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Most Ridiculous Injury you have ever had in your life?

386 replies

DionneB · 21/01/2019 23:19

as we have had serious injury , what are some ridiculous injuries you have had in your life before?

i would say slipping on some ice outside Bargin Booze and not being able to walk properly for 3 days afterwards , not fun times.

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Dextrodependant · 23/01/2019 18:59

I slipped down the stairs on a boat and hurt my back was mostly embarrassing though.

Opened a car door into my face and split my lip.

Stood up on the bus to ring the bell and sat back down... only I had been sat on a cold out seat which had folded back up and I landed on the floor.

cliffdiver · 23/01/2019 19:03

Putting a glass bauble in my mouth to see if it would fit and it shattering and cutting the inside of my mouth.

onlyhereforthefood · 23/01/2019 19:06

I broke my foot in Zara

isseywithcats · 23/01/2019 19:07

slipping off a fridge at work cleaning a wall fractured wrist six weeks off work not fun and no compensation cos it was my own fault

Imacliche · 23/01/2019 19:09

Falling outside greggs and breaking my toe
Walking into a door frame and breaking my nose
As above but walking round with a frame mark on my forehead for days

I could go on Grin

tubularfells · 23/01/2019 19:20

DH found himself flat on his back outside a supermarket once - feet went from under him and he banged his head - and couldn't work out what had happened. A woman with a pushchair came running over to him and her toddler was eating a banana... Turned out the toddler had dropped the skin and before the mother realised he had slipped on it. Apparently it wasn't all that hilarious as his head and back hurt for days afterwards.

Evennow · 23/01/2019 19:56

Stapled my finger (aged 9)

KrystalTipps · 23/01/2019 20:02

Poke in the eye with a sharp stick (pruning bush without glasses on - didn't see it and no protection either) and when I was 4 ran off and fell over in a gravel carpark - split my nose down the middle and had a faint purple (grey) line down it until I was about 30...

minkies11 · 23/01/2019 20:15

We had a metal electric hob cooker with the raised bits the saucepans go on and I noticed someone had left a teaspoon on one of the circles so I stupidly picked it up. It was obviously just short of molten so I dropped it on the floor (stone thankfully) but then my brain immediately made me pick the spoon up off the floor because I'd dropped it! What an idiot Blush and a blister over a burn as the spoon was still red hot.

PineappleFwitters · 23/01/2019 20:18

Got erm, intimate after a lovely curry dinner then-DP made for me. He'd been chopping birds eye chillis and, well, you get the picture...

Fusioluxe · 23/01/2019 20:36

KrystalTipps did it disappear after age 30. That’s amazing!

TrueFriendsStabYouInTheFront · 23/01/2019 21:04

Tripped up a curb in ridiculous shoes and landed square on one knee. Literally skinned my knee, it was agony which didn't subside for weeks! To make matters worse, my dog kept sneaking a quick lick of it anytime I walked by or sat anywhere near him which was also bloody agony! He'd even sneak into my room to try and get me lol

Drunkenly punched a very heavy punchbag barehanded and broke my ring and little finger. Broke the same two fingers 8 years later catching my baby who suddenly learned to roll. I was bent down grabbing a nappy and caught her mid air rolling from the change table.

Ran through a doorway quickly and smashed my forearm on the pointy door handle! Horrible bruise.

JustLetMeSleep1 · 23/01/2019 21:33

When I 13 I lost the glue for my false nails, went looking and found superglue. Somehow managed to get superglue in my eye. Dm took me to the hospital where I tripped hit my head on seat and passed out.
It was the first time I was 'that' person who causes everyone else's appointments to be like an hour behind.

WhatWouldChristineCagneyDo · 23/01/2019 21:38

Punched myself in the eye whilst taking off my bra. A proper, full on fist punch. Had a massive black eye which went every colour of the rainbw and didn't clear up for a month.

sparkleandsleep · 23/01/2019 21:40

I was dancing around a nightclub dance floor and saw a 'really cool' guy doing some amazing moves, including head banging. I sashayed over to him and started headbangjng too only for him to fling his head really far forward and hit me on the face with his forehead. Huge black eye for ages.
I also demonstrated to ds how to safely open a Swiss Army knife as he was too scared to keep it and sliced my finger open.
Least dramatic was when I was reversing in a car, opened the window to lean out and see how close I was to the white line, felt cold so shut the window but forgot to bring my head back in and hit all my front teeth on the window as it closed.

Chocolatecake12 · 23/01/2019 21:47

We had a lions head made out of concrete that had never made it to being hung up in the garden, so I’d tidied it away in the top of the wardrobe. A few years later we we moving house and I was pulling things down from the top of the wardrobe and the lions head came straight down hitting me on the forehead splitting my head open - had to have it glued in a&e.
My now exh said it put a whole new meaning on the lion the witch and the wardrobe

Bumbumtaloo · 23/01/2019 21:53

Far too many times, some that stick in my head are;

Jumped off a tumble dryer, as a child, that was in the kitchen doorway - we had just moved house and my mum had put it there to stop the dog coming out of the kitchen whilst we popped out - knocked myself out

Pricked myself in my finger with my work name badge, it then got infected and I needed antibiotics and then a small operation.

Black eye after hitting myself in the face with a toilet door.

Broke my wrist tripping and getting myself caught between a (different) toilet door and the wall.

Had six fractures in both arms and wrist by slipping on a freshly mopped kitchen floor and putting both arms down to break my fall.

It would seem I’m quite partial to a stupid accident!

LokiDokiArtichoki · 23/01/2019 21:55

Aged 9/10. Toasted a marshmallow over the gas hob. On a metal fork. Stuck it straight in my gob and burnt the pattern of the prongs into both my top and bottom lips. Was agony.

flumpybear · 23/01/2019 22:01

I had recently cut down the roses in my garden, One was in the front garden near front door- I cut across the lawn one evening whilst watering front pits and tripped over the short rose bush

Normally this would be ok except it was an ancient rise so massive thirds that ripped into my shins in both legs - huge lump bruises appeared ...

Yeah yeah ... just a little wine involved .... it was a Friday night 🍾

Sophisticatedsarcasm · 23/01/2019 22:27

Not so much me, but DP broke his finger when he was about 12 playing football, with a foam ball 😂😂

LouiseHumphreys81 · 23/01/2019 22:29

Fractured zygomatic arch (facial bone) playing duck duck goose with some children in Kenya. I was concussed and the whole right side of my face had gone numb. Because we were in a slum my dh had to walk me through the slum to the nearest road with me stopping to throw up every few seconds.

Got to hospital where I needed 8 and a half hours of facial reconstructive surgery and now have titanium plates holding my face together.

I had the most basic travel insurance, paid £8 for it but they covered everything, ended up being about £25 thousand as after surgery I was in hospital for a week, then wasn't fit to fly for another week so they put dh and I in a 5 star hotel, and was recommended to fly home 1st class so they covered that cost for me and dh as well.

I still have no idea how I did it, but dh said it was pretty spectacular and I rolled several times. Strangely enough I will now not play duck duck goose!

ShowMeTheKittens · 23/01/2019 22:35

scratched and scratched at a little tiny mini mark on my chest. It turned into a giant weirdy wart and had to have it burned off.At Christmas.
Beat that.
Yes I did it recently.

ShowMeTheKittens · 23/01/2019 22:38

Oh also I ate a piece of fish and all the bones got stuck in my tongue. Tried yacking them out but didn't work. A and E couldn't see them.
Next morning pulled out tongue as far as could and pulled bones out one at a time. All stuck in me tongue. Revolting, each one an inch long.

missxdivine · 23/01/2019 22:53

Not the worst I've done, but this happened minutes ago...
Took my make up off and then couldn't find my glasses. Felt all around my bed for them, nothing. So I sat down. Heard a crunch.
Snapped the frame and lens popped out. Tried my best to glue it back in with nail glue, half blind. Thought it was dry so put them on... got them stuck to my nose and ripped a layer of skin off Grin

Fusioluxe · 23/01/2019 22:58

LouiseHumphreys81

Wow! Best £8 you ever spent. Where did you have the op?