Hi Sally, I was walking home from my friend's house one day, and my stick got firmly lodged in a drain. I was franticly trying to get it out, to no avail. Luckily, a couple was coming out of an opposite house. I called them over, and the woman came. We were both trying to get the stick out of the drain, but we couldn't do it. Her husband came over and he managed to get it out. The end of my cane is a rolling marshmallow tip. It is getting quite small, so I will have to get a new one soon. I was worried though, because if that couple hadn't been there, I wouldn't have been able to get myself home, which fortunately wasn't very far, and I wouldn't have wanted to totally lose my stick down the drain. I now try to be very careful. From Sara