Actually, it was a presentation on QVC that caught my wife's attention. For only $29.97 (or 3 easy payments of $9.99) you could own the latest kitchen gadget...the ultimate slicer/dicer/chopper.
And this was a good excuse to retire the old-fashioned grater shown here, the one that my wife says she was always scraping her knuckles on.
So one day the big brown truck stopped at our house with this, and my wife was so excited!
She carefully unpacked it and was showing me all the attachments and what each one did. My first thought was "Where is she going to put this?" but she gets that a lot from me so I didn't ask.
I just smiled and said "Yeah, that's nice."
I didn't hear anymore about the new gadget until Friday as I was leaving work. I got a call from Barb asking where I was. "Just leaving work," I said. Then she told me (somewhat urgently), "I think I need to go to the emergency room. I just cut my finger on my new slicer." I told her to keep it wrapped and keep pressure on it, and I hurried home as fast as possible.
Twenty minutes later we're walking into the emergency room. She told the nurse that she was making her husband dinner and was slicing cucumbers for a salad, when the cucumber got too short. Apparently the new slicer is "extremely sharp" - her words, not mine. She repeated the story to the young doctor who came in shortly thereafter, who said to me..."So, this is YOUR fault!" We all laughed about it.
On the way home (45 minutes and 5 stitches later) I said, "Those things should come with a warning label." So it's really QVC's fault.
The upside to the evening: there's now valet parking at the emergency department - just F.Y.I. in case you live in Ames. You might even get the same doctor we had with the great sense of humor, if you're lucky.
He'll have you in stitches! (haha)
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Barb here. I knew I should have been worried when we were sitting in the ER, my bleeding thumb wrapped in layers of Bounty paper towels (happy I had those on hand since they are the "quicker picker upper"), and my loving husband looked at me and said, "This would make a good blog post!"
Several weeks ago I cut my thumb and also wrapped it in paper towels. My son was visiting and wanted to take me to the ER, but I declined. When it finally quit bleeding, I pulled the "wound" together with bandaids. Next time I will get out the cutting board and properly slice the English muffin instead of holding it in my hand and using an inappropriate knife.
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