Also have always used toesies and a flick motion to bring things up to hand level. I have a vivid memory of my abusive mom slapping me hard across the face for me being “too lazy to bend [my] back” to pick up e.g. laundry. Which has only made me more motivated to do this over the past couple decades.
Anyone who’s ever had lower back pain can feel that evolution’s only been selecting for upright walking mechanics for ~4 million years. Whereas our first land-based tetrapod ancestors had horizontal load-bearing spines for ~371 million years!
I think car seats would be designed differently then
I just use my feet to pick up stuff in such situations
Well then having opposable big toes would make that even easier.
For sure. But wearing shoes would feel like those winter mittens where you trade using hands for being warm
Also have always used toesies and a flick motion to bring things up to hand level. I have a vivid memory of my abusive mom slapping me hard across the face for me being “too lazy to bend [my] back” to pick up e.g. laundry. Which has only made me more motivated to do this over the past couple decades.
Anyone who’s ever had lower back pain can feel that evolution’s only been selecting for upright walking mechanics for ~4 million years. Whereas our first land-based tetrapod ancestors had horizontal load-bearing spines for ~371 million years!
Kludgy af.