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**ChasinJason1313** · 03-02-2005, 11:04 PM

Well not exaaactly. ButI did manage to slice of a dimed size(width and thickness) piece of skin of my thumb tonight at work. It kinda sux.

Oh by the way, ibuprofin has aspirin in it. Aspirin is a blood thinner. I take ibuprofin for a number of ailings on a regular basis. I cut my thumb at 6pm tonight. It is now 11pm and it is still dripping blood. Moral of the story: If yer gonna cut off pieces of yer body, don't take aspirin.

So I'm really pissed off right now about my thumb. It doesn't really hurt; my pain tolerance scale rates cuts pretty low, no matter how severe. But I just realized that I'm going to be constantly annoyed for probably the next 3 weeks at least. It's amazng how such a minor thing, if placed correctly can have such a huge impact on one's life......SHITFUCK!!

K, that's all for now.

jayjay1384 · 03-02-2005, 11:15 PM

Uh im not sure that to say.....Im not sure that " oh man that sucks" is very approprate in this suituation. I do however hope that you feel better. Get some pain killers drink a beer youll forget all about your pain...

**TheWills** · 03-03-2005, 12:05 AM

[quote]SHITFUCK!![quote]
nuff said lol, Yeah man I hate cuttin myeslf I work in kitchens so I always shank myself good! At work a few years ago I cut myself an inch verticly down my thumb halfway down the nail with a thick ass blade I was droping more shitfucks then you can imagine

**urOZm8** · 03-03-2005, 02:01 AM

Ouch bro. Take it easy eh, hope it feels better soon. *Mental note made about blood thinning and aspirin*

ev

jonnyisu · 03-03-2005, 07:18 AM

yeah aspirin is what brings the nerd in me out. If i take aspirin, i get really bad nose bleeds. Then i'm that guy. The one with the random nose bleeds. Oh god, its bleeding everywhere.....

**kingcrazylegs** · 03-03-2005, 08:52 AM

<----look...extra thumbs...we have solutions for everything on Tpunk Jason!

**my retro career** · 03-03-2005, 09:29 AM

Ouch, man.

I hope you heal soon - take care of that thumb...you never know when you might need it....(stupid bad joke i know...

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**space virgin** · 03-03-2005, 09:40 AM

Ow!

The thing that's going to be the worst is when you have to deal with limes or lemons, which will be fairly often given your profession...

**omisan** · 03-03-2005, 10:28 AM

Just hope no one orders a Bloody Mary w/ extra hot sauce, limes, and pepperocini

**afterlife3** · 03-03-2005, 10:42 AM

That sucks, I just recently stabbed myself with knife in my left index finger trying to open one of those new air tight packes on a flash card, sucker blead for a good 5 hours. You will get used to the pain, but it is still annoying. Good luck.

**Chibiminako** · 03-03-2005, 11:38 AM

I HATE those stupid packages!

You almost HAVE to slice your fingers open to get the crap out of them!

Anyway, ouchie! I would have thrown the knife down and sat down wherever I was, and cried

*laugh*

Did you put your thumb in your mouth? I think thats funny that when people cut their fingers, the first reaction is to put the injured finger in their mouth.

Keep it clean and dry, wrap it up, and heal soon

**juliagulia** · 03-03-2005, 12:18 PM

tha most def. sucks. my aunt cut her middle finger and her ring finger when she was cutting a knife with a paper towel. she drove from Washingotn DC to my house (45 min), ate dinner, we had to CONVINCE her to go to the hospital, waited for 5 hours (till two in the morning), she got seven stitches, and she was still tlaking about cleaning a house the next day....

crazy-cheap-dont-want-to-spend-5-hrs-in-a-hospital brazilians!!

well, good luck with that thumb. its gonna be hurting for a while.... take aspirin for the pain....
oh....wait.... ha! sucks...

**juliagulia** · 03-03-2005, 12:20 PM

oops. she wasnt cutting a knife. she was CLEANING a knife with a paper towel... hehe...

**TheJake** · 03-03-2005, 02:42 PM

suck it up pussy.

**ChasinJason1313** · 03-04-2005, 12:17 AM

First of all I would just like to laugh at how the world works out sometimes....I have this internet radio thingy through Yahoo and right when I pushed the reply button to this, I SHIT YOU NOT, the song "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones started playing

Anyway:

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<----look...extra thumbs...we have solutions for everything on Tpunk Jason!

I can always count on you guess for the best advice as well as completely useless help, you rule!

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Ow!* The thing that's going to be the worst is when you have to deal with limes or lemons, which will be fairly often given your profession

Finger condoms rule....anyone in the business will know what I mean

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Just hope no one orders a Bloody Mary w/ extra hot sauce, limes, and pepperocini

I've always made a pretty mean bloody mary but I don't think anyone's ready for that level of meanness

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Did you put your thumb in your mouth? I think thats funny that when people cut their fingers, the first reaction is to put the injured finger in their mouth

If I had done that I definitely would have choked on the blood, it wasn't just bleeding, it was bleeding enough to make me feel light headed and dizzy.

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suck it up pussy

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It doesn't really hurt; my pain tolerance scale rates cuts pretty low, no matter how severe

SHITFUCK OFF JAKE!!

So anywho, thanks for the well wishes, feel free to make this a post about the stupidest ways you've injured yourself...I know I could post 10 or 12

**Chibiminako** · 03-04-2005, 10:13 AM

Hmm I dont know if this qualifies as stupid...but I did kneel on a pair of nail scissors once...

Oh I KNOW! I was chasing after my then-boyfriend because he kicked me on the butt or something...I dont even remember now, and I slipped in the grass, spun around, twisted my ankle, then sat right on my twisted-the wrong way ankle. I sprained it so badly that they had to put me in a cast instead of a splint. The nurse kept asking me if I had been drinking *laugh* Even after I told her NO several times. I guess she didnt believe me.

I guess thats not really stupid, either....I got nothing.

**ChasinJason1313** · 03-04-2005, 11:54 AM

I used to live in a house on a hill and after my mom had surgery on both of her feet I took her wheelchair out on the driveway and was screwing around doing wheelies and stuff. Well I managed to go a little too far and started rolling down the hill/driveway. I managed to lock one emergency brake which then shot me left, where I crashed into a fence, rolled over with the wheelchair rolling over me. I managed to make a huge gash in my knee. So my cousin goes running for help, my family(we were having a family get together) comes out and carries me inside. Someone's holding a towel under me cuz my knee is pouring blood. My stepdad proceeds to pour 3/4 of a bottle of hydrogen peroxide on my cut.
So there we are, 10 or 12 of us waltzing into the emergency room of the hospital, me on my mom's crutches and her in her wheelchair. By the way, our driveway was asphalt. So the doc gives me a couple of novacaine shots, and then proceeds to try to get the asphalt chucks out of my knee. The cut was big enough that he was actually picking the pieces out of my knee by sticking his thumb and forefinger in there. Once he got the big pieces out he started going at it with a wire bristeled toothbrush thing. The whole time, from injury to the toothbrush, I never felt a thing, no pain at all.
The cut was actually to wide to stitch up so I had to let it heal on its own. I managed to tear it open a couple other times while it was healing from playing baseball and football.

So that was me at the age of 11 or 12. Unfortunately not much has changed since then.

**Chibiminako** · 03-04-2005, 11:56 AM

^^^ that brought tears to my eyes.

Not because it was beautiful

but because I almost felt your pain!

**butterj** · 03-04-2005, 02:06 PM

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shit shame about the finger mate

**bluepea** · 03-06-2005, 09:44 PM

Sorry bout your thumb - that sucks.

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So anywho, thanks for the well wishes, feel free to make this a post about the stupidest ways you've injured yourself

Here, I'll make you feel much better.

I cut my thumb open almost to the bone on a ravioli can while I was babysitting. Still have the scar.

I was dancing on a bar one night and had a run in with the ceiling fan which left a horrible, horrible cut/bruise/mark on my forehead. NOTE: It didn't chop through to my brain like everyone thinks will happen! Though, the after affects may have.

I fell down an asphalt driveway while WALKING and tore my leg to shreds. About a quarter of my lower leg looked like hamburger. My husband (who wasn't there) could not believe I was just walking.

I was wearing heels (about four inches) and sitting on a bar stool (I wasn't drunk, we'd just gotten there actually) and I wrapped the heels of my shoes around a rung of the stool. So, I lean past a friend to see if the bathroom's empty and slowly started to lose my balance. I realized my feet were stuck and I couldn't move them in order to regain balance, so I just effortless fell face forward off of a bar stool.

This was only a sampling. I have many more idiotic self inflicted pain stories.