and now, Wincing In Sympathy Theatre presents...

[spatch]

Question: Where's the worst place to get a paper cut?
Question, Qualifier: I mean, above the waist^*?

Answer: The little fleshy part between your thumb and index finger. Ow.

Question, Rhetorical: How can something so superficial be such a pain?

Fetch forth the Bactine, Prudence! Or a Band-Aid at the very least.





* Feel free to make your own Chess jokes here about where one receives one's kicks; typing is a bitch for me right now.

Comments

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Once in high school we were riding in the car and passing a sheet of paper from the back seat to the front seat and a friend of mine got a paper cut on his eyeball.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

*claps hand over eye and makes whimpering noises*

[spatch]

good LORD.

I think my original post has just been invalidated.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

Nowhere near as bad, but the philtrum is also an unpleasant place to get one. (Don't ask how, really.)

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Did it involve an artificial mustache?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine that it probably hurts a LOT worse to begin with, but since you don't flex your eyeball much it probably doesn't hurt for as long.

I had Radial Keratonomy (warning, Wikipedia entry involves gruesome injuries) done on one eye when I was in college and on my parent's health plan (which, for some reason, covered it)--I don't remember anything being particularly painful after the anesthesia wore off. I imagine it would have hurt like a mother during the surgery without whatever they use to deaden it, however. And the Valium.

[aliiyf.livejournal.com]

Aieee! A new thing to constantly worry about.

[dogofthefuture.livejournal.com]

This is my nightmare.