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doncb wrote:

dlh wrote:I guess none of you guys were in the Boy Scouts.... dlh

Let's see.

I was on a camp out and decided to hold a can in my right hand and try to punch a hole in the top using the awl on my Scout knife. Raised the knife up and brought the awl right down and through the web between my thumb and index finger. Lesson learned: Use a can opener instead of punching holes in your hand.

Not a knife but when I was in High School and in tennis class. It was misting outside but two of us decided to go out and play anyway. Grip gets wet. I slam the ball good and hard and the racket pivots in my hand and and the head slams into my forehead. One inch cut and you'd swear I'd tried to scalp myself there was so much blood. Down my face. Down the front of my white shirt. On my shorts. I had to walk past the cafeteria (glass walls) holding a bloody towel to my head. I think I ruined a few peoples lunch that day. Ah, good times! Lesson learned: Don't play tennis in the rain and rackets can too cut like a knife.

(Kind of like a knife) I was squeezing past the front of my wife's car in the garage. Sliced open my knee for 2 inches on the license plate. "Nah, no need to go to the ER. I'll just put a big band-aid on it ." Lesson learned: Give license plates a wide birth. Them suckers are sharp.

I'd like to think that in the years that followed I got a little smarter and paid more attention to what I was doing. I'd like to think that anyway.