Other than assorted scars from military shrapnel wounds (x2) I have some scars self inflicted and inflicted by others. At about 4 years old the neighbor kid's older brother maybe 8 years old put a long handled 4 tine cultivator tine through my right hand fortunately missing anything important. It hurt so bad I couldn't even cry or speak for a minute or two. About 20 years ago I was in the shop two days before Christmas and made a paring move with a 3/8" blue chip chisel into some short grain. Being a lefty, the right hand was holding the piece downstream of the chisel. It did not end well. The piece split and the chisel went in one side of my middle finger tip and out the other impaling my ring finger. At trip to the ER ensued. After returning home 2 hours later I was caught back down in the shop gluing the missing piece back on and cleaning up the part. Management was less than impressed and showed me parts of her vocabulary I did know she possessed. Another shop incident involved a skew carving chisel rolling off my workbench while I was wearing shorts and slicing into my lower calf. The chisel was so sharp I didn't know it had cut me until I could feel the blood dripping down my leg.
We won't even talk about the assorted cuts, small scars, and scrapes from 3 decades of rock climbing and mountaineering.
Dave Anderson
Chester, NH
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