Sad day at work and Aaron's disasterous can opening attempts

It was a sad day at work today. It was announced that Matt is leaving. This was NOT good news. Matt is a splendid chap who injects life into the team and will be sorely missed. It's a bit of a disaster and there will be a massive big hole to fill (that's assuming that the powers that be accept the business justification to actually hire someone else to replace him). A great big :o(

I was almost home when I got a call from Sam saying that Aaron was being taken to A&E by Toni. I got to the drive just as Toni was pulling out so I jumped in and accompanied them to A&E. There is a funny story to this. Aaron was doing the cooking tonight and he accidentally brutally tried to chop his hand off while opening a tin. This is the real story though.... He went to open a tin of tomatoes (the type with a ring pull) and the ring pull broke off and the time didn't open. He then had a tin opener fail and still couldn't access the contents of the tin.In what can only be described as a Baldrick level cunning plan he then decided to try and use a very sharp knife that we use for cutting up meat to try and gain entry to the tin. One slip later and he had made a nice slice across his hand! DOH!

Thankfully we weren't at A&E for long. The injury wasn't as bad as it had seemed and after a precautionary x-ray he was cleaned up and glued back together. Much to his disgust this was also accompanied by a tetanus jab. Thankfully it was more his ego and pride that was damaged rather than his body and there was no need for painkillers or anything. There was a lot of blood but this is is the size of the damage after everything was sorted: