I am an idiot in stitches

[CutFingers]

I feel so ashamed. I was cleaning my knife at work and scrubbed forward and the tip hit my palm really good. We all make mistakes but this one is really dumb and I feel like such an ass. With no insurance I had to use the bosses comp insurance. It breaks my heart knowing it's going to cost but I can't do much.

The moral of the story is don't scrub like a moron. A single lapse in good judgement can be a danger to yourself and others. I don't ask for sympathy but please remember to be more careful than I was tonight.

[Matus]

I know how you feel but we all do things that afterwards are hard to explain why we did them that way the way we did. I hope your hand will heel soon.

[knyfeknerd]

This thread is useless without pics!
AKA Pics or it didn't happen!

[larrybard]

Sorry to hear. Good luck with quick healing. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a professional chef who has never had a significant knife injury -- but that's scant comfort.

[CoqaVin]

I always seem to cut myself at the most inopportune times, if it does happen, I do feel like such an idiot that I did cut myself, I feel like a rookie

[Adirondack]

I know how you feel but we all do things that afterwards are hard to explain why we did them that way the way we did. I hope your hand will heel soon.

That's for sure. When I got my first car at 21 (1970 Opel Manta) I wondered how fast it could go, so on a really foggy night on a country 2 lane highway I got it up to 90 mph, thinking that in the pea soup thick fog no one could see me speeding. That couldn't have ended badly at all.

Heal up quickly.

[Mrmnms]

Raise your hand if you've never ever cut yourself while cooking or sharpening... well... I thought so. Like Chris said, pix?

[Zwiefel]

+1 on the pics!

When I clean my knives I only scrub from heel to tip (and spine to edge), then lift up and come back....much harder to have a owie that way.

I guess the means I'm edge-trailing for cleaning!

[daveb]

Another day, another band-aid.

[Matus]

That's for sure. When I got my first car at 21 (1970 Opel Manta) I wondered how fast it could go, so on a really foggy night on a country 2 lane highway I got it up to 90 mph, thinking that in the pea soup thick fog no one could see me speeding. That couldn't have ended badly at all.

Heal up quickly.

I am glad you did not have more money at the time. Think how things could have ended with something like Corvette.