I was running for my train. After entering in the station airlock, for a reason i still can’t explain, i turned right instead of continuing straight ahead and BAM, i hit a glass with my face. Now i have a little scar, fortunately hidden behind my eyebrow.

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    When I was about 4, I was jumping on the sofa, back and forth from one arm to the other (because the middle was lava, obviously)

    Misjudged it and ended up going headfirst off the end into a china cabinet next to it, glass doors and all - I ended up missing the first month of school, 32 stitches and basically half a Glasgow smile to show for it, I’m told it looks very cool

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    11 days ago

    I wanted a pineapple and put a cutting board on my lap to slice it up.

    I thankfully only stabbed myself a little when the extremely slippery fruit did its thing.

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    I was drunk and playing with a knife, my friend started tossing things for me to slash out of the air. When people see the scar I tell them I got stabbed, which is technically true!

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    11 days ago

    Touched a car cigarette lighter that I’d heated up myself while bored with the intent of just slipping a nail between the coils without skin contact and gave myself a new thumbprint.

    Then I did that again a few years later.

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    I fell off an electric scooter and broke my wrist, I have a titanium plate in there now.

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    Scraped a huge chunk of skin off my foot while drunk in a pool. I was at an Airbnb in the desert with some friends.

    One friend and I worked our way through 40 beers in about five hours but we didn’t realize that until later on—something about the 110°F weather and swimming made drinking far too easy.

    The pool had a very rough texture at the bottom and no part of it was especially deep, so I mainly bounced around on my toes while we were in the pool.

    When we finally got out of the pool I saw blood everywhere coming from my foot, it had probably been bleeding for hours because I remembered pretty early on I’d stupidly jumped in and hurt my foot. I immediately went inside and ended up sleeping for 10 hours, missing all the fun everyone else had that evening. Because I was on my toes the entire time my ankles hurt for a few days.

    It’s been seven months but I still have a mark on my foot, and it itches sometimes still.

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    I have many stories how I either accidentally cut into my fingers or break the bones. But most of them was pretty logical (still stupid tho) why it happened but one time was I going to lift up my friend + the chair they sat on for the lols and my ring fingers bone broke… I don’t know how… Your guess is as good as mine

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    Many ways. in order from first to last the ones that I remember and qualify as stupid are:

    When I was very young i put a toy into a coal fire, regretted my decision and tried to retrieve the molten plastic.

    I tried to carry a pan of boiling chickpeas over my shoulder and ended up spilling it down my back

    I tried cycling down a steep hill while holding an ice-cream and hurt my nuts on the stem of the handlebars when I had to stop.

    Went down a steep hill on a scooter and stopped on my head (this one required stitches).

    Worked on a boat without a helmet and got slapped in the side of the head with a crane hook.

    Tried jumping over a Wheely bin while rat-arsed and face planted on the pavement.

    There are plenty more accidents that were just shitty luck, but these are the avoidable ones.

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      11 days ago

      As a child, I pretended to be superman and launched myself off an armchair and landed hands-first in the embers of our open fire. I relate.

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    Though that the discomfort in overhead presses and triceps dips was something I should push through. The result was that I tore both a rotator cuff muscle and the labrum ib one of my shoulders. I’m still recovering from the surgery to put my shoulder back together. :|

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    There was a row of chairs (touching each other) at work that are purposefully very heavy. I wanted to look under the chairs, so I was lifting them one at a time. The last one was a corner chair and a lot heavier. I stuck my head behind the last chair to look under it, dropped it, and caught my jaw. It hurt like fuck but fortunately didn’t do any actual damage.

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    11 days ago

    When I finished my exams at school, I felt exuberant, and a group of us ended up at the village playground. For some reason I perched myself on one end of a see-saw and got a “friend” to jump out of a tree onto the other end.

    While he was in mid flight I reevaluated my choice, and tried for a safe dismount. I nearly made it but one foot was still on the seat. That foot went up by what felt like a mile in the space of 0.003 seconds and I did a flip onto my head. Dazed, I immediately tried to push myself up and the see-saw caught me on the downstroke. Blood everywhere. Stitches in my head.

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    I needed to fill the medicine boxes for me and my partner, and I had a few bottles of medicines I just got that I needed to put in, so I’m carrying them down the stairs, one of the bottles falls out of my hand, lands like a wheel on a stair, I step on it, and I fall down 3 stairs. My butt and elbow hurt and I was so mad. 😡

    This was yesterday, btw.

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    So this is half on me, and half on my father. (I inherited my “stupid idea” gene.

    When I was 16 my dad was building a greenhouse on our small acreage. Frame was up, everything was ready and it became time to lay down the heavy clear plastic sheeting that would form the surface.

    As he was up in the top nailing down each corner, it was my job to hold each corner down as tight as I could from the ground by using a rope attached to the corner of the sheet. (I don’t know if i’m describing this properly).

    Any way, my father’s fault in the story is this: The only “rope” we could find was baler twine. It’s thin, coarse, and can easily slice like a saw. We secured a long piece of it to the corner of the sheeting and my job was to basically “tug of war” the corner in order to keep it taut for my father to secure.

    Anyone raised in the country already sees exactly where I’m going with this…

    MY stupid part in this story is this…

    In an attempt to get a better purchase on the baler twine, I wrapped it a few times around my hand, through my fingers, etc…

    Did I mention it was a bit windy that day? So a guest of wind took the corner and ripped it out of my hands, with the twine literally zipping through my fingers, slicing them nearly to the bone because friction + baler twine = weirdly effective saw.

    Four fingers on my right hand were left with ring scars from where the twine zipped through them and my right hand was out of action for about a week