Be glad you’re not our friend
This weekend, Jason found out that one of our friends was in Mexico for a wedding, and hyperextended his knee AND broke his femur. You know what he was doing?
The limbo.
That’s right. Our friend broke his femur doing the limbo.
(Me: If you would’ve said, ‘Hey, guess which one of our friends broke their femur doing the limbo?’ I would’ve totally guessed him.
Jason: “I know! Me too!)
So people, what’s the weirdest injury you’ve ever sustained?
When I was a kid I got a huge gash just millimeters from my eye because my friend and I were jumping on either end of a big roll of wire mesh. She jumped off and cartoon-style, the mesh re-rolled itself and attacked me. I also lost a big chuck of my arm when I ran full speed into the fold part of a bi-fold door. I was pretty clumsy. Still am.
Comment by LoriD — April 23, 2008 @ 9:00 am
One time I sliced my finger open on a shampoo bottle. I still have no idea how that happened. I’m trying to think if I sustained any bizarre injuries during childhood but can’t come up with anything…mostly I just tripped and fell on the pavement. A lot.
Comment by nonsoccermom — April 23, 2008 @ 9:27 am
OK, so this wasn’t me, but I was at a 40th birthday part at a roller skating rink. One of the guests fell and then spent the rest of the evening whining about it. We all thought he was being a big baby, but he actually broke his leg in three places!
Comment by My Buddy Mimi — April 23, 2008 @ 9:33 am
This is how cool I am. I’ve only ever broken one bone and I did it playing Lacrosse in college. Sounds like it should be a great story, right? Nope. It was during practice. I tripped, fell forward, jamming my pinky (yes, I said pinky) into the ground and broke the knuckle.
I didn’t think that people still did the Limbo?
Comment by Emily — April 23, 2008 @ 9:42 am
I can’t think of any weird injuries. STUPID, on the other hand… too many to list.
Comment by JMC — April 23, 2008 @ 9:45 am
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHhahahahaaaaa *gasp* AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA wow that is so awesome i can’t even deal.
god, i’ve injured myself SO MANY dumb ways, how should i pick? there was the time i got a black eye because a sign fell on my face and everyone at my second job thought i was being abused by a boyfriend; the time i sprained my ankle by FALLING OFF SECOND BASE at a company softball game; or maybe the time i got my big toenail ripped off my foot at a club in nyc because the guy i was dancing with was just that awkward? ahh, memories…
Comment by Alice — April 23, 2008 @ 9:46 am
I broke my coccyx falling down a flight of stairs. Right before spending 7 hours on a transatlantic flight. That sucked.
Comment by Jess — April 23, 2008 @ 9:55 am
Okay, which stupid injuries that I’ve done do you want? I broke my ankle walking up stairs and then the real fun one. I was working in a deli and I was slicing some meat. I went to push some dried meat away from the spinning slicing blade, and you guessed it, I cut my left thumb. I should clarify here, I just cut the part of the thumb where the finger print is, nothing more. I was very stupid.
Comment by Michelle Pierce — April 23, 2008 @ 10:15 am
Can I cheat and tell my husband’s weirdest injury? He broke a rib while falling into my parents’ woodpile…while juggling fire…on Thanksgiving. Awesome. (why yes, there was alcohol involved, why do you ask?)
My current dumbest injury is the knot I have directly between my eyes from running smack into my husband’s forehead last night while we were chasing the cat. Well, he was chasing her, and I was sneaking up on him to make him stop, and he turned around and…yeah. I slept with a bag of frozen peas on my head last night and I currently look like I’ve od’d on botox b/c I can’t move my forehead.
Comment by Jill — April 23, 2008 @ 10:32 am
Holy shit. That is going to be embarrassing to have to tell people. No weird injuries here, just constant STUPID injuries.
Comment by slynnro — April 23, 2008 @ 10:46 am
Well, words don’t really do it justice, but I had a bruise on my arm that was the size of a grapefruit in college. It was the worst thing anyone had ever seen and my only excuse was that my roommate cousin and I were practicing boxing. On each other.
Comment by Gretchen — April 23, 2008 @ 11:03 am
How? HOW? I mean, I know some people are competitive but if you can’t give in before you SNAP A FEMUR, you might have some issues.
A few months ago I had a seriously major muscle injury from COUGHING. It was like the worst thing EVER. I could barely breathe for like a month.
Comment by Tessie — April 23, 2008 @ 11:08 am
I have two huge scars on both my knees from falling on them – as an adult. I’m a HUGE klutz.
Comment by banana — April 23, 2008 @ 11:14 am
Probably the weirdest one was the time I was walking down the front steps of my mom’s house and passed out cold, falling face first onto the concrete driveway. One tooth loosened, one tooth lost, hairline fracture of the jaw. Still no clue why I passed out, either.
Comment by PixelPi — April 23, 2008 @ 11:20 am
A few years ago I was at work and I took a piece of paper out of the printer that was on my desk. I was sitting down and just reached up and whipped the paper out of the printer and somehow managed to get 3 paper cuts on my eyeball. I have had 3 cancer surgeries, chemo and radiation and those 3 paper cuts hurt worse than all of them.
Comment by Tami W — April 23, 2008 @ 12:10 pm
I broke my hip when I was 17 trying to meet Elton John. What a pitiful claim to fame.
Comment by deni — April 23, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Well, when I was 28, I fell walking down our driveway and broke all three bones in my right ankle (and dislocated it). Then, a few years later, when I was pregnant with my son, I was leaning down to tell my daughter something and she jumped up and threw her head back and her head hit the bridge of my nose and gave me a concussion.
My co-workers love me. If I call in sick, there’s a great story attached. I’m never just “sick”.
Comment by Shelly — April 23, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
His injury will lend itself to “how low can you go” jokes for the rest of his life!
Bizzare injuries…hmmm.
Soon after hub and I moved in together I was running around our apartment with my pants down around my ankles. (it sounds dirty but I was getting dressed, decided to pee, and didn’t pull them up) Anyhoo, my baby toe caught the edge of our bathroom doorway and went in the complete opposite direction of my other toes. Broken. Still bothers me to this day.
Comment by Saly — April 23, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Where do I start…I rode my bike into a brick wall on purpose because I didn’t know where the brakes were (large scar on elbow.) I fell off a swing in the backyard and broke my collarbone (I wasn’t even swinging.) And more recently. I dropped part of a exhaust system on my forehead while trying to help install it leaving a lovely goose egg.
Comment by Kristine — April 23, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
It isn’t the location, but the quantity of times: I’ve broken 1 or the other foot about 6 times in my life. It sucked every time.
Comment by Penny — April 23, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Remarkably similar wedding story: my grandmother left our wedding in an ambulance after a freak electric slide accident.
You cannot make this stuff up. (She is fine now, thankfully)
Comment by pseudostoops — April 23, 2008 @ 6:08 pm
I broke the middle finger on my left hand while bowling.
Comment by Julie — April 23, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
I was wrestling on the floor with my ex (fully clothed wrestling, not the naked kind) and somehow his knife came out of it’s sheath (again, no metaphor here) and I KNEELED on a double-edged hunting knife.
Three stitches, people. And the doctor said she had to IRRIGATE it, which still makes me shudder.
Comment by amber — April 24, 2008 @ 3:10 pm
Hubs broke his fibula while jumping to open a vent that was on the ceiling, the sheer force of landing cracked it. (His mother made him sit there in agony until she could find a Korean specialist for him to see, and then they had to drive 3 hours for the doctor to say “It’s broken.”)
Hubs also popped his knee completely out of its socket TWICE, by standing up. Seriously, sitting on the ground, standing up, POP!
Mine would have to be the Horse Bite. Or the garbage disposal flinging a knife in my hand. Or the knife in the pizza box. Or when I burnt both of my armpits home waxing. Horse bite wins the prize for me though. Stupid horse.
Comment by Parkingathome — April 24, 2008 @ 10:03 pm
I cut my finger while tearing open an orange. That evil stem ripped into my thumb. It was both the weirdest and pansiest injury I’ve ever sustained.
Comment by kirida — April 26, 2008 @ 7:08 am