About two years after I started driving, I crushed my right thumb with my hand truck. I was in a 24' van backed up to a dock and had about 300 lbs. of hydraulic cylinders loaded on it. I was pulling the hand truck over the dock board walking backwards, and I tripped. My could see the bone and I left my complete thumbnail in back of the van. My customer drove me to the hospital. I was on workman's comp for eight weeks, I remember I closed on my house with my thumb still bandaged up.
Once I had this dog come after me, so I shoved my DIAD down his throat when he tried to bite me. He broke the display screen and the scanner on the back with his fangs. I figured the DIAD would be a lot less painful to fix than my hand. My OCS just laughed about it.