[sperry]

Just so you don't feel too bad, I'll share my story:

I was building an R/C glider a few years back (around '99, '00 IIRC). I was working on the crucial join between the two wings, so I was holding a 2 meter long wing frame, right at the middle. Unfortunately the glue I was using wasn't going exactly where I wanted it to go, and I didn't notice that it had drooled down all over and under my thumb on the hand I was holding the wings with.

I finally got things glued up and tried to set the wings down and realized that I had *really* glued the crap out of my thumb to the wing. I started laughing about it, since I knew it was gonna take an hour or so to exacto myself free. And that's when the chemical burn started.

Crazy glue can be pretty bad in small amounts, but when you get a lot on your skin, you're fucked. That glue heated up somthing fierce as it reacted with my skin and the wood of the wings. I thought about smashing the wing off my thumb so I could douse it in the bathroom sink (which wouldn't have done any good), but since I spent a month building it, I just took the burn.

I tried cutting myself free right away, except the pain hurt so much my knife hand was shaking, and I couldn't safely cut. So I waited. Worst 10 minutes evAr.

Finally when things calmed down, I was able to go about cutting my thumb free. I had to leave a good layer of skin on the plane. When I was finally free, my thumb was the bright pink of fresh skin, except for the deeper blisters from the 2nd degree burns. The wings had my thumbprint clearly glued on it.

I eventually sanded all the skin and excess glue off the wings, and my thumb healed completely in a few weeks. But I'm much more careful with super glue now.