The Danger Of Chinese Workboots

[VanDutch]

Hey guys..

We call flipflops here Chinese workboots.

Yesterday being particularly warm I was in the workroom in flipflops and was working on sewing a difficult thick item. I accidentently knocked my awl off the bench and it hit my foot. I shrugged it off and decided to pick it up later. After a couple of minutes i bent down to pickup my awl. Couldn't see it on the floor. Looked further and there it was sticking out from the top of my foot... Didn't hurt a bit...only went in about 3mm...

Lesson learned. Wear appropriate footwear..

[horseplay]

This is so true!

My family owned a sign shop for many years that I helped manage. I spent alot of time in production with an exacto knife in my hand. There were a few times a knife would roll off the worktable and I would jump to make sure I didn't get it in the foot. Because of that we instituted a no sandal or open shoe policy. Of course it didn't keep me from slicing open my fingers a time or two.

[Ed in Tx]

I guess on the positive side you didn't lose the awl and it was within reach to pick it up! Ouch!

[shtoink]

I wear flip-flops all the time. It's become instinctual to just dodge instead of trying to catch a sharp/pointy object falling. I remember seeing my mother catch a kitchen knife with her toe, much in the same manner you described. It's like dropping buttered toast. The odds are, it'll nearly always land butter side down for a fresh coating of floor-pepper.

I've had far too many close calls to count...

X-acto knives and I go way back. At the age of about 8, I was allowed to use one for some unknown reason and at one point used the top of my thigh as a cutting board. It didn't take long before I had shoved it up to the hilt into my leg a few inches above my knee. Countless finger slicings later, I still have to be wary of forgetting that there's a knife in my hand when I reach to scratch my face or rub my eye. That's usually the point that I need to set things down and take a break.

I've also had to implement a "No Power Tools and Alcohol" rule. I've seen far too many bad things happen after someone says, "Hey, hold my beer..." that it just seemed the right thing to do.

[silverback]

The thing I hate is when I drop my scalpel and the normal reaction "for a bloke anyway" is to clap your legs together to catch it and then you realise "just let it drop.". I think I read somewhere men will automaticly close their legs trying to stop a falling object whereas women will open their legs and let their dress catch it.

[Northmount]

The thing I hate is when I drop my scalpel and the normal reaction "for a bloke anyway" is to clap your legs together to catch it and then you realise "just let it drop.". I think I read somewhere men will automaticly close their legs trying to stop a falling object whereas women will open their legs and let their dress catch it.

You must have read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn when they were disguised as girls!

Tom

[J Hayes]

Hahaha, I was told the same thing once, so Silverback is not alone.