TIFU So it wasn't actually today but a couple of days before Christmas. Only now do I feel comfortable in sharing my shame. Let us go back a bit shall we. We always host Thanksgiving dinner at our home and put on quite the spread, with lots of help from other family members who bring various dishes and desserts. Naturally as folks are want to do we prepared a wonderful mandarin orange Jello salad (arguably the best kind of salad known to man or beast) to be served as an accompaniment to the grand feast we are to partake. Here begins my tale of woe. When the Jello was being placed in the refrigerator to cool and set and become ever so delicious some spilled down the front. Not to panic in such situations I did what many would do under similar circumstances and wiped up the offending spill from the door, bottom shelf, and floor. What I forgot to do was wipe off the lower freezer gasket. Fast forward to a few days before Christmas and as we are doing our customary cleaning before guests arrive and indulge in another feast at our home I noticed some "stuff" in the freezer gasket and proceeded to grab a damp paper towel to wipe it out. Let me tell you the protection afforded by a wet paper towel was no match for the obsidian sharp edge of evaporated Jello deep in the recesses of a freezer gasket. As I let out a profanity laced tirade and looked at the bloodied tip of my sorrowful finger my wife asked me what happened and I was forced to tell her I had impaled the underside of my fingernail with some Jello from a few weeks before.
tl/dr: What's worse than bamboo under the fingernails? Crusty dried up solidified Jello is! Well I guess that I don't know that for sure, but damn it hurt.
Submitted January 21, 2015 at 01:15AM by antithetical_al http://ift.tt/1BbR3pm tifu
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