Now, here's a question

No. The shell is present from the snail’s early development, is attached to the snail, and grows along with the snail in a spiral shape. A snail can’t crawl out of its shell any easier than you can walk away from your fingernails. The very center coil of a shell is where it began in life, and as the snail grows, the shell grows around and around that center in a spiral form.

I nearly walked away from my toe nails yesterday.....and my toes!

While cutting the grass, I was leaning over to move some over-hanging shrubs so that I could mow under them. The mower tipped up and dropped onto my foot

It chopped the toe off my gardening shoe but, apart from receiving a severe battering from the rotary blade, my big toe was thankfully intact.

Just goes to show, despite all the flak you get on here Ian, you're not too big for your boots! 

So that's why a snail has a shell ,to protect it from lawn mowers

P.S, Ian ,do you have driving shoes?????

ort string back driving gloves even?

No. The shell is present from the snail’s early development, is attached to the snail, and grows along with the snail in a spiral shape. A snail can’t crawl out of its shell any easier than you can walk away from your fingernails. The very center coil of a shell is where it began in life, and as the snail grows, the shell grows around and around that center in a spiral form.

I nearly walked away from my toe nails yesterday.....and my toes!

While cutting the grass, I was leaning over to move some over-hanging shrubs so that I could mow under them. The mower tipped up and dropped onto my foot

It chopped the toe off my gardening shoe but, apart from receiving a severe battering from the rotary blade, my big toe was thankfully intact.

glad to hear your extremities are intact and still fully functional, but it would be remiss of me to not mention you have gardening shoes? An actual pair of shoes that you put on just for gardening? Respect!

Well, I was perhaps being a little generous in describing them as such. They are actually an old pair of shoes that I leave by the back door and put on when I go out in the garden.

I've got some gardening gloves as well

When I venture in the garden (not often!) with power tools, I always use my old work boots, the ones with the steel toecaps.  I value my toes!

I took the tip off a trainer once but fortunately it missed my toes.

I took the tip off a trainer once but fortunately it missed my toes.

you wear trainers? 

Not for the purpose of training, you understand.

ah, that's ok then

My son gave me a pair of trainers he had bought in USA, quite an expensive pair, he had got confused with the American sizes, and found they were equivalent to UK 7s rather than the 8 he needs.

I used them when going to my cardiac rehab classes and found them very comfortable, so now I wear them when out walking when we go away.