Glitterwolf Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 1 hour ago, Thoramel said: Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured Nothing special I can think of. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttuckerman Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 3 hours ago, Thoramel said: Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured yourself. For example, my wife managed to somehow give herself what amounts to a deep paper cut on her eyeballs yesterday while removing a mask. Quite the odd injury and now I'm sitting here at home taking care of her and letting her know I will be using this to make fun of her for being a klutz for a long time to come. Sprained a toe getting out of about 30" of mud retrieving a disc golf disc. The toe was strained because I was using it to keep from losing my slip-on shoe. Another time getting my disc my shoe stayed in the mud even though it was about a foot of mud. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejala Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 I sprained my knee walking moderately quickly down an empty high-school hallway junior year. One step I was fine, next I was on the ground. No idea why. Luckily I was playing the busybody mother in our school musical, (I was always the mother. I was a pretty good actor but couldn't carry a tune well enough to be a main, and plump enough not to look that part.) So I was edited out of a few chorus dance numbers that I'm not really sure my character would have realistically partaken in, and got to wear flats and use a cane. This was an improvement from the previous year's musical in which I had to wear heels. I could barely walk in them. I'd finish a scene and be crawling around backstage because I couldn't bear to be on my feet. Which, I suppose, is another odd way I've injured myself. By the senior year musical, I'd graduated from mother to the part of grandmother Burnside (Mame) and was assigned flat shoes and a cane before I had a chance to hurt myself. I was allergic to the cold cream they had to remove the makeup, though, so after each performance my friends would have fun helping peel the liquid latex off my face. Some irritation there by the end of the week, but not really an injury. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aku-chan Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 5 hours ago, Thoramel said: Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured yourself. For example, my wife managed to somehow give herself what amounts to a deep paper cut on her eyeballs yesterday while removing a mask. Quite the odd injury and now I'm sitting here at home taking care of her and letting her know I will be using this to make fun of her for being a klutz for a long time to come. Nothing spectacular, but on two separate occasions I've broken an arm/wrist tripping over my own feet. 7 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 5 hours ago, Thoramel said: Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured yourself?? Other people’s answers have assisted my memory. I reached into my shirt pocket. That was what I did. I intended to remove a pen in order to start writing. I was in a college class at the time. My pocket had a selection of things to write with. Instead of exiting holding a pen, my hand retreated with an injured index finger. There was a pencil like ^ this one in the pocket. The point was up because I had previously noticed it was trying to undo the seam at the bottom of the pocket with its needle sharp nose. When groping blindly for a pen my finger encountered the pencil and I ended up with about 3/8ths inch of 0.5mm pencil lead wedged underneath my finger nail, between the nail and the nail bed. That hurt. The unkind medical professional that removed it an hour later hurt me even worse getting it out. 5 hours ago, Thoramel said: … my wife managed to somehow give herself what amounts to a deep paper cut on her eyeballs yesterday while removing a mask. Quite the odd injury and now I'm sitting here at home taking care of her … My sympathies are entirely with Mrs Thoramel. Please tell us you’ll be getting her to an ophthalmologist! Or something. It sounds serious enough. 8 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenPiggy Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 6 hours ago, Thoramel said: Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured yourself. In graduate school I had no dental insurance, so I stopped going to the dentist for several years. And being young and lazy, my dental hygiene was only so-so. Eventually it caught up to me, and one of my teeth, which was apparently in very bad shape inside, finally gave up and practically exploded while I was eating one day. Nothing strange about that, except that the food that finally destroyed the tooth was... a salad. Specifically, a piece of lettuce. Nothing chewy, or crunchy, or sticky; my tooth fell apart chewing lettuce. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawhat Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 5 hours ago, Thoramel said: Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured yourself. For example, my wife managed to somehow give herself what amounts to a deep paper cut on her eyeballs yesterday while removing a mask. Quite the odd injury and now I'm sitting here at home taking care of her and letting her know I will be using this to make fun of her for being a klutz for a long time to come. I've pinched a nerve (the same nerve, repeatedly, over the decades) by: stretching in gym class (high school--the initial injury), reaggravated by: turning quickly, sneezing, sleeping crooked, and by doing nothing that I can discern would be the cause. Pinched nerve from an activity supposed to prevent injury. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilhalfling Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 6 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Nothing special I can think of. Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured yourself. All of my serious injuries have been odd. then I make up even weirder stories. I broke a toe crashing into a porch railing, while playing tag with Minispawn. What I told people was that I was taking ElderSpawn to "Exotic Animal riding class" and after they finished on the Suffolk sheep, and the Tortoisee, they moved on to Camel I got distracted (sometimes explained by a pretty woman) and while they were letting me hold the camel's lead rope, and it stomped on my foot, breaking a toe. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Khan Artist Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 8 hours ago, Thoramel said: Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured yourself. For example, my wife managed to somehow give herself what amounts to a deep paper cut on her eyeballs yesterday while removing a mask. Quite the odd injury and now I'm sitting here at home taking care of her and letting her know I will be using this to make fun of her for being a klutz for a long time to come. Today's was pretty funny. I had the stock prod and was stretching over the top of the railing because I was too lazy to jump down and push the door up. A cow swished her tail, grabbed my prod, got it stuck in her tail and pulled it right out of my hands. I almost went arse over tea kettle over the balcony. Of course, the new guy with the nice bum saw this. He retrieved my prod and gave it to me. I was so embarrassed. I have new bruises to show off. I think I probably take the cake. I've got so many riduculous scars and bruises. I fell through a lawn chair once. I tripped jumping off the steps and ran into the side of a school bus. I shot myself with a pressure washer while trying to wash a pot. I cut my hands playing Jedi with a florescent light, which exploded as soon as I hit my first droid garbage barrel. I got hit by a car in the church parking lot going 10 km/hr. I've been stuck in a manure pile. I was listening to the gossip at the paint table in high school while using the belt sander, not paying attention and my board took off. I don't think that hurt anyone, but it was funny. 6 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezler the Polychromatic Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 12 hours ago, Thoramel said: Question September 20: What's the oddest way you have ever been injured/injured yourself. For example, my wife managed to somehow give herself what amounts to a deep paper cut on her eyeballs yesterday while removing a mask. Quite the odd injury and now I'm sitting here at home taking care of her and letting her know I will be using this to make fun of her for being a klutz for a long time to come. Probably at work when I was on a clothing bale about 3 feet from the floor of the trailer i was in, I hopped down and then POP.....there are two bones in your foot (navicular and medial cuneiform) that kinda of hug each other with a hook, and since the trailer floor was at a bit of an angle, my foot flex and those two bones kinda.........scraped against each other. Didn't break it, but it hurt like 7 of the 9 Hells and had to go to the hospital for X-rays. I was supposed to be on light duty for 2 weeks but I was back at my post after 2 or 3 days. Hindsight tells me that it wasn't worth doing that for the manager I had at the time. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoramel Posted September 21 Author Share Posted September 21 Question September 21: Do you prefer to see new movies at the theater, or would you rather wait and watch them at home and why? Bonus: Have you ever tried Pawpaw fruit? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted September 21 Moderator Share Posted September 21 9 minutes ago, Thoramel said: Question September 21: Do you prefer to see new movies at the theater, or would you rather wait and watch them at home and why? Bonus: Have you ever tried Pawpaw fruit? Yes, both. Going out to the movies is still fun to me, plus some things just seem better on a huge screen. Watching at home is also good because there's no lines, no obnoxious people, and I don't necessarily need to wear pants. Bonus: No, but I would unless you tell me it tastes like rotting in soles. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoramel Posted September 21 Author Share Posted September 21 14 hours ago, TGP said: My sympathies are entirely with Mrs Thoramel. Please tell us you’ll be getting her to an ophthalmologist! Or something. It sounds serious enough She went to emergency care immediately after. Antibiotics and numbing eye drops was the recommendation. Not too serious, but the pain drops do make it hard for her to focus. 10 minutes ago, Chaoswolf said: No, but I would unless you tell me it tastes like rotting in soles. Tastes like banana/mango/citrus all at once and somehow goes really well with cucumber. Completely unexpected flavor from something that grows in the Midwest. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttuckerman Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 34 minutes ago, Thoramel said: Question September 21: Do you prefer to see new movies at the theater, or would you rather wait and watch them at home and why? Bonus: Have you ever tried Pawpaw fruit? Wait. Less people talking during the picture. Also I can hit pause to take care of business or get a snack. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezler the Polychromatic Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 40 minutes ago, Thoramel said: Question September 21: Do you prefer to see new movies at the theater, or would you rather wait and watch them at home and why? Bonus: Have you ever tried Pawpaw fruit? A bit of both, I like seeing things as they come out, and I've learned the best times to go to the theatre when hardly anyone is around. This "PawPaw" fruit, as you call it, does not exist in this realm. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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