Donald typed: "It cut me between my thumb and index - badly. It immediately started bleeding. It was bad, but I had to finish the sink or we have no water in the bathroom. So, I wrapped it up as well as I could and went back to working on the faucet."
Back in '81 or so, when I was a sub shop owner back in central Illinois, I cut the bejesus out of my thumb one day on the sweet Hobart meat slicer. Right down to the bone on the knuckle. About a week later, my father moved to AZ and he wanted me to schlep out to him his Vactor (a big shit sucker)and a one ton Dodge van. I rigged up a tow hitch to the front of the van so I could pull it behind the Vactor. I thought the next logical thing to do, since the trip was going to be about two thousand miles, was to take the driveshaft out of the van. SO, I'm laying on ice in the drive of my dad's shop (it's January and it's about -10 as I recall) and I commence taking off the driveshaft of the van. About a minute into the evolution, I have the requisite wrench slip off knuckle buster and, of course, it's my bandaged up thumb I mash. The inside of my glove instantly becomes sickingly warm. I too, like Donald, knew this job needed to be done, so I continued noticing that the warmness gave way to alternating warm/cold. When I finished my glove was kind of a bloody slush. I spent a few minutes checking the lights and my glove froze solid. I walked across the street to the Dr's office, and he thawed my hand/glove bloodcicle in a pan of water, cut off the glove, lectured me sternly (small town thing, you know), and sewed up my thumb without a local to "teach me a lesson". Bob R. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
