I have another piece of profundity
Never lean back in a chiar at the table with a sharpened pencil proped betwee you hand and the edge of the table!
It happened to me when I was a kid. I had a pencil go right through the palm of my hand and it hurt like heck!
This thread is so funny and the first thing I thought of has to do with a leaning chair too. Sorry you got hurt so badly Pippin. Mine was just painful to my pride.
Things I have learned:
When you are in a Moslem country, with very white skin and blue eyes, never make a mistake or do anything stupid because EVERYONE is watching you at all times. When you go to an out door tea garden, with chair legs on large stones, make sure each chair leg is on a solid rock before you sit down. Because if you don't, your chair will go flying back, you'll be laying flat on your back with your feet in mid air, in the middle of a tea garden with 100 people looking at you.
*cough*
The other thing I have recently learned is: When you have a rabbit who runs around the house, make sure your closet door is closed at all times. If you have long church dresses, make sure you check the hem before you leave for church. Other wise, you will get to church and during the Lord's supper, realize your entire hem has been munched away. Thus causing you to make an odd fashion statement among the Lord's people.