OK so, long post because brevity is the soul of cowardice. Also, warning this will feature descriptions of injury and morris dancing below the cut.
For the uninitiated, morris dancinig is the name of a bunch of different English traditional display dances (display dance as opposed to social dance meaning these are done for performance in public, unlike things like country dances which are done for fun)
What is and isn't morris sort of depends who you ask but the three types universally counted are Cotswold (from the area around the Cotswold hills between Oxford and the West Midlands), Border (from the counties that make up the Welsh border) and North West (as above, it holds no secrets in its name).
The first two are often done with sticks. These are usually about 80 cm/30" long, 3-4 cm/1-1.5" thick, and are there to be clashed - hit against one another to make a noise on the beat.
Now the problem that can come about is that at one end of every stick is a human hand. And hands do not make a satisfying clashing sound when hit.
At the very beginning of a dance one day, I was opposite someone who was new to the side. With the side he'd joined us from, he was the token young'un, and used to having to put most of the effort into a stick clash.
With the side we were with, so was I. We were both also used to being opposite people taller than us and adjusting our aim appropriately, and I think I was the one to misjudge this, as my hand was at clashing height for his stick and instead of what should have been his first stick clash with our side, my finger went between two sticks.
At the time I saw there was some blood, so assumed a broken nail or something but thought nothing of it, save that every time we passed, usually in mid-air, for the rest of the dance, he'd cry out "I'm so sorry!" and I'd reply "Be reet" (a Yorkshire expression roughly equivalent to Hakuna Matata if the Lion King is to be believed), and we finished the dance.
I looked around the side at the end and realised that red polka-dots were an unusual addition to our normally white kit, so checked my finger.
Now, there is a lie you have been led to believe by a lot of media, and that is the meaning of the word laceration. It's used all over in place of a fancy technical-sounding word for a bad cut, it's not, that's an incision. A laceration is an open wound caused by blunt force splitting the flesh like when you squeeze a grape. This is how I learned that was a thing.
Deciding that I shouldn't be able to see that far into my own finger, I went for a sit down.
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