Invisible plasters
I’m convinced that my IQ is about 50 in the first 15 minutes or so after I’ve woken up. I think that it’s partly to do with getting up before 6am (I’m less dopey if I get up an hour or more later), but whatever the reason, I’m a bit of a danger to myself and others until I’ve had time to give my brain a bit of choke and start up properly without spluttering and backfiring.
This morning’s piece of ‘Idiocy Upon Waking’ concerned an invisible plaster—-the type with a transparent sticky part, and a flesh coloured antiseptic pad. I’d put it on a huge blister the previous night (the result of a mosquito bite gone bad), but when I woke up, I could see blood where the blister was. Thinking that the blood had seeped through the antiseptic pad, I tried to peel the plaster off, poking the wound clumsily a couple of times. It took a good few minutes for the realisation to dawn (painfully slowly) that there wasn’t in fact an incredibly effective invisible plaster on my ankle, but no plaster at all. Not wanting Mr. Bsag to wake up and find a manky used plaster in the bed, I then had to rummage around under the bedclothes—-trying not to wake him—-to retrieve the invisible blighter.
I’ve had it with invisible plasters—-next time I’m going to get some of those blue catering plasters and avoid this kind of shenanigans.
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I'd go with the visible ones - you can get the sympathy vote as well that way!
by AndyC the WB @ 20/06/2006 6:06 pm • Permalink •
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Okay, this calls for my obdormition story.
Years ago I had a bedroom with my alarm clock standing on a small dresser at the foot end of my bed instead of the night table, so that I would have to do something more than just reach out with my arm to turn it off, and thus help me become more awake. The clock's snooze button doesn't always work properly, and when it doesn't, one has to press it pretty hard with one's thumb.
So one morning the alarm went off, and I sat up in bed and tried to reach for the clock to hit the snooze button and catch five more minutes of sleep. The trouble was, my right arm was still very asleep, as in completely numb and powerless.
The logical thing to do would be to use my left, fully operational arm to reach for the clock instead. But in my relatively comatose state I instead used my left arm to support the right arm, so I could reach for the clock with the latter.
More than once I've wished I could've seen myself in third person that time, or better yet, caught me on tape, sitting in bed, squinting, holding my limp right arm with my left and trying to switch of a stubborn alarm clock with a numb hand.
by Travholt @ 20/06/2006 9:06 pm • Permalink •
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The Elastoplast cloth plasters are really worth a few extra cents each, even if they do hurt an unusual amount to remove. Their sheer longevity justifies them.
by Milan @ 20/06/2006 9:07 pm • Permalink •
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http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/clocky.html
http://www.thegreenhead.com/technology/2006/02/blowfly-flying-alarm-clock-by-ena.php
by Audrey @ 21/06/2006 1:07 am • Permalink •
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If you want high visibility, try 3M NexCare Active Brights. They come in a variety of loud colours and stay stuck on better than any other plasters I have used.
by Martin @ 21/06/2006 3:07 am • Permalink •
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That sounds like a good 'come-on' line...
"Fancy a rummage?"
by Mr.D. @ 21/06/2006 10:07 am • Permalink •
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Didn't realise that getting plastered would elicit so much comment!
by Jonathan Briggs @ 21/06/2006 5:06 pm • Permalink •
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Oy! You have my empathy -- I've done a similar thing with my contact lenses.
by Aaron F. @ 22/06/2006 11:06 pm • Permalink •
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