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[SennaVille]

I look after kids for a living. Today I was playing the balloon game (I blow up a balloon, let it go, kids predict where it will land...they love it). It was one of those thick balloons, ironically in the shape of a heart. I was blowing it up (kids yelling "bigger! bigger!"), suddenly *bang* it freaking exploded right into my right eye. I can not even begin to describe the pain. Kids all fell down laughing, except for one who solemnly proclaimed, "You better not do that anymore". Yep! Thanks for the advice, kiddo! I now have a patch on my right eye, which also happens to be my good eye. Hahahah, so very funny!!

Last year, June 19th to be exact (I remember the date because it's my birthday), my sister handed over her bday gift to me. I noticed the official F1 Merchandise sticker and proceeded to rip the package apart with much gusto. Apparently too much gusto, I broke my finger. My much anticipated holiday was the week after my birthday, my fingers were all taped up. I love swimming more than life itself, I had to do this awkward one arm in the air swim for the entire holiday.

I'm going to be one of those people who die in some silly type incident that will be really embarrassing for my family to explain (a bucket fell on her head from a high point and killed her).

So....please, please share similar stories where you were equally stupid and harmed yourselves in horrific ways. TIA!!!

[vlad]

Haha, great post and comments from you...

[myownalias]

Not had anything horrific; but here goes:

1. While playing outside with friends I tripped over a trash bag while running and cut my knew wide open, blood everywhere and it required fifteen stitches, still have the scar!
2. A few years later when fishing, I knelt down to tie my shoelace and had a four inch hook embedded in my knee, another hospital visit and another 8 stitches.
3. Third one was the worse; got clotheslined while riding my BMX bike; fell backwards onto the back wheel, that's a lasting injury, still suffer from back pain!

[Jabberwocky]

I look after kids for a living. Today I was playing the balloon game (I blow up a balloon, let it go, kids predict where it will land...they love it). It was one of those thick balloons, ironically in the shape of a heart. I was blowing it up (kids yelling "bigger! bigger!"), suddenly *bang* it freaking exploded right into my right eye. I can not even begin to describe the pain. Kids all fell down laughing, except for one who solemnly proclaimed, "You better not do that anymore". Yep! Thanks for the advice, kiddo! I now have a patch on my right eye, which also happens to be my good eye. Hahahah, so very funny!!

Is it wrong that I laughed?

[Jabberwocky]

the funnies thing that resulted in an injury was my mate trying to fix an electronic type writer, the carriage would not return to the start of the line Left hand side of the page). So after about an hour, he got up close and personal to see why it was jammed. At which point it burst into life and returned to the start of the line, hitting him in the face and breaking his nose.

[racechick]

I look after kids for a living. Today I was playing the balloon game (I blow up a balloon, let it go, kids predict where it will land...they love it). It was one of those thick balloons, ironically in the shape of a heart. I was blowing it up (kids yelling "bigger! bigger!"), suddenly *bang* it freaking exploded right into my right eye. I can not even begin to describe the pain. Kids all fell down laughing, except for one who solemnly proclaimed, "You better not do that anymore". Yep! Thanks for the advice, kiddo! I now have a patch on my right eye, which also happens to be my good eye. Hahahah, so very funny!!

Last year, June 19th to be exact (I remember the date because it's my birthday), my sister handed over her bday gift to me. I noticed the official F1 Merchandise sticker and proceeded to rip the package apart with much gusto. Apparently too much gusto, I broke my finger. My much anticipated holiday was the week after my birthday, my fingers were all taped up. I love swimming more than life itself, I had to do this awkward one arm in the air swim for the entire holiday.

I'm going to be one of those people who die in some silly type incident that will be really embarrassing for my family to explain (a bucket fell on her head from a high point and killed her).

So....please, please share similar stories where you were equally stupid and harmed yourselves in horrific ways. TIA!!!

Ha Ha. Always rely on kids!!
My most recent is back to the gym again. throwing very heavy balls to a partner.The ball hit my little finger funny and hurt like hell. When I looked it was at a funny angle. I felt sick and nearly fainted, had to sit on the floor with my hand in an ice bucket. Turned out it was disclocated and had to be 'put back in'. I hate that expression 'put back in', was dreading it, but it was ok, they put needles in first.

[What's Burning?]

A few years ago, we had some friends for dinner in late spring, and 3/4 of the way through dinner, we realized that their son had left the house and was in our yard trying to put the canoe I've got back there into the creek. We had told him the water was still too cold to go canoeing. He was 12 years old at the time and is in the autism spetrum so that explanation meant squat to him. So we run down to get him to stop before he took off in the canoe. I was barefoot.

Long story short, we get the canoe out of the creek, and as I'm about to put it back up (flipped over)on the storage horse, It slips and the tip of it hit me square on my big toe. The impact was right on the tip of the bone, which caused everything to swell up over the course of the next week and keep swelling well after that. The pain was excruciating since there wasn't really much they could do as it was bleeding internally. When I went to the doctor it wasn't soooo bad, but it kept swelling, and ultimately I punctured the skin with a pocket knife while in the bath tub. The blood squirted out like a Hitchcock movie. I was told later that if I'd gone back to the doctor, the would have drilled a hole in my nail to relieve the pressure.

Ultimately it was the remained of the summer, I lost the toenail and I walked around like this for a couple of months! The picture here doesn't show it at its worst, it got about 50% more swollen than it is in the pic.

BTW, that's my garb, as I walked into a meeting to give a presentation to the CIO of Hershey Foods! Hard to look serious in front of a room giving a presentation with one shoe and one flip flop!

[vlad]

OMG! I can only imagine the situation on the meeting...

[stonemonkey]

You know those things at the shows/fairground that you hit with the hammer to ring the bell? Well, first hit, not too bad but didn't hit the bell, second hit, hit with the hammer at an angle and didn't do anything, third hit, went for a big swing, missed completely and broke my big toe.

Walking home from work I wanted to get to a shop across the road but there were railings along the edges of the pavements (sidewalks) on both sides of the road. On my side there was an opening and I thought there was an opening on the other side behind where a car was parked. So got across to the other side and no opening. I've put one hand on the top of the railing and gone to jump up but my backpack (which I only had on one shoulder) slid down my arm and my foot went through the other strap meaning I landed on top of the railing on my shin, balanced for a moment then fell head first onto the pavement. At that point I thought I'd broken my leg but all I could think was 'I wish I'd seen someone else doing that' and burst out laughing while people walked around me.

[F1er]

Broken fibula;bike crash
Broken ankles,shin contusions,smashed in the jaw,knee injuries(not major),wrist injury,hamstring,groin from soccer!!
A million scars and cuts as a kid,I was trouble!!

[vlad]

Looks almost like a winner!

[f1ea]

1) 1992 skateboarding - Torn knee ligament, displaced/cracked rotula and pieced up little knee bones..... no blood though. Got surgery and a knee reconstruction. It didnt hurt much at the moment, and i even walked to the hospital... about 250 m... until about 30 mins later, then the whole knee was one unrecognizable shapeless mass and it hurt like hell......... took about 3 months in physiotherapy to learn how to bend my knee again. I still carry the metal staple inside my knee and a snakey scar. Therapy was pretty painful.

2) Sometime in the 80's - being reckless... cut the tip of my index finger with a very sharp knife. Tried to heal it / hide it by shaking my hand, then washing my hand in the faucet. Turns out it didn't heal it nor hide it, and by the time my parents arrived there was blood all over the place. Plenty of stitches, and fortunately we were able to save the 0.50 cm of the finger tip. Don't remember how painful it was, but i think it was scarier than painful.

3) Hmmm i was really young... playing in a carousel, fell underneath and when trying to get up, got hit by the spinning carousel. I think a couple of nuts and bolts caught my head and there it goes. My first KO experience........ earned some stitches assortment plus a shaved head.

4) Broke my ankle once as well..... but it was not so massive. Only took like 15 days of limping and a big swollen foot. I think it was just a crack, but the ligament was really hurt. That was painful also.

5) Took some few stitches on the front calf..... what's the name of that funny bone that hurts like mad when you hit your front leg? there, i hit that on a curb skateboarding. only took like 2 stitches, but it was pretty swollen and painful.

6) got some cracked teeth on my first alcoholic experience... for some reason, i went biking and fell on my face. Don't remember much, except waking up with the taste of dirt and teeth in my mouth. didnt lose any teeth though... just a crack that the dentist have filled and it goes unnoticed hehe

Ehh... i guess you could say i was not the quietest of kids. I calmed down a bit over the yrs though...........

[SennaVille]

I wonder if there is some correlation between F1 nerdy fandom and general klutzyness. Like, are we all just nerds

[scotty]

When i was about 11,12 i was cutting a plastic bodykit for my r/c car with a very sharp craft knife, slipped and cut my left thumb wiiiiiiiiiiiiide open along it's length, which included the nail. Whoops...

About 4 years ago i crashed a go kart into a lamp post when a tyre suddenly deflated, i didn't break anything but the impact was brutal, the chassis was extremely badly bent though and that lamp post now moves slightly when you push it! My legs and ribs were badly bruised and moving at all sucked for a few days after.

[racechick]

When i was about 11,12 i was cutting a plastic bodykit for my r/c car with a very sharp craft knife, slipped and cut my left thumb wiiiiiiiiiiiiide open along it's length, which included the nail. Whoops...

About 4 years ago i crashed a go kart into a lamp post when a tyre suddenly deflated, i didn't break anything but the impact was brutal, the chassis was extremely badly bent though and that lamp post now moves slightly when you push it! My legs and ribs were badly bruised and moving at all sucked for a few days after.

oops! That beats a good sesion in the gym!