Aside from the occasional mishap, my colleagues and I do rather well managing the ever-present hazards of working in a research laboratory. Every so often, though, something happens that’s particularly interesting.
We have some neat little stitch scissors for detailed snipping activities that I needed to use today. While I was cleaning them off, they managed to slip out of my hand. In trying to catch them before they hit the ground, the point of the scissors bounced off my fingernail and wound up stuck in a wood cabinet. I didn’t think anything else of it until a few hours later when I noticed an annoying pain in my fingernail. Turns out there’s a tiny, blade-shaped hole through it that’s determined to remind me of its existence whenever pressured the right (wrong?) way.
I believe the onomatopoeia womp womp is appropriate here.
One response to “Occupational Hazards”
Wow, those are some sharp scissors.
Good job there chief.