Figured y'all might get a laugh out of this..true story..

well shucks, was asking some of my pickin' friends about various slides I could use, explained my issues, what seemed to work and what did not, one of the older dudes said; well, go get you a stubby 3/4 inch socket, the old school kind, put that on yo' finger, make sho' it fit real tight like..so I looked out in my tool box, searched the junk box, looked here and there, no stubby socket to be found just the short ones which would never work and then I thought: aha! why heck yes! a deep well socket will do until I can cut about 1/2 an inch off of the length, that will be perfect, so I dug around for a cheap one, no use in cutting up a nice one, I got a little impatient, was dying to try it, see how it sounded ya' know? so I grabbed a cheap deep well socket, cleaned it up a bit and I stuck it on my stinky-pinky, real good n' tight like as my friend suggested, I sat down with my stringed box on a stick, started to slide up and down that neck, hmmm, why that sounded pretty good, smooth action to boot, then this little demon on my shoulder whispered to me, said; psst! hey buddy, go ahead and let er rip, play that son of a gun, so I did..
I played and I played, was so thrilled, yeah I can't wait to cut this socket down to size, was gettin' kinda
tired and noticed my "stinky pinky" was not feelin' so hot, well actually it was hot, just throbbin', bad!
you know like boom-boom,boom-boom,sorta like when you whack a finger with a ball-peen hammer, yeah that stuff right there. well I got up,turned my gear off and put Ju-Ju away,(that's my CBGs name) then I went to take that socket off my stinky pinky, I pulled a little bit, would not budge, uh oh! it be swollen! my blood pressure must have went up a bit from panic I reckon cause that throbbin' pain was twice as bad now, so I gave it a real good yank and I heard this "pop", oh crap! did I just dislocate my stink pinky? lucky me I only popped it right good like, thinkin' oh lawds what have I done? ain't no way I'm gonna go to the ER with this! the first thing to come to mind was; go get the socket wrench and put it on the socket,yeah I know, it is a guy thing I reckon, but no I didn't do that, I remembered my stinky pinky is not threaded so there was that..well I pulled some more and the more I pulled the tighter it got,really swelling up now..oh heck no! followed by lots of cussin', I tried soaking it in a bowl of ice, nope, and hurt like the blazes, cold metal and swollen stinky pinky, not good, so I thought; WD 40! yeah! that will do the trick..again another bad idea, my finger was raw and bloody from yankin' on it and the WD 40 burnt like fire! I think I tinkled a drop or two..wait! metal expands when you heat it up! umm well I can't do that, my pinky finger is inside, I tried some butter, nope just made my other hand slippery, well lemme see, what to do, I thought, hmmm, Tea Bags! yes Tea Bags reduces swelling! I've used them before once on a black eye my woman have me..just not on a socket with my dang finger stuck in it, by the way, all I managed to do was dye my stinky pinky brown, then I realized I had to go pee really bad, socket stuck on my finger, greasy hands and in pain, so I hobbled in the bathroom and there it was, like a sign
from the almighty, my beard butter! that goop I keep on my whiskers, had issues gettin' the lid off the jar, my hands were still slick and all, dropped the jar in the toilet, I fished it out, I did finally get some of my beard butter on my buttery other hand and squeezed that down in the socket, waited a few minutes, took a little effort and skin along with it but it finally came off, whew!
about that time my lady friend called me, told my friend about my ordeal, friend said; why didn't you just use dish liquid?
I just hung the phone up..
Lesson learned..