"Its not broken!", the Grasshopper exclaims. "See, I can bend the first knuckle".

The finger is shaped like a swan neck. The middle left finger droops down unnaturally. The Grasshopper winced as the finger is bent.

A roar of laughter bursts out from the crew who are surrounding him.

Back in the day, Dr Faz Almighty explained he would have yanked it an attempt to fix any dislocation. Thankfully he is not allowed to do this anymore.

Dr Giggles just laughed hideously, snorting in between somewhere.

Dr Pockneebone made some crude comment about spots.

Dr Giggles stopped laughing but nearly choked on her last snort.

Dr Rambo wasn’t impressed with the Grasshoppers so-called war wounds. He had seen worse and suggested the finger be splinted with the adjacent finger. But the Grasshopper was fresh out of headbands for a make shift splint.

Dr Chad just shrugged his shoulders, "Pfft! You can still belay right?"

Patient Chock was still thinking he is climbing with Seinfeld and his cronies.

A new patient Macca was admitted by Dr Rambo. He thought The Teacher was Kramer. The Grasshopper was George. The Giggler was Elaine. But he couldn’t make his mind up who was Jerry, Newman or any other character.

Gilligan lead Juice (20) with not much difficulty. Route finding was put to the test. A bit of a zigzag up but Gilligan managed to clean the climb to setup a top rope.

The Teacher got to the head wall of Lesbian Printshop Workers (22). Here balance is the key. First a sloping ledge must be negotiated then a very awkward lay back up a thin crack to get through the crux. The Teacher had a few shots at it and finally nailed it with great relief and elation.

The Giggler shimmied up Samson’s Pillar with no dramas. Juice’s start involved some traversing to pass the overhung start, but the time spent route finding sapped her energy.

The Chad was complaining that his diet of Icebreaks was not improving his climbing. He cleaned Samson’s, but struggled on LPW, reaching the face. New to this climb, the sequence must be worked out indeed.

Rambo climbed much the same as the Chad (minus the Icebreaks). No difficulty on Samsons or Juice but LPW’s head wall presented a good challenge.

The Chock sporting his Red Chilli’s almost preferred to go barefoot complaining they were slippery. The Chock seemed to climb the grades backwards, by starting on the hardest and ending on the easiest. He did negotiate the start of LPW quite well as opposed to Juice’s start. [Ed.: How did you go on Samson's?]

Macca had never climbed on real rock before. Samson’s proved to be challenging.

The Grasshopper watched on and attempted to boulder, but his attempts were in vain. The next day, X rays revealed a Mallet finger injury with the top tendon pulling a bone fragment off. He is now out of climbing for the next 6 to 8 weeks.