Glass bowls hurt a lot
A few years ago me and my family where enjoying a film and such - as families tend to - it was around christmas time so a lot of my family where around (I have a lot of siblings) and we had emptied 4 big bags of popcorn into a glass bowl. To cut a long story short (no pun intended) one of my brothers managed to knock the bowl onto the floor - where it smashed - and a large part of it bounced across my foot. I felt a bit of pain - but because the glass was so damn sharp it took a good few seconds for me to look down and notice the carpet around my foot pooled with blood and a 2 inch slice spurting blood like a broken pipe. I'm not at all squemish around blood and such - (I'm often the one who winds up clearing up after incontinent pets or the occasional savaged rodent my cat drags in) - so I can only assume that it was the loss of blood that made my vision fade and nearly pass out. Fortunately I got some stuff on it in time - and the doctor sewed it up. Still slightly annoyed that my parents where more upset about having to replace the carpet than the mortal wound inflicted on my poor foot!
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 17:33, Reply)