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Niagara

(12,181 posts)
Wed May 27, 2026, 05:22 PM 5 hrs ago

Blue Handed

Today is supposed be the last day that I will visit with my client at the rehabilitation center. My client is suppose to be released to go home tomorrow and then I'll be joining her at her home as usual. This is plan and as long as she doesn't fall again between now and then all will go according to plan.

I got to go to the massive physical therapy gym with her again today. To get to the gym we have to take the elevator one level down.

I was the first one out of the elevator and I hand my hand in the thresh hold of the elevator doors so that the doors would stay open for everyone else trying to get out of the elevator. As I had my right hand in the way of the doors, I was holding my store bought plastic water bottle in my left hand.

My left hand accidentally set off the automatic hand sanitizer station and my plastic water bottle and my hands got all wet from the sanitizer. Of course the paper label on the plastic water bottle is blue so the ink of the label leaked onto both my hands.

I'm about to go soak a cotton ball with some rubbing alcohol to help remove the ink on my skin. I had to share this with the Lounge today because I thought it was hilarious!

Don't worry, I won't have blue hands forever.

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Blue Handed (Original Post) Niagara 5 hrs ago OP
Well, that's not as bad as I started to imagine True Dough 3 hrs ago #1
No serious malfunctions today Niagara 1 hr ago #3
Maybe True Dough 6 min ago #7
And don't you find True Dough 5 min ago #8
I'm hearing a song..... some_of_us_are_sane 1 hr ago #2
I'll try to behave myself with the sanitizer dispensers, some_of_us_are_sane Niagara 1 hr ago #4
Sounds like a slap stick comedy routine. Sogo 1 hr ago #5
I sort of felt like I was in an episode of a slap stick comedy Niagara 56 min ago #6

True Dough

(27,377 posts)
1. Well, that's not as bad as I started to imagine
Wed May 27, 2026, 07:17 PM
3 hrs ago

Based on blue-handed and then your story mentioning sticking your hand in front of the elevator door, I immediately pictured the door malfunctioning and closing on your hand long enough to cause a loss of circulation, ergo the "blue" hand.

Glad that wasn't the culprit!

Your blues will wash away after a while, Niagara.

Niagara

(12,181 posts)
3. No serious malfunctions today
Wed May 27, 2026, 09:08 PM
1 hr ago

Only comical malfunctions. I'm glad that elevator door wasn't the culprit either.

It's really funny because yesterday when I took my client for a walk, I was getting hand sanitizer off the automatic dispensers as often as I could. It smells really nice and I was pushing buttons and touching handles frequently.

The blue ink is slowly washing away and then I won't be so smurfy looking, True.

True Dough

(27,377 posts)
8. And don't you find
Wed May 27, 2026, 10:45 PM
5 min ago

that hand sanitizer, no matter how nice it may smell (although usually it's not great), dries your hands out badly? I wind up with hangnails and peeling skin around my fingernails from using it only a few times.

some_of_us_are_sane

(3,676 posts)
2. I'm hearing a song.....
Wed May 27, 2026, 09:02 PM
1 hr ago
(It's similar to an old Doo Wop hit by the Marcels...............
Ba-bom-a-bom-bom
Ba-dang-a-dang-dang
Ba-ding-a-dong-ding ....."Blue hand,

I saw you changing yourself

Ignoring label's demand.... with ink that's bluer than Delft."

Niagara

(12,181 posts)
6. I sort of felt like I was in an episode of a slap stick comedy
Wed May 27, 2026, 09:53 PM
56 min ago

I couldn't do anything except for laugh about it since it was comical.

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