Recycling is supposed to be good, yeah?
not for me it isn't.

A while back, when our kerbside recycling service was still new, I was still washing out tins. Thoroughly. Now they get a quick rinse and bunged in the box.

So there I was, at the sink, cleaning the tin from which had flowed the delicious baked beans that would have us all farting good-style later. I glanced down, and noted that a single, solitary bean had remained stuck in the bottom of the tin. Without thinking, I stuck my hand in to dislodge it.

The inside rim of the tin was a little bit sharp. Well, actually, it was razor-sharp. I sliced my hand open right down the outside, about three layers deep. It bled heavily. So I'm stood at the sink, attempting to stem the flow with kitchen paper, and the phone rings.

My daughter answers it and wanders into the kitchen with the words "It's Dad for you". As she tried to hand over the phone, which I was in no position to accept, she glanced at the sink. The sink had a thin layer of my blood coating it. She gave a little shriek and announced to her Dad that "Mum's bleeding all over the kitchen".

I told her that I'd call him back and she hung up. Ten minutes later, MrWitch comes charging into the house, half expecting to find his beloved wife bleeding to death. (Or expecting me to have already bled to death and trying to recall exactly where the life insurance policies were kept!) To find that I'd succeeded in stopping the blood flow and had covered the wound with a plaster. We had a little chat with our daughter about exaggerating.

Every time I curled my hand up for the next couple of days it seeped a little blood and hurt like hell. I had a scar for months and the recycling never got washed quite that thoroughly again.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 7 Aug 2008, 18:51, 1 reply)

*winces*
I've cut myself on tins before and it hurts like hell!

Also my hair goes curly in the rain and it's annoying as my hair isn't long enough to properly curl so it just sticks out at random angles :(
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:02, closed)