I can relate. The most impressive of my (mostly faded) burn scars was triangular and close to an inch on each side. When I told people I got it cooking, they assumed that I must have been doing some great culinary feat to burn myself like that. I was actually reaching into the oven without a mitt to retrieve reheated pizza and brushed up against the heating element.
I have a small v-shaped scar in the web of flesh between my thumb and index finger, where I cut myself with a very sharp v-shaped woodcarving knife.
I have a scar on my lower abdomen from a hernia operation when I was 7.
Of course, my most recent scar is the big one on my chest, where they opened me up to re-plumb my heart. If I wasn’t so hirsute, it would be much more visible.
I have a couple of big ones; the biggest is the jagged and gaping scar going diagonally down my left scapula and upper back. That one is, idk maybe not quite a foot and a half long and very thick and it was from emergency aortic surgery back in 2000. The other big one is a neater, thinner (yet longer) surgical scar on my left femur after I smashed it in the same accident that necessitated the aortic surgery in 2000. I had a titanium rod and several pins inserted into that femur bone, so that scar is about (zips down pants and looks at leg) ehh, about the same length as the aorta scar but much cleaner and thinner.
I also have a little round scar on the back of my head from the whiplash-induced concussion that I suffered in that accident. It’s especially noticeable when I grow my hair out, since no hair grows in the scar tissue. Since I shave my head, however, it’s typically hard to notice.
Two on my left forearm, from putting my hand through a glass screen door on my 10th birthday.
One on my left thumb, from using a butter knife to try to pry open a jar. “One in a million shot, doc!”
One on the side of my nose and one on the corner of my forehead at the hairline. Both of these are for mistaking chicken pox for zits when I was 19.
Then the surgeries. One appendectomy (non-laparoscopic), one vertical c-section, and most recently (as in, still scabs and not scars yet), the anchor-style scars from a breast reduction.
5 scars of various sizes on my left leg & foot from breaking it 3 times. One scar in the fleshy part above my left eye (hard to see now) from a face plant into gravel off my bike at 13 yrs old.
Best one: strange crunched up scar right between my eyebrows. Got this one at a PENNSIC (SCA event) in 1985. I was trying to split wood, got to the last thin piece, carefully propped it up on 2 other pieces, swung the ax and shot the firewood right into my forehead.
Trip to the hospital, 6 stitches, and when I got back to camp with a huge, real, bloody bandage, I drank free all night long. Blood gets ya that there.
Scar across the bottom of my chin from trying to jump my tricycle off a stonewall as a 5 year old.
Half moon scar on the heel of my left foot from snagging it on a nail as I ran down a wooden pier to jump into a lake (that one was a bleeder!).
A couple of weird, purplish scars on both knees from when I was about 11 and was riding on the handle bars of sister’s bike. She hit a big bump going down a hill and I was launched off, landed on the front tire, straddling it for a bit, then fell forward on my hands and knees as her bike almost ran over me. I remember that as being really painful.
About 2 inch scar on my left forearm near my elbow from a motorcycle accident. Basically my skin snagged on the fabric of my riding jacket due to friction and a 2" X 1" chunk of skin was torn out of my arm. I had a gaping hole there for a good 6 weeks that required frequent dressing changes. Yuck.
I’ve got a bunch of others, but I’m not telling without dinner and a movie.
Professionally applied:
A strike brand on my back that looks like a cross between a fishbone and a numberline. Metal heated up over a butane torch and then pressed into the skin.
A scarification on my hip that is an outline of a handprint. Two parallel cuts made with scalpel blades, skin between removed, wound healed by granulation.