# I burned my hand making ice water this morning.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 30, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burned-my-hand-making-ice-water-this-morning/417539 "2007-08-30T21:15:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burned-my-hand-making-ice-water-this-morning/417539/1 "2007-08-30T21:15:51Z")

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The water at work tastes horrible. But the ice maker and coffee makers have filters build in. So to get ice cold water one must fill a cup up with ice the use the little spiget on the coffee maker to fill it with boiling hot water. I have 34oz travel mug I use. So this morning I was filling the mug with water when someone said hello. I moved my had just a little to the left with resulted in a second of hot water rain down on my knuckles :eek: . Needless to say it _hurt_ and my skin turned red. Luckily after I put ointment on it the soreness went down and by the end of the day. So anyone else injure themselves in a strange, counterintuitive way recently? :smack:

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**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burned-my-hand-making-ice-water-this-morning/417539/2 "2007-08-30T21:36:32Z")

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My friends all gave me a weird look last week when I told them the painful scrape on my finger was from doing laundry. Scraped it transferring my towels out of the dryer.