I have conquered the Russian Wart of Doom™. After years of picking, cutting, slicing, burning, lasering, freezing, and Dr. Scholls-ing, the wart has packed up and moved on of its own accord. How funny that once I just accepted it as a part of me, it made a hasty exit.
What is that quote Woody Allen says in Annie Hall… something like, “I would never want to be part of any club that would have me as a member.” Well, good riddance Warty McWart. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
I have a friend who was once taking a trip to mountain bike down south. He could not find a screw necessary to attach his bike rack to his auto. He searched & searched to no avail. I finally convinced him to cut his losses and we’d go to the hardware store to find a matching screw. (He was on a strict schedule.) When he accepted my plan, he took one final act of frusteration by roughly throwing the rack on the floor. The missing screw popped out and rested on the floor. The screw looked rather smug about the whole affair.
Oooh, oooh! Somebody posted! Thanks, js_africanus. I was beginning to fear I had posted one of those incredible sinking threads that newbies like me have nightmares about.
Your screw story reminds me of my cow-orker who is always frantically looking for her glasses… throwing papers, freaking out most spectacularly, only to discover that they are resting delicately on top of her head. This happens at least weekly. Oh, how I wish I was kidding.
I heard about it here first, and man, it works! I had a wart that kept coming back and so I covered it with a tiny piece of duct-tape. 8 days later the whole thing fell off. Flipping amazing.
Glad to hear it’s gone…
And I have never ever looked for my sunglasses frantically while they were perched on top of my head. Nope, not me!
Yes, I did try Duct-tape and it seemed at first to be successful. I learned later that the Wart of Doom had simply gone into hiding. It was weird, each attempt to remove it would appear to have finally worked. A few weeks later, hello, back again… bigger than ever.
I wonder if the Wart will know I’m talking about it and come back just to spite me? I wouldn’t put it past the little sucker.
Oh, and Mudshark, if you’ve never had anything lasered off, prepare yourself for a smell you won’t soon forget.
Heh heh. Just two weeks ago I saw the same friend and he was looking all over for his car keys. They were in his hand. We had a good chuckle.
I had something growing that I showed to the doc, and he got so excited about having a chance to use some liquid nitrogen. It made his day. You can give that a whirl, if burning wart ain’t the smell you wish to have seared into your memory.
Kind of OT, I accidently shaved off most of a mole a while back and the thing wouldn’t stop bleeding. It bled for an hour and a half before I finally got to the drug store to get a stiptic pen. What’s up with that?!
I’ve heard horror stories about sliced moles and how they don’t stop bleeding. I’ve cut my legs shaving enough to know that you barely need to nick yourself and you’ll bleed for quite a while. A girlfriend of mine is unfortunate enough to have a raised mole in her armpit. She nicks it routinely, but one day she couldn’t get it to stop bleeding and had to miss work because she couldn’t put a shirt on. Whoops!
I suppose were you to shave a wart, it would also bleed mightily. Anyone with a bleeding wart story?
:: shudder :: On second thought, maybe I don’t want to know…
I was beginning to fear I had posted one of those incredible sinking threads that newbies like me have nightmares about.