# Sometimes you pull a muscle in the weirdest place

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**Created:** [July 12, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-pull-a-muscle-in-the-weirdest-place/312116 "2005-07-12T03:12:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-pull-a-muscle-in-the-weirdest-place/312116/1 "2005-07-12T03:12:36Z")

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I don’t know how I did it, but last Friday I awoke in the morning and realized that I had somehow managed to pull the muscle that makes the left side of my mouth open and close. As long as my mouth was in a closed or slackjawed position, I was fine, but it hurt like hell to open up or bite down. I realized that this is what a porn star must feel like after she has sucked too much giant cock.

Anyway, I was confined to eating oatmeal, Jello and rice for a couple days. Not that I really minded, I love oatmeal and rice and especially Jello, but it gets boring after a while, ya know? Fortunately after a couple days my mouth muscles began to heal themselves, and now I can open and chew with only a little pain.

I am still at a loss for how I did it. Perhaps I was trying to chew through solid titanium and I don’t remember it. Or maybe, in my sleep, I yawned _really hard_. On the other hand, it may be but a temporary remission of lockjaw, in which case I will die of tetanus before the week is out.

It’s a mystery, all right.