I mean, you could pick it up with your foot without bending down, right?
People really underutilize their toes. I’m anything but flexible, but I use my toes to grab small or squishy stuff like this all the time. I can even open a door with my foot if I’m carrying stuff with both hands while barefoot, though it took a lot of practice and still comes with a chance to fall.
I took 3 weeks of karate and the best thing it did for me was teach me how to high kick. Not with a full leg swing, but a 2-stage kick of knee up first as the foot swings out. Pretty good for kicking up gate latches, pretty good for balance and (slower) precision on less-durable door handles.
Tail + buttcheeks = terrible time wiping
Humans used to have tails and it came off the bone right above the crack in our ass. Some people still sometimes are born with a vestigial tail.
Every time I try to think of a non-sex related one, I just come up with another sex one.
I think car seats would be designed differently then
I just use my feet to pick up stuff in such situations
Also have always used toesies and a flick motion to bring things up to hand level. I have a vivid memory of my abusive mom slapping me hard across the face for me being “too lazy to bend [my] back” to pick up e.g. laundry. Which has only made me more motivated to do this over the past couple decades.
Anyone who’s ever had lower back pain can feel that evolution’s only been selecting for upright walking mechanics for ~4 million years. Whereas our first land-based tetrapod ancestors had horizontal load-bearing spines for ~371 million years!
Kludgy af.
Well then having opposable big toes would make that even easier.
For sure. But wearing shoes would feel like those winter mittens where you trade using hands for being warm
inb4 the car door closes on that tail
I’m already used to being mindful of a tail behind me thanks to having a guide dog. Revolving doors are the worst, especially when someone is behind me and doesn’t account for the dog and keeps pushing the door while I’m struggling to stop them. Car doors, too.
Careful… Big Bill Brown will tie you up in a tree with that tail!
(I Wish that I had Duck Feet)
