Nearly Instant Karma was Cooking for the weather 20

The worst finger cut I had should have had stitches but I was way too freaked out. I was tending bar and jamming! Working the dining room well on a very busy Friday night, had my rhythm going, I was all elbows, highballs, top shelf mixed, frozen drinks, and while the latter blended, draft beer.

Wham! slammed open the cooler, grabbed a frozen mug and put it under the beertap while flipping the tap open and Slam! into the cooler for another frozen mug and met the mug from hell ... I guess there had been an avalanche earlier, this one was nothing but jagged points.

By the time I got back to the manager's office there was blood in my SHOE. And I had my arm held over my head and was pressing straight down on that cut. Somebody else counted out my drawer that night. I actually never laid eyes on the thing that night, I just went home and taped it up, sat catatonic in front of the tv until I fell asleep.

All that blood came from a small but deep cut in the tip of the pad of my right thumb. I have a scar, ten years later, like a lopsided smile. I honestly thought I had severed something when I saw the blood. Fingers really do bleed a lot.