Ow! My jeans hurt me!

How does someone injure themselves on their own pair of jeans? Well, I found a way. (prepare yourself to cringe) While getting ready for church this morning, I somehow managed to catch my thumbnail on one of the reinforcing rivets in my jeans, which tore into my thumbnail just enough to make it bleed. This also made it to where I couldn't just clip off the damaged part and call it done. This is the part where I feel like I may have redeemed myself. Not wanting to where a bandaid on my thumb for the next week or two while my nail heals itself, I tried to come up with some way to protect the nail from catching on stuff. My first impulse was some clear nail polish, but alas, I was fresh out. Then my MacGyver instincts kicked in. I went out to my workshop and pulled out the superglue. Now normally, I try to keep this stuff off of me because it tends to linger, but that's the exact property I wanted to take advantage of. I put a couple drops of superglue on my nail and used a toothpick to spread it around. After a few minutes of dry time, it seems to work pretty well. I rubbed the injured (and now repaired) nail against my jean (not the ones that caused the injury), and I think I've found a solution.

Lesson (for the guys and ladies out there): if you ever run out of clear nail polish or need to repair a split nail, superglue works pretty well.