Too many incidences over the years but this one I think is definitive proof.
Last night my daughter had a friend stay for a sleepover. Walking past their den, something snapped under foot. It was her friend's cat-ear headband that she'd only got yesterday. She was very proud of it. I was of course mortified and promised to buy her a new one, but said I'd try to glue the ear back on anyway (doubtful it would work, but still).
It was late, I was tired, but scrambled around and managed to find a tiny tube of super glue.
After squeezing headband together with the diamante cat ear for some time and hoping for the best, l let go- only to find to my horror that my left thumb and forefinger were glued tightly together. Then with a deeper horror, that the headband was firmly wedged between them.
The ear hadn't stuck.
Cue heavy sweating and acting like an incompetent twat (still) - after much washing up liquid, it still wasn't going anywhere .
Had to shout for dd to google what to do (flashes of A&E going through my mind, hoping I wouldn't see anyone I knew). Heavily sweating at this point and making mumbling sounds.
Google said acetone- so I grabbed the nail varnish remover, asked dd to get a bowl.
By the time she came back.... the bottle was going nowhere. Glued firmly to my right palm. Cue cry laughing (me) and two baffled girls looking a bit insecure at having this clown at the helm.
Poured nail varnish remover into tiny bowl. No way my finger/thumb was getting anywhere near the surface with a metal headband clamped between them. Tried a bigger bowl. No good. A plate. Very difficult. Bearing in mind my right hand was out of bounds being attached to a large plastic bottle, DD had to try her best to help.
To sum up, it took about 20 minutes for one finger to be free. The rest eventually came apart.
I woke up this morning pleased to not be an Edward scissorhands knock off, but more concerned than ever that I am in fact Mr Bean!