"Challenges you wish you'd never responded to (or issued)?
I feel a bit guilty about this one but here goes ...

A few years ago I was on a residential 3 week rehabilitation course at a well known orthopaedic hospital as a result of breaking a few vertebrae (another story). Also on the same ward were a few patients who had had an arm removed due to something to do with a problem with a nerve (brachioplexus or something?). Apparently the only cure was to lop the arm off and the consultant was an expert at this. People came from miles away to have this done; the subject of my story was from Ireland.

Of course we weren't ill and were allowed to sit out until late at night with a beer or two and set the world to rights, the nurses even let us use their fridge.

Well about 1am one morning a guy with only one arm was cracking on about how he could do anything that a person with two arms could do - and wouldn't let it rest!

I argued and he was having none of it - so I told him I could prove that he couldn't.

He accepted the challenge.

I clapped.

* Winner! *


Bit unkind and sometimes I feel guilty ('ish).


Length - well you need two arms to hold out to measure it.
(lozzzz, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 22:00, Reply)