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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Terytha on 2025-06-15 18:16:37+00:00.

For our anniversary, we decided to spend a week at a beach side cabin by the ocean. It wasn’t the swimming kind of beach due to the severity of the waves, but I at least wanted to dip my toes in so I bought some cheap, barely fitting rubber sandals that I could get wet. Barefoot wasn’t something I wanted to do because I didn’t want to pull shell shards out of my feet.

Anyways we went into the water, splashed around for the two or three seconds it took to go numb in that friggin icy water, then headed back in to take a leisurely romantic stroll by the sea. There was a significant amount of sand in my shoes but I just shrugged it off because its the beach, of course there’s sand.

I guess because my feet were numb and I was having fun I didn’t realize how much wet sand was stuck under the straps. By the time we’d walked the beach end to end, I noticed it was a bit scratchy so I looked down and hey, blood! I’d completely sanded the tops of my feet off. They swelled so bad I couldn’t wear shoes the rest of the day and I was limited to socks or bandages for most of the trip.

TL;DR: Went on a romantic beachside stroll, got too much wet sand in my sandals and sanded the skin off the tops of my feet.