Sprained my ankle lying in bed. On my own.
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Lol but...how???
Was staying in a hotel on a work trip. We arrived late, tired, busy day ahead. The bed was made up with the sheets all stupidly tight and I didn't yank them off as normal but got in and fell asleep. I never sleep well the first night in a new place, I obviously turned over in the night and my foot was pinned by the sheet.
Was a fun few days trying to coordinate a conference while unable to walk.
Walking drunk up the stairs - missed a step and landed on my knee. Hair line fracture.
My eyesight isn’t great. I was looking for a bathroom in a restaurant, assumed I found a door, but instead of using my hands to push it like a normal person, I slammed my body into it, smashing my nose.
Also, it wasn’t a door. It was just glass.
Head hurt for the rest of the day, and I was bleeding for a bit too!
I got four...ugh...embarrassing...but one is not any fault on myself.
1.) Sprained my ankle sliding to first base at my cousins birthday party. Found out I'm overly competitive in sports and stopped playing them lol.
2.) Ripped up my arms on a hiking trip with my brother. Gor up to a 15 foot cliff and thought it'd be fun to jump out to a tree and shimmy my way down. Didn't get enough grip with my feet and ended up using my arms to slow my descent.
3.) Got intoxicated and fell over onto a sidewalk cracking one of my teeth, had to have a fake tooth put in.
4.) Spiller hot coffee on me when I was young leaving burns. I only remember wearing an itchy jacket and taking it off and hiding it when I could.
Self-harm all over my leg
My first time at what is more or less a Renaissance Fair. There were several knives and swords on display. I thought they were plastic. Found out the hard way they were not.
I should add that this is in a country with gun control, i.e. weapons for sale is very much out of the order. I really was not expecting them to sell actual daggers!
I was playing dressup when I was a kid. I had stiletto heels on and was dancing, kicking my legs all around. Kicked myself right in the cooter.
15 year ago, I slipped in my kitchen and tore my left kneecap in half. 5 years ago, I stepped on the edge of a 1" deep hole in my yard. Rolled my ankle and tore my right kneecap in half as I went down.
Legs go in funny directions when you do that.
Tried to catch a knife I dropped, forgetting the old maxim: “a dropped knife has no handle.”
I was playing with my cat, chasing him and all that. He took a quick 90° turn around the couch. My hand took a quick 90° turn against the couch. Broke my finger :)
A friend of mine tore their ACL flushing a toilet.
Werfen makes toilets now
Explanation
Werfen is a company that has Coagulation Machine with the family name ACL
I once managed to trip over a 5 cm metal ledge that I only noticed when I kicked into it while walking into a parking garage.
I fell over, fell on a knee that was just healed after another less stupid fall and scraped both hands badly too when I tried to break my fall.
So stupid!
Oh and it was after a concert and there were a lot of people present just watching me get up, crying in pain.
So it was my most embarrassing one too.
Not me, but my brother ran into a cinder block wall in a foot race yesterday, cheek first fortunately. Ended up needing 6 stitches and having a hefty black eye and we're lucky that's all he got.
As a kid, a bunch of friends and I smashed glass bottles for fun while barefoot. I have no idea what the hell we were thinking, but predicably I cut my big toe pretty bad.
I then walked around for a while, with everyone telling me I had a bleeding gash in my toe. I didn't believe them and wouldn't even look. It took my mom telling me for me to finally look down, and when I did I nearly passed out from the sight of my own idiocy pouring out of me.
Not my smartest moment, for damn sure.
There was a ledge at school about 4 foot off the ground and maybe 2 foot wide that the kids would walk on to be cool. The classrooms had these windows that you had to crank open and they swung from hinges at the top, so the opened into a kind of lean to shape. Those were about 5 foot above the ledge.
Sooo...After school, i was running back to the band hall to grab my clarinet before my parents came to pick me up...on the ledge...looking down so i didnt fal...not realizing the window was open...and wham, right into the side edge of the window.
Hit my forehead, thank God I didn't fall of the ledge as well. I got 4 stitches and had to hold my head together anytime I laughed or smiled for 3 weeks...
God, I felt dumb.
I stepped out into the street and broke my foot off
Slicing my index finger with a cheese knife.
I have thick hair. I once flipped my hair and cracked my neck