Olivier came in yesterday with the story that the mayor’s wife has lost some fingers. She was closing the shutters in the wind and the shutter blew back onto her hand. I did something similar when we were living in La Rochelle. The shutter flipped back onto my fingers. It took a while for me to pluck up enough courage to look. Our shutters are old, wooden and ill fitting after the years of damp winters and very hot summers, so hopefully I don’t have to worry too much.
When I was a kid, about 8ish, I did something similar...we lived in OLD farm house, all original, so it had those big, heavy, solid wood doors, on ALL doorways, interior & exterior. Well I was coming out of a room, and had put one hand on the jamb, and the other on the knob closing the door. My index finger on the jamb was a little too close to where the door was going and I "crunched" my finger. I didn't feel anything at first, just heard the crunch noise, opened the door back up, moved my hand and shut the door. Then I looked. At first glance, the pain hit...Our house was attached to my parents business, a bowling-alley-turned-supper-club, the bldg about a block long & Mom in the very back. She said she heard me scream all the way back there. They sewed my finger back together and it still works (mostly) to this day:)
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Hi Anji! You probably didn’t notice, but I was absent for a while… ;) Anyhow, I missed your posts, and after reading the last of them I'm feeling that everything is under control... ;)
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Very cool site!
ReplyDeleteDawtch: My eyes watered reading that! someone shut my thumb in a car door once. The pain hit when the door was opened.
ReplyDeletegmg: I'll be popping by to see what's happening
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omg, that is scary. i would have never thought that that would be dangerous. are you ok?
ReplyDeleteouch! But, when you looked, what did you see?
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ms dragonfly: Fine it was over 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteSoulMerlin: squashed finger and some blood but it was okay
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I bet you will allow for the windage-factor when fiddling with the shutters in future now wont you?
ReplyDeleteDid you shout "Oh, bother!" or words to that effect?
Innocent (how did you come up with that one?):I'm very careful when it's windy. I don't remember but I'm sure it was clean;)(anyway no one could understand me)
ReplyDeleteYEEEOWWWCH!! That sounds Awful!!
ReplyDeleteWe are still COld and wet and GRAy here. I dont think we are ever going to get warm again.
mary Lou: I felt like that until yesteday when it suddenly became too hot. Storms are forecast this afternoon - just incase with thought the bad weather was over!
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