Ow

How to experience a whole new level of pain: Use fancy gadget to sharpen most of the household knives in the morning. Get said knives truly scary-sharp. Carefully check edge of the 8-inch Henckels knife--whoops, not carefully enough. Examine fingers and thumbs and see cuts so fine they're almost like paper cuts. Tape up the worst one and ignore the rest. Go about one's day (a bit of pond cleaning, a bit of sunning self in back yard, a bit of laundry, etc etc). Decide at end of day a "bloody mary" would be nice. (Quote marks because it's really just V8 and vodka). Cut piece of lime to wipe edge of glass, so as to apply very salty stuff to edge. You see where this is going.... OW OW OW. Lime AND salt on teeny tiny cuts. ::runs to sink, rinses hands:: Slug drink and think about making another one, but this time without the edge treatment.

Ow.