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    Some years ago I stepped on a 16 pin DIP with my heel. The pins went in my foot and then bent in all different directions. It was ATTACHED, I had to use pliers. And it took a few minutes to get up the nerve....

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    Quote Originally Posted by wolfblue View Post
    Some years ago I stepped on a 16 pin DIP with my heel. The pins went in my foot and then bent in all different directions. It was ATTACHED, I had to use pliers. And it took a few minutes to get up the nerve....

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    One day a decade or so ago I dug out a 5-6 mm long 1 mm diameter rusted and corroded iron rod from between my right big toe and the next one over, in the pad of the foot, must have been in there since childhood and it finally moved down where it pierced the skin.

    Didn't hurt much, no where as bad as a 16 pin dip, but oh what a suprise.

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    Man, I cannot tell you how many times I have wound up with one of those corkscrew aluminum shavings lodged in my sock- gotta take the shoe off, then figure out what the hell is jabbing me in the foot...
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    One of the bonuses of Diabetes and Neuropathy is that standing on ICs doesn't hurt anymore

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