Oh, that happens when you come around the corner too fast, cut it a bit too close, and ram your foot -- toes first -- sideways across the corner where the baseboards meet.
Other candidates are squarish table legs, and the lower corners of filing cabinets, book Cass, and other similar furnishings.
The odd engine block resting on the floor in the garage will do in a pinch.
Done properly the lateral momentum focused at the corner's edge is sufficient to deform one or more toes sideways to the failure point of the underlying skeletal structure. While this impact, alone, will not likely result in severance of the digit, the likelihood of complete severance increases proportionally with the sharpness of the impacted corner, and the angle of approach, and the pain will be every bit as severe as if severance had occurred.
Also, it is widely agreed that, unless the injury is to the big toe, recovery from complete severance is actually more rapid, and less painful than recovery from breakage due to this kind of blunt force trauma. Note that advocacy for whatever course of action this may lead you to pursue is expressly disclaimed hereby.
Dragons have very delicate toes. Fortunately, the reptile vet has taken a personal interest in poor Slash, and is undertaking his podiatry for a single flat fee, plus medications.
I found with just a little effort and imagination you can make almost any object work. e.g.
Phone book
Shoe box
Case iron goat in neighbors yard.
Question: When do you use i.e., and when do you use e.g., and what do they mean?
Answer: The Latin abbreviations “i.e.” and “e.g.” come up very frequently in writing and would probably come up more often if people were more sure of when it is right to use “i.e.” and when “e.g.” is required. To me, the only way to figure it out is to know what they stand for.
i.e.
“I.e.” stands simply for “that is,” which written out fully in Latin is ‘id est’. “I.e.” is used in place of “in other words,” or “it/that is.” It specifies or makes more clear.
e.g.
“E.g.” means “for example” and comes from the Latin expression exempli gratia, “for the sake of an example,” with the noun exemplum in the genitive to go with gratia in the ablative . “E.g.” is used in expressions similar to “including,” when you are not intending to list everything that is being discussed.