What's the dumbest injury you ever had?

As a teenager waiting for the bus home after school, I saw my bus coming and stuck my hand out. I was so focussed on ‘my’ bus I didn’t notice another bus swing in. It hit my outstretched hand and I stumbled on to my bus in considerable pain. I had a piano lesson that afternoon and was so embarrassed explaining to my piano teacher why I couldn’t use my left hand.

Just the two:

When I was expecting my daughter 44 years ago, for some reason I decided todo some ironing in the nude. I burnt my tummy. A little while later I was at the JR in Oxford with extreme morning (all day really) sickness. The obstetrician offered to try out their new scanning machine and print off a Polaroid of my baby. He spotted the burn scar on my tummy and said his wife had done the exact same thing.

I have scarring on my left eyebrow. As my eyebrows have thinned it is more obvious. On one of our first dates OH took me to his Shooting club. He somehow managed to swing his gun round, which was apparently loaded, and catch my eyebrow with the barrel! There was a lot of blood. He was mortified and doesn’t like being reminded. I haven’t been shooting with him since.

I fell off my bike. But I was in our front garden completely stationary but day dreaming.
Fell sideways and broke my arm.
Parents thought I was OK and only took me to hospital the next day.

My husband and I were sitting on the bed talking harmlessly enough. We decided it was time to go out so my husband uncrossed his legs, which meant swinging one over the other. Unfortunately I bent forward to put my shoes on and his swinging foot caught me in the face and split the root of one of my front teeth. Our dentist was a born again Christian and it proved quite difficult to explain that my husband had nearly kicked my tooth out.

As a 5' high nurse I was unable to reach the wall rack of stainless steel bedpans in the sluice, too many for the rack, so piled on top of it. To get one down for a needy patient, I jumped up and grabbed one in mid air, dislodging the entire stack, which rained down on my head. I went out like a light, to be found by my colleague on the floor with a large lump on my head! I was carted off to sick bay on quarter hourly observations. I was accused of doing it deliberately by the senior nurse, as we were due to perform last offices on a recently deceased patient!

One of my kids got concussion from walking into a ‘Mind Your Head’ sign in a shop.

Slipped on a cooked apple slice.
My fault. I should have removed it from the floor 10 mins earlier.

Had to have physio on my knee.
When got to physio explained what had happened.
Turned out I needed phyios on both knees.
1 leg had gone out, one had tucked in under.
The knee I had gone there for was better than the one I thought was ok!

Never think both knees have been quite the same again.

Struggled to get out of a claw foot bath in a hotel as the bubble bath had made it slippery. In the process managed to trap my toe in the plughole! Getting it out was difficult and really hurt. Wasn’t happy when DH laughed!

It was a wet day, trying to amuse my (then toddler) son by throwing a soft ball up and down our hallway. Put my hand out to catch it, caught my finger on the wall and bent it right back. Must have broken it, because it still looks wonky now - more than 25 years later!

Trying not to disturb DH, so I didn’t put the light on. Misjudged a step, fell downstairs - top to bottom - and broke my arm. In retrospect, it could’ve been a lot worse.

Saw my d.I.l’s parents car, pulling into my drive. I was still in my pyjamas, so ran to get dressed, tripped, fell, hurting my nose on the door frame, nosebleed. Fortunately for me, they probably had a phone call and were on the phone for a good 15 minutes. Gave me time to get dressed and put an ice cube on my nose and…..compose myself before they actually knocked on the door. 😂

Sprayed furniture polish containing silicone on to an already laminated floor.
To make it smell nice !! Of course!!
Seriously.
That stupid.
Shouted to OH " watch you don't slip on that floor";
Half an hour later ran across it in bare feet to get to the shower.
Slipped , fell heavily and broke my wrist.
True Story.

Umm putting my hand in a mixer and accidentally leaning on the button, luckily quickly whipped my hand out with just a nasty cut but could have been my fingers gone