Early yesterday evening, I was sipping my first dose of Irish penicillin while peeling potatoes for au gratin. (They turned out wonderfully, BTW.) I don’t like to take out potato eyes with the peeler, since I usually take too much potato flesh along with them, so after the peels were removed, I gouged the eyes out with my thumbnail. Bad idea, I know, but I don’t the whiskey itself made the decision for me; I was just impatient to get out of the kitchen, join the others in watching In the Name of the Father, and start drinking for real.
In any event, I pushed the skin under my thumbnail too far back, and there’s a wall of potato skin under it.
It hurts.
So what should I do? Get a nail file and extract the foreign substance, causing more pain, or just wait a day or two for the nail to move forward? Or is there another solution?
As I said, it hurts, and I need to be able to use my right thumb. [Charlie Brown]Besides that, it wasn’t a finger; it was my THUMB![/Charlie Brown]
P.S. ITNOTF is pretty raw. I was glad when we moved on to The Snapper.