Do you count to ten when you hurt yourself?
By deeeky
@deeeky (3667)
Edinburgh, Scotland
June 14, 2007 2:49pm CST
or do you just shout a naughty word or too to take the pain away from your thoughts as your thumb is throbbing after you have hit it with an hammer. Or like the other day when I walked round the back of a car in a carpark and knocked my shin on a towbar that was level with my shin 'OUCH' and that did hurt.
I thought of counting to ten, but my mouth was not attached to my brain at the time so I just let it rip.
Have you done that?
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7 responses
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
15 Jun 07
No I do not count to 10 when I hurt myself. I just hold my best and try not to faint and wait there for the pain to pass or at least become manageable. When this happens, then I will go about my own business.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
15 Jun 07
Yes I do that to and the words that leave my Mouth are not very lady like at all not that I am a lady but they are pretty heavy lol
It takes to long to count to 10 it is easier to just let rip there and then the pain goes faster lol as you are not thinking of the Pain
@cool1girl (248)
• India
15 Jun 07
Today I'm feeling like terrible-I've messed up a little unknowingly....and I dont want to count till ten!I really want to cry...I want to blame someone else for what has happened...I'm being blamed since the morning for what has happened...I want someone to tell me its O.K....I feel like killing myself....and this feeling just wont go away!
I DONT WANT TO COUNT!Pls. tell me what to do...
@cool1girl (248)
• India
16 Jun 07
Thank you soooo much Deeky!Today you've done for me what no one else has done....If we werent so far away in terms of miles, perhaps it would've been best under the circumstances for you to come and give me company!Thanks for being my friend...I'm feeling better already!
@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
15 Jun 07
Hi deeeky,
I loose control as well and swear the most awful words when I get hurt accidentally. I think its a built-in genetic reflex reaction in my family. My grandfather was like that, he was extremely prude most of his life, but when he got a fright or got hurt; he would utter really obscene words. Very embarrassing when he takes you out to lunch at a fancy restaurant....you know what I mean.
And every time it happens, I tell myself to not use ‘that” word…but it never happens!
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
14 Jun 07
well i dont count to ten but i dont generally swear...i do say OUCH probably too loud...a couple of weeks ago i banged my knee on the corner of our bedside table...hard and it killed...
i hate it when you hurt yourself and you see stars...have you ever done that?
@Bizziebod (3497)
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15 Jun 07
I guess that all depends on where I am, if I'm on my own or with company I know then I will just swear like a trucker, but if not then I'm usually polite..
