Haven't done the thumbnail dance in a while, but in July I had a good knuckle removal story. It was the usual 3:30 friday evening rush to get done, I was loading green 18' long 1x12's off of a trailer into a storage shed. I had one step to go up, as you enter the narrow door, so I was holding the board about waist high, with my left hand, fingers pointing out, right hand fingers curled under the board, pointing in. As I stepped up, I heard, and felt a "pop", as my pocketwatch face crystal shattered onto hundreds of shards of glass. What shattered it was the pressure of the board, transmitted through the first knuckle, outside surface contacting the glass, inserting the knuckle into the now broken watch face. What made it worse, is that I knew that there was nothing to do now, except grin and bear it, as I leveled out the board, laid it on the stack, and then look at the damage. What had happened is that when I leveled out the board, the watch more or less surgically cut off all the skin on the knuckle, down to, but not hitting anything really vital. I could see white tissue, but not the bone. Kinda felt like sticking your finger in a pencil sharpener! Damnded thing bled like a stuck pig, and throbbed all night. Took the bandage off, looked the same 24hrs later, and started bleeding again. Finally stopped it with a dropper full of Gentian violet solution we had for about 50 years, settin' in the barn. The instant that Gentian violet/alcohol solution hit the hole, I could swear I saw smoke comin'from the wound! That sting was one for the record books.
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