Today, while cooking, I managed to burn my finger. I quickly turned the tap on and ran my finger under cold water, but apparently someone had just used the hot tap, because boiling water flooded out onto my nicely scalded finger. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was cleaning a pan. I turned the water on, and it was super hot. My reaction was to slam my hand down. On a knife. So, not only do I have a burned hand, but there's also a huge cut on it from the knife. FML
Today, I got burned, all because the toaster scared me while I was holding a pot of boiling water. FML
Today, I managed to spill piping hot oil all over my kitchen floor, thinking it was too hot to clean right then and there I left it for a few hours to cool. I forgot about it, and slipped over in it bashing my head into my cupboard handle. FML
Today, I burnt my finger making pancakes for my kid. After hopping around and running the blister under cold water, I went back to finish making the pancakes and burned the same finger right on top of the new blister. An hour later it burst and the flesh is a funny colour underneath. FML
Today, as I was trying to remove my lunch from the hot oven tray, my finger brushed against the metal for a moment, and I instinctively put it in my mouth. I burnt my tongue, on my finger. I didn't realize that was possible. FML
Today, I spilt a very hot cup of tea all over a burn I got yesterday from spilling a very hot cup of tea. FML
Today, I was cooking. I leaned over the stove to preheat the oven, and burned my nipple on a pot of boiling water. I also have a teething son who is breastfeeding. FML
Today, while grabbing a husk of corn out of the boiling hot pot, I splashed hot water on my neck, dropped the corn on my injured toe, and cut myself on the counters, all while my family laughed at my pain. FML
Today, I burned myself while cooking, so I asked my mom to get the burn cream while I waited in the kitchen. While I was waiting, I absentmindedly set my hand on the hot stove, earning myself a second burn. FML
Today, I was pouring boiling water into a cup, and I accidentally spilled it all over my hand. My mother responded by slapping me for getting water everywhere. My hand is scorched red, but thanks, I love you too, mother. FML
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Top comments
Faatz 4
Burn baby burn!
gingerfly91 1
Ahem, scalded* Yes, I did just become one of those people.
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Comments (123)
killerkirsche 12
oops..didn't see comment #33 and #35
freshprizzle1 13
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it better to run warm water on a burn as opposed to ice cold water?
stewpididiot 11
Cold water. You were wrong. You have been corrected.
jesustitts 20
Actually, he was right. Warm water. Look it up on a medical website they will tell you cool water NOT cold, and NO ice!
CessnaPilot 5
Next time reach into the freezer.
BunBunBabe 8
I have done that before, it's pretty normal to assume the waters cold most of the time right out of the tap so you didn't deserve it
ThexFroggyGirl 21
I thought it was best to put warm water over a burn, for a drastic change in temperature would just make matters worse.
jesustitts 20
You're right.
shrdlu 28
If I've been running hot water, I make sure it's running cold water before turning the taps off, for exactly that reason.
TinyGiant 4
So you always make sure your faucet is prepared for burn relief? Maybe you need some cooking lessons
shrdlu 28
I also need to stop relying on the smoke detector to tell me when my cooking is done.
lilfreckle7 7
you guys realize that you're supposed to put it under hot water, right? it takes the heat out of the burn so that it stops stinging as much
jesustitts 20
Warm water.* You silly goose.
punkin92 2
When you have a burn your supposed to run it under hot water anyways..
jesustitts 20
Warm water actually. Also it's you're not your. Grammar lesson time. Your shows possession as in your dog, or your comment, or even your body. You're is a contraction meaning you are and therefore should be used in a place where it would make sense, such as you're a silly goose. Or you're wrong. :)
CrysisAverted 5
What OP doesnt realize is that its not the water thats hot... Its OP
ChefAwesome 13
Boohoo. Suck it up and put on your big girl panties.