Murphy Was An Amateur

I had always thought that I had a special talent for self-inflicted injuries (for instance, slamming a car door on my thumb and losing the nail in the process), but Malini soon put paid to that assumption. Several stories are already in circulation - getting burnt trying to iron a shirt while actually wearing it is a well known one, but I have a couple more to add to the canon.
A couple of months ago she was sporting a bruise on her nose - the result of having brought the trunk door of her RX-300 down on it. Now, closing the trunk of her car is something that she does on a regular basis, perhaps even once a day, so it is hard to chalk this one up to unfamiliarity. The hydraulic lifts on the door don't work so good and so you have to push it down with some force to close the door - ensuring that the injury would serious enough even for Malini, to merit a mention. Things got a bit more interesting a couple of weeks ago when she banged the same nose on the lid of our clothes washer. For those amongst you that are puzzled about this, let me outline how you achieve this. You start with a top loading washer that has a full laundry basket resting on the lid. Then you decide that you want to check what is inside the washer, but don't really want to bother with shifting the basket. So you try to lift the lid while simultaneously bring your face down towards the opening and realize a fraction too late that you have miscalculated how much the weight of the laundry basket will allow you to actually lift the lid.

A new chapter was written yesterday. Malini asks me if I could do a taste test of a new daal dish she was trying, adding casually that she couldn't really taste much since she had burnt her mouth. Well, turns out she did a bit more than that - the daal she tried to taste was so hot that she burnt her tongue and scalded the roof of her mouth. The skin peeled off and she had to spit pieces out. The tongue is constantly making contact with the roof, so reminders of the raw surface are frequent. On the positive side, they do say that the mouth heals very fast.