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Now sat in A&E with wife getting the back of her hand stitched up after she tried to open a paint can with a chisel
Everybody knows you use the screwdriver handed down from your grandfather!
More seriously, hope it's minor and she heals quick
Don’t know how I found this thread randomly last night, but read with interest.
Now sat in A&E with wife getting the back of her hand stitched up after she tried to open a paint can with a chisel 🤦♂️
Didn’t even open the can! But did get blood all over the wall… before she called me at work.
Obviously no decent DT lessons at her school in the 90s!
Hope OP son is ok, if no serious damage it sounds like a good learning experience
My brother had his own locksmith business for a while. Whilst fitting a lock to a door once, he slipped with a wide chisel and embedded it deep in his wrist. The picture he showed me was grim and made me genuinely queasy! By some miracle, it managed to miss the many vital tendons, nerves and arteries that congregate in that area!
I hope she's sueing B&Q, to stay on topic to the OP.
My last little chisel injury(With offending chisel). Serves me right for putting a finger in front of the blade paring out a small rebate when fitting a door lock. Only the 4 stitches.
Maybe not back on to topic so quickly...
There's a great book about the importance and relevance and advantages of working using ones hands. It's called Shopcraft as Soulcraft and I thoroughly recommend it. It is American centric, but the issues and philosophies discussed are fairly universal.
We were chatting about this subject yesterday at work with an HSE inspector (we are a COMAH site). She was lamenting the lack of practical lessons in schools as young people are having a reduced perception of hazards/risks as they enter industry work after leaving school.
My last little chisel injury(With offending chisel).
Please tell me that 3 seconds before that happened you'd just thought 'Hold on, if this slips I'm in danger of losing a finger'
And then carried on anyway.
after she tried to open a paint can with a chisel 🤦♂️
…erm - may have done that more than once myself!! 🤣🤣
I remember sanding my finger in woodwork class back in the day!
It hurt but I learned my lesson!
Everybody knows you use the screwdriver handed down from your grandfather!
I watched my Dad embed a screwdriver in his hand trying to fix a wing mirror on my sister's 200 quid Vauxhall Shovit.
He was all WorldClassAccident about it and just pulled it out and carried on.
My wife machine-sewed her finger into the garment she was making a few years ago.Needle right through the nail, thread attached and all.
Many years ago, during the time of three-day weeks, power cuts and the Falklands War, I worked for a small print and publishing company, and I was going out with a lass who’d started as a sales rep. She was also often asked to help out with stuff in print finishing, things like collating pages for binding a such. One day I came back from lunch and someone asked if I’d heard about Kim. My stomach immediately did that lurching thing as I was asking what had happened. She was at the hospital, she’d been stapling self-covered books that we published, and her attention had wandered and she’d put a wire staple right through one fingertip… 🤢
She was fine, was back on the stapler the next day, but keeping a heavily bandaged finger well out of the way of the machine.
We’re still good friends, I must remember to ask her if she remembers doing that.
One day I came back from lunch and someone asked if I’d heard about Kim. My stomach immediately did that lurching thing as I was asking what had happened. She was at the hospital, she’d been stapling self-covered books that we published, and her attention had wandered and she’d put a wire staple right through one fingertip… 🤢
Weirdly enough my Mum did that too ... but she was working in a hospital at the time.
And she had a daughter called Kim.
^all said with a smile btw. Do hope that hand heals up nicely.
Did we ever find out what happened with the OP , the serious hand injury treat with dressings at home and the school?
It’s been 2 months since the last update.
Chisels are for amateurs.
Ever seen a set of sheep shears?
My dad slipped shearing a massive ram. They went in his thigh, hit the bone and deflected towards.
I take the don't run with scissors thing alot more seriously now.
re. the stapler thing. I had to wait for 10 mins at John Lewis in Cheadle, Manchester last year because the single cashier at the tills I was using managed to staple a customer receipt and guarantee card to her finger. She seemed most unconcerned as she went to find the first aider. The replacement cahier said, oh yes, she does that sort of thing all the time when I commented about it. 🤣
On the rare occasion I maim a pupil in my science lessons
I had a science teacher at middle school who, when kids were pissing about, would stealthily approach with a wooden metre-rule a whack the wooden benches to get their attention. Always did the job until one day the ruler snapped, clipped one of the kids causing a cut and blood everywhere, then shattered the window of the science lab 'classroom'. (Circa 1984 and the classroom was portacabin style). Most of his science experiments would go wrong too.
The replacement cahier said, oh yes, she does that sort of thing all the time when I commented about it. 🤣
I used to work with a girl who earned herself the close-to-her-actual-name nickname of Debbie Bomb's-Dropped. Never has a name been more appropriate. She was lovely really, but she was a walking disaster area with the common sense of a Whitworth spanner.
As a random example, she came to me asking for help one day after she'd tried to mop the floor of the walk-in freezer. As I recall, that turned out to be a chisel job in the end as well.
Another one that leaps to mind, she was tasked with cleaning a small counter-top coffee dispenser. Basically you open the front, pull out the coffee and chocolate hoppers, disassemble a couple of other parts and put them on soak, then give the rest a wipe down. She'd been gone ages so I went back to check on her, found her waddling across the room with a large bucket of water. I asked she was doing. She looked at me incredulously (or at least she would have done if she had any credule), goes "my god that thing can hold a lot of water, can't it!" She'd drained it of multiple bucketsful and was still going. It was plumbed in to the mains water supply.
There was something like this every single shift, pretty much.
During my apprentice phase, i was told to wash an industrial sausage filler.
I filled it with hot and soapy, closed the lid and switched it on, which brought the 415v 10hp hydraulic ram up. Due to being young and unaware(aka thick) I'd sealed the entire system. Water pressure grew to the point to failed at a nylon wedge I'd hammered into the filler outlet(To stop the water pouring out), which then came out at warp factor 9.9. That flew 20 odd feet and through a chill wall. Had I been standing in front of it it would probably have killed me.
What was her name?
What was her name?
It's a terrific joke, but I'm sure she was a bacon slicer. 🤣