The kind that end with you getting a tattoo that basically says “note to self! don’t be a dumbass!”? Yeah. Me too. (Don’t believe me? look around the site and find pictures of my arms. Proof is in the pudding*, as it were). ANYWAY… This all comes back to me sitting here thinking to myself “godDAMN something unpleasant weather-wise comes this way”. How do I know? Other than the fact that I looked it up on the NOAA site, and they said so, my right wrist is all achey and feels like it’s at least as big as my ass. It’s not, mind you, it just feels that way.

I can see you all sitting there wondering what the hell I’m talking about, and how those two things could POSSIBLY be related, and tempting as it is to just let you sit there and wonder, I’ll explain.

Several years ago I learned The Power Of Denial. Prepping vehicles for a rally, replacing the struts in the MR2 iirc, and Critterboy finds a (dum dum DUM) Stuck Bolt. I’m sure this comes as a huge surprise. Stupidity ensued. Like a dumbass (see above), I offered to stick my tiny little hands in the stupidly small space in which the stuck bolt was lurking, and try to unstick it. With a BIG wrench, and all my strength, I pulled up on it. And LO! It gave! Well, it sheared. Not quite the same thing, but close. Right? Alas, it sent my right wrist directly up into a piece of sheet metal, neatly snapping the bone.

Oops!

At the time I was Poor. And had No Insurance. And always have and always will have a serious aversion to all things doctor. So…. yeah. I didn’t go. “It’s not broken” I said with a perfectly straight face (albeit a perfectly colorless one…), and even though it was bent at a rather unwholesome angle, nobody forced the issue.

All these years (3?, 4?) later, it’s still kinda crooked (although as long as I have my watch on you don’t notice it), and whenever the weather is about to do something ucky, I am FULLY aware of it well in advance. Makes me feel old. ‘Cos, yeah, I can feel it in m’bones, dontchaknow.

*Don’t EVEN get me started on that idiotic saying and the 80million permutations of it. Just let it go, people. Deep circular breathing, calm blue ocean.

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