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Samebeat

Samebeat

USA
September 2003

JAN 06, 2005 02:00 PM

I just gave myself a fairly insignificant, yet painful, stupid injury. I decided I wanted some stove-popped popcorn, but put too much in the pan and while I was shaking it, the corn forced the lid up a bit and a popping kernel popped more kernels up into my sleeve and burnt my arm! After I was done swearing I could stop chuckling.

Other stupid injuries I've given myself:

Fell off of the Hamburgler toy while drunk and sneaking into a McDonald's play land in high school. Broke my arm.

Broke my collar bone when my ex opened the trap door to my loft room into my chest while I was coming up stairs.

Dis-attached retina from a snowball fight in high school. Most painful thing I've felt in my life.


Looks sick huh? What stupid things have you done to yourself?

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by Samebeat]

inkncarrots

inkncarrots

San Diego, CA
March 2004

JAN 06, 2005 02:17 PM

One time I was sitting in the car with my then boyfriend and he pushed in the cigarette lighter for no apparent reason. It didn't ever pop out and I told him that they don't work with the car off. He said that they did. I said that they didn't. He said that they did. I took it out, looked at it, then put my thumb on it to prove a point. I had a spiral burn on my thumb for weeks.

Moral of the story, the cigarette lighter works with the car off.

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by inkncarrots]

MrPinstripeSuit

MrPinstripeSuit

Reno, NV
November 2004

JAN 06, 2005 02:25 PM

It was back in '88 I was 9. My family was moving into our first new house, built just for us. My parents took me and my two brothers, 7 and barely 2, with them to Sears to pick out some appliances. Well you see this particular Sears had one of those Nintendo game testing stations that they thought could occupy us for the needed time. Unfortunately for them it was out of order. So myself and my brothers bored out of our skulls decided that just wandering around, playing tag and the like in the department store was good enough for us. After that got a bit boring, we discovered the escalators.

Oh Joy of Joys.

WE went up and down them for an age. Then we went down the up oone and up the down one. Then I realized that we could just sit down on them and slide right off the end. Now remember this was '88, spandex was teh coolest clothing around.

So here I am sitting on down two steps lower than my brothers on an escalator wearing a pair of black bike shorts with a red stripe down the side. I come up to the end and get SUCKED RIGHT IN[.

I can see my parents about thiry yards or so ahead as I strain to pull myself out of the grinding workings. My two brothers are using their recently acquired going up the down side skills to keep from crashing into me. My parents make it to me just as I finally extricate myself from the diabolical machine.

My favorite pair of shorts were ruined.

And that is why I have scars on both cheeks of my ass from an escalator.

I've also a cool comet over my abdomen from getting the end of a pair of handlebars jammed into my stomach after completely botching an attempted jump down a dirt ramp.

inkncarrots

inkncarrots

San Diego, CA
March 2004

JAN 06, 2005 02:37 PM

muirtach said:
After that got a bit boring, we discovered the escalators.


"That could've been easily avoided had some parent-- I don't care
which one-- But some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator!" wink

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by inkncarrots]

MrPinstripeSuit

MrPinstripeSuit

Reno, NV
November 2004

JAN 06, 2005 02:40 PM

inkncarrots said:

muirtach said:
After that got a bit boring, we discovered the escalators.


"That kid is on the escalator again!"



For the record this was about ten years before Mallrats. That said, I laughed harder than anyone when I saw that part.

Oracle

Oracle

Courtenay, BC
September 2003

JAN 06, 2005 02:44 PM

i worked in an Air Traffic Control Tower and to get out to the catwalk you have to go through a very small door...when I was going out I hit my head on a hinge. I had to get 3 stitches...because of me they now have warning signs biggrin

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

JAN 06, 2005 02:52 PM

I broke my own leg trying to throw an empty beer keg. I win.

Trucker_Fiction

Trucker_Fiction

Normal, IL
December 2003

JAN 06, 2005 03:00 PM

Cash said:
I broke my own leg trying to throw an empty beer keg. I win.



I broke my femur (the hardest bone in your body, next to the skull) falling down a hill. I win.

oh, and I broke my elbow jumpng from the bed of a moving Dodge Ram that was going 25 mph.

Jerry_Coke

Jerry_Coke

United Kingdom
May 2004

JAN 06, 2005 03:02 PM

When I was a kid, my dad had these safety harnesses for the back seats in the car. For one reason or another these were left around the house. They were bright orange four point things.

Now, being a kid living in cloud cuckoo land, I thought these would make an excellent parachute harness (think Luke Skywalker in his Snowspeeder pilot outfit). All I needed was a 'parachute'

Hello Bannister!

After tying one of these harnesses around myself and the other to the bannister, I jumped.

I can remember not being able to breathe, then getting unhooked by my mum. Followed by lots of crying.

Almost dying is an 'injury' right?

{edit - spelling and stuff.}

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by Jerry_Coke]

Sydni

Sydni

SUICIDEGIRL

Washington, USA

JAN 06, 2005 03:05 PM

I wore shorts on my motorcycle when I was 14 and burned the shit out of my shin. the burn bubble was about 8" by 2" inches. I had a burly scar for awhile. And it wasn't even that hot out. maybe 65 degrees. Why wasn't I wearing pants? who knows.

that is why lesbian moms should not let their teenagers get on big motorcycles by themselves.

another time, when I was a cheerleader, I kicked myself in the head during a jump. it hurt. and I felt stupid.

I still like to touch hot things.

I think Cash has won, thus far. tongue

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by Sydni]

Sydni

Sydni

SUICIDEGIRL

Washington, USA

JAN 06, 2005 03:08 PM

oh, and halloween 2001, i fell off a chair and passed out. Broke my nose and scraped up my face REAL bad. I had two black eyes for weeks. I told people I got in a fist fight......

we all know why this happened......so I won't even write it.


and no making fun of me being a cheerleader. I was confused. and now I'm sorry for it. I still have the uniform though.wink

_Sarah_

_Sarah_

Kalamazoo, MI
January 2003

JAN 06, 2005 03:14 PM

I broke my finger trying to crack my knuckles before a piano recital. blush tongue

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by Sorcha]

_schmoe

_schmoe

Flint, MI
November 2003

JAN 06, 2005 03:15 PM

when i was three i was standing on the kitchen counter. i fell. i'm sure it was somehow caused by my brother but i don't remember. i split my lip. the long way. it looked like i had two lower lips sewn together.

in high school i punched a wall while playing basketball. i don't remember why, but it had to be a stupid reason. twenty minutes later i notied it hurt to catch the ball.

BlackHive

BlackHive

Philadelphia, PA
January 2004

JAN 06, 2005 03:15 PM

I opened a frozen pizza once, tossed down the knife I used to cut open the plastic a bit too hard, it hit the frozen pizza, bounced back at me while spinning, hit the top of my hand between two of my knuckles and cut it wide open.

Between two of my knuckles, it was split wide open and I could see blood vessels and tendons and whatnot moving around. It even nicked a tendon and cut halfway through it which put me in a hand-splint thing for a few weeks while it healed to prevent it from snapping. I obviously needed stitches.

The damage was surprising considering how weakly I tossed down the knife.

clara

clara

MODERATOR

Baltimore, MD

JAN 06, 2005 03:41 PM

I tried to pick up a very drunk man who was clearly larger than me and paid a $760 hospital bill. And more for follow up visits.

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

JAN 06, 2005 03:44 PM

I once slammed my own head in my car door. Damn near knocked myself out, gave myself a black eye.

Dan76

Dan76

Seattle, WA
February 2004

JAN 06, 2005 03:44 PM

I wasn't looking and bumped into one of my Drill Instructors. He left a facial scar. surreal

Crim

Crim

HOPEFUL

Portland, OR

JAN 06, 2005 03:50 PM

BlackHive said:
I opened a frozen pizza once, tossed down the knife I used to cut open the plastic a bit too hard, it hit the frozen pizza, bounced back at me while spinning, hit the top of my hand between two of my knuckles and cut it wide open.

Between two of my knuckles, it was split wide open and I could see blood vessels and tendons and whatnot moving around. It even nicked a tendon and cut halfway through it which put me in a hand-splint thing for a few weeks while it healed to prevent it from snapping. I obviously needed stitches.

The damage was surprising considering how weakly I tossed down the knife.


I'm always scared that kind of shit is going to happen to me. Thank you for confirming my fears. biggrin

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

JAN 06, 2005 03:51 PM

Dan76 said:
I wasn't looking and bumped into one of my Drill Instructors. He left a facial scar. surreal




"Sir, watch where the fuck you're going, Sir" wink

FrankMask

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN
June 2003

JAN 06, 2005 03:54 PM


My most persistent stupid injury is bumping my head on ceilings, doorframes, and lightfixtures, then yelling about the poor placement of said archetectural features.

JohnClement

JohnClement

Silver Spring, MD
January 2004

JAN 06, 2005 03:55 PM

I have a couple of cigarette burn scars due to drunken stupidity. We gave ourselves Germs circles on our wrists, not because we even liked the Germs, but because we were "punk fuckin' rock" and very drunk. The other is on my shoulder, about the size of a quarter, and was inflicted by my former roommate, again thanks to alcohol.

boggs

boggs

Vancouver, BC
February 2004

JAN 06, 2005 03:56 PM

Got my hand jammed in an automatic credit card imprinter...broke three fingers trying to get my hand out.

Knocked myself out by walking into a hanging parking lot sign while on a date.

Broke my wrist trying to run across the monkey bars.

Bent down and caught my ass on a garbage can...broke my tailbone.

Fractured my skull and broke my back when the mast from a fishing boat collapsed (I ran under it instead of away from it).

There are more but I'm afraid I'll come off as somewhat awkward...


And sadly all of these have happened since I finished highschool.

Idjit

Idjit

HOPEFUL

I'm lost

JAN 06, 2005 03:59 PM

This weekend while I was making myself a little desk extension/bookshelf for myself, I was quickly running a piece of plywood across the table saw. I thought it was through all the way, but at the last second the wood caught, ripped out of my right hand, flew against the fence (breaking it) and then ramming into my left arm, hard. It broke the skin through my jacket, and I reckon if it hadn't hit the fence first it would have been a lot worse. shocked

RunForYourLife

RunForYourLife

Islip, NY
May 2003

JAN 06, 2005 04:01 PM

Knee'd myself in face. Split my bottom lip open from corner to corner. Yeah it hurt.


EDIT*****

I also knee'd myself in the eye and gave myself quite a shiner. biggrin

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by Slickwill5]

FrankMask

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN
June 2003

JAN 06, 2005 04:44 PM

I just cut my nose playing with a pocket knife. Goal!

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