About 20 years ago I took a slice off the top of my thumb trying to open a corned beef tin. The thumb stills looks an odd shape. Even with loads of pressure and padding it bled for half an hour through the various layers before the flap of thumb started to stick back in place.
Ouch!
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My story this week .The wife had to use her bike for work .I needed the car to take young daughter to Dental Hospital .So she bought a set of lights .Brought the bike into the conservatory .Got out the stanley knife to open the box these lights were locked into .Cut three sides no problem .Last side put the blade right through .sliced the cushion to ribbons on the settee in the consevatory .Had to tape it and turn it over .
Gerry Attrick
Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Consultant
I blush to tell you this, but a few years ago I was cutting holes in a tarpaulin with a penknife in order to thread ropes through it. I had aleady cut several, but I reached a bit where the tarpaulin was double thickness so I needed to support it firmly to get the point of the knife through. So I supported it with my unprotected left hand. 
How ruddy daft is that? My index and second fingers still bear the scars.
How ruddy daft is that? My index and second fingers still bear the scars.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
The last time I took a blade to my thumb was when I was about 15. For some reason my body decided to have a Appendicitis on Ice (No its not a drink ;-) ). I'd never fallen on ice skates before but I doubled over in shear pain that day; one of the blades went straight into my thumb (Double Ouch!). My mum bandaged it up and I was then rushed into hospital for an emergency Appendix operation; during my recovery in hospital my mum asked the nurse dozens of times if they could also look at my thumb; a week later I came out of the hospital with the same home made bandage. I'm left with a 1/4 inch scar but overtime it barely noticeable now.