I kid, I kid!!!
One time, I was gutting a trout next to one of the tributary creeks to the Owens river on the eastern slope of the Sierras, and I was using a "Fisherman's Friend" knife like THIS ONE. I was trying to cut upwards between the gills to lay open the fish's throat and having to kind of apply a significant amount of pressure upwards to get through some cartilage, and the tip of my thumb was pretty close to where I was cutting. I remember thinking at the moment, "if that knife suddenly cuts through, it is going to slice the tip of my thumb right off". And before I could readjust, let off the pressure, and change my grip, that's exactly what happened.
No stitches were going to fix that. I had sliced off about a dime-sized circular patch of skin, full thickness right at the tip of my thumb, and there were no edges to suture together. I just had to cover the raw meat with a dressing until the skin grew back. Boy did that throb a lot at first.
Yeah, I'm an idiot too.
But the good news is, you'll only do this to yourself once. The hardest learned lessons are the ones that stick best.
