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Nov 2018
8:40pm, 10 Nov 2018
27,460 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Tip for McG *shorts* [hope I am not mistaken]
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Nov 2018
9:11am, 11 Nov 2018
36,549 posts
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McGoohan
Probably you didn't mean when I went out with my shorts inside out and didn't realise until I was at London Bridge?
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Nov 2018
9:11am, 11 Nov 2018
36,550 posts
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McGoohan
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Nov 2018
9:18am, 11 Nov 2018
36,551 posts
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McGoohan
So, one evening I was very tired and fell asleep at my keyboard. Liebling was already abed. I went to the bathroom to take my clothes off and go from there to bed myself. I was impatient to just get my head down so I tried to take off jogging trousers, underpants and socks in one swift movement.
I stuck my fingers down the elastic waistband of joggers and pants and shoved them down my legs and collected my socks as I went for an ultra efficient disrobing. So there was a lot of elastic caught up in there now with my fingers inbetween. I heard a loud 'snap!' and felt a strange twinge in my left hand. But I thought it had just been the elastic snapping.
However, when I pulled my hand free something was wrong. The tip of my middle finger was floppy from the first knuckle. I couldn't hold it straight. I'd push it up with the fingers of my right hand only to see it fall over ninety degrees.
I went to wake my wife up. 'Lisa, Lisa! I've broken my finger!' I waved my hand in front of her face as she woke, groggily from deep sleep. That must've been nice for her.
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Nov 2018
9:26am, 11 Nov 2018
36,552 posts
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McGoohan
Anyway, she drove me to the hospital. This was IIRC, a Thursday night and now about 1am. Despite being a school night, the A&E dept was full of drunks. One guy was handcuffed to a hospital gurney with a policeman waiting beside. The bloke was unconscious with drink. He'd been drink-driving!
I showed the nurse and a junior doctor my wound and they both went, 'Urgh!' and 'How did you do that?' They may have had to supress a giggle when I told them... Anyway, it was 'hammer finger', also called in the US 'catchers finger' - it's a common baseball injury. I'd snapped or overextended the ligament. I was told that it would heal naturally if the finger was kept straight, but it would take weeks or even months. I had to wear a sort of sheath-thing over it for about three months in the end. It did heal but it still feels oddly different to the other fingers.
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Nov 2018
9:29am, 11 Nov 2018
18,770 posts
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Lizzie W
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Nov 2018
9:31am, 11 Nov 2018
36,553 posts
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McGoohan
i'm hoping that's the one Mrs Jigs meant...
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Nov 2018
9:38am, 11 Nov 2018
26,847 posts
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halfpint
Who would have thought getting undressed could be so dangerous. I might need to change my disrobing habits.
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Nov 2018
9:50am, 11 Nov 2018
27,461 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
That was McG, for some reason I thought it was post run disrobing, has Liebling recovered from such a rude awakening yet?
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Nov 2018
9:50am, 11 Nov 2018
36,555 posts
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McGoohan
She still wakes up screaming...
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