[grame]

Your splinter story reminded me of the time my son was playing with a friend on a porch with a wooden floor. Somehow he scooted across it while sitting and got the largest splinter I've ever seen. Went in one side of his cheek and you could see it trying to poke through on the other side. Took him to er and the dr tried to get it out, finally after a good hour or so of digging in this poor boy's butt cheek, “If there is anything left, it is gonna stay!” It was quite a while before he could laugh about that one. But it is a record I believe he still holds.

[BunnySlippers]

I was twirling around on my front porch and my hand hit a big barrel cactus. A giant cactus thorn went in my finger by the nail all the way to the bottom of the nail.

That required a trip to Cedars-Sinai where a surgeon used local anesthetic to use long pincer pliers to pull out the thorn.

[Bigg Red]

...splinter story...

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Don’t know how old your son is, but my posterior splinter is about 57 years old right now.