YIKES
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This was foreshadowed on the Aug 1 strip brilliantly. One of my favorite things about QC is that there's rarely drama for drama's sake; and I truly hope this doesn't go too poorly.
Dang, that's the hand she uses to do sprays aaaaand she has an appointment later.
I’m terrified of a liability lawsuit and subsequent Faybles squabble over the inevitable rough patch. At the same time, I feel like there’s a chance she’ll be fine, and her dad will be pissed but understanding, and the arc will end with a “# days since our last accident” sign being posted with a chuckle.
Did anyone else cringe and immediately touch their own fingernail? .... no? Just me?
It's not only kids do this. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/2aarg3/adam_savage_sticks_his_lip_into_a_vacuum_cleaner/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/2aarg3/adam_savage_sticks_his_lip_into_a_vacuum_cleaner/</a>
Bwhahahahahahah!!!
By the looks of it, she tore her nail to the point of bleeding, which hurts like a mug, but there wont be any permanent damage. Considering how banged up Sam often gets on her usual outings, Jim will probably just sigh, ask her what she learned from this, and ground her for the foreseeable future. And possibly pull Sam out of whatever program at school that lets her make her own hours.
Aw, Shit... looks like spurting :O
Moral of the story: Never leave an untraoned person operating a power tool on their own. The correct thing to do in this instance would have been to tell Sam to put it down and step away until she could return to supervise.
Sometimes I wonder, "What would happen if I bumped my shoulder against the subway as it's coming into the station?"
oh man im glad im not the only one
There are two kinds of parents: I will sue you for letting my child be endangered, and glad it wasn't worse, what did you learn.
Thankfully my parents were type B. 90% of my injuries got a "Well that was a silly thing to do, wasn't it?" speech, not a "How DARE you, adult at the scene, let my angel get hurt like this!"
In fairness to Sam I would 100% do the same thing eventually
When I was young I worked in a furniture factory. There were MASSIVE bandsaws. The operators like to trim their nails with them. We knew this because of the blood trail to the bathroom.
This is when Bubbles' knowledge of first aid comes to the fore and saves the day. She served with humans and will have the needed knowledge. Seriously: hire veterans. They know stuff cos they've seen stuff.
I can't see this ending well for Faye. She committed the single unforgivable sin here - leaving a novice unattended, even for a moment. Jim will go ballistic and, likely, so will his as-of-yet-unseen ex-wife. Lawsuits COULD happen. I suspect that today will be the last day of Sam's freedom as she has known it to date. She's going to be very closely supervised from now on. No more 'hanging out' at Union Robotics, looking for snakes in the woods and the like!
Kids, amirite?
Unfortunately, this now counts as her in more than one piece if that fingernail isn't still attached.
Faye, welcome to the wonderful world of the instinctive human reaction to fast-moving objects. This is in no way isolated to children. Fully-grown adults who are 100% aware of what the devices do and how dangerous they are can also be auto-hypnotised into doing just what Sam did. Fortunately, the damage doesn't seem so bad. However, I doubt that Sam will be allowed to visit Union Robotics again any time soon!
This is the first QC comic to ever make me queasy. Visceral recall of a shredded fingertip with the nail ripped away. Eleven stitches. Everything grew back OK, but decades later the fingertip is still numb. Yes, lathes are worse.
In a robot repair shop most first aid requires welding.... will that work here? :)
I don't think Jim will react badly to this. She's taking fencing lessons so he knows what his daughter is into and they called him ahead of time. Hopefully, Bubbles knows something about triage.
Triage is the process for determining which patients have medical priority. There is only one patient here, so there is no need for determining priority. What Sam requires is basic First Aid.
Child rearing in a nutshell.
Everybody does that with a power tool at least once in their life. If they're smart, <i><b>just</b></i> once.
Well, at least her finger is still attached.
Faye promised to send her home with all her fingers, still attached. That matters.
Obviously this would have worked better if she clamped her finger in the vice first.... wait...no.....hrm... Seriously though the logic disconnect of just being yelled at is awesome, and true to life.
This is me every time my parents asked why I did something. I could never understand why “I have no idea, it just seemed like a good idea” wasn’t a satisfactory answer.
YEAH THERE'S THE DRAMA
I can believe a human and an AI can run a robot repair shop. I can believe they’re involved with each other. I can just believe a world where this is accepted. I have real trouble believing they have an insurance policy that covers a minor using power tools unsupervised. This may be where they get shut down. Praise be they rang her dad earlier. It may not help but it can’t hurt.
This is how we learn. XD
Sam's obsession with powers meant this was bound to happen sooner or later. She's not the indestructible little girl she used to be.
I'd be mad at Sam, but I did that with a CPU fan and shaved off a portion of my index finger. I don't know why I did it, either!
Reminds me of the time I trailed my fingers gently along the vanes of a turning squirrel cage fan. Yeah... ten seconds ago... still got all my fingers and my nails however.
I'm surprised it was a whole ten seconds. Kids do stupid things, that's how they learn not to do stupid things again.
I once put a scissors into an electrical outlet. I mean, I was 3, but people do dumb stuff and then learn not to do dumb stuff because dumb stuff hurts.
For my second Christmas, my mom gave me an extension cord. I could do whatever I wanted with it as long as I only ever plugged it into itself. By then I had learned how to remove the plastic outlet safety covers.
Ten seconds. She couldn't last more than TEN SECONDS.
Seriously Sam, seriously?
Owwwww
....I got first comment entirely by accident. Huh.