Picspam, hangnail-trauma edition

[sigma7]

So I slammed the car door shut on that little hockey-puck-thing on the seat belt that keeps the buckle from sliding all the way down the belt, broke the puck in half, now to latch I have to reach down instead of up. Just enough of a change in the routine that when I was fishing around for it and pulling it, somehow the belt caught a hangnail on my thumb and ripped it clean off. (The hangnail. Not the thumb. I wouldn't be typing. I'd still be screaming until medicating myself into incoherence -- not to say that's off the agenda totally anyway.)

So yay for self-inflicted idiot injuries. My colleague has a new hip and is undoubtedly complaining less. Eh. It's what I do. That, and picspams. Segue!


Note: de-hotlinked.

Comments

car door & broken finger

[ember-burn.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's not as bad as shutting your own car door on your own hand (which I've done.)

Although YOU are the one that broke MY pinkie with a feather pillow... hmmm...

Re: car door & broken finger

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Inflicting pain is what I do. In fact, translate that to Latin and it goes on the family crest.

Re: car door & broken finger

[aardy.livejournal.com]

I don't have time to do all the lookups, and my Latin grammar stinks, but here's the most important part:

infligo -fligere -flixi -flictum [to strike, knock, dash against; to inflict a blow, cause damage].

Re: car door & broken finger

[aardy.livejournal.com]

I'll see you shutting your own car door on your own hand and raise you slamming your hand in the rear driver's-side door of a car, and then realizing that the door is locked.

Re: car door & broken finger

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

That might even top getting hit in the head by the trunk when Dad was trying to slam it shut....

Re: car door & broken finger

[aardy.livejournal.com]

And every other door was also locked, so it took that extra few whiles for my mother to get the door unlocked & open to free my hand.

The happy ending: No known broken bones (never got it x-rayed, though), and no known permanent damage.

[daethkow.livejournal.com]

Reading about your hangnail troubles wasn't half as disturbing as seeing the picture of the thumb and the mosquitos.