"Doesn't that hurt?" I would ask.
"Doesn't what hurt?" he would reply.
The sad thing about scar tissue is that it has no live nerve-endings.
The wonderful thing about scar tissue is that it has no live nerve-endings.
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ERJ, I think it is an old guy thing. I find myself now acquiring small cuts and scrapes that I have no idea how they arrived.
ReplyDeleteDude, if you are bleeding that much you need to stop and re-evaluate your process.
ReplyDeleteNever bleed on the finish work!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like it was a "good" one. Hope it heals quickly, although as we get older, it always takes longer than it did when we were young bucks.
Ouch... On a positive note wounds heal and (some) chicks are impressed by scars.
ReplyDeleteI have adopted your use of the word "kinetic" to describe my twins. Never fails to illicit a giggle.
ReplyDeleteI remember once upon a time as a young man when I took some piece work helping a drywaller install the dividing walls in a condo building under construction. By the end of the first day I already had several significant cuts, scrapes, and confusions on my hands.
ReplyDeleteThe drywall contractor looked at me and said, "You can tell a good drywaller by his hands". "Lots of scars?", I asked. He replied, "No scars".
Working on a friend's place a while back. 'JC, please take a break. You're tracking blood all over the place.'
ReplyDeleteDriving through the Micky D's for a quick lunch the guy in front of me was apparently a doctor judging from the vanity plate that read VAGDOC . He handed the money to the little girl at the drive thru window and she seen the crisp hundred dollar bill and the well groomed pretty little clean pink hands and smiled flirtingly with the VAGDOC . When I got to the window and handed her the exact change for my Big Mac and Coke she flinched and recoiled at the scarred , bloody , and diesel oil stained hands as if I was sub-human . The VAGDOC could have just terminated a dozen unborn babies at the local democrat inspired planned parenthood center but he was flirted and admired over this old field mechanic trying to keep the construction industry working 12 hours a day . Hands tell you a lot ! Shake a diesel mechanics hands but don't try and out grip him . Same on a drywall guy . You will get a surprise .
ReplyDeleteIts funny, I have enjoyed experiences afforded to me by others judging the book by the cover. Nothing more fun than walking into a jewelry store in your Saturday Afternoon Chore finery. Couple weeks ago I had to stop at the local office for my brokerage. Bright young man in a suit snapped to and nervously asked if he could help me, the very large older man in construction clothes and muddy boots....
DeleteIt was fun toying with him, and I was careful not to be mean.
"Yeah, I's gots a question er twoooo"
"Yessir?"
"Whats the deal with options?"
"Well, Sir, you need to have a brokerage account wuth us to start..."
"Yeah, I know that, pull mine up.."
"Gulp..."
"Weren't expecting that, were you, Son?"
We had a pleasant conversation about greeks (delta, theta, gamma, as they pertain to financial derivative products), and setting up dividend distributions.
After a few minutes he could see I knew more than he did and I offered and olive branch when I left.
"Sorry if I threw you coming in in my work clothes."
I believe I left an impression.
I see your drywall booboo and raise you 6 hours on the biggest jackhammer the rental place had. 4 feet tall with a short bit. I struggled to lift it into the pickup truck. I felt fine when I left work today. After an hour ride home I almost couldn't get out of the truck. Getting old sucks. I can't wait to start the sheetrock part of this project. Slab plumbing is horrible. If the SHTF tonight I'm gonna sleep right through it.
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