# Need alibi for giant gash on forehead/Share tales of conspicuous wounds earned while inebriated **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 25, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alibi-for-giant-gash-on-forehead-share-tales-of-conspicuous-wounds-earned-while-inebriated/586849 "2011-06-25T21:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alibi-for-giant-gash-on-forehead-share-tales-of-conspicuous-wounds-earned-while-inebriated/586849/61 "2011-07-04T06:39:39Z")
I was between boat trips in Seattle and the crew was crashing at hotels for the week in between. I did drink some, but have no idea if that was why I somehow slipped while getting out of bed and smashed my face on the corner of the nightstand. I had an AWESOME black eye…it looked just like I’d gone overboard with the eyeliner, which is something not really my style. So I just did both eyes up like that and everyone thought it was on purpose. =p That’s the only odd injury I’ve ever head, oddly enough. ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alibi-for-giant-gash-on-forehead-share-tales-of-conspicuous-wounds-earned-while-inebriated/586849/62 "2011-07-04T06:45:02Z")
Face weasels. ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alibi-for-giant-gash-on-forehead-share-tales-of-conspicuous-wounds-earned-while-inebriated/586849/63 "2011-07-04T06:48:17Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > It’s pretty obscure. > > Tyrone Slothrop is a character in Thomas Pynchon’s _Gravity’s Rainbow_. **TSlothrop’s** post struck me as very Pynchonesque obscure and Pynchonesque. Yep, That’s me. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alibi-for-giant-gash-on-forehead-share-tales-of-conspicuous-wounds-earned-while-inebriated/586849/64 "2011-07-04T20:21:40Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Seriously, if you make up a crazy story, then they’ll either realize you’re joking, or think you’re actually trying to cover up for something, and either way, they’ll come to their own conclusions about what _really_ happened, and they’ll probably be worse than the reality (and likely involve domestic violence). Just say “I was drunk”, and leave it at that. Almost everyone has been stupid drunk at some time or another, and done stupid things. And the few people who haven’t, have still known plenty of folks who have. They’ll understand. I bet you’re real fun at parties. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alibi-for-giant-gash-on-forehead-share-tales-of-conspicuous-wounds-earned-while-inebriated/586849/65 "2011-07-05T15:49:52Z")
The only dramatic one I had, I shared, because it was too good not to. Middle-school, hanging out in my parents’ den. I was sitting on the couch, next to my friend, who had her feet propped up on the piano bench. I got up to make popcorn-- and on a whim, I decided that instead of walking around the easy way, I would instead make a daring leap over my friend’s legs, thus earning the adulation of my peers (yeah, right). Needless to say, I miscalculated, tripped, and smacked my forehead right on the seat of my dad’s elderly, shedding, hideous scratchy La-Z-Boy chair. The resulting 1.5-inch welt had check-marks, to match the polyester plaid. Took me a while to live that down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alibi-for-giant-gash-on-forehead-share-tales-of-conspicuous-wounds-earned-while-inebriated/586849.md?page=3)