Hot food then hot day...
Back a few years and I was learning to ride motorbikes during the height of a really hot summer. Many a long day was spent riding about that week or sweating profusely in the second hand gear I had. Yep, a winter jacket wasn't the best choice but it was all I had.

The evening before the last training day I decided to knock up a stir fry and after adding the sticky sauce I tossed the food in the wok and managed somehow when the sauce was bubbling away to splash sticky glutinous beyond boiling hot sauce all over my right wrist. Cue shitloads of shouting and running of cold water which took an age it seemed to get the sauce off my now red and blistering wrist.

Drugs, cooling cream and bandages later scoffed the "alright I suppose" stir fry and headed for bed.

Next morning I re-wrapped up my wrist, donned my gear at the training centre and felt the temperature rise.
Three hours later after sweating during the hottest of hot days we stopped off at a cafe and I checked the stinging of my arm. Removing the bandages the previously pinky and slightly blistered skin had swollen up and my wrist was now covered in oozing burst blisters and the bandages (of which I had no spares) were manky as hell.

Off to the bogs for some loo roll I re wrapped my arm and tied it tight with the bandages.

Two days later I failed my first bike test :(. 8 years later I have my licence and still some dark scars on my arm.

Mind you, they're nothing compared to the rod in my leg, steel pins holding it in place and the 5 scars on my hip and knee after putting my bike (and myself) through a lamppost. Snapping a femur is hard to do apparently, but I managed it....
(Mr Joe Bangles, Sat 30 Nov 2013, 10:17, Reply)