Why I was almost late to work this morning.

[saxikath]

(Blatantly stealing mabfan's post title...)



I was crossing the side street that my house is on, on my way to the bus stop on the corner. I was wearing my pretty high-heeled sandals, and, as per typical, wasn't especially watching my feet.

And somehow -- and I'll be damned if I know how I managed this one -- I managed to get a skinny metal rod stuck in the side of my big toe. It was about eight inches long, and a few millimeters wide. The end that got in my foot was flattened, which I guess made it sharper. It didn't go in very deep or anything, but it was certainly startling to look down and realize this thing was sticking out of my foot. I don't know if I tripped on something just so, or what -- it's not like I stepped right on it, but I just have no idea what I did. Probably one of those "you couldn't do that if you tried" things.

I pulled it out, went home, cleaned up with antibacterial soap, band-aided, changed shoes, and caught the next bus. So no major delay, but not exactly how I'd choose to start the week.

Now waiting for my doctor's office to open, because my tetanus shots are not up to date and I want to find out if I need to go get one. Whee... [ETA: Appointment for a tetanus shot this afternoon. This will be my first injection in... um, a long time. Yeep.]

Comments

Spring steel

[jikamens.livejournal.com]

That "skinny metal rod" is a piece of spring steel that fell off of a street-cleaner's brush. They fall off all the time. MIT roof-and-tunnel hackers are known to go out after street cleaning to collect the spring steel pieces, because it just so happens that, properly machined, they make great lock picks.

Re: Spring steel

[saxikath]

it just so happens that, properly machined, they make great lock picks.

I could easily believe that, given how this one looked.

(Incidentally, do I know you? Just curious.)

Re: inside-out tag lines from AmEx commercials

[jikamens.livejournal.com]

I saw your blog entry through a link in 530nm330hz (https://www.dreamwidth.org/users/530nm330hz/)'s blog. I don't know your real name, so I don't know if you know me. My real name, or at least part of it, is obvious from my LJ name :-).

Re: inside-out tag lines from AmEx commercials

[dcltdw]

Oh dear lord, I was wondering if that was you as I read your first response.

Now I expect to turn around and see Rod Serling.

(You know me by my, err, bachelor username, which is very similar to my lj handle.)

Now I'm wondering how saxikath nows 530nm330hz...

Re: inside-out tag lines from AmEx commercials

[saxikath]

Now I'm wondering how saxikath nows 530nm330hz...

Puzzles, basically. And I'm friends with mabfan, who's been friends with 530nm330hz for years.

Re: Spring steel

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

jikamens is also a friend of mabfan and me. That's another connection.

Re: Spring steel

[dcltdw]

Huh, and we have connections via cshiley, dpolicar, and seborn as well, and yet, I still have no idea who you are. :)

Life is weird. :)

Re: Spring steel

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I work with dpolicar and seborn and used to work with cshiley.

It's a very small world, indeed.

It's completely possible that you and I have been at the same gatherings and just never connected or something. At most gatherings I go to these days, I tend to be the odd knitting chick. :-)

Re: Spring steel

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

The big question is, how many degrees separated is 530nm330hz from Kevin Bacon? :)

[zenala.livejournal.com]

OK, that beats by a long shot my discovery just now that the soil around MIT where they've just landscaped is very, very loose and dry... (my foot slipped several inches in.) It is, however, also very soft, and I wasn't moving fast at all, so the end of the story is that my left sandal is, well, sandy...

Good luck with the long sharp things!

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

Coming home at high speed on my bicycle, one of those went completely through both tire and an extra-tough inner tube.
When I walked it into Ace to get it fixed, they were impressed.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Ouch! (That's in response to both the accident and the tetanus shot.)