And today I just lopped off part of my thumbnail while cutting veggies.

[conuly]

This sort of thing happens pretty often, though it could be worse. I used to regularly slice my fingers when chopping veggies and now it hardly ever gets that bad. Just nails.

Comments

[adafrog]

Oh no! {{{hugs}}}

[cactuswatcher]

Yes, better pieces of finger nails than pieces of fingers.

[hamimi_fk]

D=

[squirrelitude]

I have really grown to appreciate fingernails after having several such incidents.

[conuly]

VERY USEFUL.

ALSO THEY DISTINGUISH HUMANS FROM PLUCKED CHICKENS.

[thewayne]

Is this the part where you say "Screw you, day, I'm ordering pizza"?

[conuly]

Hah, no, this is the part of the day where I go "Oh, darn, I guess there's some secret ingredient in the food". We did pizza the day before.

[thewayne]

You say that like there's something wrong with having pizza or Mexican food more than one day in a row....

[conuly]

My budget is less thrilled with that than my stomach is.

[gale_storm]

At least it was a nail that you chopped off, rather than part of a finger. Fingers are rude in their not growing back, as nails do.

[conuly]

But, as we discovered, if you chop off only *some* of the finger but leave a little bit of nail, the nail will grow back.

Because bodies are both gross and amazing.

[gale_storm]

Wow! I… I… I am tempted to look that up online, but I’m a bit afraid of the ick level of what they’d show!! (And I’ve always been one of those people who isn’t bothered by horror films or real-life blood and guts, but now I seem to have morphed into someone who can deal with anything *but* the cosmetic, surface ick!)

I was thinking of this, which I grabbed from the HuffPost, and wouldn’t it be cool to have human bodies learn to do things like it?

“The green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis), when caught by a predator, can lose its tail and then grow it back.”
(HuffPost)

[chez_jae]

Wear thimbles

:D