Butter knives are knives, too
This might come across as naive, or even stupid, of me, but did you know that butter knives can cut stuff? It is an honest question. I should add that I am not talking about cutting the edges off of bread or cutting pancakes. I mean cutting things like meat. Or in my case skin.
A knife is a knife
I suppose I should have reminded myself that a knife is a knife. Albeit, it is a butter knife, but a knife is still a knife.
While washing dishes this morning I cut myself. I had a handful of silverware in my hand and as I was rinsing them, I felt them start to slip. I did not want to rewash a handful of silverware, so I attempted to squeeze my hand in an effort to keep them from falling into the murky, dirty funk water that was in the pot in the dirty dish side of the sink.
Well, I was under the impression that if my hand was not made of butter or pancake that grabbing a butter knife on the rough edge of the blade would really not cause me any harm. After all, it is a butter knife. But I was horribly snapped back into the reality that a butter knife is still a knife when the blade sliced into the skin that connects my right pinky finger to the palm of my hand.
Imagine my surprise, and my horror, as I looked at my hand and saw a slice in my skin cause by a butter knife. I was so shocked, in fact, that I asked my wife how this was possible. She reminded me that a knife is a knife.
Sometimes the obvious is entirely too obvious
After simmering on the that little tidbit of delicious wisdom, I returned to the kitchen a smarter and happier man. I now knew that if I handled a knife, of any sort, I would certainly be more watchful over what end I handled it. And I would certainly not take for granted that just because the knife has a yummy sounding name like 'butter', it would not hurt me. No no, indeed, I would, from now on, keep a close lookout for any knife that I might handle.
The last thing I need to do is assume that a pocket knife does nothing but cut pockets.
FTR: -16/6
