The cat's got nothing to do with the thread, I'm just following my own guideline; by way of observing that you guys DO NOT follow guidelines worth a damn.
Thank you, thank you very much!
BTW, where were the guidelines posted? I must have missed that part!
Okay, now I know they must be posted by the "Safety Guidelines" as I missed those as well.
A few months back, someone I consider a good friend and fellow slot racer gave me this:
Hey, I still have my "Totin' Chip" so I should be authorized to have one of these in my possession, right? Wrong!
If you look closely at the groove near the top of the blade - I will now call that 'the blood channel' you will see a red tinge. I'm sorry, but after my experience earlier with that knife I am NOT wiping down the surface.
My normal work surface is on my desk and there is no room to get my legs and feet under the work surface. I do slide them back under my chair to give a bit of protection, normally.
The majority of the time, I put this knife back into a box I bought to keep it in as I don't like to have this in a spot where it can become "Letal Weapon #5".
So normally the majority of the time, this knife is in a spot where it can not access human flesh. Going by that, yesterday must have been just 'one of those days'!
I was trimming bodies, something this knife is very good at. That is why I like it so much. Something caused me to reach for something and I must have caught the cuff of my shirt on the knife as it started a downward travel. The work surface is about 34 inches high, so doing some calculations, the knife would reach a terminal velocity of about 9.5 mph. That would say that it would travel the distance from the work surface to the floor in about 5 milliseconds.
Since the typical human being takes about 1 second to process the danger that the see - called the 'perception time', I still had 955 milliseconds before I could move. Of course, my eyes saw this falling, but could not do a thing other then watch, in horror!
Now, I've never been able to read about the time it takes for pain to travel in a human body, but I know this for a fact, I felt the pain as the knife stuck into my ankle, right at the bone as the tears were welling up in my eyes even before the time to react had expired!
I guess the density of the bone was enough to stop the flight of the knife. However I did feel that knife hit the bone. I removed the knife - yes first aid training say that you should not remove something on a puncture wound, but obviously the writer of that passage did not have something stinking into him at the time. I washed it out - actually the blood cleansed it prior to my washing of it, putting some antiseptic cream on it and holding pressure on it to stop the bleeding. Then a quick butterfly and I was ready to put the knife away for future use.
Afterwards I sat there thinking about the best way of preventing that from happening. Let me say this about that . . . . I will no longer be lax whan that knife is in use. I had even thought of a thether around my neck, but knowing that things can break, I have chosen not to as that wound would be devastating!
Yes, we do learn by our experiences!
