Hi Marj,
 > One summer, I had attended the Pacific National Exhibition ("P.N.E.") in
 > Vancouver and I had observed the man demonstrating the handy dandy
 > slicer-dicer thingy where he does up all the veggies in lickety-split
 > time and it can all be yours for only $9.95!!!
 > I bought one and proceeded to take it home so that we could speed up the
 > process a little.
 > As always, before letting any of the kids handle a sharp instrument, I
 > proceeded to demonstrate how to use the thing.
 > Needless to say, while showing them how to be "very very careful" while
 > slicing a carrot, there was suddenly a great deal of red fluid appearing
 > 'midst the carrot slices.  I had sliced the end off of my right index
 > finger!!
Are you sure we aren't related?
I was making shredded cole slaw and suddenly - a burning sensation on tip of 
right index finger.  Automatically turned on faucet and stuck my finger under 
the running water which had taken on a bright red tint.
Off to Sick Bay to get it looked at.  Had it bandaged and wrapped and go a 
tetnus shot to add insult to injury.
Finally found my fingertip on the slicer blade - had searched all through the 
cole slaw.  Figured I'd added some protein to the veggies.
And yes, there is still the callous/scar tissue.  Fortunately, I was slicing 
the cabbage really fine so didn't do as much damage as you did.
To top it all off, I sold some Avon Shave Cream for Sensitive Skin to the 
Corpsman that took care of my finger.
--- FMail 0.98
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