I was removing the tin seal on my Coffeemate bottle the only way I know how – with my teeth. Instead of the whole thing coming open, a little piece tore off, just as I inhaled. First thing in the morning without my coffee yet! Luckily my reflexes kicked in and I coughed/expelled it back out. That could have been an embarrassing ER trip.
I still have a clump of scar tissue in the middle of my forehead from all the times I fell on it as a kid (or when my brother clambered out of the double stroller and flipped my out of it onto my face). :smack:
My sister-in-law was tidying up her apartment before hosting the family for Christmas Eve. While fluffing up the pillows on the couch, she smacked her left hand with her right, and fractured a bone in her left index finger. 25 years later, we still give her grief over that one.
I’ll contribute my mom’s. She taught for 35 or so years. One year, she got the idea that she needed to scrap the gum off her ceiling. So she stood on top of a desk. You know the ones, where the kids sit one to a desk, there’s a chair, and the desk sits out in front of the chair completely unsupported - kind of like this.
She climbed up on top of the desk, promptly pitched forward onto the floor and ended up with a compound fracture of her forearm. She had a metal frame supporting the injury for a while, and then had surgery, followed by months of physical therapy to regain use of her hand (the nerves were damaged in the break).
Lesson: do not stand on unsupported furniture to do work on your ceiling.
When I was 16 I decided to run a Swiss Army knife blade along the bottom of my right foot…to, uh, see what would happen. The results were what you’d expect.
Most memorable was playing football in my back yard, about 11-12. Looked back to see if anybody was close and ran into a tree…a big one. Still have the inch-long scar on the side of my head.
Most recently (I’m 63 now), refereed indoor soccer and backed up into a 5-year old. Took a tumble (the kid was just fine, I didn’t fall on them) and strained my back something fierce.
Naw, it healed up in a day or two. But all that day, I had people asking me “What’s wrong?” with a follow-up of “How’d you do that?” I tried a few different tacks, but think I ended up going with, “I dunno, I just woke up and it was messed up.”
Had a 6" long drill bit in my back pocket. Got in my car and adjusted myself to the seat. Drill bit went through my jeans, underwear and left butt cheek. Pulled it out and went on my way. 15 minutes later stopped at an ER, the pain was spreading to my back and leg. I quit carry drill bits in my pocket after that.