Archive through October 07, 2003
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Archive through October 07, 2003
Luvmyjrt | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 03:58 pm     My husband has decided that I am a complete klutz. I have been quilting for about 6 months and had the unfortunate desire to cut fabric the wrong way and lopped off the top of my (middle) finger with a rotary cutter (razor blade on a wheel). In an effort to determine if I am, indeed, a klutz, please share your most bizarre injuries with me. Remember, you must have done the injury to yourself! |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:15 pm     I tripped over a stone bench at St. Augustine's old fort. It was right in front of me..LOL |
Denecee | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:17 pm     Hi Luv and may I say "ouch!" When I was a teenager I was using some sissors incorrectly(not to cut, but to extract) and I jabbed them right into my leg for a nice little puncture wound that gave me a scar to this day. A couple of years ago, I was using a sharp knife to peel an avocado. Instead of cutting away from my body, I cut toward and the knife slipped and sliced the outside of my wrist in two places. I looked real cool at my husband's Christmas party with the bandaids. Still have a scar from that too. Needless to say, my husband looks the other way when he sees me using a knife. |
Denecee | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:19 pm     Mine injuries weren't really bizarre, stupid maybe. |
Halfunit | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:21 pm     In the fourth grade, my mom took me to an evening recital thing at school. I slammed my thumb in the car door. Now, the bad part was that the door was locked, and you couldn't unlock it from the outside. So, my mom had to go to the drivers side of our beloved AMC Gremlin, crawl over the seats, unlock the door and open it. My thumb was broken, and the nail fell off. Yuck. ______________________________________________ Unit got caught in the screen door 2 years ago and fell into the shrubs that used to be in front of the house. Not really a big deal, but he was in uniform going to work and there was a crowded garage sale going on across the street at the time. Once I found out he was ok, I laughed my hiney off. |
Luvmyjrt | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:21 pm     I think bizarre and stupid are really interchangable.......bless you, denecee |
Goddessatlaw | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:36 pm     Ummmmm - I broke the joint closest to the fingernail on my left hand pinkie stretching a wet pair of jeans. I looked down and the thing was bend in half backward. You know that silent scream picture? That was me for about five minutes. Now I've got the ET thing going on that finger. Good luck to me having a pretty picture taken of my hand with wedding set (not gonna happen). The truth was so stupid that my friends made up stories to tell people what happened. PS I am not allowed to use sharp instruments. I promised I wouldn't a long time ago because I kept cutting myself with them and on ridiculous things like pepper shakers. Then MM came down the stairs a few weeks ago and caught me with the ginsu knife cutting a pack of bacon in half. I immediately reddened with shame, and now all the sharp knife and scissors are hidden in places I probably could not reach if I wanted to. PS ow ow ow, Luv and Half. |
Luvmyjrt | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:37 pm     LOL Gal......... |
Suitsmefine | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:47 pm     When I was in 3rd grade the girl sitting next to me in reading class thought it would be really funny if she held her pencil straight up in my seat just as I sat down......OW!!!!! She ended up in the principals office, and I ended up in the Dr's office getting 5 stitches!! |
Max | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:47 pm     I cut my finger once by pushing down on the lid of a Crisco can instead of prying it up. (It was the old kind you had to open with a canopener.) Darn thing moved so quickly, it sliced me pretty good. Had to have four stitches. Boy did I feel stupid! Earlier this year, I somehow tripped as I was taking cardboard boxes out to my garage for recycling. There's one lousy step into the place from the laundry room and BOOM! down I went. I was barefoot at the time. Dislocated and broke my ankle in three places. Really stupid, bizarre, painful, and dumb! I still can't figure out how I managed to do that one. |
Halfunit | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:50 pm     Ooohh Suits! (But, did it sharpen the pencil?) <...Half passes band-aids out to everyone...> |
Lumbele | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:54 pm     Knowing my strengths and limits, I decided I better concentrate hard in home-ec class sewing for the first time on an electric machine. Didn't realise I ran my finger through with the material until I heard a "snap" and found half of the needle stuck in the middle of my finger nail. Didn't go near another sewing machine for years and still have an aversion to them.LOL |
Strawberry | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 04:55 pm     About 6 years ago I was helping my mom and dad repaint their bathroom. I was finishing up painting the corner above the sink mirror. I was standing on my tippy toes on the toilet seat and holding on to the shower curtain rod. (I know it was an accident waiting to happen) The toilet seat shifted and down came the curtain rod. Paint tray flipped in the air while I slammed my leg into the marble countertop, right on the corner. My sister by some miracle caught the paint tray and none of the paint spilled. I fell on the floor on the tack strip where the carpet used to be. Ouch again! My leg had a whelp that was bigger than my knee cap and it hurt like all get out. After a few days my foot turned dark purple and I went to the doctor and he told me crap runs downhill...lol I'm accident prone. I have lots of stories. There's the tree climbing incident in the 70's, the balloon incident in the 80's, and then there's the biking accident in the 90's...hehe I'll let some other people share now |
Hippyt | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:02 pm     Ouch,this thread makes me hurt! When I was about 6 or 7 I was having lunch in a tree with a friend. I was hanging onto a branch with one hand,and had a sandwich in the other,somehow I fell out of the tree and landed on my chin! Had to be rushed to the ER,I had bitten my tongue almost in half. I still have a kinda lop-sided looking tongue. The dumbest thing I've done as an adult: My cat was on my apartment patio,when another cat crawled up. They started fighting,and like a true moron,I stuck my bare foot in the middle of the fight to try and get them apart. I got a nice little nick,that I should have gotten stitches. BUT,I didn't. It ended up getting infected,and I spend the night in the hospital,being pumped full of antibiotics. Missed a week of work,because I couldn't walk. Geez,I'm a bonehead! |
Hippyt | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:04 pm     OMG Lumbele,that gave me the chills!!! Reminds me of my famous thumb stapling incident! |
Ddr1135 | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:08 pm     When I was a kid I threw a can up in the air and looked up to see how high it would go. I ended up with a scar on my eyelid and a blot clot in my eye that still shows to this day. Have fallen down stairs at school, sprained both ankles at beach volleyball, haven't ridden a bicycle since I ran into a parked car, haven't ridden a motorbike since I landed in a pile of horse sh*t, haven't ridden a mini dirt bike since I missed the driveway and plowed straight into a hurricane fence. |
Colossus | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:16 pm     I DOVE HEADFIRST INTO A HOTTUB AND SPLIT OPEN MY FOREHEAD. It started earlier in the evening when a friend (Tom) and I tried to consume every drink on the Pat O'Brien's specialty drink menu in New Orleans. You know the place - with the flame in the courtyard (is that Pat O'Brien's?) Anyway, so we'd caught our limit and proceeded back to Tom's condominium on the East end of the Quarter, which coincidentally had a VERY LARGE "communal" concrete hottub in the courtyard. In our excitement of his wife and my girlfriend being topless, I proceeded to dive nekkid "with enthusiasm" (big surprise there). Forehead meets concrete with drastic results. Lucky enough to come up out of the water, I fall forward into Tom's wife's 38D chest bleeding profusely. Massive abrasion on the forehead, but no serious injury. We all laughed our asses off. |
Halfunit | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:17 pm     Oh dear... I shouldn't laugh at others woes, but these stories are just hilarious. Sorry! |
Luvmyjrt | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:23 pm     Okay, I must tell another....(100% proof that I am a klutz) Several years before we moved to NC, my husband, son and a few friends rented a house on top of a mountain. In an effort to get some alone time with my DH, we decided to climb the mountain directly next to the house. I was fully packed down with my cigarettes and a carafe of wine. Grabbed on to a sturdy looking branch (getting the picture?) ..... which promptly uprooted from the ground and tumbled in several perfect "10" back sommersaults down the mountain. Having been accident prone since birth, I promptly showed how brave I was, stood up and marvelled at the fact that, yes.....I had not SPILLED ONE DROP OF WINE! Shear genius and perfect gymnastic form!!! Except.....being in a very small NC town where medical intervention seems to be in the form of a bullet to bite, I waited until I returned home to FL to have it checked (face it, I knew it was broken!) Two weeks later, I was sedated so that the hand could be rebroken and placed in a lovely fiberglass cast for 8 weeks. This however did not prevent me from white water rafting, horseback riding, and yes.....finishing that trip up the mountain for some "quality" time with DH. Oh geez, this proves it....I AM A KLUTZ! |
Lumbele | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:26 pm     Go ahead 1/2, laugh away. If we couldn't laugh about our klutz moments we wouldn't be posting them. Hippy, it sounds worse that it was, but that nail never grew straight again. Ddr, I did that bicycle and parked car thing, too. In my case it was the car that was hurt though. Poor little VW beetle.LOL |
Ddr1135 | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:46 pm     Colossus, that's actually pretty good for a night at Pat O'Brien's. I have a few stories about that place. |
Ddr1135 | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:49 pm     LOL Lumbele. My son wonders why I won't let him ride his bike in our small city. Oh and there was the time I cut in front of my mother while we were riding bikes. I turned around and she was flat on her ass in the middle of the road yelling at me. Thank God there were no cars coming. |
Squaredsc | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:50 pm     im very clumsy and i trip over lint, fall down stairs, and walk into walls. it was last year or the year before when i tripped and fell down a few stairs at work. i got up and laughed my you know what off and went home and about my business. the next day i woke up very stiff and couldn't figure out why. it wasn't till 2 days later that i realized why. then back in '97 when i was going to school in the evenings(while working ft) i was walking up the sidewalk(short incline) and tripped over a leaf, fell, and rolled a lil. of course it was in front of the boys dorm but luckily it was the back end and it was dark and i was wearing black. i think the only people who saw me were people driving by on the street below. |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 06:04 pm     GAL was topless in New Orleans? The only one I feel comfortable telling is this...about 10 years ago a friend and I went to TJ (Tiajuana (sp?)) Mexico and had a few drinks. Well, I met the cutest guy..like drop dead gorgeous kinda cute. So anyway..me and this guy are dancing on this stage (everyone was dancing on the stage) and we decided it was WAY too crowded at that particular side so we decided to cut along the back of the stage to get to the other side. So I am holding his hand following him with my other hand along the wall. Well..all of a sudden there IS NO WALL and down I fall onto a table with two people sitting at it. I flip their table and smash their drinks and land up on the floor. So Mr.Cute guy jumps off the stage to my rescue (actually at the time I didn't know I was hurt) and helped me into a sitting position on the floor. I was laughing really hard because how embarrassing to meet Mr.Cute guy and do something so utterly stupid and clumsy. Mr.Cute guy sat down on the floor next to me and started laughing too. We ordered drinks and sat on the floor for about 2 hours talking and laughing...then all of a sudden my foot started hurting, hurting really bad. I uncross my legs and look at my foot and my foot and ankle has swollen to immense proportions. I looked like I had a football stuck in my ankle. Mr.Cute guy helped me take off my shoe and carried me to my friends car where I went to emergency room. I had torn legiments on the bottom of my foot, cracked ankle and ended up on crutches for 6 weeks. Mr.Cute guy stuck around for 8 months  |
Reiki | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 06:08 pm     When I was a kid my parents owned a old hotel which they converted into apartments. We lived on the first floor and my grandmother lived in one of the upstairs flats. On holidays we would have both kitchens going. I was asked to take a roll of aluminum foil up to my grandmother's and being 8 I ran. Well I tripped on the stairs and sliced open the skin between my thumb and my index finger with on the foil cutter. Ouch! When I was very much older, my mother and I went to the Tulip Festival in Albany which is held every May on Mother's Day weekend. I was wearing a pair of very cute strappy sandals. I stepped off a curb without paying attention and right into pothole, twisting my ankle - spraining it, and totally ruining my shoes. We spent the rest of Mother's Day in the emergency room. To this day, when we go to the Tulip Festival my mother tells me to watch my step. |
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