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Jed245
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11-01-2002

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 12:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OH yeah.... I'll be back to this thread. :o) I break everything that isn't made of steel

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 10:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Moon, my left little toe is finally not purple any more after the third break during the first half of this year.

Grace is my nickname first given to me by my dad because I am so clumsy. It was given to me again a few years ago by one of my good friends.

When I was very young I fell down the stairs many times. I fell out of trees and off a roof. I fell into a campfire, into the lake, and over the cat. I've run into trees, doorways, furniture, and any protrudence close to my path including grass, ice, rocks, concrete, dirt, whatever lies on the surface or above it. I've bumped my head on cupboard doors left open and the overhead light in the van. I hit my knee on the steering column in the car, and broke my elbow after stepping on a skateboard.

We keep a fire extinguisher and the flour right next to the stove in the kitchen. I don't even try to fry foods any more, because every time I ever did I got burned.

I got three stitches in my eyebrow from a 2 x 10 board that fell on me after I leaned on it. And don't even ask about the funny bone or the calcium deposit that I've managed to bump so many times that I did a rain dance afterward.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 11:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whats funny with me is that I can fall and cut myself, knock things down, run into things, trip, etc, but I rarely really hurt myself. I get sore, bruises, bumps, scrapes, even cuts, but most of the time the injuries I do to myself are very minor.

When I was 12/13 sis and I were running to the store. I slipped going around a corner and fell. Broke my little finger, dislocated three knuckles and shattered several bones in my hand. Considering that I fall over nothing and do it often, it's amazing that that was the only time I ever broke anything, lol.

The second time I seriously hurt myself happened at work a few years ago. I'm not even sure it qualifies as clumsy, definitely qualifies as stupid! I was in the kitchen cutting a bagel. Was holding the bagel, cutting downward, and I honestly don't think I was paying any attention whatsoever to what I was doing or I wouldn't have been holding it in my hand. I felt something and looked down and there was blood everywhere. I know I was completely out of it because I calmly wrapped my hand in a towel, cleaned up the blood, and asked one of the other girls to watch my tables. I do not handle blood, especially my own, well. You know those people who go pale, get sick, and/or pass out? That's me, LOL.

Anyways, I knew I had to fill out an incident report so I went to the office and told the supervisor on duty that I had cut myself and needed a bandaid, neosporin, and the report. She told me sure, but she had to see the cut and told me to go wash my hand. A few minutes later she asks if I'm alright as she walks into the bathroom behind me. She stopped what she was saying and told me she was sending me to the hospital. I insisted that I only needed the bandaid and I'd be fine. Then I looked up and caught her reflection in the mirror! When I saw her as pale as she was, it snapped me outta whatever state I was in and I saw that the sink was covered in blood and even though I'd held my hand under the water for a few minutes, it was just pouring. I ended up with a few stitches from that one. The cut wasn't near as bad as all the blood, but it was probably six weeks before I touched another knife!

Djgirl
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07-17-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 6:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
When I was growing up, my mom would cringe whenever I had to go away somewhere, be it to camp or just overnight to a friends house. She always knew that at some point during my stay out of the house that she would be getting a call from the hospital! :-)

Let's see... she and my auntie's all went on a weekend camping trip, while she was away I went to sleep over at a girlfriend's house and this was when I walked into the corner of the dresser and had to get stitches - dad got the call that time.

Next, I went away to Girl Guide camp for two weeks. I was enrolled in a Sailing course and basically at the halfway point during my stay, I was in charge of steering the sailboat and ended up doing a flying jibe. I brought the entire boat out of the water, forgot to do something and wasn't paying attention and the boom of the sailboat came right around, smacked me in the back of the head and threw me out of the boat. I had an all whistle alarm for me, and the counsellors came roaring out in speedboats and off the neighbouring sailboats to get me out of the water. They took me to the hospital to find that I did indeed have a major concussion. Mom got the call for that one. I spent three days in the infirmary and had to be woken up every 1/2 hour for the first two nights.

The next thing I remember was going on a band trip to St. Jerome, Quebec. We had been downhill skiing for hours, and I mean literally for hours. I hadn't fallen even once!!! (Seeing that I can fall on a pebble, or over a speedbump, it's pretty incredible that to this day I have never fallen while downhill skiing!) Anyway, a friend and I were walking back to the chalet and had our skis in hand. I slipped on the snow and fell onto the hand carrying my skis... Mom got a call from a french lady at the hospital to inform her that I had fractured my hand and wrist in three different places.

I finally (somewhat) grew out of that, but I still fall, trip, stumble, etc. all the time!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 6:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I have way too many to enumerate. The most recent was a couple of nights ago. Colossus and I had run out to Walmart to get some pictures developed, and on the way in Colossus trips me accidently on purpose. OK, it was on. And I specialize in tripping people accidently on purpose even when they know it's coming. So I trip Colossus about 3 times going down the aisle toward the photomat in the back. He looked deranged, what with falling all over the place and both of us laughing our butts off. Finally, though, enough apparently was enough. As we closed in on the photomart, I stuck my foot forward to trip him again, and Colossus, seeing it coming, kicks backward with his hoof. Well, he scored a direct hit on my shinbone with what felt like a steel-reinforced heel, right where I'd cut myself shaving a few days earlier. There were silent screams, tears and apologies as we both watched in horror as my shin hematomaed. Then, of course, we were in an uproar of hysterics as Colossus went to the photomart desk with me behind him dragging one leg. I lost all manners and called him the CS word in front of the photomart man. Since I was bleeding down my leg, Colossus took the high road by simply thanking me and telling me he was trying to quit (and he wasn't talking about the tripping game). At this point, the photomart man and another customer who was hovering got hysterical, so we figured we'd better get out before they called the parking lot police and had us removed for general mayhem. Oy. My shin is still black and blue - wearing a skirt to court is not an option at the present time, unless I want to 'splain myself. Which I don't.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, I am in hysterical laughter mode here! OMG! I can't quit laughing!

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just knowing the two of you is a trip, GAL and Colossus!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right back atcha, Miss Gracie!!

Colossus
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05-24-2004

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
whata big faker! Sure her shin is purple. And she deserved it! But, so was my nose as I picked myself off the pavement & floor four times. The only escort we needed was to help us onto the bed later that night. But we managed.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 4:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL I'm surprised the floor manager didn't escort the two of you out of the store! <still giggling>