Beware of Falling Objects

I almost lost my toe the other day. I was taking out a pair of kitchen shears to cut up some ham to put in my omelette. I fumbled it and it fell. I did one of those cat-like instinctive jump and spread my feet as far away from the landing zone as possible.

The shears landed pointy-side down and stabbed into the floor and stuck the landing. At first I was amazed that it stuck like that, considering I dropped it from only about 2.5 feet up, but then I though how much that would've hurt if that had landed on my toe. Yes, I cook barefooted, which I might think twice about.