In article .com>,
"stark" > wrote:

> notbob wrote:
> > I can't believe I did it. Same finger, same circumstances, only 30
> > yrs later!
> >
>
> Usually sober and quiet I must have a latent death wish or be a covert
> masochist. I'm dicing along, something easy like celery or a carrot,
> fingers not properly tucked, but at least two inches maybe three from
> the knife blade when suddenly the blade swerves and goes for a finger.
> Then back to dicing for three or four chops until I stop and wonder
> what the hell just happened. Usually I've just sliced a finger nail,
> but it could be worse. Can't explain the errant stroke. Wasn't a
> hiccup or a cough; seemed just an involuntary quirk. Maybe I was a
> knife fighter in a former life, or a spaz.

Sometimes a hard spot in the food will cause a blade to swerve... That's
what happened to me last time I cut myself badly.

I was trying to thin-slice the last bit of a block of cheese. The blade
turned when the cheese flipped onto it's side from the pressure and the
cleaver got me on top of the fingers.

Long shallow slice. Thought it was -never- going to stop bleeding!

<sigh>

Now I use a cheese board with a wire to cut ALL cheese. <G>
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