About forty years ago, I was working in the yard one hot Saturday afternoon and I had a cold beer with me to ward off heat exhaustion. You can't be too careful about heat injuries.
I set the beer on top of the car because I didn't want it too close to the ground. Imagine how I felt when I looked and saw the beer making half circles in alternate directions walking down the slope of the car top. I couldn't let my beer hit the ground and spill !! I grabbed it, and smashed the bottle against the side of the car. The feeling and one glance showed I had cut the shit out of my right hand right where the ring finger joins the palm. I made a fist, ran inside, wrapped my fist in a towel, got in the aforesaid car to drive myself to the emergency room, steering with my chin and reaching across to shift with my un-massacred hand. The towel was soaking up blood very well all this time. Actually there were two towels, I think. In those days at that place, the doctors took turns in the emergency room of the local hospital on weekends. I happened to draw an old time General Practitioner. He unwrapped my hand, which had a clot the size of a slice of pork liver in it, picked out the glass. cleaned it, injected something into it, and started suturing. After about 30 minutes, he said "Damn!" and took out all the stitches he had put in. When he finished, there was a little blood fountain that went spurt, spurt, spurt about an inch high in the bottom of the cut. He said "I knew there was a little artery down there." He put a stitch in the artery and then sewed up the cut again. After only about a month, I was able to use the hand normally again, so I only have the scar to remind me of that hot afternoon and how I tried to save my beer from loss. The moral of the story is "Don't set a partially drunk beer on top of a car. Drink it down." There's another story about having a finger that got caught in a chain hoist sewed back together sans any deadening, but it's not a story about some dumbshit thing I did, except maybe the part about opting to have it sewed up without any deadening. It was quite an experience, one that I remember well an do not want to repeat. Neither the caught in chain hoist nor the sewing up. Robert. > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:03 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Virtual Pillory: Come jeer at the idiot! > > > > Casey wrote: > > > > > > > > "Hi, my name is Casey, and I'm an idiot." > > > 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." _______________________________________ 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
