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What's the dumbest way that you've injured yourself?

When I was 13 years old in the early summer of '91, I twisted my ankle by jumping off the front steps of our house. My brother had injured himself the same way a few years earlier, so apparently I didn't learn.

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tallpowerhouseblonde · 36-40, F

Never has happened to me.The closest is when I was walking barefoot outside and accidentally walked through some broken glass.I just felt the glass break and crunch under my feet and then my friend told me I had walked through broken glass.Because my feet are very tough with thick hard skin i received no injuries at all.I just brushed off my soles with my hand and kept on walking.

SW-User

@tallpowerhouseblonde Im trying to get my soles there

GerOttman · 61-69, M

we were out in the sand pits shooting .22's at anything we could find. cans, bottles, that kind of thing. we found a bunch of bowling bells someone dumped, I took dead aim from about 30 or 40 feet away and plugged one as dead center as you can get. I saw the slug as it returned right back at me, couldn't do anything about it but I knew what was happening! Shot myself right in the chest, didn't break the skin, left a good sized welt, I kept the slug got it around here some where. Learned not to shoot bowling balls!

LordShadowfire · M

@GerOttman That's one way to learn.

GerOttman · 61-69, M

@LordShadowfire I learned my scope was zeroed in!

Indy74 · 46-50, F

I was in junior high in the girls locker room when one of my friends took my gym shirt and threw it on top of the lockers. I had to climb up and get it. I was laughing at my friends while my left hand was hanging in an open locker and a girl was running around slamming open lockers. Needless to say, i almost lost my left ring finger. She slammed the door all the way closed and it almost cut my finger off. I still have the scar to this day. Tendons had to be reattached and all. I got detention for it!! 😬

2ndtimeguy · 61-69, M

my arm went to sleep while I was in bed rolled over and my dead weight arm hit me in the nuts!!

NotJamieM · 46-50, M

I was at a party, and wanted to go outside. We had come in the side door, so I didn't know that the house was under construction and the stairs were being replaced, so there was just a hike in the ground. Anyway, as I stepped outside I turned around, probably to see where some girl was, and stepped out onto... Nothing. I basically fell out of the house, lol. Lucky I wasn't hurt worse than a badly sprained wrist and a cut to my head.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

During a game of 'Storm the Lantern' I was changing clothes in the dark to make it hard for them to spot me, fell down the creek and broke my arm. I was 13 I think.

I was 18 when I jumped off the back of a train when I realized I hitched a ride on the wrong one. That was a trip to the hospital I didn't need.

I was 7 when my brother found Dad's gun and didn't run for it. He shot me in the foot.

RupertCornelius · 36-40, M

punched a solid steel gun safe and broke my hand

Carissimi · 70-79, F

Not dumb ways, just regular activities like stretching when I wake up. I felt a pop, and my shoulder was injured for two-years, and I still have to be careful with it. Then reaching for something a couple of months ago, injured the same side, but my upper back. That’s better now, but that side does seem to cause me problems.

ReneeT · 61-69, M

I put my hand through a glass door when I was seven.

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ALL my falls had been of the highest quality. 💪

SW-User

When I was maybe 6, I held on to a dogs leash, and he started running, so I got dragged after the dog all the was down the road.. My body was done after that🙃

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SW-User

@NotJamieM I looked pretty dumb flying down that road😂

NotJamieM · 46-50, M

@SW-User I bet. I saw a guy get dragged by a tow rope at a ski place once when I was trying to learn, so I can picture that lol. At least I'm pretty sure no one saw me go down in mine lol. They just saw me dirty later on

latinbutterfly · F

@SW-User Like something out of a cartoon 😂.

RedBaron · M

Is there a smart way?

When I was 17 in the summer of 1977, I climbed up onto the roof of a baseball dugout, maybe 12-13 feet high, to smoke a joint with a couple of friends. When we were done - and nicely stoned - we all jumped back down and I fractured my left foot.

Elessar · 26-30, M

Somehow lost my balance last Sunday while cycling mid-low speed on a straight road, on normal asphalt and with no reasons whatsoever for falling.

Only some bruises, but still, it must've looked dumb af

Repete · 61-69, M

Falling on purpose just to let someone catch me. I was 13-14 we were playing tag and I could outrun about everyone back then. I cut my leg , had stitches and still have the scar. A broken bottle.

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

Many scars from stupid shit
Punching in a glass window
Tripping while trying to jump over hedges
Walking through a cemetery (dog attack).
Etc. Lol

LordShadowfire · M

@AthrillatheHunt I have to change mine. I just remembered one.

SomebodyThatYouUsedToKnow · 36-40, F

I bruised both sides of my body and gave myself a hell of a concussion sledding. I feel like most Midwesterners have a "how I almost died" sledding story though....

SW-User

I tried to do a front flip when I was 12 .. halfway thru I turned and my knee popped out of socket .. I laid there for 7 hours before someone found me ..

Dshhh · M

fell out of my bedroom window, 13
I was spying on my neighbor lady, leaning waaay out and yah pants down, and "in hand"
good thing there was a big shrub

Sjones13 · 41-45, M

I tidy my bike by a picnic table that had sheet metal on it and cut my fingers. I guess I didn’t notice it there till too late

Wallflow3r

I got my nail caught on a backsplash tile in the kitchen once and it bent back… didnt know that could happen but it hurt sooo bad lmaoo

Just4Me · F

I walked into a wall. Who doesn't see a wall right in front of them?

vetguy1991 · 51-55, M

Tripped over my shoelaces breaking my left arm, twice

smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F

Jumped out of a go cart and it ran over my leg.

BohemianBoo · M

A lion ate me.

GerOttman · 61-69, M

@BohemianBoo are you lion about that??

BohemianBoo · M

@GerOttman I guess we'll never know.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

I was on vacation in January 2020 and I tripped and broke my ankle then walked on it broken for 2 weeks.

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iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@LordShadowfire I slipped on some wet ceramic tile. I am a klutz lol.

LordShadowfire · M

@iamonfire696 No, I mean how did you walk on it for 2 weeks?

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@LordShadowfire I limped on it for 2 weeks. When I flew home both of my feet swelled from sitting for 6 hours. Went to the doctor and he did bloodwork to make sure the swelling wasn’t serious. I kept telling him my left ankle really hurt but he wouldn’t X-ray it. Finally on the 4th visit 10 days after the fracture he could see it was swollen because my right ankle wasn’t. He ordered and X-ray and then was away for the weekend. I saw him at the hospital where I work on Monday and he saw me limping and didn’t say anything. He called me at 5pm that day to tell me it was broken and I needed a walking boot for 6 weeks. My tolerance for pain is pretty high. People were astounded that I walked on it that whole time 😂.

LordShadowfire · M

I'm afraid I'm going to have to change mine. I punched a metal wall once.

LordShadowfire · M

I was about 10 years old, riding my bike in my neighborhood, and an airplane flew really low overhead. I stopped pedaling, and just looked up at the plane for I don't know how long. Didn't put my feet down, or anything. Sure enough, I fell over.

empanadas · 31-35, M

I was "friends" with people who later tried to kill me

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