AFTER GOING ALL SUMMER gardening while wearing Tevas or going barefoot, I've got thick calluses on my feet. Going to using a standing desk for just about everything must be a contributing factor. I was told that especially for a geezer like me it's a good idea to gradually get rid of them so, naturally, I looked on Youtube to see if how it's safely done at home without paying a podiatrist to do it.
Well, I typed in "removing calluses safely" and found the world of Youtube callus, corn and plantar wart removal videos. There must be at least hundreds of them if not thousands. Some Youtube channels seem to be nothing much else than these things. While being relieved that my feet which I thought were in pretty bad condition, were as nothing compared to what is shown. I've always kept my toe nails trimmed and, to the extent a gardener can, clean but the horrors exposed on the videos makes mine look like the model of Venus on the half-shell's may have looked like in real life.
A lot of these channels are owned by podiatrists and they present the harrowing movies of nightmare corn removals as providing some kind of satisfaction. I think it's like when I found that there were many videos of Indian head massages that seemed to have something of a cult following, which I found kind of weird, but corn removal? And that led me to see in the sidebar there is apparently a related obsession with watching blackheads being removed I mean, how many of these things can you watch?
I wonder if there is some urge behind these odd obsessions that is related to the people who go on comment threads all day, every day, on Twitter or other social media for hours a day. To refer to yesterday's post. I'm going to have to limit my viewing with Youtube, who knows what kind of obsession could be developing from watching such things. For now, I think I've had enough of my brief and unsuspecting exposure to what I guess is a form of pedophilia Or at least a morbid fascination with something I just don't get at all.
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