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WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)

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Carl-E:

--- Quote from: OldGoat on 07 Aug 2018, 22:39 ---Jim's business involves industrial mixers that can break an arm - a boobooed fingernail isn't going to look all that impressive to him.

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It's different when it's your kid.  My wife was training to be a PA and had done an ER tour, seeing the working end of several bloody messes.  When our 3 year old daughter bonked her head and it was bleeding, I held her for a bit to calm her before bandaging it up.  My wife came home and saw the blood on the shoulder of my shirt after I'd told her about it, and she nearly puked. 

BenRG:
The thing that strikes me most strongly in response to today's strip is Sam's reaction to the idea of Jim banning her from seeing Faye. It occurs to me that we've never seen Sam with friends of her own age, only with adults (although, in Faye's case, an adult who can act Sam's age if she wants to). I'm beginning to wonder if Faye is Sam's only close friend and that is the only reason she keeps turning up. That's something that I think Jim needs to start thinking about because, combined with her preference for 'independent learning' it might indicate that she is having pretty serious problems at school.

Meanwhile, Faye's lack of reaction to 'I thought it would be funny to trim my nails' with a power tool, suggests that this is a mad thought that passed through her mind on occasion. She can't be mad at Sam about an impulse that she's had to physically fight off on occasion! :-P

Here's a thought: Maybe Veronica will be more focussed on responding to this incident. Jim has had Sam come home with bumps, scrapes and cuts (I bet she's had more Tetanus shots than most at this point) so many times that he's developed a sort of immunity to the experience. Veronica will probably be less inured to the experience!

oeoek:
Losing a fingernail in a workshop is pretty much part of the basic training program, I would say.

Weather it is by hitting yourself with a hammer, or trying something like trimming your nails on a grinder does not matter much. Some things you learn from what other tell you, and some things you just need to experience. Fingernails grow back, split fingertips heal, splinters can be dug out. Just don't lose an eye!

JoeCovenant:

--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 07 Aug 2018, 03:29 ---Sam gets frigging sword fighting classes. You might expect her to be aware of the dangers of ... tools, not even powered ones.

But still, technically, she has all her fingers. Nobody said anything about missing fingernails. And think about the crap her classmates will give her for losing a fingernail to a power tool. Yes, kids are that cruel.

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Depends how it's spun.

"YEah, I totally took my nail off with a POWER TOOL! Naaahhh - didn't hurt at all! Look, didn't even need any stitches - THAT'S how bad-ass *I* am!"

...etc.

Vurogj:
Something else to bear in mind before people start raining lawyers on Faye and Bubbles. Dora's name is also on the lease. I don't know enough about US law to know if she'd be liable for something that happened on a business premises she's a guarantor for, but I don't see Jeph going anywhere near that far.

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