I stepped down my singular step porch and tore a ligament in my ankle the day I moved into this house.
Two years later (a week ago) I broke my toe in the same place.
stood up too fast, fell face and clavicle first and now typing one armed
I’m sorry, but picturing that got me giggling. Sounds like the cartoonish sort of injuries I get.
Stabbed myself in the thumb when trying to remove those indistructable zip ties from a new knife we purchased.
A few years ago, but it’s stupid enough: An older lagy in the gym was unable to get off from a pushup-helping machine, so i grabbed the weights (! WHY? !)and asked her to step off. It was about 40 kg. Flattened my finger.
Wept in the locker room with the bloody finger in my mouth (I was dizzy because of shock)
Drove dack home shaking from shock
Fingernail is curved a shitty way it’s hard to clip it since.What machine do you mean? I’ve seen pull-up/dip helping machines but am not aware of one for push-ups. Searching for that term gives a lot of results but nothing with weights like you described. Or do you mean a bench press machine?
oh, my bad, it was a pullup machine, where you stand on the support with your knees. She was hanging in the bottom position, so it was hard for her to step off it. No gym employee gave a fuck, so I mindlessly started “helping”
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Those things should have a locking pin or something for situations like that. With most exercise machines, you relax to set the weights down, but those ones… well, you know.
Though if anyone finds themselves in a situation where someone needs help with one of those, you could try putting some of your weight on the pad to help keep it down so they can get off. Though then you’ll be left in the hot spot, so hopefully you can do a pull-up with that counter weight. Or you could hold it down with your arms and drop the plates when the person is off.
Yes, but I wasn’t thinking. And that wasn’t my first day/month/year at the gym. I guess this is how sober careful people manage to hurt themselves or die. My brain just wasn’t there at the moment.
No need to defend yourself, I can’t say I wouldn’t have tried the same thing if I was in that situation without knowing how it turned out from your story. You’ve probably since thought of countless better ways to handle that. I just hope this thread helps someone else who otherwise wouldn’t have thought of that and would have repeated your mistake.
I’m not even defending, I kind of also step away to the side, look at myself and think: “what an asshat, look at him!”:)
Had my index finger too close to the center of the pliers when trying to destroy a hard object. All of the force tore a bunch of skin off.
Meh, that’s just Saturday afternoon to me. Speaking of, need to get off this computer, find a project and jack my self up.
Closing a stapler after refill.
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Bruh it’s called a trigger warning
Also trigger discipline.
Also trigger finger.
Sleeping. Woke up one day to frozen shoulder. Two years of physio and it’s still not right. Fucking aging. Being 50+ sucks arse.
Our bed adjusts via remote control, which my toddler loves to play with. That little shit tweaked it just enough for me not to notice, but enough for my neck to hurt for an entire week.
This was a few days ago, I peeled my thumb knuckle with a potato peeler again
I’ve done that trick, I’ve had a scar on my thumb ever since I was a kid from missing with a potato peeler. Gotta watch out for those things!
@toomanypancakes took the dog for a long long run, and clearly she’d had enough by the time we got back to the local park, so she clipped my heel and sent me flying before unapologetically sidling up to me as I nursed my wounds 😭
Not recent, but sneezing and holding it in. Threw my back so bad I couldn’t walk for weeks. Ever since then, I’ll let it rip – into my elbow or a napkin.
A few months ago, saw a medical scan of someone with a big tear in their throat. The story claimed it was due to a held sneeze. Nowadays, you shouldn’t believe anything on the internet, but after my own experience, I could see how it might happen.
Lay on my back. When I stood up my back was seized.
Fell down ice skating like four days ago. Not the best skater!
Falling is just part of learning with skating I think, I fell a bunch when I was learning to use rollerblades. Hope you had fun otherwise at least!
Yeah, it was super fun!
Paper cut on a friggin fry cup at work.
I was opening a box that was taped shut with a screwdriver, pulling it towards myself to rip open the tape. The rest of the tape went a lot faster than I was expecting, and since I was still pulling I wound up jabbing myself in the stomach (just bruised, I’m fine).
Definitely grabbing scissors or a knife next time and going away from myself!
me and knives and cutters of any sort do not get along. i usually use a key on my keychain to open taped boxes (like from mail order). just poke it on one end and run it through. no risk to anything. i still have the last scar from the last time i used a knife to open a box, years ago.
Definitely grabbing scissors or a knife next time and going away from myself!
Had me in the first half, NGL.
Gosh that’s usually one of those mistakes you only make once. Just thrust the opposite direction next time please 🙏
I will, and I promise to be controlled and purposeful with my thrusting in the future 😁
I can’t believe the box was taped shut with a screwdriver
Haha, I probably should have written that more coherently, huh
Got married.
