Some people can cope with severe pain better than others, and traumatic events can apparently cause rifts in families.

This brother knew he could handle a fishing injury, but his brother preferred to pay for the privilege of seeing a doctor.

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My uncle Kyle got a hook stuck in his finger.

He refused to let my father take it off and started screaming:

“GET ME INLAND, FIND A PAYPHONE AND CALL AN AMBULANCE!!”

There was no arguing with him.

So my father drove him to the hospital.

Uncle Kyle came out with a bandage on his thumb and a grim look on his face.

It turned out that they did exactly what my father wanted to do:

Cut off the spines at the end of the hook and slowly pull the thing out.

But then a wound of a different kind formed.

The only difference was that it cost my Uncle Kyle $200 and my dad threw in an “I told you so.”

My father said that after that they never traveled alone again.

This is what people say:

I think that would have made things worse, but I guess it depends on the family.

That would have cost a fortune and tied up resources that someone else might have needed.

Something tells me Uncle wasn’t the Boy Scout type.

Is this a mandatory male thing to strengthen the bond between men? I don’t understand.

That made me smile.

This brother wanted drama.

And he found plenty of it!

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