Scars with historyYou've all got scars: they're nature's little reminders not to be so damned stupid next time. My favourite is the 1/4" round hole in the back of my right hand, created when I was 7 by my best friend putting a manure-covered gardening fork "away".
Tell us the stories behind your scars. With photos if possible.
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chthonic, Fri 4 Feb 2005, 10:00)
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Electric cheese grater mishapI have a small series of slashes on my right index fingertip. You can barely see them, but they show up on my fingerprint and my finger feels funny when I swim.
Over ten years ago I had to work in an Italian restaurant kitchen for a work experience program. Once they had me grating big blocks of parmesan cheese in a giant electric cheese grater.
Anyway, curiousity got the best of me and I put my finger in. After a while, I got my fingernail chipped a little by the spinning serrated blade. It didn't seem sharp enough to cut skin (and it sure wasn't grating the cheese well), so I got a little more brazen. Then I got my finger stuck between the spinning blade and the inside wall of the grater facing it, and it did some damage. When I got my finger out it was a slashed mess. They bandaged it like mad and put one of those workplace condoms over it. Everyone got a break and they sat around and discussed how this would affect my masturbation regime.
A few weeks later, my bandaged finger stopped a goal in a football match. The ref saw it and ruled it was a legal play because I was unable to get my bandaged finger out of the way.
(, Sun 6 Feb 2005, 5:21, Reply)
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