Talk about Stupid

Not stoopid ... just clumsy and incredibly lucky that you didn't bleed on your stitchery.

Ouch! Hurts to think about! Glad you weren't hurt worse!

I usually cut myself with knives. .

linda

Ouch, ouch ouch!

You poor thing. Thank heavens lips heal quickly.

Cheryl

It's much better this morning and the egg has gone from hard boiled to slightly scrambled.

I swear nothing is as irritating as a fat lip, split lip etc.

BTW - I saw your pin cushion, looks great.

Tomorrow, I'm spending the day crafting when I don't have to take kids somewhere.

Cheryl

Owwwwiiiieeeeee!!!

Sounds like something I would do. My sympathies.

Donna in Virginia who is off to look at your biscornu now

Thanks. Now I'm not sure I want to give it away.

I guess I should admit that I cheated a little. I stuffed it with a little pillow that was packaging for jewelry. I got rid of the box but tossed the pillow into my box of "stuff." You know the pile of things you have absolutely no use for but can't bring yourself to throw out on the off chance they might come in handy some day.

OOOWWWWW!!!!!!!! Hugs! I'm glad it's feeling better today.

And, yes, I've done something stupid like that. I think I mentioned this a couple years ago but I was working on a crochet project at the time and was getting into the car, project bag on my arm, when the wind blew the door shut on me. It jammed the hook (size E or F, iirc) through my jeans into my thigh. I couldn't see where the hook was, so I drove over to my parents and said, "Uuuhh, Mom? Can you help me get this crochet hook out of my leg?" ROTFL! Once I got my jeans down and could see which way it was facing, it came out easily. It was only skin deep and didn't even bleed.

Joan

No, but my around-the neck magnifier has plenty of scratches from hitting it with an updrawn needle... I have also been known to lean over the sewing machine so closely that the take-up lever thwacks me in the forehead. You are not alone.

Monique in TX

So don't

Yes...

Along those lines - today I made an "urgent" run to the dealer as my check engine light was on. (good thing as it was a real issue)

The part manager was trying to think of a use for all the high density foam that packs around certain part. If it hadn't been greasy, it would have made a great thing to make pin cubes and such.

Cheryl

I think I've told you all about the time I got a crochet hook in my foot. Like a full 2 inches into my foot......

Cheryl

I'll add the time I got a frantic phone call from my friend across the street. Fortunately I had her key and could get into her house because she had been sewing on her sewing machine and while she was guiding the fabric she managed to put the needle through the fleshy part of her right thumb. There she was stuck with the needle down through her finger and unable to get her left hand twisted enough to get to the wheel on the right side of the machine to turn it and get it out.

Luckily it wasn't a really big disaster, but can you imagine if she had to wait all day for one of her kids to come home from school to get her free.

Luckily she had a phone within reach!

I once had to take an African lady to hospital for attention because she had pierced her finger with a sewing machine needle, and it had broken off in her finger, with nothing external to grip. She was one of a group I was teaching to use sewing machines and patterns.

And recently I stabbed my lip with a fork! It was a very large fork, in Woolworths coffee shop, and I just misjudged. That's my excuse, anyway.

Joyce in RSA.

Who else has done this??? DS had a class mate for "home ec" in middle school who managed his thumb and his finger, through the nail, on succeeding days,

I've done in once, I know my sister has never approached a sewing machine again after doing the second time.....

I was five and was using a toy machine that I got for Christmas. The crank only turned in one direction so my mother had to pierce my fingernail and finger all the way in order to lift the needle. Of course I still sew(professionally) and I think mom was more traumatized than I was.

That was in the days when toy machines were made of metal and did not have a finger guard in front of the needle.

Bobbie V.

When I moved here and before I renovated the bathroom, I decided to put a little shelf on the back of the vanity door to hold the hair dryer etc. It hadn't registered with me that the horrible vanity (which dated to early 70s) was some sort of composite and not wood. When I attempted to drill a hole for the screw, drill slips and bit goes through my hand.

I ripped the thing out of my hand on a reflex action and held my hand under the cold water tap. As I did it, I decided a trip to the emerge, since it was a puncture type wound, would just be lengthy so I stayed home and poured a good stiff rum instead lol

I think I told the whole story about the PhD candidate boyfriend that was so freaked out that he never thought about calling an ambulance and had to be talked out of carrying me down the stairs (he lived on the 15th floor) instead of the elevator. Worst part, I'm going into shock and the more levelheaded roommate isn't home.... Took a female grad student to keep them from carrying me to the car a half a mile away.

You're lucky it missed the bone.

Cheryl

All you need is a good woman when the going gets rough lol

monique wrote: I have also been known to lean over

I do that, too! And then I feel so stupid.

sue