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What is your dumbest ever injury?

91 replies

bb20038 · 07/09/2022 23:27

Fell of the middle of a slide and injured my back as a child

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Leafy3 · 07/09/2022 23:29

Stood on a rake.

Wanted to see if it would be like in the cartoons

...it was.

RJnomore1 · 07/09/2022 23:29

Couldn’t figure why my stapler wasn’t working, tested it abd staples my two thumbs together

AnneLovesGilbert · 07/09/2022 23:30

Split my forehead open walking into a first aid box. Twice. They didn’t move it after the first time as no one imagined I’d do it again.

AnneLovesGilbert · 07/09/2022 23:30

RJnomore1 · 07/09/2022 23:29

Couldn’t figure why my stapler wasn’t working, tested it abd staples my two thumbs together

Oh fuuuuuuuuuck

Hellocatshome · 07/09/2022 23:30

Sliced the tip of my nose off with a razor as I didnt have my glasses on in the shower and I was peering at it to see if it was rusty.

frozenorangejuice · 07/09/2022 23:30

Flicked my hair freshly cut hair downwards and back up to poof it up and sliced my cornea. Ouch.

pimlicoanna · 07/09/2022 23:35

Slicing my eye on a piece
of cardboard. Much much more painful than giving birth.,

Lurkerlot · 07/09/2022 23:35

I was adjusting my bra and gave my self a fat lip when I lost grip on the underwire.

Chargingup · 07/09/2022 23:37

Responded to a journo question on Mumsnet and got a brain injury!

Tanfastic · 07/09/2022 23:39

Put my fingers in my dog's mouth to stop him choking on a chew and he bit down and took my fingertip off 😩. I passed out with the pain.

Neve put your fingers in a dog's mouth! He was only a small dog as well but he broke clean through the bone.

dizzydizzydizzy · 07/09/2022 23:39

A toilet cubicle door fell off its hinges onto my big toe and broke it.

When I was a child, a wasp was flying around me in an irritating manner, so my dad killed it. I sat on the dead body, which stung me.

Which reminds me..... an American friend got stung on the bum by stinging nettles because we had to have a wee outside and she didn't know about nettles.

hangingbagger · 07/09/2022 23:40

Gave a skirt a quick iron whilst waiting it - hit the steam button and the heat melted my tights to my thigh. Had a steam-shot shaped scar for years

QuestionableMouse · 07/09/2022 23:43

Punched myself in the face while trying to tighten a girth. Hand slipped and wham, I had two black eyes 😬🤣🤣🤣

ludocris · 07/09/2022 23:50

Stopped for a chat under a temporarily open car park barrier and unsurprisingly got hit on the head.

PeloFondo · 07/09/2022 23:51

QuestionableMouse · 07/09/2022 23:43

Punched myself in the face while trying to tighten a girth. Hand slipped and wham, I had two black eyes 😬🤣🤣🤣

Done that one! Also with a flash noseband

Mine was probably doing nothing. I got out of bed and my ankle hurt. Being a student I ignored it, carried on working as a waitress and partying. Went to a&e 6 days later and they said no swelling but have an x ray
Told the staff I was just going to ring my dad, x ray results came back and she said "you're going nowhere until you're in a cast" Blush
My ankle was broken in 3 places and my foot in 2
Dad and a&e staff were ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfused

Nugg · 07/09/2022 23:53

Heel caught in long skirt and I went flying off a train doorway landing hard on the metal exit step. I have a permanent 8" long 2" deep groove in my glute as a result 😵

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 07/09/2022 23:55

Stood on a rake.

Tried to walk down a slide, fell off and broke my arm.

Bit the top of my tongue off and had to have stitches. TBF I was about 18 months old, so not stupid as such.

I've also tipped boiling coffee all over my chest and badly scalded it.

I strongly suspect I have dyspraxia.

mrsfollowill · 08/09/2022 00:00

Took a can of lager out of the freezer not frozen just chilled (classy) and dropped it on my bare big toe- skin just split- blood spurted out of that! Also sliced into the tip of my finger very deeply whist cutting a bloomer loaf for late night munchies- huge panic as it would not stop bleeding.
Also know someone who was cooking and decided to take the dish from the oven and bend over to sniff it- thin and painful burn right across the chin from the edge of the red hot dish. I also got a circular burn on my wrist from turning over a sausage on a baking tray- the tip of it pressed in and left a circular burn mark. Lesson to be learned call just eat when hungry and drunk!

sweetkitty · 08/09/2022 00:01

Pushing a coffee table back into place, slipped and fell onto an ornament. Broke my sternum in 2 places. Couldn’t breathe properly had to go to A&E they were worried a bone could of punctured my heart lining. Apparently it’s a common injury when an airbag goes off 😮I was ok apart from 3 weeks flat on my back on painkillers until it healed.

Isaidnoalready · 08/09/2022 00:05

Put my foot on the bottom step in the house I've lived in for almost ten years misjudged it my toe is now purple throbbing I don't think I've broke it this time but I'm not sure 😅

Slipped off the sole of my shoe fractured my foot 😑 my shoe was flat I wasn't even wearing fucking heels

mrsfollowill · 08/09/2022 00:06

Also got my heel caught in boot leg trousers going downstairs at work and went down like a sack of shite- and fell over wearing wedge heels (twice) and broke a bone in my foot (twice) - I don't wear wedges or heels any more. Ripped trousers knees and palms full of grit- the shame- the falling over was 8am as well on the way to work- totally sober- I'm just very clumsy.

vodkaredbullgirl · 08/09/2022 00:09

Bang on the head after falling out of a wheelie bin.

mrsfollowill · 08/09/2022 00:10

@sweetkitty God that sounds horrendous! To everyone on this thread you have my sympathy. Grin

mrsfollowill · 08/09/2022 00:12

@vodkaredbullgirl how did you fall out of a wheelie bin? where you being wheeled somewhere?

justwonderingagain · 08/09/2022 00:13

Broke my little finger when playing Kirby