Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > > Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > > > > Note that we have learned by sad experience that when using one of > > those neat cutting machines it is necessary to make absolutely sure > > that when the blade is in the raised position that it is completely up > > and locked before adjusting the paper to be cut with your very > > vulnerable fingers . . . > > > Ouch. You really did that? Oh how that must have hurt. I usually stick > to accidents with the smaller kitchen knifes. Those at least can be > selfmedicated. All the rest I'm too scared of to not be extremely > carefull with. > > Sonja > GCU: I know where the band-aid is.
Kitchen accidents?
My worst was while cleaning a drain stopper/strainer by hand. A metal one. I cut the middle finger of my left hand (I described it as my 'cde' finger when notifying people by e-mail), went to the doctor, got a tetanus booster and a steri-strip on it (needed something to hold it closed, but a stitch would have been overkill).
I remember at some point either I or my mother bought a box of Band-Aids labelled "Kitchen Assortment". It had 10 each of the standard Band-Aid, the specially shaped ones for fingertips, and the specially shaped ones for knuckles. After less than a year, I think, they stopped selling anything labelled "Kitchen Assortment". Now you can get a box of 10 each of just the fingertip and knuckle ones. I have way too many fingertip ones knocking around, we mostly do nasty things to our knuckles.
And Dan is paranoid about use of his paper cutter. It stays locked and in the box unless there's a reason to pull it out for use, it's used very, very carefully and then put back immediately. And it has a sort of guard so you'd have to really work at it to chop off a bit of the finger holding the paper down.
(And I *just* read Ronn!'s description of the paper cutter he was dealing with, and it sounds *very* nasty.)
It is the type you find in book-binding operations, which is why I brought it up in this discussion. Though FWIW it was one of the smaller ones of that type I have seen, in the sense that it couldn't have handled sheets much larger than ordinary-size 8.5x11-inch paper, and they make them that are large enough to cut larger sheets, e.g. in the print department of one computer company I worked at which published their own manuals in-house the old-fashioned way, before "desktop publishing" could produce a product indistinguishable from a fancy typeset version . . .
Oh, and I took a quilting class once from a woman who sliced two fingers off once with a rotary cutter when she was trying to just cut cloth. (They reattached fine.) I don't plan to buy a rotary cutter as a result of hearing that story. :)
The paper cutter I have at home has a rotary cutter, FWIW. (I don't often need to cut a couple of hundred sheets at a time.) So far I have never cut anything with it but the paper I was trying to cut at the time . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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