Getting Older And Scars.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Getting Older And Scars.

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:35:42 PM EDT

What is it with getting older and all the scars you have "aqquired" over the years begin to be really noticable? I'm beginning to look like a war zone.............

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:36:58 PM EDT

[#1]

Built in defense mechanism. The younger guys won't want to mess with you because you look REALLY tough.

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:37:48 PM EDT

[#2]

Chics dig scars.

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:37:51 PM EDT

[#3]

I feel you bro. All of my accumulated welding scars are becoming very apparent.

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:39:33 PM EDT

[#4]

I'll take a real scar over a tattoo any day. Tattoos are fake scars.

ETA: I'm ready

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:40:50 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
I feel you bro. All of my accumulated welding scars are becoming very apparent.

+1 My hands, shoulders and thighs are covered in welding burns.

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:42:09 PM EDT

[#6]

All my good ones are fading

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:43:07 PM EDT

[#7]

Ive got some decent ones. Only 22 though, many more to follow

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:43:14 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
All my good ones are fading

You'll see them again, in about 30 years.

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:45:14 PM EDT

[#9]

I had a ton as a teenager, but then my back, shoulder and chest hair growth covered them....

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:45:17 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I'll take a real scar over a tattoo any day. Tattoos are fake scars.

ETA: I'm ready

To each his own, I happen to love my tattoos and my scars.

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:56:55 PM EDT

[#11]

I got all my "Good" scars in the first 20 yrs.

#1 was the one I got when, at 13, my brother shot me in the foot with a Marlin model 60 (Very painful at the time!). #2 came at 15 while trying to stop my GF from stabbing my BEST FRIEND (Her brother) with a fish boning knife that just happened to end-up in my left fore-arm (Arterial blood DOES squirt don't it! lol) when I intervened!

#3 came when, as a machinist for CAT, I got stupid one day and used the wrong clamp to hold a piece of T-1 in a 1,000 Cinci press and the work piece (All 300LBS of it) decided to let go and bounce up and down on my thumb about 4 times before my brain kicked-in and pulled away from it.......sucker STILL says "HI" to me when the weather turns cold

Posted: 7/22/2008 6:59:47 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
I had a ton as a teenager, but then my back, shoulder and chest hair growth covered them....

Yeah, same here, hard to see them through all the hair

Posted: 7/22/2008 7:02:16 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
All my good ones are fading

You'll see them again, in about 30 years.

Amen to that..............even the scars I recieved as a teenager are beginning to show and I got a LOT of them.

Posted: 7/22/2008 7:11:22 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Chics dig scars.

'Tis true. Pics for the ladies plz?

Posted: 7/22/2008 7:15:19 PM EDT

[#15]

I've discovered small cuts, etc lead to scars that normally didn't last week.

Posted: 7/22/2008 7:17:42 PM EDT

[#16]

If you have small cuts, use Bacitracin on them. It will help reduce scarring.
Otherwise use Vitamin E lotion to rub on the affected areas.

Posted: 7/22/2008 7:23:27 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I've discovered small cuts, etc lead to scars that normally didn't last week.

I remember looking at my hands as a child and wishing they had "character" like my Dad and Grandpas hands.

Now, 30+ years later they have lots of "character".... and I can remember the circumstances of most of those "defining" moments.

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