# What's your latest dumb injury?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latest-dumb-injury/752055>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 13, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latest-dumb-injury/752055 "2016-04-13T02:37:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latest-dumb-injury/752055/21 "2016-04-15T02:01:15Z")

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I stood on a kitchen chair to put something on a high shelf. The chair was not as stable as I’d assumed and suddenly it tipped and I fell to the floor. Fortunately, I managed only to bruise an arm pretty good and cut my foot. I guess I’m thankful that I didn’t break anything.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latest-dumb-injury/752055/22 "2016-04-15T04:29:03Z")

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> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> No good. Last Sunday I stayed in bed and pulled my shoulder rolling over.

My father dreamed he was fighting someone and threw himself out of bed into his dresser. Scraped head, small split in nose.

He has since installed a restraint system.

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**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latest-dumb-injury/752055/23 "2016-04-15T04:41:32Z")

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I broke my big toe about 3 weeks ago. Wasn’t paying attention and stubbed it on a concrete curb while wearing sandals.

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**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latest-dumb-injury/752055/24 "2016-04-18T02:45:39Z")

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My shoes were tied, there was no crack, line or lump in the sidewalk and I managed to throw myself into a fairly major injury.

Several years ago I was waiting for my daughter to finish work, and decided to walk the puppy up and down the sidewalk while we waited for her. We ran a few steps and I tripped over nothing at all. I managed to cut both sides of one hand, badly enough that I needed stitches on both sides. I also broke a front tooth and spent the drive to the hospital assuring my poor child that I wasn’t dying while bleeding all over everything. This is only the most memorable of my self injuries due to a complete lack of grace.

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**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latest-dumb-injury/752055/25 "2016-04-18T20:16:02Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> Nursing a Pomeranian is contraindicated for a bad back.
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> IANAD.

😃

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