What’s the dumbest injury you’ve sustained?

[Croconaw]

I stabbed myself in the eye with a plastic (thankfully, not metal) hanger when I was, like, 7. I was trying to take clothes off it for my Build-A-Bear.

I had to get prescription eyedrops from the doctor, and surprisingly it didn’t cause any long term damage to my eye. Though, I volunteered for an eye exam (for fun) during a Biology course in high school as someone without glasses. Someone with glasses had to volunteer, as well, and it was basically to see if the person without glasses would be able to see more than the person with glasses while wearing them.

That’s when I figured out that I could see just a few more rows of the eye chart with my right eye, which is the one that wasn’t stabbed with a hanger. Either way, the injury wasn’t enough to harm my sight to the point of needing glasses.

Please tell me others have had stupid injuries, lmao.

 

[SkyKnight03]

I tripped over a rope at a recreational area and broke two bones in my arm.

Thankfully it was the right arm and I'm left handed. So I was a still a bit functional during recovery.

It was very painful and I didn't go to the hospital until the next morning, and I still had to wait for about 9 hours in a room.

 

[Killer Princess]

I burnt myself while ironing perler beads, and me being oblivious, did not know my arm was resting on a scalding hot iron melting plastic until i looked at it and then it hurt, i still have the scar lol

 

[oak]

One time I was dancing in the kitchen with my partner and I went to take a sip of my drink through a straw and I somehow bumped the cup & cut the back of my throat with the straw. It left like a perfectly cut circle from the top of the straw. Thank god it wasn't a metal straw.

 

[Neb]

Last year, I drank water from a clay cup I knew had a crack in it, and a piece fell in my mouth, tearing open my tongue. I had to go to the hospital, and now I have a black scar on the back of my tongue.

 

[Crash]

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[Midoriya]

Funnily enough, despite doing martial arts for over a decade the only injuries I usually get are on my toes. I try to keep my toenails cut all the time these days because of it.

I posted this elsewhere, but I broke my left wrist clean in half when I was younger. It was a clean break and didn't require surgery, but the reason for it was dumb. I was on top of my bathroom counter completely and was trying to wash my leg or foot off, and ended up falling off. However, they put a cast on it and I still was able to play soccer with the other kids while it was in a cast.

I also almost sawed off one of my fingers when I was in Tech Ed in middle school. Thankfully, someone caught me and informed the teacher, and they stopped the saw before it could saw off my finger. I'm not sure how I would have explained that to my parents at the time.

 

[-Lumi-]

i broke both my ankles last winter while walking my dogs.......... because i was playing pokémon go instead of paying attention to where i was walking

Both of them?? Oh my goodness I broke one ankle last summer and was absolutely miserable I couldn't imagine breaking both. Hopefully they've both healed without any trouble!!

When I was 10 or 11 maybe I was getting ready to do homework in the living room. We had a babygate up at the time to keep our not yet potty trained puppy off of the carpet. I sharpened my pencil and then went to step over the gate and I stumbled, stabbing my right hand with the pencil. The lead came out of the pencil and was stuck in my hand. I'm not sure who was more horrified - me or the family friend that was staying with us while my parents were out.

My mom had to physically sit on me to pull it out because I wouldn't let her touch it otherwise. I still have the mark on my hand to this day!

 

[. Rarity .]

I can't tell you how many times I've walked up the hill, and acedently stepped into this one hole. It's a relitvly deep hole too, and I always walk right into it. I've twisted my ankle alot by being delirious.

 

[QueenCobra]

When I was 15, I fell down the basement stairs while carrying my cat. I was home alone and planned on writing. (computer was in the basement back then) I tripped over her and went flying about three/four steps down. I also hit my head on the side of an end table. Now, the basement was unfinished, so I landed on concrete that was scarcely covered by a thin rug.

I don't know how, but I pulled myself upstairs. My cat stared at me the whole time, almost like she knew I was hurt. I went to Urgent Care (it was a Sunday) and had an X-ray. Needless to say, I broke my right foot in five different places. I had to use the boot, crutches shower chair, and everything....all because I carried my squirmy kitty downstairs! (I still love her though.)

 

[Beanz]

a year ago i fell down the stairs and my grandma's chairlift broke my fall and because of that i had a massive bruise on my leg for almost two weeks.

earlier this year i was getting into my mom's car and hit myself in the eye with the edge of the door which also left a little bruise but under my eye.

 

[LadyDestani]

I have a very bad track record with stairs. I've slipped on almost every staircase I've ever walked down.

Once, I was in my attic and I heard my husband, who had just arrived home, trying to get the front door open. He was struggling so I ran downstairs to help. We have a gate around the bottom of this spiral staircase because it's too dangerous for the dog. I tripped over the gate and landed awkwardly on the hard wood floor. I had a couple of bruises, a sprained wrist, and a sore ankle. I also dented the metal gate because I hit it so hard.

A few years ago, I slipped on the back porch steps while walking my dog. It was sleeting and there was a thick sheet of ice over everything. I set my foot down on the first step and it must have looked like a comedy routine because my leg flew up in the air. I was airbourne and landed hard 5 steps down with my left butt cheek on the sharp edge of the step. My butt was swollen so badly I couldn't fit in my jeans. I couldn't sit or sleep comfortably for over a month. When the swelling and bruising finally went away, I realized that my butt now has a permanent horizontal dent across it.

 

[Chris]

On Boxing Day a few years ago I stubbed my toe on the toilet. Half my big toenail came up and was bent vertically. It took until summer to grow back and look normal again.

 

[Dunquixote]

I am constantly bumping into my tables and walls because I’m on my phone or distracted. My worst one was falling down the steps outside my house face first onto the pavement; I broke my new glasses, got scraped up badly. Didn’t break any bones though.

Another one was I bumped my toe on the wall so hard I broke it.

 

[lasagne_of_death]

I've cut my hands pretty badly off of doors multiple times. I've still got scars on my hand from them lol

 

[cornimer]

When I was in uni, I fell down the stairs leaving class and broke my ankle simply because I wasn't paying attention to where I was walking.

 

[Kitsuragi]

i was grilling outside and decided to break in my new platform crocs, i rolled my ankle with said crocs and fell on my knee but thankfully saved the entire tray of chicken i had just grilled bc of course the chicken is way more important than my own body

i was wearing shorts so it tore the **** out of my knee and it scarred, so now i have a pale splotch on my knee in some indescribable shape because i wanted to use my hands to save a pan of chicken instead of catching my fall asjdhnjasmksa

 

[BetsySundrop]

These might be the dumbest/ most embarrassing, but there were plenty of others.

Teenage me, when hair volume was a big deal, used to dry my hair with my head upside-down. One day, i swung my head upside down but was standing too close to the very hard sink. Basically just slammed my face into the sink edge. It took forever for the bruising and swelling to go away.

Couple others involved chopping firewood, and while not severe, the injuries were very obvious and very embarrassing.

 

[sakuraa]

I stuck my finger through a bike chain once as a kid. It wasn’t even an accident, it was just me going “yo this looks cool imma stick my finger in it”

To this day, there’s still a little indent from where my finger was stuck .-.

 

[Corrie]

Sometimes if I stretch weird or reach a certain way, it'll pull my neck and genuinely hurts for the next couple days after. I always feel so dumb.