Try getting second-degree burns on the very tips of your fingers
Wait until you've done this:
1. You just put a log into the fireplace (a nice roaring/crackling fire).
2. You then realize, only 2 seconds after putting the log on the fire, that it could use some adjusting.
3. As you quickly grab the log on the side facing you (the non-flame-side) to reposition it, at that very second, one of those "pops and crackles" spits an ember right onto the surface of the log as your fingertips clamp down it -- the fingertips press down onto an orange-hot ember.
4. You hear the sizzle before you even feel it.
5. Then you feel it, and you go through the roof in pain.
6. Looking at your fingertips, you notice you instantly have white blisters that have already filled-up with fluid.
7. This is your bridge hand.
Yes, this happened to me. A week ago. And I'm still applying NewSkin to the tips of my bridge hand fingertips to allow me to even type on a keyboard, much less play pool.
<punches himself in the head> -- I should've use the fire mitts to reposition that log!
-Sean