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« on: May 22, 2015, 03:19:17 PM » |
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When cleaning your cheese knife with several layers of alcohol soaked facial tissues you should never question whether the cutting edge of the blade is honed enough to make it through all those layers.  |
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2015, 03:21:57 PM » |
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Yikes, sounds like one of those true experience stories. Hope it was a stitchless one!
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Willow
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2015, 03:34:08 PM » |
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Yikes, sounds like one of those true experience stories. Hope it was a stitchless one! Very small but it stings.  I just thought I'd share the learning experience.  |
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2015, 03:42:16 PM » |
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I once saw an experienced surgeon cut himself with a fish fillet knife while on a remote canoe trip. While obviously in pain he showed no emotion as he examined the slice with clinical expertise; it is one of the oddest things I have ever witnessed. Even experts in their field make mistakes, and as long as you don't stick yourself in the jugular chances are you'll be ok. It definitely helps if you have a loved one kiss the owi though.  |
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2015, 05:34:40 PM » |
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I once saw an experienced surgeon cut himself with a fish fillet knife while on a remote canoe trip. While obviously in pain he showed no emotion as he examined the slice with clinical expertise; it is one of the oddest things I have ever witnessed. Even experts in their field make mistakes, and as long as you don't stick yourself in the jugular chances are you'll be ok. It definitely helps if you have a loved one kiss the owi though. I've been cut numerous times in my career by knife and a couple times by saw. I've seen many meatcutters cut themselves also. It never ceases to amaze me the range of different reactions to this. Some guys aren't phased in the least , some guys are so freaked out you would think they were dieing from a 1/2 " cut, some guys look at their cut and pass out. |
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2015, 05:51:13 PM » |
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Carl, not trying to one up you on this subject but my Dad was a butcher in his own grocery store. He learned the hard way that if half of a ham starts to fall from the meat saw to just let it fall to the floor. He lost his finger in the deal. To try and cope with the situation for the rest of his life he would reach his hand out to shake and say "give me five and I'll give you four".
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2015, 05:53:26 PM » |
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I could only chuckle on that one. I recall some years back I was helping my dad, he did things the old fashion way; hammer and nails. It was dusty, I was hammering, started to swing the hammer and suddenly sneezed. Wrong nail!!! Good thing dad wasn't within earshot, my thumb would've been the least of my problems.  |
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2015, 06:46:14 PM » |
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Now you KNOW why I purchase sliced cheese!  Or shredded cheese!  Only time I git panicky is when a can't find the cursed cork screw!  Get healed up Carl and next time ask Lori nicely to slice the cheese!  RIDE SAFE. |
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Willow
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2015, 07:07:15 PM » |
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Now you KNOW why I purchase sliced cheese! Or shredded cheese! Only time I git panicky is when a can't find the cursed cork screw! Get healed up Carl and next time ask Lori nicely to slice the cheese! RIDE SAFE. Oh, O2S. I'm very careful never to ask Lori to cut the cheese. |
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2015, 07:13:36 PM » |
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Sadly that's a lesson I've had to learn over and over and over and over and over... One of the pitfalls of having a nervous tic involving flipping knives I guess...
Meathead - Many years ago when I worked at a grocery store one of my coworkers in the meat market lost his class ring somewhere, didn't know where. Evidently it fell off into a package of ground beef.
Few days later a customer came up to the returns white as a ghost. She'd found the ring, and was wanting to know where the rest of the finger was.
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2015, 07:31:30 PM » |
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At least it was immediately sterilized.
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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2015, 03:40:00 AM » |
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Don - that is funny!  True story - when my brother was an Air Force fighter jock, he showed me a checklist that showed actions to take in case of a flameout during take off. It went something like this.... ITEM 10 - Release Payload. (they didn't want you to crash into a residential area with payload) ITEM 11 - If carrying nuclear warheads - disregard ITEM 10 above.  (OOPS). |
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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2015, 04:25:17 AM » |
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Sadly that's a lesson I've had to learn over and over and over and over and over... One of the pitfalls of having a nervous tic involving flipping knives I guess...
Meathead - Many years ago when I worked at a grocery store one of my coworkers in the meat market lost his class ring somewhere, didn't know where. Evidently it fell off into a package of ground beef.
Few days later a customer came up to the returns white as a ghost. She'd found the ring, and was wanting to know where the rest of the finger was.
If I didn't think I'd get fired I would go buy a bunch of rings at the Dollar Store |
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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2015, 04:56:48 AM » |
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Adding to the list of never..... Try to strip wire with a non-locking blade pocket knife. It wasn't sharp enough to cut anything. But sharp enough to lay my thumb open to the tune of 6 stitches. Saddest part to this story was, I left my house to go do some electrical work at my parents house. With out wire strippers?  Sometimes I just don't know! |
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« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2015, 05:37:57 AM » |
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Sadly that's a lesson I've had to learn over and over and over and over and over... One of the pitfalls of having a nervous tic involving flipping knives I guess...
Meathead - Many years ago when I worked at a grocery store one of my coworkers in the meat market lost his class ring somewhere, didn't know where. Evidently it fell off into a package of ground beef.
Few days later a customer came up to the returns white as a ghost. She'd found the ring, and was wanting to know where the rest of the finger was.
If I didn't think I'd get fired I would go buy a bunch of rings at the Dollar Store Do it for halloween. |
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« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2015, 11:39:40 AM » |
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My worse cut during my 51 years as a machinist was during the last two years.I was machining some rubber in a lathe with a 3/16" end mill mounted in a air tool going 40000 rpm. I cut through my index finger and bone lengthwise and cut the finger wide open. They saved the finger after two operations. I was recuperating during the 9=11 attack and was watching tv that morning. It was my clutch hand and after about two weeks I was back riding.
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