Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Frostbitten- Paddy

Today was effing freezing outside. The temperature gauge suggested that the actual temperature was a toasty 2.2 degrees in the Celsius scale, but felt like -2.7 degrees with the wind chill factor added on. -2.7! That is only 270.3 degrees about absolute zero, which is the coldest anything can be, apart from my dad's heart when he looks into my eyes and I see the disgust in them that I'm not the son he wished I was. Sorry, I may have slipped off topic there. What I mean to say was that today was really cold. I think I may have got frostbite on my ears on the very short walk to college, and then got more frostbite on other parts of my face during the equally brief walk home. In fact, there is no thinking about it, its too cold for that, and I'm certain that I am now lacking several parts of body. Parts that will no be lying cold and black in the street outside. Speaking of frostbite, I actually genuinely did get it once. On my elbow it was. Not as weird as it sounds, I had a wart there, and me and my a couple of my friends tried to freeze it off with some liquid nitrogen we got from a chemist. However, we did it wrong and the -40 Celsius nitrogen left me with frostbite on my elbow, which went black and dropped off. Not my whole elbow by the way, just a small circle of skin. Now I shall depart with that lovely image in your head., my dead skin, slowly peeling off my warty elbow. Enjoy.

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