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Have you ever accidentally hurt someone?

64 replies

SteveAs · 02/03/2018 21:25

I once a threw a pen to my mate who was lying on the pen , he didn't catch it properly and it stabbed him and caused a cut on his hand.

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LondonLassInTheCountry · 03/03/2018 00:13

I was joking with my friend and we was playing rough, i some how managed to put his head thru a window, cut his neck rather badly.

Still feel awful now

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 03/03/2018 00:19

@Helpimfalling no! It bloody wasn't and he's now my (very apologetic) ex bf.

liz70 · 03/03/2018 00:20

Also, my twat DH once wound my front passenger window up while my arm was out of it chucking an apple core into a hedge, trapping it and causing considerable pain. He wasn't even fucking looking. He was told that if he ever fucking dared to operate my window, while I'm in the car with him, I'd trap his stupid fucking head in it. Yes, I was very, very angry.

Another time he brought the boot lid down on my head and near knocked me out, but tbf that was a genuine accident.

BillySmut56 · 03/03/2018 00:22

I smashed a glass over BILs head once
I was drying it up and waving it about while taking to DH. BIL somehow walked under it and it smashed right over his head. We were both absolutely stunned.

InvisibleToEveryone · 03/03/2018 00:23

Shot an unknown child in the eye with a nerf bullet,
In a toy shop,
In front of his parents,
And my children and husband....!

To be fair, what sort of twit stands behind a target they've just shot at themselves?!

GuiltyPleasure · 03/03/2018 00:27

Playing swingball with my friend. We were aged 9/10. She's left handed, I'm right handed, we stood the "wrong" side of each other and I caught her full in the face with my bat. 40 years later we're still friends & she still has a scar under her right eye to mark the incident

Speckledy · 03/03/2018 00:37

Cut a friend so badly with the sharp edge of my snowboard that I had to take him to the medical centre to get stitched up. 10 years on he still has a scar and I still feel awful.

SalutHallo · 03/03/2018 00:44

Knocked a boy out during rounders at school!

Also head butted my first boyfriend during my first kiss!

darksideofthemooncup · 03/03/2018 01:05

I punched my friends 6 year old Dd in the face trying to stop a coat rack falling on her head. I also kicked my then 2 year old in the face trying to step over a fence. Oh and stepped on my friends 9 month old baby at a party. I shouldn't be allowed out really

liz70 · 03/03/2018 09:12

Some of these are hysterical! yes, I am evil

Crispyturtle · 03/03/2018 11:36

I kicked my DD in the face. I was sat on the sofa, she was pottering around when she tripped up. I automatically stuck my leg out to break her fall (on to sofa carpet) but ended up kicking her in the face. God love her, she’s a stoic little soul and took it very well

ineedamoreadultieradult · 03/03/2018 11:41

I threw a snowball at DS 10 aiming for the back of his head, he turned at just the wrong moment and got the whole thing straight in his eye. He did a very good job of being brave but I can tell it really hurt. I of course apologised loads and let him put snow down my back as revenge but I still feel bad.

HerrenaHarridan · 03/03/2018 11:48

When my best friends dd was a crawler (now 16) I was sitting with my legs crossed of the sofa, my bare feet bouncing up and down.

Unbeknownst to me said crawler has some back into the room, she put her full mouth round my bare big toe, I releflexively kicked out and she literally flew through the air, landed and then started to crawl away before I had unfrozen from the horror of realising what I had done

Dustysparrow · 03/03/2018 11:49

I went on the seesaw in my garden (I was 6) with a visiti g child who was about 3. She asked me not to go too high but I ignored her because I thought she would actually enjoy it once she got over her nerves - she fell off and broke her leg. I still feel bad about that 33 years later (though don't know why our parents weren't supervising). They never visited again

honeylulu · 03/03/2018 11:52

When my son was little we were walking back from nursery and he was having a sobbing tantrum because someone else had pressed the button at the pedestrian crossing. I bent down to comfort him but was wearing my heavy work rucksack on one shoulder and it swung forward and knocked him right over. I'm ashamed to say I laughed as it did look very funny.

I do a lot of online workouts at home and was once doing rapid triceps extensions and didn't notice my daughter run up behind me, and I hit her in the face with a 3kg weight. Oops.

WeirdAndPissedOff · 03/03/2018 11:52

My poor siblings at various stages (mostly Dbro):
Climbing curtain pole as a kid, it fell off and landed on 2/3yo Dbro's head. No injury, but it was one of those heavy wooden ones so must have hurt. Pretended to be asleep when DP came in, and he got the blame as he wasn't yet verbal. I did come clean several years later.
Hit him in the face with a golf club.
Ran over him on my bike when he fell off in front of me.
And gave youngest DSis a nosebleed when she was 6/7 - she tickled me while I was half asleep and my arm jerked out and caught her full in the face. I felt awful afterwards.
Trod on cats and trapped them in doors numerous times.

I'm surprised they still let me around them, tbh.

lovelyjubilly · 03/03/2018 11:54

I once accidentally broke someone's arm.
I was 12, he was 14. He wouldn't stop tickling me so I shoved him off and he hit his arm on a table.
Came in the next day with a cast.

Crediton · 03/03/2018 12:00

Sharing a bed with my dad when i was 5 and mum was away - i insisted he sleep with me as i missed her. In the night i dreamed i was a donkey kicking my hind legs - we both woke up to dads screams of pain, i had kicked him in the nuts!!

CollyWombles · 03/03/2018 12:01

When I was about ten, I had new neighbours and they had a toddler. I used to play with him and one day I was swinging him by his arm and dislocated it. I felt absolutely awful for days even though his mum told me it had happened before.

Animal story, I had my rescue dog for a couple of months and my window cleaner needed me to open a gate to get in the back garden. I thought I shut my kitchen door properly, obviously didn't as my little dog trotted out the back door with me, just as I shoved it closed. Caught the tip of his tail and blood everywhere. Turned out to be the tiniest nick at the vets but I was literally crying at the vets I felt so bad.

windchimesabotage · 03/03/2018 12:07

my ex knocked me out with a car door. It was genuinely an accident.
My husband split my lip with his elbow whilst putting a backpack on. He was mortified and I milked the sympathy because im a terrible person lol!
My friend accidently kicked me in the face on a water slide at a water park because I dont think we were balanced on the rubber dingy thing properly and it toppled over. I almost drowned because I fell back under the water after she kicked me! Was really scary.

I dont think ive ever accidently hurt anyone? Im not very big or clumsy usually.

I do remember as a child a toddler ran out in front of me as i was sledding down a hill and I ended up kicking them in the face. Not on purpose obv i just couldnt stop or steer the sleigh!

GertrudeCB · 03/03/2018 12:07

Herenna that's just hurt my poor ribs laughing
DH once closed the car boot on my shoulder as he talked to the neighbor, it was so painful I literally saw stars .

SideOrderofSprouts · 03/03/2018 12:08

Playing darts when on holiday. The dart board was next to an open window. Turns out that went into the men’s toilet.

I missed

There was a loud exclamation of pain

I left very quickly.

Crediton · 03/03/2018 12:11

My DBro and i invented a game when we were 10 and 12 of blowing a marble through a length of flexible pipe to each other, with the ends of the pipe held in our mouths. Silly and dangerous, and i blew extra hard for a laugh, badly chipping DBros front tooth. As an adult that tooth died, went gray and cost Dbro many thousands to remove and have a false tooth inserted!

Loyaultemelie · 03/03/2018 12:15

I accidentally closed car back door on my bf's mums hand as a teen, She was like a second Mum to me, I had been friends with bf so long. I cried and although you could tell it really hurt her she was lovely about it

T2517 · 03/03/2018 13:07

Kicked someone in the torso when I was on a swing..aged 16

When I was 7 me and my older brother were on a see saw in Spain on a playground that was basically dirt. I was at the top and he decided to get off. I slammed down and I can honestly say I’ve never been in such pain, I could hardly walk. Dickhead.

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