Blood sacrifice

[nineveh_uk]

My new cheese grater has exacted its appointed tribute. None can withstand the eternal maw.

Comments

[caulkhead]

But you speak as if it is a once only thing. Many are the sacrifices demanded by the Grate Ones.

[nineveh_uk]

*Groans*

[legionseagle]

It's entirely to annoy the vegans in your acquaintance.

[legionseagle]

Oh, dear, was it one with those miscrophane blades?

[nineveh_uk]

Inevitably.

It's only on the mildly annoying scale really, but fingers do seem to bleed.

[legionseagle]

I've had mine for years, and I always seem to lose some skin at the inside knuckle of my middle finger in crises.

[nineveh_uk]

The dark spirits imbue the steel with their power only at the cost of regular libations, and of course a real sacrifice needs to be inconvenient.

[caulkhead]

They're a menace. Every time I consider buying one - because they do grate really well - I remember trying desperately not to bleed all over aellairene's kitchen and, worse, her dinner.

[nineveh_uk]

Practice! And motorcycling gloves.

[perennialanna]

I have three microplane graters and have never grated myself with any of them*. Mind you, I did try to sever a thumb with the bread knife this year, and I once broke a toe by dropping a kitchen chair onto it.

*And a safety device for them. But I also have a safety device for my mandolin and as it turned out it was just as well I wore my fingernails long in those days...

[nineveh_uk]

They're just lulling you into a false sense of security. That, or they've outsourced the hard work to the other kitchen implements.

[legionseagle]

I have a silvery scar on one index finger from when the blade skidded off the pan forte...

I am so proud of my friends. It was New Year's and we were bound to see The Fellowship of the King (this event was some years ago.) And, given I was bleeding like a stuck pig, the designated first aider of the group put butterfly bandages on the finger, and said apologetically that it would scar.

No-one dreamed to suggest anyone needed to miss the show. Though it was a horridly bleeding cut.

[perennialanna]

Distraction was obviously what you needed. And possibly everyone else as well.

[conuly]

Random driveby. Can I crosspost this at metaquotes?