DIY disastersI just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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I've tried it both waysI crunched my toe under the kickstand of my motorbike, bloody stupid thing but done. A few weeks later after I had forgotten all about it my toe starts throbbing. Further inspection revealed a nice red part near the end of the nail on one side. Started digging at it and saw that the nail was cutting into the flesh. Easily sorted says I and did some deft cutting and pulling and eventually pulled the offending bit of nail out. Problem resolved... but was it? was it buggery... the next time it happened I think it held back overnight and while I was asleep thrust deep into my toeflesh. It hurt so bad I didn't want to work on it myself. At the time I was going out with this lovely young thing who's dad was a doctor and mum was a chemist. So the old man does the op on me and the mum gives me a bottle of antibiotics just in case. I watched the whole operation and really all they did was cut up the nail to the nail bed and pull the whole thing out. I think in the hopes that the new nail will grow along the straight and narrow and not be inclined to burrow. The shot of novocaine at the nail bed did stop the pain for a bit (until that wore off, then it throbbed like a big throbbing thing).
Ingrown toenails are a curse on civilization.
L
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