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Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[philstar22]

What's the stupidest way you've injured yourself?

Today I stupidly nearly caused myself heat stroke.

I had an appointment to get a crown put on my tooth. My gas tank was low, but I thought my dentist would prefer it if I waited until after the appointment to fill the tank because it would be less exposure for people in his office. The way they were doing the appointments was that people were to wait in cars in the parking lot, then they'd send a staff member down to take temperatures and take the person up when it was time for the appointment.

I got to the parking lot and called in. My car was giving me the warning sign, so I was worried I wouldn't make it to the gas station if I left it on. So I turned the car off. And because I had a car on either side of me with people in them, I kept the windows up.

I had a mask and gloves on. I waited 25 minutes before the hygienist came down. When she first took my temp, it was 107.4. I had to go into the building and sit for a few minutes before it came down. I was already feeling light-headed and dizzy and sleepy.

So yup, I was an idiot. Should have put the windows down at least and taken the gloves off. If it had been even a few minutes more I probably would have had to go to the ER.

Anyone else injure yourself in some ridiculous or stupid way that could have been avoided?

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

Got off the wrong side of a motor bike I was on as a passenger and got a huge second degree burn on my leg because I touched the exhaust pipe. That was... nice.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

I tried to do that Homer Simpson hammock thing and sprained my back.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

When I was about... Six? Seven? I was at a museum with my dad, and I started swinging from a handrail. I swung back and hit my head on a metal edge, cut my head open, blood everywhere. My poor dad!

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

In the house I used to have there were two bathrooms, one en suite, one not. I kept the big package of toilet paper in the hall closet and put a few rolls under each bathroom sink, in a plastic bin for the en suite, refilling once I put the last roll on the holder. So one night I got up from bed to use the bathroom and had to put the last roll on the holder, but didn't feel like refilling the bin just then. So, instead, I left the plastic bin on the floor in front of the sink to remind me to fill it the next day. When I got up the next day, I went into the en suite bathroom and promptly tripped on the bin, falling, half on the tiled floor, half in the slightly sunk tiled shower. I bruised my arm, my knee, and my cheek (both inside and outside) and felt like a complete idiot.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

Grabbed a hot cast iron pan to stabilize it even though I knew it was hot. It was one of those things where your brain kind of goes on vacation until you see yourself doing the thing and slow-motion noooo, but it's too late.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[bur]

I gave myself a scar on my thumb by breaking a pretzel wrong. When it snapped, the edge of it just tore right on through!

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

Once as a kid I was trying to get someone's attention in a subtle way by stomping my foot on the floor so they'd look up but I wouldn't interrupt the people in the next room. I was only wearing socks and I guess I was standing on a rough spot of the hardwood floor because I wound up driving a huge splinter into my foot and my mom had to take me to the hospital to have it removed.

Another time I was getting undressed to put on my pajamas and while taking off my shirt I somehow raked a fingernail across my stomach really hard, causing a really painful scrape/scratch. It didn't bleed, but it did that thing where blood pools under the surface. It stung like the dickens and ended up leaving a scar that lasted for years. I still have no idea how I managed to do that!

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

I was trying to break a thick piece of dark chocolate in two, but even if there were thinner parts where it was theoretically weaker, they weren't thin enough so I really had to use some force for it. At some point I managed to break it, but somehow I ended up scraping a thick splinter of the chocolate with my thumbnail and it got stuck between the nail and the flesh.

I had to cut the nail as far back as I could without hurting myself further and I still couldn't get all the chocolate out so of course it got infected. Luckily dunking the thumb in very hot water to draw the pus out seemed to do the trick.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[kamino_neko]

I broke my arm playing Win Lose or Draw.

We were playing in a temporary classroom on a concrete floor (it was in the local armoury when I was in army cadets - we were killing time before an overnight). I couldn't see the board well, so I stood up on one of the folding benches. It...didn't stay upright very long. Hand hit the concrete, ulna ended up with a displaced oblique fracture.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

Somewhere between the ripe old ages of 14 and 17, my family and friends all developed a love of BB guns. Specifically of shooting each other with them. One friend of mine was having a great time shooting everyone else, but the first time they got hit themselves, they decided they were done because that hurt. Had they left it at that, no one would have argued it, but they proceeded to go on a tangeant about how only babies found it fun, so assholes that the rest of us were, we pointed out they were the biggest baby of all since they quit playing the first time someone managed to shoot them (on the ass, mind you, we had a strict no aiming for the face rule).

Fight ensued about how we were all assholes, one thing lead to another, and to proove they were being a baby over nothing, I shot myself point blank in the hand with my BB gun. As it turns out, little plastic pellets, when moving at their full 300+ feet/second rate when they first get fired, can break skin. I ended up digging the pellet out with a knife, my friend fainted, and we both ended up with stitches.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

The time I decided it would be smart to use a rolling chair as a stool. I almost broke my ass.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

When I was a kid we only occasionally kept cars in the garage, and there was a big oil slick mess right in the center on the side closest to the garage door. At some point a small styrofoam square had fallen out of a garbage can and was sitting in the middle of the oil slick. Six year old me decided that instead of stepping around the oil slick I could totally jump onto the styrofoam square and slide right over the oil to the other side. Instead I fell right on my back, got bruised up and both me and my favorite stuffed animal that I was holding both got covered in oil.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

I pulled my right pectoral muscle masturbating.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

This is my brother's story and not mine, but it wins the family Darwin Award:

While home alone one afternoon (my mother had taken me with her grocery shopping, he didn't want to go), my then-9-year-old brother decides that he wants one of the Tootsie Rolls that's still leftover from the Halloween candy.

The problem here is that my parents just kind of hadn't gotten around to throwing out said leftovers, which is glorious here because it was now May. Yes, this was a six month old Tootsie Roll. So of course it had gone stale and he couldn't chew it. But was he deterred? Heck no! He threw that stale mini Tootsie Roll into a (plastic) bowl and chucked that in the microwave (for about a minute) to soften it up.

It, of course, melts. As does the bowl, a little bit, but not fully. So he decides to give it a second to "cool down"-- here meaning "fuse molecularly to the warped plastic so that they harden together into one slightly gross item."

You'd think at this point you'd realize something had gone Wrong in your plan. You'd probably chuck the evidence and maybe root around to see if there was a softer Tootsie Roll in there somewhere, or maybe even, more sanely, you'd decide to try a different snack altogether. Not my brother! He decides that he is embroiled in this shit, and the only way out is to unmake the thing he has created (and still eat the Tootsie Roll).

He does this by way of taking out a steak knife and chiseling desperately at the lump of chocolatey chew stuck to the bowl. Chipping into it as best as possible, trying to form a gap with which to perhaps lever the offending candy off of its perch.

Instead, one particular thrust slips, crests over the top of the lump, richocheting it upwards, where he then stabs himself in the opposite hand.

To my brother's credit, even in his absolute panic at this point, he knows to seek help, and he runs to our neighbor's house screaming. To his discredit, he has decided to stem the flow of blood by clutching his hand to his chest and covering it with the other, staining his shirt and leading our poor neighbor to believe that he had been stabbed in the heart.

My mother and I came home about twenty minutes later to find an ambulance and fire truck at the neighbor's house, and the husband out in the driveway ready to intercept and tell her that everything 's fine, her son just needed a few stitches for a kitchen accident and his wife needed a day or two off from fainting dead away in the doorway.

At the time it was a lot of ruckus and my brother was in deep shit for a while over it, but as time passed, the story got funnier and funnier. All that for a stale mini Tootsie Roll.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have the energy to list every injury I've ever had, lol.

Re: Stupidest way you've injured yourself

[(Anonymous)]

Let's see...

It's not an outright injury, but there was the time, when I was a kid, when my sister and I were playing around outside waiting for our parents to take us to my grandma's place. My sister was on the deck doing something silly, so I sat down in a lawn chair, and for whatever reason, I decided to set the lawn chair right on the edge of the top step of our stairs so that I was facing the deck.

At one point, I laughed at something my sister did, leaned back in the chair...and tumbled all the way down the stairs and hit my head hard on the sidewalk. No cuts or bruises or anything serious of that sort, but I had one hell of a headache the rest of the night.

There was also a time when I was working at a library, and went to straighten out a sign, and somehow managed to pinch my finger in the process. I went to get a band-aid for it, took one look at my finger, noticed it was turning purple, and had to sit down.

I also got a nice little burn on the inside of the upper part of my right leg once when I dropped a plate of just cooked Rice a Roni. And then there was a time when I was running from one room to another, slipped and fell, and landed on my foot weird, causing it to swell up a bit and one of my pinky toes to get a bit disjointed. It still looks awkward today. Doesn't hurt or anything, though.

Course, all my incidents are nothing compared to some of the stuff my sister and my dad did to themselves. The stories they could tell... I'm starting to wonder if clumsiness is an inherited trait in our family :p.

what have you been streaming during quarentine?

[venusundae]

i thought of y'all, fandomsecrets, when i learned that a 1981 version of CATS the musical will be available to livestream this weekend. i never saw the movie, but i am excited to watch this version of the stage show ngl!
CATS here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAAaq7M0aXs

a lot of theaters have been offering recordings of shows up for streaming since they're closed down for social distancing lately. have you watched any? i thought the national theatre versions of frankenstein were cool! what would you love to get an opportunity to stream if you haven't seen it around yet?

MY LIFE IS NOW FULFILLED!

[(Anonymous)]

THE 2020 AFL season will resume on June 11!!!

I HAVE BEEN RESURRECTED!!! YESSS!!!!

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Talk about event's that have been postponed, or done via internet, so you don't have to miss out on your favourite things! Or about events you wish they would make possible at a later date, or via online!

[(Anonymous)]

As a kid I found Maya, Aztec and Inca sacrifices fascinating so I cut my finger with a knife. Had to go to a doctor, still have a scar.

If You Could Have Any Disney Outfit/Style, Who Woud You Choose?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd pick Hades for Fire Hair and the Queen of Hearts Dress.

did you know

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 now has a search operator for filtering how many relationships are tagged in a story?

otp:true will only include works with one relationship, otp:false will only include works with multiple relationships

Looking for a heads up regarding Yakuza

[thewakokid]

So I just started playing the Yakuza series of games - Starting with 3, unfortunately... Only have a PS4... It's started off SUPER wholesome, taking care of the kids at the orphanage, it's cute. But as some of you all may know I have issues with downer endings, and I don't want to dig out spoilers, so I was hoping I could get a heads up on the general tone these games follow. How bad is it for downers? Anyone I want to avoid getting invested in?

'preciate it!

late rant

[(Anonymous)]

So I ordered my masks from Amazon at the beginning of April since everybody here is hoarding them. Get told delivery range of May 1-31.

May rolls around. Get told delivery date of May 22.

Wake up today to a notification that masks are detained by customs and will not be delivered, and refund will be provided.

Ex-fucking-squeeze me? Number one, excuse my fucking Karen, but I want my fucking masks, not a goddamn refund.

Number two, if these masks were going to come from overseas.... that's the kind of thing to fucking disclose before I order, or at least some time before it gets detained.

Don't get me wrong, if something were sketchy with the masks, it's probably best they were held up, as I'd rather be stuck with homemade masks than stuck with a virus, but it really fucking sucks to be waiting all this time only to be told your masks aren't coming. You KNOW there is going to be a second wave of this. I want to be prepared as much as possible.

I did order the generic masks you get at drug stores but those won't be here until June (well, June 1-30, but you KNOW it'll be pushed to near July), and with my luck, those will probably get detained too because those are the ones I was told ARE coming from overseas.

Until then, I guess I'll depend on looking like a stupid bandit from a bad Western. I don't suppose anyone knows of a company in the US that isn't going to get their materials from overseas? Clearly, I can't rely on Amazon this time.