What is the dumbest way you have injured yourself?

[sirderpsalot123]

I want to laugh at you

[Lliam]

I was surfing at a place called The Jetty in Seal Beach, Ca. It's a channel where warm water flows out of the electric power plant into the ocean.

Waves break near the entrance, continue breaking for a bit, and then peter out into rolling waves.

I caught a wave and rode it all the way in. Before it petered out, I moved to the nose of my board to drop back in one more time. But the wave just passed by me and I was left standing on the nose of a stationary board.

I just stood there and sank on the end of my board. For some reason, I thought it would be like a cartoon or something where someone stands at attention as their boat goes down with blub blub blub sounds and bubbles..

What I hadn't thought of was my board going half way under and then shooting up into the air. Without me realizing it, the board shot up, flipped in the breeze, and just about the time my head popped up, the rail of the board came down on my noggin.

It hurt and I'm lucky that I didn't get knocked out.

So I started paddling back out and another surfer told me that I was bleeding. I got off the board, dunked under water, and came up surrounded by blood. So I paddled in and drove home. Then I went to the doctor and had to get a few stitches.

Maybe my dumb ass cartoon antic was more dumb ass than funny. LOL

[exitseven]

lucky there were no sharks around. You were ringing the dinner bell.

[Lliam]

@exitseven. LOL I had that thought when I came up surrounded by blood. Although, I've never heard of a shark attack in Seal Beach. There are no reef sharks, Makos or great whites. And I don't think they would like the warm water in the jetty. But I still got out of there fast. 😂

[SandandWaves]

I like the way surfing looks. I do get nervous watching, because of the sharks and have seen shark attacks in person

[Lliam]

@SandandWaves. Wow. Was that in Australia or someplace?

[SandandWaves]

Cali

[Lliam]

@SandandWaves. You've actually seen people attacked by sharks in Cali?

[Lliam]

@SandandWaves. One time, when I was fairly new to surfing, I had paddled outside of a large set of waves. I was looking toward the horizon and saw a black fin cut through the water maybe 60" or so feet from me.
I kinda freaked, paddled hard, caught a wave, and rode it all the way to the shore on my belly. I was going to shout shark when someone told me it was a dolphin. Then I saw more and realized that the person was right. Shark fins and dolphins' dorsal fins look different.

[SandandWaves]

I seen most, happening from the boardwalk.

[SandandWaves]

dolphins are protectors.. I love that.

[NathanDavis]

woke up all wonky... and went face first onto the wall, wrong side of the bed

and that time, when I was supposed to close the freezer door, but my arm hand did something weird, so I walked on the fridge nose first... lol

when I thought that it would be a good idea to drive an extra long SUV over a ramp, because it was going to be fun (it wasn't that fun on my back)

that time I touched a little live wire, it was so little... how bad it could be, lmao

and when I was a kid and playing with fireworks... the ones that are supposed to be lights and sparkles, so I just held it too tight in my hand, basically turned it into a fire crackers... my fingers looked cool after it, though

one time playing with my brother as kid, and had me wrapped in a blanket so I started to jump on the bed like a jumping burrito, lost my balance of course so I landed on the window, which shattered quite dangerously, somehow missed all the big pointy blades of glass

not sure which one is the dumbest... and I am sure there's more I don't recall right now

[dustybiker]

OMG especially with the glass!! I worry about my shower door for that reason.

[NathanDavis]

@dustybiker lmao... yeah

my brother was cracking up and laughing, and as I looked up and noticed the top of the window looking loose and like a fine guillotine blade I was like quick, quick, quick!!

then he helped me up and away very slowly, lmao

and yes... big panels of glass are a NO at my household, were a bigger no at my former household as kids

[dustybiker]

@NathanDavis Yikes!!….!

[SandandWaves]

hiding in a dryer even though i could fit, it hurt a bit to get in, getting out hurt worse. Hiding in a refrigerator -- i couldn't push the door open. also sitting on handle bars while someone pedaling the bicycle.. going down a hill got very injured. There may be a few more, just can't think of anymore dumb ways. Plenty silly ways.

[SandandWaves]

I just thought of more, from just now reading @moonpie89's reply

[SandandWaves]

in my early 20's I was helping with rolling backwards a parked car, didn't think to move my foot, rolled right over it. didn't pay attention and shut the bathroom door over my toes and broke all four. Other times didn't pay attention and slammed my finger in front doors/and closet doors. Yeh, there's way so many dumb ones I went through.

[SandandWaves]

I just get so focused on what am doing/gonna do, I dont think of getting hurt

[dustybiker]

Ummmmmm…. I have a few. Also in pain right now, so can’t remember them. My neurons are distracted. I’ll share later.

[sirderpsalot123]

Promise?

And wishing you a speedy recovery

[dustybiker]

Oh! I have a good one. Shared it here before but it was a year ago.

I had one of my german shepherds carabiner-ed (yes new word) to a belt around my waste. I believe I was also not feeling well at the time, as that forgetfulness is rare, to date.
Anyway I took their toy and really chucked it. It was a damn good through too. I could see it was going to give them a good long run.
It was then that I had a blunt-force, rude, awakening. I was airborne for an impressive distance myself.
Then made harsh impact with the grass, at high speed. The burning effect, thankfully, didn’t breach my winter clothing though. Small blessing.
But with speed and intense focus my GSD hardly knew I was there… dragging along behind them.

In the end they turned and were clearly shocked I was directly behind them. And happily asking for the next throw.

I may or may not have had to spit out grass. That’s too personal a detail to share. I did pull a couple muscles that needed icing later though.

[dustybiker]

@sirderpsalot123 Thank you 😇

[sirderpsalot123]

I'm sorry but this is really funny to me... 😂🤣

[sirderpsalot123]

Did you give them the next throw?

[dustybiker]

*throw

@sirderpsalot123 Of course! There is no denying a happy German Shepherd. 🐾💕 I was laughing too. After recovering.

[sirderpsalot123]

Good. Was worried I'd have to block you for mean to happy German Shepherd.

[dustybiker]

@sirderpsalot123 Nope. Now 8 have that unblockable / Unstoppable song in my head

https://youtu.be/1Pg1RguhqxY

[sirderpsalot123]

Dork lol

[dustybiker]

@sirderpsalot123 🤓 Proud dork.

[sirderpsalot123]

@dustybiker And that's exactly the reason why I like you. You're fun.

[dustybiker]

@sirderpsalot123 Cheers 🥤🥤😎

[dustybiker]

Thank you for mhg. Even after being threatened about it in a completely different area of GaG. Let it be noted it was a random threat too.
Due to that trauma, and attempt to recover from it, I’d like to honorarily share this mhg with everyone else who gave your question an opinion. It’s the nice thing to do.

[sirderpsalot123]

@dustybiker 🤣🤣🤣

I did enjoy the German Shepherd one tho, lol.

[dustybiker]

@sirderpsalot123 😁😎

[jennifer_bloom]

When I was 4 I went to turn off the lights for bed time and fell and slit the outer eyelid, I had surgery to get it fixed because I was told I might look ugly and visibly deformed if it was not addressed right away. Today there is basically no scar on my eyelid.

[Blackcosmo]

I rocked a a chair that isn't meant for rocking and fell backwards hitting my head really hard.

Don't laugh at me lol

[sirderpsalot123]

I'm only laughing because I have done this 😂

[Blackcosmo]

LMAO at least I'm not alone.

[sirderpsalot123]

It has happened more times than I care to admit. It stopped being funny. I'm 25 and still can't sit in a chair properly 😫

[Blackcosmo]

LOLL

[Chazmatazz269]

I’ve hit my head on my own car while climbing into it. A car i’ve owned for years, by the way.
I’ve also hit myself in the face with my own hand and wrist when my hand slipped off from something i was prying on.
I peed on my own face once. Only my ego was injured, but it’s probably the funniest of the lot! Ell oh ell!

[jshm2]

Never really injured myself, but I did injure my friend by dropping a can of paint on his shoulder from about 5 meters.

He was a bit high, and I was helping him paint his garage. I was up the ladder paining and he was mumbling something about paint levels. I put the lid back on the can and threw it in his direction.

[DCooper]

I was drilling out the top of a CO2 cartridge prior to filling it with smokeless pistol powder qhen I was a kid, and I shot a drill shaving into my eye.

Shoulda used a punch and let the gas out of the cartridge instead of just tossing it in the vice and sending it.

[exitseven]

I dove off a bridge to impress a girl. As I was on the way down I saw that the tide had gone out. I put my arms out in front of me to absorb the shock. I almost broke my neck.

[moonpie89]

I got my finger stuck in my car door. 🚪 😭😭😭

[exitseven]

owwww- do ypou still have it?

[Cherry234]

I guess by falling off the monkey bars once when I was playing on them. I wasn't very careful. This was when I was a little girl. That's the only thing I can think of. I don't injure myself that much.

[Anonymous]

trying to fix a toy gun that I had that would shoot ping pong balls. It was cheaply made and the trigger wasn't working so I was trying to fix it, and accidentally pulled it while it was pointing at my crotch so the ping pong ball shot my in the balls

[Anonymous]

I literally thought I could defy gravity and tried walking horizontally. May not have even been 6 at the time.

[Staximus]

I rolled my 73 Blazer , got ejected from the vehicle, landed on my head and almost broke my neck, and then walked home

[Kontrvnote]

When I was 8 or something I tried to ride my bicycle over a pothole that looked unsafe. Ended up with a bleeding leg.

[888theGreat]

ouch

[DCooper]

Ruprecht !

[JohnK123]

Some senior stepped on my foot in a pool on accident and it broke lmao

[Anonymous]

Whittling something with a pocket knife towards me instead if away. Yeah, that was kind of dumb.

[Dimension453]

Wiped off my knife using my thigh. Didn't have quite the right angle. Bled a lot. Go ahead, laugh it up.

[bigpauly]

I don’t want to be laughed at.

[Blackcosmo]

HAHAHA
(Don't you dare laugh at me because I don't know where the emojis are)

[bigpauly]

@Blackcosmo lol I just use the ones on the phone

[Blackcosmo]

Hmph!

[sirderpsalot123]

What if I promise not to laugh?

[bigpauly]

I don’t buy it

[sirderpsalot123]

That's smart honestly

[d3n0939]

emotionally: going back to a narc.

[LztutuIsCute]

I'm too dumb to injure myself.