What stupid accidents have you had?

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I always seem to have stupid injuries for one reason or another.

This evening I thought I almost smashed my teeth out from a drinking glass. My tooth still feels sore now

I'm always covered in burn marks from taking things out of the oven.

Who else is accident prone?

I fell down a step that was around 5cm in Morocco last year.
My knee swelled alarmingly as it had dislocated and I scraped the inside of my leg and ankle on a pillar.
Luckily my DH speaks french so the hospital visit wasn’t too bad. I had my own armed policeman at all times for some reason.
After spending around 32p on the visit, I found out I had a crack in y bone and was sent back with paracetamol.
I had 5 days in my room while DH gallivanted around Esaoira.
All this because I wanted a cup of coffee and cigarette.

I was tidying the airing cupboard and needed a chair to stand on to reach the back of the top shelves. I stood on the chair and hit my head on the door surround above as I stood up, bugger that hurt. Sat down for a bit to stop my head swimming, returned to the job in hand and promptly did it again!

Georgina 125 - I was just crying with laughter at your story when DH came in - I’m Not Speaking to Him at the moment but seeing me laughing he thought I’d forgiven him. Please don’t post anything funny again when I’ve had a tiff with DH!! 😄

Knocked myself out going down a waterslide

Where do I begin

Had a fractured toe from tripping over a trampoline.

Fractured cocyx after deciding taking me 2 nieces ice skating on my own....they were both 7 and like Bambi on ice.

The worst was when I went into my very nice built in wardrobe to hang up a freshly ironed dress. I had soft bed socks on and slipped on the wooden floor. My elbow went into a jewellery hook I have for my necklaces and I fractured it in two places. 4 years later it is still sore at times

I am forever doing very silly things like pulling a sterilising unit out whilst on and the steam burning my arm. I have a big white patch on my arm that has never disappeared from this.

I feel like the list is endless with me. It's only getting worse the older I am getting too

When my niece was a very young baby I caught my little toe on her plastic babygym - broke my toe right through the joint; 26 years later it’s still sausage looking.
Broke a tooth on a fish finger - and it wasn’t even hard; because of the bit that broke off o ended up having to have the tooth taken out as it couldn’t be repaired but dentist couldn’t do it so ended up having it done in hospital.
In March slipped down 3 stairs at home, 7am on a Saturday morning; ended up in A&E, broke 2 bones in my foot and was in an air cast boot for 6 weeks; only just beginning to get about normally now without crutches.
And then, yesterday, when feeding my 21m DTs, sat down at the table (which is next to the cooker) and burnt the back of my arm on the oven dish I’d cooked their fish fingers in 🤦‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Drove my car into the front wall of my house by pressing the accelerator instead of the brake. Didn't hurt me personally but the car bonnet didn't look too healthy.

Fell up the stairs while carrying an open box of pins, which went everywhere, and then slid back down again through all the pins. Cheaper than acupuncture.

@RagzReturnsRebooted

I burned my finger on the fridge.

I need more details on this! @TroysMammy; I did the same thing with a corned beef tin-44 years ago and I stlll have the scar on my thumb. My sister was accident prone as a child (stepping on a darning needle point first, getting grit in her eye while looking up at workmen on scaffolding) but her worst one was on a snowy day; she slid crossing downhill on an icy slope, and scraped all the skin on one side of her face. They painted it with acriflavine, and what with the purple scrape and the yellow solution she was quite a sight for some weeks.

I snapped my Achilles’ tendon whilst skipping
I stood on a rake, it flipped up and hit me in the face and gave me a black eye
I got my arm trapped in a railing and the fire brigade had to come and rescue me

Howling with laughter here (and at my own mishaps).
DP and I not ‘not talking’ so no danger of my peals of laughter being misinterpreted as a thawing of the frostiness (nocaloriesinchocolate that really made me laugh too).
Support all.

Well today, in trying to get out of the back door quickly to stop my shouting cat who had a mouse in his mouth, I caught my toe on the pedal bin pedal (not for the first time). I think I've broken it as it's all purple! Hurts a lot too

@HotChocolateLover - three words that make me cringe. Snapped. Achillies' and Tendon
I also once cheese grated the skin off my thumb, too busy watching TV ( I was a teenager)

I'm dyspraxic - how long have you got? I'm constantly covered in scrapes, bruises and burns.

I broke my glasses and gave myself a black eye running up the garden to answer my phone but didn't duck under the clothesline. I must have looked like Wile E. Coyote, the way it launched me backwards.

Last summer I ended up in a support boot for weeks after tearing the ligaments in my ankle tripping over absolutely nothing. Sadly, it wasn't even the first time I'd done that. The first time was walking down a hill in Paris five years ago; DH said I sort of staggered forward for a few steps bent at an angle before I hit the deck, like I was running toward an invisible finish line.

In the early 00s when massive baggy jeans were fashionable, I fell and badly skinned my knee when I stuck my right foot inside the left leg of my jeans and tried to take a step.

Broke my finger by slamming it in a car door... cut myself almost to the bone trying to de-stone an avocado... gouged a 6" cut into my thigh with my fingernail just pulling my jeans down it was so deep the strip of thigh skin was stuck under my nail!

Broke my tailbone riding a helter skelter

Decided to iron in just a bra (it was a hot day) and promptly burned my belly on the iron.

Moved a set of steps because it was in my way. Forgot it was there and backed into it. Sat down hard and had to laugh at my own stupidity.

I just dropped my phone from height on to my eye it really hurts and I’m worried I’m going to be doing the school run with a Black eye

[quote Raffles1981]@HotChocolateLover - three words that make me cringe. Snapped. Achillies' and Tendon
I also once cheese grated the skin off my thumb, too busy watching TV ( I was a teenager)[/quote]
It was pretty painful 😢 Plus I felt like a right idiot when I said how I’d done it! I wanted to say I’d been doing a marathon or something but nope!

We have had a new kitchen, when I empty/load the dishwasher is always forget how far the door now comes out (as it's a built in-unlike previous). I always smack my shin off it-I'm covered in bruises and gashes.
Today I spectacularly fell over it 🤦🏻‍♀️

Name change for this thread, ahem!

3 things spring to mind (although probably many more!)

First one when I was about 14 and on holiday I ran my calves over whilst riding a quad bike and simultaneously got my head stuck through a fence. Was trying to turn a corner, did not lean into it enough, carried on straight, panicked as the fence loomed ahead, pulled on the throttle (was used to riding a bicycle and braking), then in a last ditched attempt not to go through the fence put my feet down. Head went through the fence, back wheels of quad bike went over my calves. And there I was virtually prostate and stuck. It was very funny, took 3 men to free me and I had tyre mark bruises on the backs of my legs for quite a while. Haven't been on a quad bike since!!!

Second one was (as an adult) I took a meat pie out of the oven, for some unknown reason removed it from the foil tray and carried it (in oven gloves) across to the waiting plate. The pastry on the bottom crumbled and the very hot steak fell out onto the top of my foot. 2nd degree burn. A&E nurses thought it was hilarious - said it was the funniest accident they'd seen that day!!! It was bloody painful, especially because it became infected. I ended up bandaged toe to knee for 2 weeks and still have a scar on my foot 25 odd years later.

3rd one was a few years after the meat pie incident, I put my hand into the back of a kitchen draw to get something, pulled my hand back and it got stuck - I had impaled my finger on a serrated knife. I immediately pulled the knife out of my finger and sprayed blood everywhere - it looked like there had been a murder in my kitchen. Luckily the knife had gone in through the pad on the tip of my finger, missed the bone and come out right on the edge of my fingernail. I still have the scar there as well. That fingertip was numb for a long time.

I am sure if I try I can remember more - but the above 3 are outing enough if anyone on here knows me, so I will stop now!!

@HebeMumsnet

Drove my car into the front wall of my house by pressing the accelerator instead of the brake. Didn't hurt me personally but the car bonnet didn't look too healthy.

I've seen a few YouTube cctv clips of people mistakenly driving into shop fronts ECT, seems quite common thing at times

Slipped in the bath, cut my head open and gave myself two black eyes.

48hrs later I was working for a major client..... at police HQ

Also broke my big toe play fighting with now DH when we were in our teens

Tried to get a gin glass on a spider when pissed. Hit my foot.
Needed stitches

Broke my big toe getting out of the bath (to be fair the old fashioned Ascot water heater had just exploded so I was aiming to beat all records for bath exit). Gashed my forearm as a teenager trying to open a car bonnet - in cold weather the scar is still visible, decades later.

This isn’t my tale of a stupid accident, but that of my grandmother. Years ago, she used to go off on Saga holidays by herself, a few times a year, had a ball. This particular holiday, I’d had the usual postcard so I rang when she got home to see how she got on. Here’s the conversation -
Me: hi Nan, how was your holiday?
Nan: ooh well the first week was excellent, great weather, met some lovely people, are great food.
Me: sounds fab!
Nan: the second week wasn’t so good though. I chopped my finger off, we went on a boat trip, had some nice food and made more friends.
Me: eh? Can we just rewind? What on earth do you mean you CHOPPED YOUR FINGER OFF?
Nan: goes off on a very long tangent about various unrelated things before telling me she trapped it in a sunlounger

Ummm, 1, why wouldn’t that be the first thing you think of to tell me about your holiday, and 2, a fucking sun lounger?

She’s fine now btw. It was just the tip of the finger. The kids call her “Nan with The Finger”