to tell off a cabbie for being there