Your dumbest injuries

[x0emiroxy0x]

Has anyone else ever hurt themselves by doing something dumb or having a freak accident?

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Last summer I was at the gym with my headphones blasting and I always hop onto the treadmill when I am full of energy instead of stepping on, and as I hopped I realized it was moving...TOP speed. I went down, chin first and when I flew backwards there was another machine behind me that pushed me right back on, 3 times.

Long story short, I had to get 12 stitches in my chin and I was bloody all over from the treadmill rubbing my skin off. That was embarrassing.

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Yesterday I was at Hastings (a movie rental store) and they have metal temporary shelves at the end of aisles for movies that are for sell, not rent. My boyfriend was walking away from me really quickly and I was trying to show him a good movie I had just found. Instead of calling his name, I walked really quickly after him and threw my hand out to grab his shoulder....

and impaled my hand on a metal wire shelf where the end was bent completely out of place. I had to pull my hand off the shelf (it was rusty) and we ran out of there to the emergency room as I couldn't feel my fingers. Luckily, we had just returned three movies before this happened. After my 1500$ emergency room visit, we returned to the store to make and incident report and their cameras weren't on, so there was no proof of our visit...until I told them I had just returned the movies, which proved I was there. My stepdad is a lawyer so he got on the phone with them and they said they will pay for the medical bills.

To be honest, I felt like an idiot for impaling my hand, but according to Texas Law, if someone can hurt themselves on it, it should have been fixed (or something like that)

I didn't have to get surgery and I got feeling back in my fingers after a few hours. I can't really move my thumb right now but I am on a ton of pain medication (which is why this post might seem kind of rambly).

I am really sad because I was just about to start working out again and now I can't grasp anything with my right hand (no weights for me!)
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Feel free to laugh all you want at me. I laugh when I tell the treadmill story now, even though it was horrific then.

[Stevenzachsmom]

Oh My Goodness! You poor thing. I think my husband is worse than I. He has scars from some odd childhood accidents. (I think his sister was out to get him.) She pushed a tombstone over on his foot. The nail on his big toe is still weird. She also put a fish hook through his ear. He got elbowed above his eye, playing basketball. He should have had stitches, but my FIL didn't believe in doctors. Part of his eyebrow never grew back.

I can't wait to see what other people post. I won't know whether to cringe or laugh.

[ladyfreckles]

When I was 12-13 I didn't check my friend's bike brakes before using it on her massive hill of a windy driveway (half a mile long and steep). I went flying over the handlebars and slashed open my neck, got lungs full of dirt, and had the left side of my face torn up. My left pupil has been slightly lazy ever since then.

My fiance cuts his fingers open with everything. Plastic? Yep. Butterknife? Yep. Regular knife? Yep. Cardboard? Yep. Cat's claws? Yep. You name it, he'll pretty much accidentally cut his fingers on it at one point or another. He always has bandaids on.

[GSDGunner]

Yikes, that's awful, I hope you feel better soon.


Here's something to make you feel better.
There's nothing worse that using the chuckit to throw a ball only to have the ball not come out and you whack yourself in the head with it.

Yep, I saw stars on that one. I wing the ball underhanded so my arm swings up. When the ball didn't release, it was like a pile driver to the head! Let me tell you, it HURTS!

Of course I was looking around at my neighbors to make sure they didn't see it.

[x0emiroxy0x]

hahaha! the chuckit one was good! I can only imagine. When I fell off the treadmill, the embarrassing thing was that when I was actually able to open my eyes and make sure no one saw, I was lying in a pool of blood (no exaggeration...chins bleed a lot!) and this sorority girl on the treadmill next to me glanced back then kept running!!! It was summer so only like 10 people were at the gym. I couldn't believe she just kept running.

[LoveEcho]

I was yacking with a friend when getting on my horse, didn't check the girth, and...you know the rest. At a horse show, with several hundred people around. As a 20+ year horse owner, this was a little embarrassing...

I also fall down the stairs regularly. Not sure why.

And I broke my ankle in Mexico wearing 4" high heels/drinking margaritas... my husband (bf at the time) just laughed his butt off. The joys of college.

Hmm what else... I love this thread

[stealthq]

I've got one.

Sephora in the Dallas Galleria at Christmas the year it opened (the Sephora). So many people you could hardly move outside of the store. Sephora has floor-to-ceiling glass panels across the whole front of the store, and at the time there was nothing blocking any of them. I had made my purchases, was in a hurry to leave and, you guessed it, ran face first into the panel next to the actual entrance. Total face plant. Nosebleed, check. Thumping headache, check. Embarrassment, check.

[Rua]

I am responsible for accidentally inflicting a nasty (but very dumb) injury on my poor husband a couple years ago.

During the tired-worn-out-mummy stage of baby rearing, I carelessly left a dirty nappy (diaper) near the top of the stairs so that I could take it down after putting the boys to bed. In my sleepy state, I forgot about it.

My husband started heading downstairs, with the lights off, holding his brand new laptop in his arms. He didn't see the dirty nappy and slipped on it, falling all the way down our staircase. The laptop survived. His foot did not. He literally filleted the bottom of it open on the corner of the bottom banister and was on crutches for a month.

Imagine his embarrassment to tell people the reason for the crutches was because he slipped on a nappy.

Oops.

[x0emiroxy0x]

Hahahaa!! these are awesome!

[Daydreamer]

I ran over my own foot with the riding lawn mower! It's not easy to do but I managed. We live on a lake with a very slight slope down to the water. The mower I was on didn't have brakes - I had borrowed from my father inlaw. I was going down the slope and panicked for some reason thinking I was going to run into the lake so I put my feet down and tried to stop! Of course the mower snatched one of my feet right under the cutting deck and it pulled me up off the seat. When you come off the seat the engine quits but I landed back down on the seat before it stopped completely so it caught back up! My foot went back under the cutting deck and thankfully it pulled me completely off the mower. Landed with my head in the lake (of course it was slimy) but thankfully the mower had cut off by then. I was very fortunate to have only broken my big toe (the burst open on the end from the impact of the blade) and had some scrapes and bruises but it could have been so much worse!