This ain't gonna be good

I slipped with a nail gun and drove a nail into the joint of my thumb one evening.

Normally, I would have just pulled it out, but I decided not to because of it being in the joint. My wife and I headed to the emergency room. It wasn't bleeding, the nail had sealed itself well.

Got signed in and a doc said "need x-rays" and we were shuffled over to the x-ray dept to wait... And wait we did... a couple hours had gone by and by now it was quite late. We were sitting on a bench in a hallway and people would pass by us on a regular basis. So... I started screwing around and when I knew someone was coming, I would put my hand on top of my wife's head. It looked like I had nailed my hand to my wife's head. Then we would just look at everybody when they passed by.

This must have gotten someone's attention, because the next thing we knew, I was getting my x-ray and back to see the doc. Turned out to be a small chip and nothing to worry about, so they just yanked the nail out, gave me a tetanus shot and sent me home.