I donated blood yesterday, which involved a finger prick to test and then an arm vein blood draw, and it reminded me of this conversation.
Honestly, the finger prick wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered. I recalled it getting in the way a lot more, but finger prick was actually more convenient than I remembered. Makes sense why that was the convention for testing blood sugar for ages and ages...That doesn't mean I'm going to forgive Nicholas Cage for jabbing a knife directly into the pad of his thumb in National Treasure of course
This is always my fear! I just wince whenever they do it in fiction -- Pirates of the Caribbean 1 in particular, the move that Jack does to coat the cursed gold with his blood is really cool but holy hell, does it look painful and dangerous.