Stone in the boot, splinter in the sock

[Tom]

My old-timer friends older brother used to have tough feet and he used to stand on the hearth in front of the fire to get warm on a cold morning.

One morning his Daddy said, "LC....   your a-standin' on a coal with your foot".

LC said, "which one, Pa?"

[Ianab]

What really bugs me is when you notice the pebble in your boot, so you stop, untie your boot, shake it out, put it back on, lace it up again and take a couple more steps....

And find the pebble was in your SOCK 

I find that since I haven't been surfing a much lately my feet have got a bit soft and I start looking for my Jandels (flip flops ) to go and check the mail when it's below freezing. It used to be that I could walk over 300 yards of barnacle encrusted boulders in bare feet to get to a good wave 

Ian

[Tom]

If you can walk on barnacles, you an walk on anything!

[Don_Papenburg]

Bob does that leg get too ichen'  ?   I had a friend that broke his arm he would even stick the flyswater handle up the cast trying to relieve the ichen. Any whay his lovly daughters found out about the power of suggestion . So when he got done flyswater handleing his arm they would walk by and start scrathing on their arm .

[pigman]

Don, to my surprise the leg in the cast has not itched at all.   The other leg itches all the time and I have scratched it raw.   Six more days. Everyone tells me the ankle will be weak when the cast is removed. That will give an excuse to loaf for a few more days.

Bob

[Cedarman]

And what about something like a slightly loose battery cable on a truck or loader.  It starts just fine 19 times out of 20, but every so often you have to wiggle the cable. You remind yourself to fix it as soon as you get the time.  But you forget. Or do you just fix it the first time it happens, cleaning the connection and tightening the bolt or replacing if needed?  How long will you put up with these minor problems before jumping on them?  This goes for anything that almost works fine, but can be a little aggravating if not taken care of. Mill slightly out of alignment, planer knives with a nick, dull axe, etc.  At what point is your trigger tripped and you make it better?

[SwampDonkey]

Something just as bad is a bad ignition switch. Happened this summer with dad's pickup. The old Chev is 16 years old. But, just one of them things, as long as she starts, just limp along.

[scgargoyle]

Us machinists get metal splinters all the time. The worst ones are so tiny you can't see 'em under a magnifier, but when you rub it the wrong way, it's still there. I usually wind up with a huge hole in my hand by the time I get the bugger out. Interestingly, I've never had one get infected. I think the heat of cutting metal sterilizes it.

[Don_Papenburg]

I got one of those metal splinters once that was a little larger than those pesky little buggers.  I was sandblasting a forklift carrage and thought that I should brush the sand out of a grove . Stuck my fingers in the grove and slid them across ,fast ,stopping painfully short of the end. I had to break the sliver off .finnish blasting  and then drive home because I didn't have a pliers. That sucker was all the way through and thicker than a No.9 wire .  I like them little pesky ones much better even if it takes a day or two to dig them out.

[sawguy21]

I hate metal splinters. End up digging half my finger trying to get them out so I don't hit my head on the ceiling every time I touch something. 

[Cedarman]

For a year or so every time I knelt down I got a sharp little pain in my right knee.  I would look and push and never could figure out exactly what was going on.  One day while sitting in the bathtup I looked at my knee and saw a small black dot that had a small red fringe around it. "Honey, get me a needle".  She did and I started worrying the spot digging the skin away on top of the faint black dot.  Just like a rabbit coming out of the hat, a 3/16 long thorn came popping out.  I couldn't believe how long it was.  No more kneeling problems.

[Lud]

Had a 3/8 splinter jammed next to a thumb cuticle for a couple months.  Could feel it but it was saturated with juice and couldn't see it.  Sure felt good when it finally worked out.

I wonder whether you could band-aid on an earth magnet over nite on a steel splinter??