Why is it.....

[Sarge]

...that anytime you work on your car your hands come out all bloody. Little hunks of meat missing here and there. Changed out the rear cross member bushings and you would think I put my hands in a blender and turned it on high. My hands look like Frankensteins after 50 years of twisting wrenches. And the funny thing is I never remember doing it....cutting myself....you finish up and get out from under the car and your hands look like a Friday the 13th movie meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Oh well. Manly man stuff I guess.

[Bobby97SS]

Its called getting old. Not a day goes by that I dont bleed on something Im working on. I rarely feel it and sometimes dont even know where it came from.

[Sarge]

Maybe it is just an old man thing.

[Daniel P.]

It's not being old, it happens to me all the time.

[Silver Streak]

It's not being old, it happens to me all the time.

Yep.. I can't count how many times I've donated blood on mine/others' cars...

[Zapper2003]

I'm pretty sure its a rite of passage...to where..hell if I know.

[Bobby97SS]

Yeah, I just keep right on working and when Im done I brakeclean the blood off the machine and my hands and forearms.

[SexOnWheels]

This is the reason that there is a market for 'Mechanix' gloves...

[0rion]

well, it's due to a couple of reasons. One, you're so focused on the job at hand that your mind blocks out any outside interruptions such as cuts, missing limbs, and wives. The second reason is that we're car guys that are just tough in general and don't feel pain unless you scratch the paint on your ride then your heart hurts.

[Silver Streak]

well, it's due to a couple of reasons. One, you're so focused on the job at hand that your mind blocks out any outside interruptions such as cuts, missing limbs, and wives. The second reason is that we're car guys that are just tough in general and don't feel pain unless you scratch the paint on your ride then your heart hurts.

[86 IROC-Z]

It happens to me as well quite a bit.

I'll be pushing my entire body weight on the wrench trying to loosen a bolt thats been rusted in for 20 years, and when it finally comes, my knuckles slam into a perfectly positioned sharp peice of 80's slowness with ungodly force.

[SeVeReDiStOrTiOn]

[Zapper2003]

[310stanger]

It happens to me as well quite a bit.

I'll be pushing my entire body weight on the wrench trying to loosen a bolt thats been rusted in for 20 years, and when it finally comes, my knuckles slam into a perfectly positioned sharp peice of 80's slowness with ungodly force.

[CJREX]

It happens to me as well quite a bit.

I'll be pushing my entire body weight on the wrench trying to loosen a bolt thats been rusted in for 20 years, and when it finally comes, my knuckles slam into a perfectly positioned sharp peice of 80's slowness with ungodly force.

That usually happens to me when the car, wrenches, my hands, and all metal in near proximity is at 20 degrees below Zero.

[Y2KPewterSS]

Its called getting old. Not a day goes by that I dont bleed on something Im working on. I rarely feel it and sometimes dont even know where it came from.

Its not an "old" thing. Its been happening to me since my early 20s.

well, it's due to a couple of reasons. One, you're so focused on the job at hand that your mind blocks out any outside interruptions such as cuts, missing limbs, and wives. The second reason is that we're car guys that are just tough in general and don't feel pain unless you scratch the paint on your ride then your heart hurts.

Wives and girlfriends

[third_shift|studios]

...that anytime you work on your car your hands come out all bloody. Little hunks of meat missing here and there. Changed out the rear cross member bushings and you would think I put my hands in a blender and turned it on high. My hands look like Frankensteins after 50 years of twisting wrenches. And the funny thing is I never remember doing it....cutting myself....you finish up and get out from under the car and your hands look like a Friday the 13th movie meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Oh well. Manly man stuff I guess.

this from the guy who has pnemonia-ain't nuthin gonna keep him down!

[GTP231]

Wait you mean your hands aren't always supposed to be full of cuts grease and fleshless knuckles

[CJREX]

Wives and girlfriends

But not both at the same time, unless you want an entirely new definition of PAIN

Robin Williams' definition of divorce:

From the latin word, meaning to rip out a man's testicles through his wallet

[310stanger]

im 25, happens to me pretty much every day. my hands always have cuts on them, and no matter how hard i scrub, sometimes that black stuff wont leave my finger prints lol