Sunday, June 22, 2008

Bad to the Bone



Remember Ginsu, the knives that can't really cut cans? Well CutCO knives actually can cut cans, as well as the fucking end off my finger while I cut sourdough bread.

Dave, can you cut the bread? Sure thing, let me slice it thin; people like it thin. Slice, slice, slice MOTHERFUCKER!!! Ow (A's mom takes over slicing, not missing a beat, while I stand there staring at blood pouring out of my finger*). I'll keep slicing, or...I think I need to sit down...

Ouch. I didn't want to see what's under there because 1) I was a little woozy just running water over it under the sink right after I did it 2) it throbbed like hell all night. It's down to the bone and sort of resembles the side of a shark around the gills; it starts at the tip and goes down to the bottom of my fingernail.

Who wants a bread knife to be that sharp?!? I'm so used to my piece-of-crap Great Harvest knife (free with two loaves of bread), and the cut happened so fast, that I thought I just grazed the top of my fingernail. I'm typing this all out of order because this band-aid (and butterfly thing, which is holding my finger together...mostly) is cutting off the circulation to my brain.

*A tells me it was her, not her mom, who took over the chopping job.