But, dang, I did not expect it.
My wife and I were leaving our hotel in Santa Cruz this morning. I asked my wife to do the checkout while I helped the bellman/valet with stowing our stuff in our car. Mission accomplished and generously tipped, the valet moved on to another guest while I studied the arrangement in the trunk.
"Looks good," I thought, and promptly shut the deck lid on my right-hand middle finger!
I don't know how it happened. I never do this kind of thing, I am a very cautious person and I always look before I leap. I'm careful, is what I'm saying, but there you go, and there I am with my finger stuck in the trunk.
Obviously, it hurt like he!! and I involuntarily said "Ow! Ow!"
The valet and the other guest looked over at me, curious.
"I've smashed my finger in the trunk! Damn!" My language may have been more colorful.
O.K. Regardless of what they are probably deducing regarding my life skills, one vital step still needs to be taken. Horrible as it may be to contemplate, I have to open the trunk with my other hand and survey the damage. I am imagining bloody, mangled awfulness.
As it turns out, it didn't even break the skin. I'll probably lose the nail but not the arm.
Life is good,
Don
Dude - That was for calling me Roxie!
Stay away from the railroad tracks!
And don't sleep under bridges.......
B-)
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Be sure to hold it high for all to see as you continue on your journey. That may lead to a new post title.....I've never been hurt worse than this.
Mike and Roxie
There when I need them.
I know better than to expect sympathy from the rest of you reprobates.
Don
If the throbbing under the nail gets to be too much:
Pair o' pliers, straightened out paper-clip and a bic lighter.
A glowing red paper-clip can poke right through the nail and relieve the (throbbing) pressure. Sometimes you can even save the nail if you get to it quick enough.
Good insight, Cow.
I could probably be hurt real bad by displaying this injury:-)
Don
> If the throbbing under the nail gets to be too much:
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> Pair o' pliers, straightened out paper-clip and a bic lighter.
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> A glowing red paper-clip can poke right through the nail and relieve the (throbbing) pressure. Sometimes you can even save the nail if you get to it quick enough.
I'm thinking "NO!" Screw the nail.
It'll grow back just like my tail.
Don
WOW - I forgot about the throbbing!
OWWW!:-O
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! o.O :-O :'(
Here ya go...Nurse Angel has a band aid for ya. B-)
Years ago, before I was married, I had a roomate who was a heating/airconditioning mechanic. He was assembling ductwork using a screw gun and sheetmetal screws when he accidenty ran a screw through his thumbnail all the way into the metal. He said it happened so quickly that it didn't have time to hurt UNTIL he realized he had to back the screw out. No permanent damage but his thumb was out of commission for a month or so.
Andy
Personal knowledge of this type of injury
Early last March I blackened a finger nail in a freak situation. Hurt!!! Throbbing!!! Everyone wanting to know how I did it!!!
In early August the nail loosened enough to be removed without too much bleeding.
By Thanksgiving the new nail had finally grown out enough to look normal.
Personal knowledge of this type of injury
The cow side of the barn had dutch doors leading into the milking area. I did the milking, "that barn had 6 or 7 stanchions", I was only milking one cow. Wind was blowing, brought in the cow and opened the door for her, latched the upper part of the door open, stepped in and set the milk bucket down so I could latch the lower part of the door, leaned over to get the bucket while bracing myself on the top of the lower door just like I had always done. Wind worked the upper door loose, my fingers acted as a shock absorber so there was no damage to the door or a frightened cow, but my fingers did not fair so good, still have one bent finger, its been about 60 years now since that act of saving the door. Brother was still milking when I went into the Navy, that was the only side benefit from my finger remodel job.
jud
Personal knowledge of this type of injury
Had a small stock trailer with a slide gate in the back door that pulled up with a rope/pulley. The slide gate consisted of 1x4's about 2 inches apart, laid horizontally. Finally got that obstinate #@**&*##$@# loaded, reached up and slammed down the slide gate. Same effect as your barn door, except I still had to get the slide gate shut instantly because Mr. #@**&*##$@# had turned around and was going to exit directly over top of me. That was 1991. Hurts to think about it still today.
Remember not to lean over the nail at time of puncher because if there is any blood under the nail it will come out at a high rate of speed.
In a former job I had a GMC AWD Safari van with the double doors in the back.
GM is apparently not capable of designing an adequate hold open device which actually will hold the door open.
The left door had a small dent down low caused by my steel toe boot after the damned thing swung shut and hit me in the head. Open the door, lean inside to get some piece of equipment and the door decided to choose that time to swing shut such that the upper corner of the door caught me on the back of the head. String of swear words as my right boot swung and made contact with the outside of the door.
After that job I transferred to a job where the recently retired Senior LS had achieved his dream of a 4WD Quigley Van conversion just a few years before. What a miserable vehicle; I wouldn't wish the "Queen Mary" on anyone, not even my worst enemy. That Senior LS actually told me they bought that thing in 1999 because "crew cab pickups were not available." What? Me and my partner looked at each other, huh?
But I'm not bitter.
Now I have a crew cab 2008 F250 which is downright wonderful compared to those GM POSs.
