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Date: 16 March 2005 21:20:58
I had a splinter in my hand this morning. A tiny one, so small you could only just see it, but incredibly irritating none-the-less. Being in the palm of my right hand, I was unable to get it out without tweezers this morning (goodness knows where they've gone) and my attention was repeatedly dragged from the road to the tiny twinge of irritation whenever the palm of my hand made contact with the steering wheel on the drive to school.
Never mind, I reassured myself. When you get to school you can pop in the medical room and swipe the tweezers from the first aid box in there. That should sort it, especially as the top was still clearly visible if you looked really closely.
I get to school and make an emergency call to the medical room with my injury. Hmmm... no tweezers to be found. Realising they may have been put out of child's reach, I go to the secretary to check on the whereabouts of this sanity-saving device.....
Schools aren't allowed to keep tweezers any more because removing a splinter from a child's hand can be classified as abuse!