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highlyeccentricI went with Dad down to see his father - I was supposed to get a train from there back to Sydney, but Dad drove me the whole way, long story.
Sitting around eating lunch at the back of Pop's place, with Dad's sister D, my cousin Del (who has moved in with Pop and D), my Aunty C, and Del's son Jack:
Dad: Hey Jack I've got some advice for you
Jack, with a look on his face suggesting he's encountered his uncle's 'Advice' before: oh?
Dad: don't try to file your nails with any kind of rotary tool
Jack: ... wasn't planning on it
C: Did it file your toes off?
Dad: no, it worked quite well
Me: but... lemme guess... shattered the nail bed?
Dad: no
All: well what happened?
Dad: it's the heat. It hits you all at once. One minute you're all 'oh, this is effective!' and then your toenail heats up right down to the nail bed, and let me tell you, toenails do not cool off again quickly! Aah, Ahh, my toenails are burning me!
So there you go, o readers: do not file your toenails with a rotary tool. (I think he must have been using the buffer/sander from the engraving tool set?)
Speaking of toenails, while I was home I asked Dad to borrow some nail clippers. He brought me a range of toenail clipping devices and gave me a sales pitch regarding the strengths and weaknesses of each one, toenail maintenance wise.
The thing he didn't tell me, which Mum filled me in on when I told her about Dad, Toenail Clipper Connoisseur, is that the reason he has so many is he ended up taking home the clippers and scissors that had belonged to not one but /both/ of my deceased grandmothers. Because, Mum said, 'they were there, and what else were we going to do with them?' (I don't know. Anything but take them home and build a specialist toenail maintenance collection with them???)
Sitting around eating lunch at the back of Pop's place, with Dad's sister D, my cousin Del (who has moved in with Pop and D), my Aunty C, and Del's son Jack:
Dad: Hey Jack I've got some advice for you
Jack, with a look on his face suggesting he's encountered his uncle's 'Advice' before: oh?
Dad: don't try to file your nails with any kind of rotary tool
Jack: ... wasn't planning on it
C: Did it file your toes off?
Dad: no, it worked quite well
Me: but... lemme guess... shattered the nail bed?
Dad: no
All: well what happened?
Dad: it's the heat. It hits you all at once. One minute you're all 'oh, this is effective!' and then your toenail heats up right down to the nail bed, and let me tell you, toenails do not cool off again quickly! Aah, Ahh, my toenails are burning me!
So there you go, o readers: do not file your toenails with a rotary tool. (I think he must have been using the buffer/sander from the engraving tool set?)
Speaking of toenails, while I was home I asked Dad to borrow some nail clippers. He brought me a range of toenail clipping devices and gave me a sales pitch regarding the strengths and weaknesses of each one, toenail maintenance wise.
The thing he didn't tell me, which Mum filled me in on when I told her about Dad, Toenail Clipper Connoisseur, is that the reason he has so many is he ended up taking home the clippers and scissors that had belonged to not one but /both/ of my deceased grandmothers. Because, Mum said, 'they were there, and what else were we going to do with them?' (I don't know. Anything but take them home and build a specialist toenail maintenance collection with them???)