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marble falls

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8. I caught the fleshy side of my thrumb in a table saw in my late twenties. I took a piece of wood ...
Mon Jul 8, 2024, 04:19 PM
Jul 2024

... out of the hands of an office drone, it was too small to be cutting on the big industrial saw. "Hey," he said, " don't you need the guard down?"
"Not if you know what you're doing!" I said as the blade neatly removed a layer of skin. I was very lucky. Took a while for it to heal because there weren't two ends of flesh to heal together.

I am very careful and became safety officer in a couple of places I worked at after. I'm in my seventies and wifey has made me de-acquisition my power tools except for two drills. I did not put up much of a fight. I can do more than enough damage with a hammer and screwdriver. Have you made him give up his collection of screws, nuts and bolts? I have mine hidden!

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