rugged and manly

i decided that i want to be more rugged and manly... just in general. I went camping a couple days ago, alone! no tent either! yeah, like i said 'rugged and manly'. anyways, it was just getting dark when i decided to go to sleep. i realized my pocket knife was open and i decided to close it... but the blade wouldn't close because there was sand in the joint. i tried to close it for a couple minutes, then i got pissed and pushed the back of the blade really hard against this piece of wood- and BAM~! it snapped shut on my finger. it didn't really hurt, but it did cut the tip of my finger like 95% off. so there i was alone, 6 miles in the canyon with no cell phone service, and a bloody dangling finger tip. so i wrapped it in a rag, climbed to the top of this little mountain, got the phone working, and called my mom to say "come meet me at the trail head in like an hour and take me to the hospital". Unfortunately, it took me like half an hour to climb straight up the mountain, and by then it was too dark to see where my camp was. i thought: hm, i could climb back down... find my camp...get a flashlight... and then climb all the way up and over the mountain again. OR~ i could say, "screw the flash light... i'm hiking outta here". (i went with the second option). So yeah, 6 miles through a canyon with a bloody finger. Long story short: the doctor stitched the tip together, and said i might have a little less sensation there. Besides the calling my mom part of the story, i think it was pretty rugged and manly.
-steve
p.s. did i mention that i had to hike back in and out again the next day to get my gear... that's like 24 miles in 2 days.... not what my little camping trip was supposed to be