Tue, 06 Oct 2009

An Error of Thumb

Late last night, as I positioned our largest sharp kitchen knife to make a cut, I thought to myself, “If I observed somebody else holding a knife like this, I would warn them about the risk of injury that was attached to such incorrect knife usage.”

Moments later, as I was trying to stop the blood spurting all over the kitchen, I realised that I could now complete my warning with a remark about how effectively I had demonstrated the said risk. Fortunately, since I was holding the knife in my more dominant hand, the thumb I attempted to sever was on the less dominant hand. But it still keeps getting in the way and every bump sends urgent don’t do that messages to what passes for my brain.

That makes two “accidents” with that knife in two months. It might be time to learn a lesson while I still have the usual number of thumbs.

Posted at: 09:56

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