I gave myself two black eyes cheering for a coworker in a kickball game. I was in the dugout and jumped up, hit the bridge of my nose against the roof overhang.
Seriously. I had to call off work the next day bc my eyes were so swollen.
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In grade 6 I was just about to get chased so I started running backwards...I turned around to start sprinting not knowing that a metal pole was right behind me. I bonked my head hard enough to get sent home for the rest of the day because I had a giant bump on my head.
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Honestly, childbirth. I've had the craziest issues arise from my episiotomy scar. Last appointment my OB suggested physical therapy. I'm still too embarrassed to make that phone call (even though I know I shouldn't be). All these appointments are kind of hard to explain at the office....
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I was using a power washer to clean off my car's floor mats and got distracted. I accidentally power washer my thumb, took out a huge gouge of flesh and then fainted. It was so dumb (and painful).
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My windshield wipers in my first car stopped working so I realized that the fuse had blown and that I needed to change it. I changed the fuse and turned the car on to test it and realized I blew the next fuse as well. For some reason, I left the car on when I went to change the fuse again and electrocuted myself. Luckily, it wasn't enough voltage to really hurt me but I felt off for the rest of the day.
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I broke my foot while making my bed. It's a dangerous endeavour!
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I worked as a camp counselor one summer and we rode bikes around the camp when we were alone. I had a ribbon or something stuck in the front wheel one time. It was annoying me and I, like an idiot, decided to try and knock it loose... while still riding the bike.
Long story short, I ended up over the handlebars and bruised my tailbone. I could hardly sit down for months.
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The only bone I've ever broken was my elbow- accomplished while standing in a chair to change a lightbulb. Of course the chair got out from under me & I fell. I was 25 yrs old and should have known better!
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I love these stories.
I once opened a bathroom door right into my head, and had to get 6 sitiches in the middle of my forehead. Don't even ask how that's possible... I haven't a clue. My life is full of embarrassing injuries!
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Sigh, here is my most embarrassing story (and I have serveral that could rival this...I am accident prone)
I was coming home very late to my parent's house one night in college and didn't want to wake them up and see how late I was getting home (it was close to sunrise) so I didn't turn on any lights. I was guiding myself through the living room to the stairs and slammed right into the door jam, breaking my nose, and the potted plant on the stand next to it. Woke up with raccoon eyes & needed surgery the next week.
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These stories are great. Glad to know i'm not the only accident-prone lady on the 'bee~!
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I was delivering an eviction notice at the apartment community I worked at. I placed the notice on the door, turned around to take a step and fell down a small flight of stairs and broke my foot. There was nobody around so I had to crawl to the golf cart and drive myself back to the office on the other side of the road.
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@Mrs. Tricycle: omg. That is insane. I remember seeing a tv show about a guy who was powerwashing his deck and a bee landed on his leg.... he ended up losing his leg, I think, because so much flesh was powerwashed off and got infected!!
I fell out of our car this past weekend. I was climbing out of the 3rd row seat (very similar to climbing out of the backseat of a coupe, but higher up since it's an SUV) and I saw the door was going to hit the car next to us, so I instinctively reached out to grab the door, lost my balance, and fell straight down onto my hands and knees. My knees took the brunt of my full body weight. I'm still recovering... one knee has a 1 inch spot where the skin is completely gone and it's taking forever to heal. Basically every time I bend my knee, the wound opens up again in a million places!!!! Plus with the two black and blue and scraped up knees I look like a kid who fell on the playground.
Wagon Sr. once needed a root canal. He was brushing his teeth and a bristle went into the cavity hole and hit the nerve. He passed out and fell backwards onto his roommate's bed. His roommate found him like that, toothbrush and foamy paste falling out of his mouth and all.
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@Mrs. Tricycle: Wow, I had no idea a power washer was that powerFUL! Crazy!
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@Rubies: I had that exact thing happen to me in 3rd grade! I was really close to needing stitches though.
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I broke my arm in kindergarten by dancing on a bench in an attempt to make shadow puppets. It was late, we had a flashlight, and my sister had the bright idea that I should go stand on the most unstable bench in the world so we could see shadows on the side of a house. I fell, broke my arm, and my sister laughed hysterically.
I also broke my tailbone in 5th grade by popping a wheelie on the neighbors big wheel.
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I once gave myself a horrible chemical burn on my labia minora and vagina by spraying myself point blank with FDS spray. I was in college and called my girlfriend crying because I thought I had contracted herpes.
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I have two. When I was about 12 I banged my head into the sharp corner of a grandfather clock, knocked myself out and woke up covered in blood with my dad, stepmom and stepbrother standing over me freaking out (still have the scar).
The second was in the first week or so of college. I had my bed set up as high as it could go and used a milk crate as a step to get into it. The dorm had linoleum floors and I hadn't gotten a rug yet. Climbing out of the bed one night the crate slipped out from under my feet and I face-planted into the floor. Wouldn't have been so bad except I busted my chin open (also still have a scar), my roommate freaked out and I had to sit in the lobby, mortified, trying to stop the bleeding while my RA was on the phone with my stepmom and I was trying to convince them all that I didn't need an ambulance or to go to the ER.
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When I was 13 I decided to go rollerblading down the (very stony and rough!!) hill by my house. I realised (half way down the hill!) that I'd put the wrong rollerblades on. These ones had no brakes. Oops.
So of course the logical thing to do was to try and get to the grass on the side of the road to try and slow down. Oops again.
About half way down, I hit a rocky patch and went skidding down the rest of the road.
I scraped the skin down to my hipbone on one side, my elbow almost down to the bone on the same side, and the palm of the other side too.
I had to go to the doctors everyday for 2 weeks to get the bandages changed.
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Oh and @bree72: story reminded me... When I was 8 I was skipping with a scarf on hardwood floors. I accidentally stood on the scarf and fell flat on my face, knocking out one baby tooth, and cracking the corner off one of my front teeth which had barely started to grow. Every dentist I see now asks me if I want it fixed
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@mrs. wagon: @sweetchic: I didn't realize it either, but power washers are super dangerous. Needless to say, I'm extra careful around them now!
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@Nskillet: ouch!! That's pretty embarrassing.
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My senior year of high school I got into a really bad car accident and totaled my car. Somehow, I walked away without a scratch. It was crazy.
Afterwards, I was standing next to my car and talking to a cop, somehow fell off the curb, sliced my leg open on my car door, and needed stitches.
Once the cop knew I was ok, he kept teasing me that I was the only person who could total their car unscathed, and then get injured in the aftermath.
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A few years ago I was standing on the road next to my friends car,kind of bent over into the passenger window with my hands on the top of the car, his moron of a girlfriend just took off. I, for whatever reason, didn't let go and was trying to hold onto the top while she went 30mph down a hill. There wasn't anything to grip onto ao I got scared and just let go. I fell on my stomach and slid about 15 feet. My entire stomach, both knees & my forehead had massive road burn. I ended up with a crazy scar on my knee and my stomach, as well as tearing a hole in my retinal and had to have 3 different laser eye surgeries to repair it
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