this is not my hand, but it closely resembles what i just did to myself re-stringing my guitar. which shall henceforth be called the injurious cunttar.
i'll probably think it's cool once i've got the blood out of my shirt. Also means i cannot play my shiny, zingy new strings because i'll besmirch them with exposed flesh. harrumph.
wait, what do you mean, skin a carrot? like peeling a potato? because i'm pretty sure you have to repetitively scrape a carrot with the edge of a knife, which i hope you didn't do to yourself. wow typing 'w' and 's' hurts
OH god it's a very stupid story. I think I was testing out how many different ways you can be an idiot on a daily basis - perhaps with the intention of putting out a calendar someday. I was uh, watching arrested development at work and trying to cut the little strap off my nalgene bottle with a big knife, and the entire upper section simply broke off - so my hand shot forward it the tip of the knife just slice through about 1/4 the thickness of my finger - in a big splaying flap that shot blood like a vampire spit-take.
that was amazingly idiotic, but it's good when hilarity tempers the pain of accidental self-injury. Mine was beyond thick though...i was absent mindedly watching that goddamn baby video siamesetwix posted and accidentally tightening my broken string instead of loosening it - i'd twisted the broken ends together previously, and they obviously sprang apart and whipped against my finger.
ehyuck. I've had that happen before. I've been hit in the face too many times, so now every time I restring a guitar I squint and move really slowly like I'm trying to steal something from a sleeping squid.
My most commonly broken string is the E on my bass. That's peculiar, isn't it? Anyhow, I started stringing my guitars facing away from me completely after I saw one of my former roommates do a number like this on himself. It's not the hands, it's the eyes.