This is what happens when you give super glue to a monkey....

So yesterday my purse strap broke, down where it connects to the purse with a metal thingymajig that is supposed to be stuck inside another metal thingymajig. And me, because I am often blinded by my own brilliance, decided "hey, I can use super glue to stick those thingymajigs back together!"

Trying to be super glue smart, I held the purse strap ~ not the metal thingys that were to be glued ('cause I've done that before and it didn't work out well) and put glue on one metal bit and quickly poked it back into the other bit. Good as new, right? Wrong. It fell back out, as apparently there wasn't enough surface area contact between the two bits for the glue to hold it firmly. So much for being 'super'.

After readjusting my grip on the purse strap, this time connecting the metal thingys first in preparation for the glue application, I picked up the super glue again and realized immediately that the tube was wet. Great. But quickly pouring glue over those bits won't take but a few seconds, and not much damage can be done in such a short time, right? Wrong again, and oh, how very, very wrong.

Now a lot of you are shaking your heads right now thinking, "stupid, stupid woman!", and I can't argue with you on that. I've had small super glue mishaps before, but never have my fingers been so firmly adhered. My thumb and middle finger were stuck so hard that it actually began to hurt just trying to pull them off.

So I swallowed my pride and went to my husband for help. First he suggested I just forcibly remove them, but I wasn't too keen on having the pads of my fingers ripped off. Then, as I was desperately pouring nail polish remover, Goo Gone, hot water, and anything else I could get my one un-glued hand on over my digit-disaster, he grabbed a paring knife and explained that he could use it to carefully slice the thin layer of glue that was holding my fingers to the tube.

I should have run screaming right then and resigned myself to living with an extra appendage on my hand for a few days.

In my mind I could totally see this idea working ~ he was trying to keep the blade aimed down toward the tube and just kind of scrape my skin away from the glue tube. In reality I was thinking, "he's gonna cut me, oh goodness he's gonna cut my finger right off!'

So I'm pulling my fingers trying to put as much space as possible between my skin and the tube (which wasn't much), and he starts carving with the knife, and of course, the knife slices right into my finger, and I think the wound even tore a bit since I was already pulling away from the tube. I screamed; the kids freaked out; and my husband feels absolutely horrible, poor dear, for filleting his wife's finger.

Too late I decide to run away, now looking for band-aids instead of safety from the knife-wielding man with good intentions. It took two band-aids to cover the flap of skin hanging from my mangled finger, and then it took ten more minutes to pry the tube of super glue off of my thumb. By myself. With no knife.

But at least my purse is fixed.

Lmao well....if it help, they use super glue in the hospitals for certain types of cuts LOL

Yup, tissue glue is essentially super glue, lol. I'm glad you eventually got it off!

OUCHY ouchy OUCH! I felt eeewy just thinking about that !

Next time just remove at the wrist - a cleaner cut that way :S

You are certainly NOT stupid...when I started reading the words "been there, done that" kept running through my mind! I'm glad you survived. I'm sure we ALL have superglue adventure stories...however, maybe it's time to do some SERIOUS thinking about looking into a new brand of glue!!!

Ah, nail file!! Of course, it makes so much sense! (After the fact, lol.) I wonder why the hubs didn't think of that? He did give me a file later to help get all the extra dried glue off my thumb ~ the glue on the cut finger is just going to stay until it's good 'n ready to fall off, hehe. And super glue to the eye??? That is totally ER worthy in my book!

Mind you, I didn't actually glue my fingers *together* ~ they were just glued to the glue tube.

@ Helena, cut off the wrist, lol. That would have been much faster! *Where's the maniacal axe-wielding emoticon when you need it??*

@ Ester, thank you for the encouragement (and I think I will be sticking to Elmers glue from now on. "Sticking to..." hehe... )

@ Denise, the nail polish remover had acetone in it, but I guess it wasn't strong enough. :/

Thank you all for the giggles. I couldn't think of a better way to get over this mess than to share and let others have a good laugh at our craziness.

Bear Grylls says acitone (Worst case senario) acitone based nail polish remover (there are two types) and wiggle it free. took him 10 seconds.
but having said that I supperglued half my lips shut when I was a teenager, trying to fix somthing and my brother I remember gluing his thumb and two fingers to his head - lets say it was a dare gone wrong - it was hillarious.

I really Hope your finger heals soon!

I don't want to believe that I am the only one to have ever super glued their tongue....am I?

HazyDaze: funny, funny, funny....

Denise...very cool dragon mask avatar.

The things we try when we feel we're in a crisis. Hope your finger heals quick.

Ouch! Before you cut it, I would have suggested Acetone (I happen to have 100% pure acetone handy for removing face paint stains from my practice heads). ...but AFTER you cut it, oooh, keep that stuff away, it's going to hurt. Sorry about your poor finger. I've had similar mishaps (like super gluing my fingers to the heel of my foot)

Hey, I think your husband owes you a new purse for filleting your finger, don't you?!

OMG am laughing so hard right now. would love to hear how the lips got stuck together. oh and sticking the fingers to the head i bet that went down real well hehehehehehe