Of course, I guess I am also weedwacker challenged too. Happily I was wearing my tennis shoes (it was really hot, around 105, so I wanted to wear my flip flops but at the last minute I decided it would be safer to wear my tennis shoes). And you know what, when the neighbor's dog all of a sudden runs across the yard at you and you jump and the string hits your shoe, it rips a nice big hole in them! Believe me, I realized right away that if I had my flip flops on my toe would have been on the ground! That was a lucky day! I also broke my sun shades with the weedwacker, but I guess that's what kept the rock out of my eye.