Can you say subida?
So, at the new gig, I managed to hurt myself and it requires a band-aid. As a father, all of the band-aids in the house are some sort of kid’s cartoon character. I get up the other morning and put on a pink band-aid. I head out to the job site and am relaying instructions and comparing notes with the foreman. After talk of the day’s plans, what needs done and all manner of detail, he looks at my wrist where the band-aid has come loose and is flapping in the wind and in his best alpha male voice says “Your Dora is falling off.”
I said “It’s a princess, asshole”.
Right now, I have a Phineas and Ferb band-aid.
July 10th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
That caused me to soak my keyboard in soda and was well played. Never try to live it down, be proud of your bad self!
July 10th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Perry?!
>.>
July 11th, 2012 at 9:39 am
we always had Cinderella ones around here.
July 11th, 2012 at 10:21 am
You wear band aids??? If it is bad enough for a band aid then super glue will do just fine.. And you won’t have to come up with catchy really gay retorts..
July 11th, 2012 at 10:37 am
Electrical tape also works well in a pinch.
July 11th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Real men use duct tape!
July 11th, 2012 at 11:33 am
Waterproof Duct tape… With Butyl…
July 11th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Real men ain’t got time to bleed.
July 11th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
“It’s a princess, asshole” made me laugh loud enough to concern my boss. It would seem that some don’t know there is a hierarchy in bandaid coolness. I must now go find the Phineas and Ferb. Today.
July 11th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I bought some Hello Kitty ones to annoy my son when he was young. Mostly I have fabric ones; the plastic ones make my skin rot, and I cut myself frequently. When I sawed the print off my finger I just jammed it into my jeans until I could get upstairs to clean it out.
July 11th, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Real men just cauterize with a cigar and carry on.
July 11th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
The “Liquid Bandage” stuff (nitrocellulose lacquer)that comes in a little bottle does a better of staying on and sealing the wound, and it’s waterproof.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Masking tape works unless it’s spurting…
July 11th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Ah yes, working with the tools…
Me: Would you get me three 1/0 Kernys, please.
Guppy: Wut?
ME: Oh, yeah: Hey @#$%^&*, get me a buncha @#$%^&* 1/0 Kernys, you @#$%^&*-@#$%^&*.
Guppy: OK.
Gawd, I miss the honesty of those days…
July 11th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
you may be sitting on a gold mine…………..manly band-aids
July 11th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Make a band-aid that smells like bacon, and you’ll be a millionaire overnight.
July 11th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
“Thankfully”, when my kids were growing up, there weren’t any ‘cartoon’ bandaids… But your comeback was a good one! 🙂
July 11th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Although I like the idea of a bacon-scented band-aid, I’m down with Phineas and Ferb. I love that show more than my kids (ages 3 and 7). The Football X-7 episode is one of my all-time favorite TV shows.
July 11th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
In my two first aid kits (range bag and work bag), I carry a seperate package of exactly those type of bandaids, just for the people that hurt themselves and go around begging for a bandage, or complaining. As tempted as I am to rip on the use of bandaids though, I remember my oldschool carpenter mentor, who I would have to yell at to get him to bandage himself, as he was staining hardwood with his blood. 🙂
July 11th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
You kids nowadays…the first-generation special kids’ bandaids had planets, and battleships. Boys wore them with pride. It’s not “kids’ bandaids” that have failed us; it’s our notion of “special kids.” Asshole princesses, as it were.
You’d think famous tool brands would be available for licensing in this field. The bold safety yellow of DeWalt would look good; a certain type of craftsman would go for Ryobi, if Norm wore one first, and Leatherman and Gerber are just a gimme. The knife ought to come with a box of them.
Smith & Wesson trauma kit? Red badge o’courage. Not Glock, though. They don’t believe in safety.
July 12th, 2012 at 8:07 am
Reminds me of the time I sliced by thumb open pretty bad on sharp magazine lip while doing some private instruction at an indoor range. I rooted through my range bag and dug out some cotton cleaning patches which I wrapped around the slice. I couldn’t find my masking tape though, so I went up to the front counter, holding the little 1″ cleaning patches on my thumb, dripping blood the whole way and asked them for some masking tape so I could finish wrapping the wound. The women behind the counter took one look, reacher under the counter, pulled out a small first aid kit and said, “Wouldn’t you rather have a band aid?” And I was so proud of my improvised field dressing…