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Punched myself with my seatbelt

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StarspaXxX · 29/01/2020 21:43

So you know those times when you try to put your seatbelt on too quickly, and it locks just as your hand is passing your face, and so you succeed only in punching yourself in the face with your own seatbelt...?

Just me, then? Sad

Tell me your ridiculous car stories.

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BlackeyedSusan · 29/01/2020 21:46

I have punched myself in the face when trying to zip up my jacket and my hand slipped.

I have shut at least one leg and feet sever times in a car door. Even managed to shut it on my head once.

Boot fallen on my head, or banged my head on the boot when it does not go up as much in the garage.

WarmestRegards · 29/01/2020 21:47

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Nicknacky · 29/01/2020 21:48

I slammed my door and reached for my seatbelt at the same time and managed to slam the door on my finger. I proper screamed in pain!

StarspaXxX · 29/01/2020 21:53

Omg... images of us fully grown adults punching ourselves in the face, headbutting vehicles and slamming things on our hands...

Do you think there are witnesses?

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FlibbertyGiblets · 29/01/2020 21:59

All of these. Plus punched self in the chest yanking a duvet up in bed. More than once!

jaimebravo · 29/01/2020 22:06

My boot doesn't raise all the way up anymore, it stops about head height. While reaching in to get my shopping, I slapped my eye off the boot door resulting in a nice black eyeBlush

sqirrelfriends · 29/01/2020 22:06

I nearly knocked myself out with a car boot door.

It was a rental estate with a boot that didn't have gas springs so didn't hold up by itself iykwim. Anyway I had to run to get something out I'd forgotten before we set off, yanked it open with all my might, (as I do with my car) It flings open, bounces back down with a whole lot of force right onto my head which is now in the boot.

I had a very sore head and a big bump for a few days.

cousinboneless · 29/01/2020 22:11

I have done the seat belt thing. Also trying to hold onto an umbrella in high winds it hit me in the face and took off half an eyebrow (drawn on as I don't have any) that was a fun school run Grin

PragmaticWench · 29/01/2020 22:12

I managed to slam the new car door, hard into my stomach whilst shutting the DC in, as the door has a funny pointy shape. Then did it again with the door on the opposite side.

Animals learn faster than me.

ChameleonCircuit · 29/01/2020 22:15

Punched myself in the jaw whilst pulling up bra straps. In my defence it was a sports bra, so akin to a straight jacket Grin

Lozz22 · 29/01/2020 22:15

Trapped my nipple and boob in a hoist. I was that busy trying not to trap my fingers in it I didn't realise my right boob was between the strap and part to hook the strap onto. Pulled the strap onto the hook and caught boob inside it at the same time. It fucking hurt

InvisibleToEveryone · 29/01/2020 22:15

Slammed my dads car boot onto my own face, his gas is going in the struts, I forgot it wasn't my car, and pulled the boot lid down as I would mine....it moved faster than I anticipated and slammed into my forehead/nose.

I literally saw stars....was expecting cuts and massive bruises, nope, no obvious bruising, mammoth headache and pain every time I touched my face.

But no physical evidence Sad for proper sympathy.

ItsGoingTibiaK · 29/01/2020 22:17

I bought a large tin of white gloss paint and drove home with it standing in the passenger footwell. I managed a good 2 miles before it toppled over and the lid came off...

MustDust · 29/01/2020 22:20

Anyone else with long hair frequently slam it in the door then yank it with the momentum? That's if I've not shut the door before removing my foot.

Notlonely · 29/01/2020 22:25

I accidentally shaved the end of my nipple off...

Blankiefan · 29/01/2020 22:25

I punched myself in the face recently when trying to put on a particularly tight new sports bra! I couldn't reach to do it behind my back so fastened it at the front and tried to turn it round/ punched myself in the face somehow! It hurt.

TroysMammy · 29/01/2020 22:26

Yanked open, or did I slam the car door shut and it caught me on my eyebrow. I saw stars hence being unsure what I did. It bled profusely and I've now got a small Harry Potter scar. If I had been an inch taller I would have probably had a severe eye injury.

emwithme · 29/01/2020 22:29

I've trapped my ponytail in the car door.
I've punched myself doing my seatbelt.
I've punched the headrest tightening the straps on DD's car seat.
I've broken my fingernail really far down unbuckling DD's car seat.

I'm just a fucking liability

StarspaXxX · 29/01/2020 22:29

Notlonely waitwhathow

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ItsGoingTibiaK · 29/01/2020 22:29

I accidentally shaved the end of my nipple off...

In the car?!

Marmighty · 29/01/2020 22:30

I had a massive cut on the bridge of my nose for weeks courtesy of a bastard seat belt

QueenofallIsee · 29/01/2020 22:31

Ok so not a car, but I did break a finger on my Spanx in a tiny loo. The fabric sort of snapped back as I was twisting myself back into them and bent my finger back the wrong way.

Cocktail dress, perfect make up and a weird Denzel finger for the evening. Lovely.

ChrisPriss · 29/01/2020 22:31

I regularly punch myself on the jaw when hitching my bag up on my shoulder Smile

herbsmokedchicken · 29/01/2020 22:34

I was once quietly sat on a bench reading on my lunch break when a leaf suddenly floated into my face and I instinctively punched myself in the face! It all happened so fast!
Later on I told my driving instructor about it and for the whole lesson he’d just suddenly burst out laughing and say “sorry I’m just thinking about you punching yourself in the face again”

Xiaoxiong · 29/01/2020 22:35

I drove my bottom lip into my teeth trying to yank skinny jeans up over my fat arse. The belt loop I was using to pull the jeans up ripped, my hand flung up and I hit myself in the mouth. There was blood!

My DH managed to break his own finger sitting on his hand.

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