If you know me or if you know any of my paternal male relatives y’all know what this means.
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If you know me or if you know any of my paternal male relatives y’all know what this means.
blief 
You must have accomplished something profound…not computer-related. Watch out for the wee mermaid. She likes to test the pain level of bloody knuckles.
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You must have been working on a car.
You did not inherit that from me. :~)
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One guess is close, the other…nnnnot so much.
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Working on a bike.
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What happened? Take me out of my miserable state of curiosity!!
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You’re showing that you haven’t lit a propane stove in a while…because all your finger hairs are there? 😉
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@Yo, bucking the trend, is right – but not exactly the answer I’m looking for.
@James Z – clearly knows me. Sde note – finger hairs grow back sometime within two months, camping was in June.
@Margy – must give fair opportunity to His Grumpiness, who is oddly silent on this one.
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While we wait, you could use some first aid and lotion :~)
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Taking too long…need instant gratification 🙂
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The bike chain. Or else having turned the bike upside down and feeding pebbles in to the wheel well whilst turning the pedals madly, manually, a pebble spit out and hit you. I could go on, but will spare you.
Since I have already zeroed in on bike work, I won’t have to use my alternate theory of dragging your knuckles. HHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Couldn’t resist. Girl power! He hehehehehehehheh.
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Love the dragging your knuckles, wish I had thought of it!
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Allright allright allright.
Before this gets outta hand I am gonna hafta step in…end the madness.
I wasn’t looking for “what” I did to cause the bloody knuckle only the meaning:
For the record, I was removing a pedal, off a little girls bike, so said girl (friend of Mermaid) could learn to balance her bike before worrying about pedaling the bike.
The rub, so to speak, was that the right pedal was on there so tight that “normal” tools were insufficient and a purpose-made $12 wrench was purchased with the express intent of getting that pedal off.
When it finally came loose, per the $12 wrench, I must have scraped my knuckle on some thing or other…
…BUT…
…that means that it got done right because we all (paternal male relatives) know that unfortunately, if you aren’t bleeding then you either aren’t done or you didn’t do it right.
Now, I’m gonna go have a banana.
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I like your logic Lief. By your reasoning, I do practically all of my home improvements and yard work very well and to completion. Although for me I have to add that a sore back must be involved.
Tom.
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Let’s cut to the chase, do I win something for being the closest guess?
How was the banana? HAAAAAAA. I kill myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“… fair opportunity to His Grumpiness, who is oddly silent on this one.”
Well, I just now peeked at your BLOG, so that’ why I’ve been “silent”. However, before I even read the comments — just viewed the photo, I knew in an instant that Blief was striving to do something mechanical! I recognized the knuckles as “typical” Zimmerman-ish, working outside regular, salaried-job hours, doing what must be done.
Well done, my Grandson!! [A Grandfather sheds a tear of pride and joy.]
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Hmm, grasshopper procrastinates on the prize decision…..
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No prizes – wasn’t really a contest, just a game with bloody knuckles.
Besides BopOp said “accomplished something profound” – which I find to be about thiiiis much closer to the original implication of the hidden ‘meaning’ in the picture.
So….there. 🙂
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Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah….
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I have never understood it, getting bloody knuckles, or anything else when trying to accomplish something shows a remarkable lack of finesse in my view. Too much adrenaline or something. Hands are a prized possession, they should be treated carefully, in advance.
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Mom said, “Hands are a prized possession, they should be treated carefully”
You are absolutely correct: Hands are a prized possession; Zimmermen’s hands are capable of doing awesome things, especially with the proper (or, in some cases, improper) tools. But do you think we abuse our hands on purpose? NO! “It” just happens; we can’t tell when — or why — it happens. But by the time we get “the job” done, when we wash off the grease and other debris associated with “the job”, a bloody knuckle (or worse) is almost mandatorily present.
Who knows??
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I think it’s the same as how we Banker/Erskine women can’t get through a meal without some bit of our meal ending up on our blouse!! Mabel’s daughters!! Weird it never ends up on our laps though…huh….
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Helloooooo, some of us don’t wear everything we eat! Some of us are married to people who do though…….
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Yo Yo Yo….not everything we eat, we are too dainty for that. But a little bit does fall.
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Like I said, finesse. Always working on it.
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