G'morning David and James... 

 ->  MM> Heh !  Teaching in a NZ country school once,  the timid kid at the
 ->  MM> staffroom door with a hurting foot was told by the senior woman to
 ->  MM> wait until teachers had finished their lunch.   I went outside to
 ->  MM> have a look, and found he was right - his foot WAS hurting - he'd
 ->  MM> somehow pierced it with a 6 inch nail....

 -> WA!!! I just know the kid was stoically wondering when
 -> someone would notice
 -> there was an issue worth address! Heck, I put a rusty tack into the very
 -> *point* of my heal, that kept me from baseball practice
 -> for a week, so I cou
 -> only imagine what a through-and-through could do to curtail your
 -> recess!

Here is my first contact with Jame's reply - Fido hiccuped 
somewhere - damn !

 DW> When I was a kid, I accidentally stepped on a piece of wood that had a
 DW> rusty nail sticking up out of it. It *nearly* went right through my
 DW> foot - I could see the point of it pushing upward on the skin on the
 DW> top of my foot. But it didn't hurt terribly. It did bleed a lot, when I
 DW> pulled it out, though.

 DW> Someone put some disinfectant and a band-aid on it, and it soon healed
 DW> up. I forgot about it until quite recently, when I injured the same
 DW> foot and it became swollen. Then, on the top, a deep dimple appeared
 DW> where the nail had nearly come through. There must still be some scar
 DW> tissue which didn't swell like the normal adjacent tissue.

A neater physical memory than the traditional surface scar !

:-)
 
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