reminds me of what me and my sisters learned as wee children.  Early on we learned to never tell our mom about a splinter, we just didn't enjoy Mom using a needle to remove the splinter.  We loved our Mom, and she wasn't mean or cruel about it, but we really didn't like it.

Yep.  Needle and tweezers.  Needle heated up over a match to sterilize it.  Then when the splinter is dug out she added a healthy smear of Mercurochrome.  Stung like crazy.  I'm not sure how we survived childhood.

Hey jb!!! You can be our road to understanding. Why did you and your wife get these tattoos?

Just like them. My first was when I was 18 and fresh out of Parris Island.

I had one of those big erasers that stuck to the end of a #2 pencil after the tiny eraser wore out.  It never fit right so I thought I'd just force it on by banging it on the table (you can see where this is going).  Two hits worked fine, but on the third I lost my grip.  The pencil stayed upright on the table and my hand banged back down on the point.  I pulled it out of my hand OK, but the lead left a trace of black where the point stuck in.  Nothing in there but a trace of lead and a funny little black mark.

I don’t recall the exact details but I think I was in the first grade so only 6 years old. I seem to remember metal chairs with holes in the seat and some kid had stuck a pencil through one with the point up, and I ended up falling over onto it. Memory is very fuzzy, but the memory of looking at my elbow and seeing a broken tip embedded there is very clear. The top layer of skin healed over it and it was visible under there for years and years, well into my adulthood. I eventually forgot about it and then one day noticed it was gone.

Why didn’t I go to the teacher with my “injury” and get her to dig it out with tweezers or something?  I was a stupid 6 year old. Never occurred to me. 😂

Well, that’s new to me. You pencil lead people, why the heck didn’t you or someone or a doctor pull it out? Or are you trolling us?

I had one of those big erasers that stuck to the end of a #2 pencil after the tiny eraser wore out.  It never fit right so I thought I'd just force it on by banging it on the table (you can see where this is going).  Two hits worked fine, but on the third I lost my grip.  The pencil stayed upright on the table and my hand banged back down on the point.  I pulled it out of my hand OK, but the lead left a trace of black where the point stuck in.  Nothing in there but a trace of lead and a funny little black mark.