# I got a papercut in my nose. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414 "2006-01-17T21:25:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/1 "2006-01-17T21:25:51Z")
I’m not exactly sure how this happened but there’s a paper cut right near the entrance of my left nostril. I got it to stop bleeding but it kind of hurts. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/2 "2006-01-17T21:30:34Z")
I had a friend in college who got a paper cut on his _eyeball_. He wore a patch for several weeks. Then, two days after getting the patch taken off, he was grabbed by his toddler, and got a fingernail gouge _on the same eye_. Yours will hurt for a while, I think. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/3 "2006-01-17T21:34:46Z")
The _Kleenex with Ginsu_ really will leave your nose red and puffy. I think you probably wanted the ones _with Lanolin_. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/4 "2006-01-19T01:22:13Z")
I’m not happy about this: whilei it amsues me to wonder HOW one gets a papercut in the nose or in the eyeball, I jsut _know_ that, as luck will have it, that is probably something I shall accidentally find out within the next week. ☹ I’m getting grumpy already! Isn’t it a pity that we haven’t yet inventednon-aggressive paper, though. Get well soon, people. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/5 "2006-01-19T01:24:46Z")
And I thought the one on the upper part of my ear was an odd place to get one (paper airplane accident fyi). How do you get a papercut on your eye or in your nose? ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/6 "2006-01-19T01:34:13Z")
And I thought the one on the upper part of my ear was an odd place to get one (paper airplane accident fyi). How do you get a papercut on your eye or in your nose? ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/7 "2006-01-19T01:41:10Z")
Crud, sorry for the double post. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/8 "2006-01-19T02:10:03Z")
One more reason not to snort cocaine… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/9 "2006-01-19T02:40:40Z")
You were attacked by a ninja. It’s the only explanation that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/10 "2006-01-19T03:01:53Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > You were attacked by a ninja. > It’s the only explanation that makes sense. Damn those guys are sneaky! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/11 "2006-01-19T04:07:34Z")
Yesterday I got a _splinter_ in the rim of my right nostril! I have no idea how, unless it’s because it was super-windy yesterday and something flew up from the ground and hit me. Hurt like a sumbitch though. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/12 "2006-01-19T04:18:22Z")
I once got hacked to death by midgets with widgets. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/13 "2006-01-19T12:01:16Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > You were attacked by a ninja. > It’s the only explanation that makes sense. It really is. Going through my day I have _no idea_ when this happened. All I know is I have a papercut still in my nose and it still hurts like a sonuvabitch. I also got _another_ papercut yesterday, though this one is just on my hand. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/14 "2006-01-19T12:07:30Z")
My friend got a LEAF CUT on her eyeball. She was walking past a plant and the flat leaf was just at eye level so she couldn’t see it. SLICE! Right in the eye! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/15 "2006-01-19T12:08:39Z")
Paper cuts in noses and on eyeballs … I doubt I’ll whinge about one just on the finger again. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/16 "2006-01-19T12:09:53Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > My friend got a LEAF CUT on her eyeball. She was walking past a plant and the flat leaf was just at eye level so she couldn’t see it. SLICE! Right in the eye! Oh, ow! Bamboo and some grasses do that too. Just - ow! ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/17 "2006-01-19T12:43:33Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > My friend got a LEAF CUT on her eyeball. She was walking past a plant and the flat leaf was just at eye level so she couldn’t see it. SLICE! Right in the eye! OUCH! Though eyes heal fast, don’t they? I’d imagine after the initial thirty minutes of agony it wouldn’t be too bad… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/18 "2006-01-19T12:57:41Z")
**Finally, I get to tell my story about my nostril without hijacking a thread.** For a brief time when I was about 13, I had a kitten. He was laying on my chest one day while I watched TV and for no other reason than he was a kitty playing, slashed out at my nose and caught the inside of my left nostril with one of his claws. I’m pretty sure the cat when flying as I jumped up holding my nose and rushing to the bathroom, sure that I would have the world’s worst bloody nose ever. It never bled. He got the upper levels of skin in a cresent shape figure. When I would go outside and play in the winter, if I sniffed, it would reopen the cut. It was especially annoying and irritating during -0 weather. The sniffing motion is when you stretch your lower lip downward and sniff because of a runny nose and no tissue. This action reopens the boo boo. The rest of the year, it doesn’t bother me. To this day, nearly 30 years later, this scar tissue bothers me in sub zero weather when I sniff and those Anti-Viral tissues cause some interesting sensations in that nostril. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/19 "2006-01-19T13:10:30Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > You were attacked by a ninja. [Navin R. Johnson] He hates nostrils! [/Navin R. Johnson] ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414/20 "2006-01-19T15:01:59Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > OUCH! Though eyes heal fast, don’t they? I’d imagine after the initial thirty minutes of agony it wouldn’t be too bad… It required a doctor visit, but she’s none the worse for wear. I had an eye injury that makes _this_ one look like a cake walk. I’ll share if you really want me to. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-papercut-in-my-nose/340414.md?page=2)