When I was a young lad.. I thought it important to know how to strike ever ready matches with ones toes. Lighting turned out to be easy enough.. dropping the match was a problem sometimes.
When my son was little, his pre-K class had a speech therapist who came in a couple of times a week. One thing about her was that she had a devastating accident as a child and had no arms, but wrote using her foot. The day before she came in for the first time, the teachers told all these little kids about her, so they wouldn’t be too surprised, then had all of them take off their shoes and socks and try to hold pencils and write with their feet. Apparently it was a hoot.
The next day the new speech therapist arrived, and not one kid thought anything about her missing arms — they just wanted to see how she wrote using her foot. They were well impressed, and she made a whole classroom of fans that day.
I used to be able to write with a pencil between my toes. I was definitely right-footed. I started out left-handed in first grade, had my little knuckles smacked with a ruler a few times and was forced to write right-handed. I can still right with either hand but generally do so with my right. I can also write both frontwards and backwards with both hands simultaneously. Not that it is very useful, but it is fun to do at parties, receptions, and other places where a great deal of imbibing of spirits is taking place. All the drunks want to try the same parlor trick and watching them is hilarious.
Algolei I about 4 years ago
I did the same thing when I was a kid.
And when I was an adult.
And if I remember it, maybe tomorrow.
whahoppened about 4 years ago
I think it would be a nice personal accomplishment (After you’ve done what you’re supposed to.)
Devils Knight about 4 years ago
Should have had a fourth panel of Toby taking his shoes off
Doctor Toon about 4 years ago
My handwriting has never been very good, but I did try this as a kid too and it wasn’t very impressive
Broke my right wrist over ten years ago and had to write left handed for a while
If I went slow and careful it looked OK, but childlike
Alberta Oil about 4 years ago
When I was a young lad.. I thought it important to know how to strike ever ready matches with ones toes. Lighting turned out to be easy enough.. dropping the match was a problem sometimes.
jfr Premium Member about 4 years ago
Hey, did you sneak into our family reunion, where everyone signed in by foot?
raybarb44 about 4 years ago
That could come in, HANDy, some time…..
listmom about 4 years ago
When my son was little, his pre-K class had a speech therapist who came in a couple of times a week. One thing about her was that she had a devastating accident as a child and had no arms, but wrote using her foot. The day before she came in for the first time, the teachers told all these little kids about her, so they wouldn’t be too surprised, then had all of them take off their shoes and socks and try to hold pencils and write with their feet. Apparently it was a hoot.
The next day the new speech therapist arrived, and not one kid thought anything about her missing arms — they just wanted to see how she wrote using her foot. They were well impressed, and she made a whole classroom of fans that day.
pchemcat about 4 years ago
I used to be able to write with a pencil between my toes. I was definitely right-footed. I started out left-handed in first grade, had my little knuckles smacked with a ruler a few times and was forced to write right-handed. I can still right with either hand but generally do so with my right. I can also write both frontwards and backwards with both hands simultaneously. Not that it is very useful, but it is fun to do at parties, receptions, and other places where a great deal of imbibing of spirits is taking place. All the drunks want to try the same parlor trick and watching them is hilarious.
rgcviper about 4 years ago
I like Eddie’s way of thinking here.
I may have to try some foot-writing, myself, soon …