This is the one about my mom’s band-aid.

Posted May 19th, 2010 by Mike Lawson

One evening last week my mom told me that she was clipping her fingernails earlier that day cut one of her nails too short.

“It hurt so bad, Michael,” she told me.  “I had to put a band-aid on it because the skin under your nails is really sensitive.”

She walked over to me and started taking the band-aid off.  As I’m writing this, I’m realizing that this is kind of gross…that my mom would walk up to share with me a wound of any sort, but in the Lawson family, this is normal.

She peeled back the band-aid and stuck her ring finger out for me to see.  It looked normal.

I think that the quizzical look on my face confused my mom.  She bent her finger so she could take a look.

“Oh,” she said.  “It was my middle finger.”  And she held out her middle finger for me to inspect.
“But you were wearing a band-aid all day on your ring finger?” I asked.

She laughed.  “I guess so.”