Originally Posted by
Latindancer
And resultant alcoholism. Now I understand.
1)...I was once holding a lit skyrocket (as you do) when the treacherous thing decided to take off while it was still in my hand, spewing its plume into my palm for the few seconds it took for my teenage brain to register the pain, and what was happening.. Got a badly burnt palm, but astonishingly it healed with no scar visible at all !
2).... Using a small electric chainsaw for the first time ever and getting cocky and confident, I used it in one hand whilst holding the piece of wood in the other. Hands were wide apart but I stopped the chainsaw while it was still in the wood. As it slowed, of course it stopped cutting and tractored itself into my other hand before stopping.
Not as bad a scar as Loy Toy's scar from the angle grinder with large-toothed saw blade though :)