Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for August 19, 2022

I once read about a shop did have the occasional injury from people being careless. The shop foreman got the idea of have stencils made of hands. If someone lost a finger, they painted the hand on the bed of the machine with the appropriate finger masked and the name of the person next to it. The injury rate went seriously down.

Yikes!!

I am female and in 5th grade even the girls took “shop”. We learned to use a jigsaw. Pretty cool, actually. Our teacher was missing the tips of a couple of his fingers! That will make one super careful when using such tools! (I’ll bet today 10 year olds wouldn’t be allowed to work with jigsaws!)

What’s his nickname? Stub?

He’s got only 4 fingers but I think that’s standard for the comics.

Yikes, some of the posters for power tool use on YouTube?

And their names didn’t tip you off?

I was Managing Editor of the college newspaper for a while, and used to love going to the print shop where they typeset the copy on Linotypes and composited the paper. One of the pressmen was missing a finger, which I understood was pretty common in those days. I remember the giant paper cutters, with the elaborate safety mechanisms that pressmen would work at outwitting—hence the missing fingers.

You aren’t stating a very convincing reason to continue using the angle grinder like you are!