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Dumbest thing you've ever done to yourself?

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Jdurg:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 31, 2008, 10:20:14 am ---Last weekend I was drilling out rivets on an EM pinball gearbox and the bit broke and I drilled a hole in my thumbnail.  It drips pus and blood while I type.  :-P



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Ewww!  Thankfully, I haven't had any "incidents" involving power tools or other potentially dangerous items.  I, sadly, seem to find ways to hurt myself at random when very little danger is involved.  Things such as tripping over my own feet when walking and thus spraining an ankle.  Or slipping on a floor, trying to catch myself before falling, and instead shattering my Tibia.  If only I could be as safe doing normal things as I am when using dangerous power tools or working with dangerous chemicals.........

shardian:
I honestly can't think of many things. I've never broke anything major - just fingers and toes. I slammed my fingers in a mini-van sliding door once. That sucked.

Ah, I can think of a semi-dumb move from college. I played water basketball in the college pool with some fellow dorm mates. I was blocking out a dude under the basket and didn't realize how far I had backed up. When a guy shot, I turned and jumped up to get the rebound...and slammed my face right into one of the net hooks of the rim. When I say slammed, I mean with authority. :laugh2:  It dragged down the middle of my forehead, and cut my nose pretty bad. I had a huge lump on my forehead, and had to get x-rays to rule out anything else bad. I still have a small scar on the bridge of my nose. Nothing broke, but I had a hella bad headache for a few days. I didn't play water ball any more after that. ;D

Jdurg:
Hehe.  Yeah, the head bleeds like crazy if you damage it in any manner.  Most of the time, however, it's nothing severe.  Like I REALLY hit my nose hard this morning with the door, but nothing broke.  I can tell because when I put pressure on my nose or squeeze it, there's some pain but not 'It's broken' pain.  I've broken many bones before and know what that pain feels like.  (Granted, the nose is cartilage and not bone, but it's pretty similar).  I'm just thankful that the external damage isn't that severe and will cover up and go away pretty quickly.  The congestion I feel inside my nose and the scabbing going on in there will be a ---smurfette--- for a while though.   ;D

ChadTower:

I can say this from experience:  it's very difficult to break a bone via blunt force from something softer than the bone.  If it were easy I'd have spent half my childhood in traction.

AcidArmitage:
once my friend acted like he was giving me a low five... but he pulled his hand away and i smacked myself in the nuts really hard... nothings worse than hitting yourself really hard in the nuts in public

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