Not so much a school project as the results of one
In yr8 (14 years old) woodwork we were making something inane- moneyboxes? Something like that. In any case my teacher had forgotten how extremely accident prone I was and let me loose on a band saw.

At first I was cutting straight lines and I was fine. Confidence building I go for my first curve. Hang on, thinks I, the saw isn't going as fast- I know, I'll push harder. There, that works.

I think anyone who has ever used a band saw can figure out what happens next.

You finish the corner and the saw goes zipping through the rest of the wood in 2 seconds flat and takes off the end of my finger. It was my ring finger on the left hand, right through the nail and you could see the end of the bone.

I'm pretty sure I was in quite severe shock at this point as instead of screaming loud enough to get the required attention I meekly put my finger in my mouth and went over to my teacher. The exchange went somehting like this-

"Mr Whetton?"

"Excuse me Misskitty, you can see I'm with another student. You know how to wait your turn, now do it."

So I stand there going slowly paler and paler with my finger stuck in my mouth waiting for him to finish explaining some technical peice of crap or other to another student. Then he turns to me.

"Ok Misskitty, what can I help you with?"

At this point I merely took my finger out of my mouth to show him. I really didn't understand the reaction I got until much later when he described to me what he saw before him.

A 14 year old female student with whiter than white skin pulls her finger out of her mouth, blood starts running out of her mouth, as her finger sprays blood at his face. Blood is also running down her hand so fast that within a few seconds it's covered her hand and hit the floor where it is making a quite significant puddle.

Though he said the worst bit was when I tried to start talking, blood was still filling my mouth so when I tried to explain I'd hurt myself it came bubbling up through my lips over my chin and soaking my shirt.

I got the rest of the day off to lay in the sickbay.

Not very well told, but true story. My finger grew back fine but the teacher never looked at me the same. Never ignored me when I walked up to him again either.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 4:36, 10 replies)

ow
have a click for your pain
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 5:24, closed)

thanks for reading
And more for the click!
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 10:15, closed)

What were you laying?
In the sick bay?
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 9:49, closed)

No
The sick bay made us pay by the bandaid and notified our parents, which I DIDN'T want.

Mr Whetton was nice enough to let me spend the rest of the day on the floor in the D&T teachers room.

He also did an emergency run into town to buy me medical supplies as the bitches in teh office and sickbay made us pay fro bandaids and any other medical supllies we needed. If you didn't have the cash on you, well fukk you and this was a selective high school too.

Good teacher that one.

Apologies for any mistakes, I'm, 4 beers down at the moment.

EDIT: I just realised I already said the sick bay but what I just wrote was much more truthful.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 10:14, closed)

oh...in my confessed drunkeness I just got that
No, the boys at my school were crap (one of them repeatedly abused me including holding me by the throat against a wall until I passed out and trying to break my nose amoungst other things) and I didn't discover exciting boys and girls until a while after this happened.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 10:22, closed)

It was actually a snarky dig at your misuse of "lie" and "lay"
Never mind. Belated sympathies about your finger.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 12:29, closed)

ok
I don't meet the required grammar,punctuation thingy grammar nazi thing going on here. My only responses are that
1- I was never taught grammar in school &
2- My family were the Nazi's, so I have more nazi cred than the lot of you.

Also, I really didn't take any offense, I just felt silly for not getting it sooner.

Still thanks for the replies, I'm glad some people are at least reading me!
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 12:47, closed)

NOBODY seemes to be taught grammar at school any more
:-(
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 12:50, closed)

Unless they do French
but probably not even then, actually.
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 17:43, closed)

Shit Kitty ...
that's pretty shitty.
(Que?, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 6:32, closed)