After having read all the current replies to this post, I want you to know what a pleasure it is to be among human beings who drop pins, burn themselves on their irons, step on fallen needles, try to catch falling rotary cuters and/or irons. Have some of you also burned a pan of cookies or baked a cake that fell? So many women I know have never, never experienced any of the things mentioned. Being around them is soooo intimidating! froggyintexas