Not wanting to get out in the 110 degree heat of mid day, I got up one morning this week at 5am and got to Wallymart at 6am. It had rained and the road was foggy with steam. But inside, it was cool and there were only three or four other customers. Before I started shopping, I went back to the pharmacy section, which was closed, to use the automated blood pressure machine. I didn't know the Post It note stuck on it saying it was out of order had fallen off.

So I stick my arm in--its an inflatable cuff inside a large PVC pipe looking doo hickey. You push a button and the cuff inflates and takes your BP and pulse. The machine inflated and went "click click click." Then it wouldn't deflate. So I tried pulling my arm out, but it was stuck good. It was a tourniquet on my arm and my fingers started getting numb. I was pulling and wriggling that arm every which way.

I thought about that rock climber guy whose arm got stuck between two boulders and eventually had to cut his arm off to get loose. I mean, I was thinking all sorts of things, but I was too embarrassed to holler for help--yet. Then a customer came along looking at vitamins and came over to help. Just getting my mind off it for a few seconds did the trick. I gave some more tugs and pulls and the arm came out.
Leave it to me to do something that ridiculous.

susil