I pricked a finger
on a microscopic shard of that glass while cleaning my kitchen yesterday. A bloodbath
ensued and my least favorite towel was sacrificed for the cause, serving as a
tourniquet until I could control the gushing gash with a band-aid.
When I took off a
glove to pay for some housewares later in the day, the band-aid peeled off with
it. As I reviewed the receipt on my way out, the piece of white paper began to turn
red. Tourniquet #2.
I went into the drugstore
across the street for more band-aids. A multi-page sale flyer was folded up on a
shelf in the First Aid aisle. Tourniquet #3.
Although I can make
a scene while waiting for a train that’s running 10 minutes behind schedule, when
there’s a legitimately panic-worthy, but concealable, emergency/budding scandal
on my hands (pun not originally
intended), nobody else would be able to tell that something’s wrong.
I used all of my
good hand, and one finger of my bad hand, to open a box of band-aids and
replace the flyer with one of them – a delicate balancing act, designed to avoid
getting anything on store property and having to face a “you bleed on it, you
buy it” policy - before lining up to check out.
This whole time,
the store’s pharmacy was closed. At 5:30 p.m. In the City That Seems to Get More
Sleep Than I Do.
I'm a real bleeder, so I empathize... even the smallest cuts will go on forever!
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ReplyDeleteDUUUUUUUDE.
This!
So, so true. What's THAT about, amirite?
Sorry you had this crazy torniquetty situation. Pah! Damn cuts!
I hope you were able to get all the glass out of the finger. Sometimes a fragment remains.
ReplyDeleteI'm forever cutting myself but my nerves are damaged so I often don't notice until I start wondering 'How come that page is turning red?' or 'Why is there red stuff on the cucumber I'm slicing?' We have boxes of band-aid in most rooms - usually except the room I actually need them in.
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