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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: RTSDaddy2 on February 02, 2008, 05:06:12 pm ---No, I didn't fall DOWN the stairs - I fell UP the things, right in front of my co-workers.

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Everybody has done that at one point or another.  I did it carrying a baby.  Had to twist my whole body around to protect the baby and slammed my shoulder/head into the stairs hard.  Probably concussed myself (for about the 10th time).

The baby didn't even frown, thankfully.  If I hadn't been carrying a baby I would have just put a hand down and been fine.

SirPeale:
I think we've all done something like that, Chad.

About three years ago we were going to my in-laws.  We stopped at a rest area.  I was carrying my son Riley.  I went to step over the curb (which was obscenely high - about a foot) and caught my toe.  Completely lost my balance.  Stumbled forward about ten feet, knew I was going to lose it, and didn't want to slam my kid on his head.  So I completely turned my body so I'd at least land on my side.  Hit my shoulder pretty hard.  Kid was fine.  Within seconds I had about 30 people around me, all wanting to know if the kid was okay.  Someone took him so I could catch my breath.  Wrenched my shoulder pretty hard, but nothing serious.

saint:
Know a guy in JuJitsu class who was walking down the stairs holding his son. Tripped or lost his balance or some such, did the self-sacrifice thing to protect his kid, and broke his leg in 3 places. Ick. Ick.

Jdurg:
I was getting out of Grand Central station and when I stepped onto one of the escalators down there I stepped in between two steps so when they started to raise I could either fall backward, or fall forward.  I figured falling forward would be less painful so I fell forward while trying not to drop my laptop bag and somehow not smacking my face onto the escalator steps.  Instead, my left hand got chewed up by the steps and after getting up and having everybody look at me stunned, I raced into work and dunked my hand in a huge cup of Listerine in the bathroom to disinfect it. 

Thankfully, no infection set it and the wounds healed just fine.

stan2323:
I was about 9 years old and was out shooting frogs with my BB gun at a local pond.  It stopped shooing BBs.  I rolled up a bubble gum wrapper and put it in the end of the gun.  Pumped it up and shot it.  It came out just fine.  I tried shooting into the water to see if BBs were coming out.  No BB.  Well I proceeded to pump it up again and put none other than my finger in front of it.  Well it took the opportunity to start shooting again and I shot a BB right through my finger.  I went crying home to mom.  She put a band aid on it and said you’ll be OK run along and play.  She is an LPN and it is a good thing she is or I would have been going to the hospital every month or so.  I was always crashing my bike, falling out of the hay mound, cutting my self with knifes and saw. 

Severn months ago in July, now 34 years old, I was kicking dead branches off a pine tree at a house I just bought instead of cutting with a saw.  I kicked one hard at the wrong angel and it went through the bottom of my sneaker.  Put a hole in the bottom of my foot about ˝ inch deep right in the middle of my arch.  I had to go to the hospital to have it cleaned out.  I felt so stupid explaining it to the doc.
 

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