Spent the weekend killing Goathead sticker patches...

[texas1928]

to keep them from getting started in our yard.

You should stick one of those in your hand. MY GOD DOES IT HURT!!!!

[djeseru]

1. I feel your pain.

Literally. My grandmother had a yard-full of those things when I was very young. So what did I do but fall face-first, palms-outward, to catch as many of them on bare skin as I could. *sigh* And then they sting and itch after you pull 'em out. x(

I use them in my collages to define anger and hatred. Hmmmm....

[texas1928]

2. We used to ahve to practise football in a field of those.

It was SOOOOOOOO much fun getting tackled into them.

And when I was a kid I had a Great aunt that did not have indoor plumbing still. If you got up in the middle of the night, you wore shoes. It was a must. If you did not, well let's just say I hope you have good muscle control.

They teach you how to curse at an early age.

[djeseru]

3. Yes, and shoes in the house too.

Because by mid-summer those little s.o.b.'s would be worked into all in the carpets...when I moved in with my grandmother I spent days personally "de-stickering" the rugs.

Yep, between my father and these delights, cursing became my second language.

Ah, the memories...

[nutsnberries]

4. does it hurt?

TAG, now you're it!


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[texas1928]

8. YES IT HURTS!!!!!

They hurt like mad. And when you pull them out they leave a little piece behind that festers and gets infected.

[UCLA02]

5. Gawd, I hate those fuckin' things!

Grew up changing many a bike tire tube from riding over the fuckers.

Thanks for a not-so-fun memory, but a memory of childhood, nonetheless...

Good luck in having gotten rid of them all!

[texas1928]

9. Yep Childhood was fun.

Hey Goatheads build character.

[Elidor]

6. Seems ingeniously designed

To cause as much pain and suffering as possible. It looks like the inspiration for the design of caltrops.

[texas1928]

11. Pretty close to them.

but that bottom point is evil when it sticks into you. It is murder trying to dig that one out.

[rustydog]

7. Since we moved to Western Washington State,

I haven't seen or flattened a bike tire on a goathead!
Gawd they are prolific in Eastern Washington.

[texas1928]

10. They are all over here.

and in Texas if it don't bite, sting, poke, stab, or otherwise cause pain it is not a native plant.