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My friends and family know I have an interest in collecting, using and playing with knives, so when some of them noticed a clean gash running down my right hand, they immediately assumed I'd cut myself whilst screwing around!
It's embarrassing to say the least, but it really happened while I was printing a document for my father using my mother's old laser printer. The paper jammed (about 4-5 pieces), and I was attempting to clear them when I got a phone call. Distracted, I began tugging at the paper and tring to talk on the phone at the same time. It was then that the paper snagged again, several pages slicing into my right hand. So clean was the cut that it felt like a hot blade tearing through the flesh; however, it was worse than I thought. No blood came despite the pain and later I made the horrendous mistake of using a generous glob of hand sanitizer, not really paying attention to the dull ache. Yeeeeeesh! Not a good move at all.
So now people just assume because of my knife infatuation, that I'm just covering up my own stupidity by blaming it on a paper jam. It looks so much like a knife cut, in fact, that I'm thinking of telling people I cut myself with a knife just so I won't get anymore of "the business."
Have any of you guys treaded these waters? The problem is, if I say I cut myself with a knife, people will smile and say that's what happens by having so many knives! And if I tell the truth, well, they'll talk about how much it "looks" like a knife cut.
Sort of reminds me of the adage: "He who lives by the sword, often dies by a self-inflicted paper cut!" Either way, I lose....
It's embarrassing to say the least, but it really happened while I was printing a document for my father using my mother's old laser printer. The paper jammed (about 4-5 pieces), and I was attempting to clear them when I got a phone call. Distracted, I began tugging at the paper and tring to talk on the phone at the same time. It was then that the paper snagged again, several pages slicing into my right hand. So clean was the cut that it felt like a hot blade tearing through the flesh; however, it was worse than I thought. No blood came despite the pain and later I made the horrendous mistake of using a generous glob of hand sanitizer, not really paying attention to the dull ache. Yeeeeeesh! Not a good move at all.
So now people just assume because of my knife infatuation, that I'm just covering up my own stupidity by blaming it on a paper jam. It looks so much like a knife cut, in fact, that I'm thinking of telling people I cut myself with a knife just so I won't get anymore of "the business."
Have any of you guys treaded these waters? The problem is, if I say I cut myself with a knife, people will smile and say that's what happens by having so many knives! And if I tell the truth, well, they'll talk about how much it "looks" like a knife cut.
Sort of reminds me of the adage: "He who lives by the sword, often dies by a self-inflicted paper cut!" Either way, I lose....
