Getting Older

[cabinetman]

It must be due to getting older, but I notice when I hit my finger with a hammer, or stub my toe, it takes about 3 seconds for the THROBBING to start instead of one to two seconds. Anyone else notice this change?
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[crokett]

I haven't noticed. I don't hit my fingers with hammers. I keeps 'em out of the way. It's probably because you are getting old and feeble and can't swing a hammer as hard as you used to.

[cabinetman]

I haven't noticed. I don't hit my fingers with hammers. I keeps 'em out of the way. It's probably because you are getting old and feeble and can't swing a hammer as hard as you used to.

I think you're funnin' us about never hitting your finger. Yeah, I'm gettin' feeble alright. Can still swing pretty hard, just not as accurate... got problems with my fingers and hands. I let go of the hammer willingly after the injury.
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[LCHIEN]

It must be due to getting older, but I notice when I hit my finger with a hammer, or stub my toe, it takes about 3 seconds for the THROBBING to start instead of one to two seconds. Anyone else notice this change?
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your synapses aren't firing the way they used to.
And besides, it's a good thing, because it now takes you an extra second to remember the cusswords.

[crokett]

I think you're funnin' us about never hitting your finger. Yeah, I'm gettin' feeble alright.
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You know I'm funnin' with you about getting feeble, right? If you aren't the same age as my dad is, then you are at least in the same neighborhood and I wouldn't call him feeble.

[BobSch]

your synapses aren't firing the way they used to.
And besides, it's a good thing, because it now takes you an extra second to remember the cusswords.

But just think of how much your vocabulary has expaned over the years.

[MikeMcCoy]

I don't use a hammer much so I reserve and direct all my foul language for myself when I mess up with a carving knife and then remember I have a couple of nice Kevlar carving gloves sitting in a drawer.

[steve-norrell]

But just think of how much your vocabulary has expaned over the years.

Not only vocabulary - - - WISDOM!

Proof? I now use pliers to hold the nail whilst I swing the hammer.

Regards, Steve

[ragswl4]

Not only vocabulary - - - WISDOM!

Proof? I now use pliers to hold the nail whilst I swing the hammer.

Regards, Steve

Better yet, a nail gun in someone else's hands to do the nailing. Seriously I have noticed the same thing. My reflexes and thought patterns have slowed down a bit but the upside is that I get in less trouble with the wife by not snapping off an answer to her questions as quick as I used to. Even better when I forget what she asked me.

[dbhost]

You know, I saw a gizmo at the home improvement show that holds the nail for you and keeps your fingers away from the hammer. Knowing me I'd still manage to mash my thumb somehow...

[shoottx]

Chalk it up to an overloaded processor, when you fill up a processor it slows down all of the operations And as we "mature" we fill up the processor with lots of stuff

But just think of how much your vocabulary has expaned over the years.

LOML says as long as I am still swearing everything is OK.

Its when thing get quiet and she hears "I wish I hadn't done that" we are headed to the emergency room.

MikeMcCoy I don't use a hammer much so I reserve and direct all my foul language for myself when I mess up with a carving knife and then remember I have a couple of nice Kevlar carving gloves sitting in a drawer.

Brand new Japanese carving chisels, slipped while fitting a gunstock, 6 stitches in the left index finger, kevlar glove safe in the tool box

[LinuxRandal]

You know, I saw a gizmo at the home improvement show that holds the nail for you and keeps your fingers away from the hammer. Knowing me I'd still manage to mash my thumb somehow...

Those used to be called needle nose pliers. You could use some other pliers on larger nails though.

But isn't thumb smashing the reason that battery powered drills/drivers and screws became popular?

[pelligrini]

That's why they are popular in the things I do.

[cabinetman]

But isn't thumb smashing the reason that battery powered drills/drivers and screws became popular?

I'm not safe from those either. When you have a minute or two, I'll tell ya how nicely a phillips bit can be driven into the hand not holding the drill when it slips out of the head of the screw. It leaves this perfect bloody pattern that looks like this: +.
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[jonmulzer]

I'm not safe from those either. When you have a minute or two, I'll tell ya how nicely a phillips bit can be driven into the hand not holding the drill when it slips out of the head of the screw. It leaves this perfect bloody pattern that looks like this: +.
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Been there, done that, left blood on the t-shirt I was wearing..... Strangest tool mishap I ever witnessed was with a collated drywall screwgun. I was working around a drywall crew and they had taken to "goosing" each other with the screwguns. Something, who knows what, went tragically awry and the gun lodged a ~3" square drive bit in the bit of flesh separating his butt cheek from his thigh. Completely in. To the bone. That would be one of those times when it hurt to badly to even curse. He just stood there changing from dark tan to milky white and no one even really knew what happened.

Screws, drivers, etc. can hurt you just the same, and in odder ways.....