Mother & Daughter Fingers

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HATCHET JOB
Mom, daughter injured in separate mishaps
(Top Stories) Friday, 21 September 2007, 04:00 PST
BERNICE TRICK Citizen staff

Nellie Lefebrve, left and her daughter Corinna show the hatchet that injured their fingers while cutting kindling. (Citizen photo by David Mah) A Prince George mother and daughter, who were determined to drive the autumn chill from the house, both ended up chopping their fingers with the same hatchet Tuesday.

"A silly thing happened at my house," Nellie Lefebvre said.

"When I was out in the garage chopping kindling to light the fire in my insert, I missed, and I cut my left index finger badly. I drove myself to the hospital. It bled a lot like a gusher. They couldn't stitch it because of nerve damage, but they glued and bandaged it.

When Nellie was at work the same afternoon, she received a call from her adult daughter, Corinna, who lives with her.

"Mom, I went out to cut some kindling to start the fire so you wouldn't have to, and I missed and chopped my finger," the 32-year-old told her mother.

A neighbour drove Corinna to Prince George Regional Hospital to deal with her right index finger that was also gushing blood.

"Darn those hatchets anyhow," said the medical person caring for a second family member in one day.

Nellie said now she and Corinna are trying to decide whether to frame the hatchet or throw it away.

"I wonder what the odds are of two family members --one left-handed and one right-handed-- cutting index fingers with the same hatchet on the same day," said Nellie.

Superglue

You know how those superglue bottles come with warnings about skin sticking on contact? It's true. Missing chunks of fingers this morning.

Free Stuff

So there's this thing about getting free stuff off Craigslist or other places in general. For example, the free TV stand I got from the "nice" lady? She told me when I got it that it was missing 'a screw.' 'A screw' in her mind meant all the hardware, instructions, and legs. Who steals legs from a TV stand? It's now in the dumpster and I reclaimed my old TV stand from my brother, so basically I still ended up with a free item.

The free 27" screen TV I got in the back alley? It decides when it turns itself off, which seems to be after about 1 1/2 hours when it overheats. The weird thing is it stayed on for all of "Children of Men", a movie so boring and flat that I wouldn't have minded if the TV had shut down in the middle of it. Why did people say that movie was so good? Did they watch it? They're probably the same ones who also thought "Babel" was amazing. What a tedious, stereotyping, redundant flick. It felt like the whole movie was an excuse to exercise the director's dream of slapping a full-frontal nude Japanese girl up on screen. It still doesn't make sense to me how she fit in, and no, it's not because I'm cinematically challenged.

Whatever. The point of this entry is to talk about free stuff. And I must say that I am relieved to be released from the bond of Craigslist. I am happily moved into my apartment and have no further need of other people's stuff.