This is just one of those things that makes you feel so stupid afterward. I was unloading the bench press and I was putting a 35lb plate back on THE LOWEST RACK like it’s maybe a foot off the ground and it just slipped out of my hand and landed directly on my pinky toe. 35lbs straight on my goddamn pinky toe. I held in my cries of pain and hobbled over to sit down. It just kept getting worse and worse. Boyfriend wanted to wait a few mins to see how the pain progressed and I decided I needed to get the fuck out of the goddamn YMCA as I started sweating profusely and shaking. You’d think that because it’s such a tiny part of your body that it couldn’t cause that much pain but I have a new respect for my pinky toe’s feelings.

I tell my boyfriend I need to leave immediately and he tries to get me out but I can’t put any weight on it. He ends up going to get a fucking YMCA wheelchair and a staff member to get me out. I was almost positive at this point that my toe was broken. It had to be. What else could possibly cause that much pain?

Then, as the staff member is wheeling me out, she tries to wheel me over a curb and the wheelchair goes tipping forward and as a natural reaction I stick my foot out to brace myself. THE WORST PAIN goes shooting through my body as this staff member profusely apologizes and I just can’t even say anything to her. Then they make me sit there and fill out an incident report.

I went to urgent care and it turns out my pinky toe was not fucking broken. I was almost positive. I had no clue something could hurt that much without being broken. Now I’ve been banned from work for 72 hours. Fuck me, man.

TL;DR: I dropped a 35lb plate on my foot and now have a new respect for how much a toe can hurt without actually being broken. Use extreme care with your weights, y’all.