[woodbutcher1963]

I worked as a landscaper, lawn mower, carpenter, etc. I never worked inside until college.
Try working outside with railroad ties in July when its 90 degrees. Try spreading topsoil without a tractor. Kids today do not know what physical labor means.

My worst accident was smashing my thumb between two railroad cross ties we were sorting through at the ConRail yard in Buffalo. I took off my glove and the nail was just hanging there, so I pulled it off the rest of the way. I remember having to sit down because I thought I was going to faint if I didn’t.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m with you there. I spent two summers while in college working for a friend’s landscaping company. He had a maintenance contract with a big developer and we cut acres and acres and acres of grass. Got lots of exercise and made what was, for the time, pretty good money.

Also learned all about FICA matching and withholding taxes when he showed me how he did my payroll. Most people I dare say are STILL clueless on how THAT scam operates.

[fireman15]

I took off my glove and the nail was just hanging there, so I pulled it off the rest of the way.

I have been there on that one. I had deformed fingernails for years. I still have visible scars on the tops of some of my fingers from accidents that happened 35 years ago.

[Graybeard58]

I took off my glove and the nail was just hanging there, so I pulled it off the rest of the way. I remember having to sit down because I thought I was going to faint if I didn’t.

I got my finger mashed in an industrial accident, I was wearing gloves at the time, I gingerly removed the glove and that's when I got weak in the knees, there was my finger, hanging by a piece of skin.

It couldn't be sewed back on,. the tissue was too damaged by the smashing.