What is the dumbest way you’ve been injured?

@ashuli (1196)
India
December 11, 2018 6:41am CST
Let’s face it, we’ve all had some injuries that were caused by less than dignified circumstances. So lets hear them! Everyone loves a good cringe worthy story...
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
11 Dec 18
I can proudly say (so far) that I have never broken a bone in the whole of my 78 years on this earth. However I have done many silly things which have caused lesser injuries. Perhaps the most painful was when I leapt over a number of barrels in a pub (the barrels were being used as seats and tables), missed my footing and twisted my ankle badly. I was lucky that I had someone with me who was able to drive me home or I don't know what I should have done because it was 30 or 40 miles back home! That ankle has been my weak spot ever since and I have to take care not to turn it.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
11 Dec 18
@ashuli Since the barrels were made of wood, 'touching wood' was very much one of the causes of the accident. I could give thanks to God for making me such a stupid idiot, I suppose!
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
hey please dont count like this, just say "touchwood" and thanks to god... hope you never ever get hurt again... stay safe !
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
@owlwings your sense of humour is really too good...
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@Hannihar (129111)
• Israel
11 Dec 18
@ashuli I injured my finger by getting stuck in something I put my clothes on to dry. My finger got caught in it and could not get out at first.
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
oh just hope it wasnt too serious and your finger is all healed by now...
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@Hannihar (129111)
• Israel
11 Dec 18
@ashuli It hurt the other day because of the rain.
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
@Hannihar oh must be painful...
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@Porcospino (31367)
• Denmark
11 Dec 18
I thought it was a good idea to drink coffee in the car while my husband was driving. I spilled the coffee on my shirt. The coffee was extremely hot and it went through the shirt and burned the skin on my stomach. Today I still have a scar on my stomach where the coffee hit my skin. I was reading a library book while I was drinking my coffee, it got soaked in coffee and I had to replace it.
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@Porcospino (31367)
• Denmark
11 Dec 18
@ashuli That sounds very painful. It is good that you got ice cubes and hot water and didn't get a scar. My scar is hidden under my clothes, so it is not visible. Since that time I have been more careful with my coffee cup...
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
oh, i know how it feels when this happens... as i had a bowl of soup spilled on my hand and the soup was just served, really hot, the restaurant people brought a big bowl full of ice cubes and cold water n due to this somehow i dint got the scar...
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
@Porcospino exactly n from then whenever soup is being served i just remind myself to stay away from the soup bowl for sometime...
@JESSY3236 (18760)
• United States
11 Dec 18
I never had any broken bones. But I ran in the rain at a state park. I was running to the parking lot and somehow slipped (don't remember) and rolled down a cliff. I had to have stitches in my head.
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
hmm... may be u were in a hurry...
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
14 Dec 18
@JESSY3236 oh, there are very few people i know who hate rain, so now you are one of them...
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@JESSY3236 (18760)
• United States
14 Dec 18
@ashuli Yeah I was a kid and I always hated the rain.
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@Plethos (13618)
• United States
12 Dec 18
a dumba$$ co-worker once let go of his end, causing me to drop the load onto my foot.
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
12 Dec 18
oh that must have been painful...
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
14 Dec 18
@Plethos oh happy to know this...
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@Plethos (13618)
• United States
12 Dec 18
@ashuli - not as much as youd think, i was partially saved by my steel toe work boots. .
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• United States
11 Dec 18
I have two good injury stories. Funny thing they both involve my gym suit! The first one was when I was in middle school and Mom dropped us off at school. I was leaning in the car door and my brother slammed the car door on my index finger on my right hand. It was cut open and bled like crazy. I wouldn't drop my bundle because my gym suit was in it and we were having "Gym Locker Inspection" that day and everything had to be just so for the inspection in Physical Education. So my brother had to open the car door. I still bear the scar from that accident. The next accident was again involving my gym suit and locker inspection. I had my books and gym suit under my arm and went into my math class. The chairs were all upon the desk and instead of my putting down my bundle I reached out and grabbed the chair. It tilted back and hit me across the bridge of my nose. It hurt really bad and I thought I had broke my nose. I went up to the math teacher who also was the wood shop teacher, and he saw my nose and started to cry...he had been accident free in his shop for three years and I was the first accident in that three year period...fortunately I didn't break my nose but I spent two hours in the nurse's office with an ice pack on my nose. I had two black eyes for over a week! It was tough saying to people that asked "I dropped a chair on my nose".
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
oh my god ! this must have been very painful...
@ashuli (1196)
• India
12 Dec 18
• United States
11 Dec 18
@ashuli I think the one that was the dumbest was the one I had when I was moving back to California from Montana. I was walking out my front door and stepped down off the last step and my foot hit a patch of ice and I fell and broke my ankle. Oh another good one was when I ran my finger in the electric mixer, I shut it off and looked at my finger and decided to turn the mixer back on and finish running my finger through. It didn't work, my finger just jammed up the mixer more and I had to pry the beaters apart to get my finger out. The logic was a bit flawed!
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@deazil (4723)
• United States
11 Dec 18
About 15 years ago I broke my elbow going into work. Every night for 8-9 years I stepped up the same small curb, went in the same door and never got hurt. One night I stepped up the curb and the tip of my shoe hit the top edge of the curb and I went flying right on my face on the sidewalk. I broke my left elbow and scraped my nose. I couldn't believe that happened to me.
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
All this is sounding so painful... sometimes we get hurt at the least expected places...
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@id_peace (14010)
• Singapore
13 Dec 18
I kicked into my bed frame, fly towards my cabinet, Breaking the handle of my cabinet and ended up with an open wound which I would need to sew up. I also fell on the ground one day while playing football on a raining day. It took me ten minutes to get up.
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
14 Dec 18
it seems you are always in a hurry...
@wolfgirl569 (93556)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Dec 18
Its a toss up between sticking a pitchfork into my toe and driving a nail into my thumb. I will let you decide.
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@wolfgirl569 (93556)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Dec 18
@ashuli Sadly I managed to do both
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
12 Dec 18
@wolfgirl569 oh, please be careful and stay safe...
@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
ouch ! both are too painful, just imagining both of these situations im feeling nervous...
@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Dec 18
I have never had a substantial injury.
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@ashuli (1196)
• India
11 Dec 18
wah! thats so lucky of you and it also means that you are a very alert kind of person...
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