I sprained my ankle once when trying to walk on stilts. The stilts belonged to a neighbor. We were kids at the time. The neighbor's kid was the only one who could manage to walk on them - I guess he'd had some practice. The stilts weren't all that tall, only about a foot and a half off the ground. I was the only one who got hurt out of a group of about ten kids. Sheesh. I should have known better... 🙄
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Blasted off a semi-auto BB Gun in my bedroom and got hit by ricochets (one right near my eye) Dad took my airguns away for awhile:/
I did odd jobs for college money
Trimming a gigantic hedge one time I fell off a 6 foot ladder and landed on that high part of your ass that meets the spine...could not walk for days!
Beat up a grown Cokehead in Pelham for chatting up my 16 year old cousin Annie...held him down and beat him but missed his head at some point and smashed my fist on the roadbead...knuckles have never been the same
“Stupid injuries...I'm the club pro here”
I think I bested you!
When I was a kid I was lazy about tying my shoes. Periodically I tripped over my shoelaces. One day I tripped on a shoelace while I was walking down the stairs. Broke my collarbone. I think I was 8 years old. I was lucky I didn't break my damn neck. I had to have my arm in a sling for a while.
Amazingly, I didn't learn my lesson, because I can recall tripping over my shoelaces up to a few years later. I think the last time was when I was 10 or 11. I was walking on the concrete driveway and I tripped over a shoelace. I was carrying one of my pet rabbits at the time, so while I was falling I tried to bend myself in such a way that I wouldn't land on top of the rabbit, and that I would still be holding the rabbit in the air when I hit the ground. It kind of worked. I landed hard on my left side. I did end up dropping the rabbit, but only from a few inches off the ground, so he wasn't hurt. I'm pretty sure that was the day I finally started making sure my shoelaces were always tied.
I'm pretty sure I got my shoelace caught in my bicycle wheel at least once too. I'm not sure how hard I landed, but it couldn't have been my worst bicycle crash because I can remember a few nasty ones and that wasn't one of them. But I'm pretty sure I remember the feeling of my shoelace getting caught in the spokes and me hitting the ground. So, that's a pretty dumb injury too.
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When I was a kid, I was curious about a lot of dumb sh#t. One of those things was the cigarette lighter in my mother's van. I didn't really understand how it worked, so I pushed it in (which heated it) and then, when it popped out, I pressed it into one of my thumbs. Burned like hell, but left a really good print for a while. Was pretty torn on how to take this at the time. Looking back, it was not my finest or most intellectual moment.
shareJumped off a pier at the harbor, not knowing there was a dock below. How I didn't break my leg is beyond me. I remember my parents freaking out when they saw how black and blue it was.
shareIn the 8th grade I broke the ring finger on my left hand trying to catch a ball. It was in gym class and we were practicing catching footballs. I've never been a sports person, and especially not a football person, so I was terrible at it. My gym teacher told me to hold my arm out, saying it would make catching the ball easier. I followed her instructions and ended up with a broken finger. It was the first and only time I ever broke a bone. I hated football before that, and *really* hated it after, haha.
(By the way, for any non-Americans here, when I say "football" I'm referring to the American version of football, not what we call soccer.)
I'm so clumsy I used to be called Inspector Clouseau at school (unfortunately my daughter has inherited my clumsy gene). So, if there's a glass door to be walked into, a chair to fall off or a paving stone to trip over - that'll be me.
shareScraped my hands when being tripped by a ghost/invisible person. I wrote about this in my paranormal thread if anyone is interested.
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