So who has tried to scalp themselves while making the bed? (other odd house injuries)

[Crossbow]

I have a scar in the shape of a waffle divot.

Ok, so you're going to get me started, huh? Ok....

Tent stake through the foot (stepped on it)
Gash under my hair from a branch whipping back and hitting me
Burn spots from the campfire. Repeatedly
7 inch "WTF did you do to your LEG???" scar on my shin from finding an open storm drain
Don't ever trust me with a mallet. Just, don't.
Hatchets, either

[Elspeth]

Oh, don't even get me started on camping injuries.....

I have a scar in the shape of a waffle divot.

[Crossbow]

Oh, don't even get me started on camping injuries.....

[Elspeth]

lets the latest injury would be branding myself with the oven door. Didn't open it enough. Most of my scars are from me being stupid and or a klutz. People tell me "please don't come back with a new injury or scar" if we go camping.

I come from a long line of klutzs. We are durable at least

[Sarlon]

I set a dish towel on fire...

while taking the kettle off the gas stove....


thought the heat was from the burner still on next to me...


no...apperently it caught the cotton dishrag on fire and singed some arm hair.

[Food Lady]

And I'm sitting here with a pinched nerve in my shoulder from getting out of bed today. >.<

[Andara Bledin]

Putting on a shirt, no. Taking one off? Several times. Forgot about those.

Ok, I have to cop to that one, too.

Thankfully, it was only on low, so I didn't hurt myself, but it was a bit startling.

^-.-^

[Crossbow]

No fewer than three times, I've put my hand into a ceiling fan while putting on a shirt.

Putting on a shirt, no. Taking one off? Several times. Forgot about those.

[TheSHAD0W]

No fewer than three times, I've put my hand into a ceiling fan while putting on a shirt.

[Food Lady]

I managed to electrocute myself via lamp recently. I ended up with a 2nd-degree burn and a puncture wound on my finger. There's a thread around here somewhere. The cause was not paying attention and being in a hurry.

[Cazzi]

I'm so accident prone I'm forever damaging myself... of course, having wonky spacial awareness doesn't help either
Banging into door frames & aiming knives at me feet are common occurances but I've been excelling myself lately!

Couple of weeks ago I reached for a switch at the back of the microwave... the microwave door was ajar, my arm was over the top of it & my boob managed to knock the door shut & latched trapping some of my skin in there... which meant that opening the door again was problematical as the skin acted as a wedge to keep it shut!

Recently I've taken to ironing while sitting.. office chairs are very handy for this and it cuts my standing pain down a lot
Everything was fine til I got to a bad creased bit near the edge of the board & hit the steam....

Next time I ironed, I wore thick trousers!

[Crossbow]

I managed to gash my arm open on the towel rack next to the shower. Apparently the shelf is a bit sharper than I thought...

[iradney]

I've punched myself in the face opening a wine bottle...and I regularly walk into the walls of the townhouse I've lived in for YEARS and should therefore know where the damn things are by now

[bhskittykatt]

BFF recently was cleaning out her garage, and tripped over some boxes and gashed her knee. And I mean gashed it. It's this perfect cut that curves around her knee. I told her to quit telling people she tripped over a box and start telling them she had knee surgery, as that's what the cut looked like and that story sounded less pathetic.

I myself always get random bruises, but half the time don't remember what I bumped into. So far, the worst at-home injury was when I fractured my wrist when I was 10. I was wearing fluffy slippers, and couldn't reach the cupboard to get a glass for some milk, so I used the step-stool we kept in the kitchen for that purpose. Step up, grab glass, set on counter, start to step back...when my slippers caught on the stool and I fell backwards.

I sprained my wrists, but they weren't broken...yet. After being home all day with sore wrists, I decided I wanted milk, again, and went to go get a glass in my fuzzy slippers, again. Step up, grab glass, set on counter, start to step back...and the slippers caught again and I fell backwards again. That time, my right wrist began to swell, so it was off to the ER for x-rays and a splint for a fractured wrist.

[Zaiida]

Don't sneeze while under coffee tables. Not only will you give yourself a near concussion you will give your forehead one helluva whack. Damn lucky I missed my nose. Now I know how a basketball feels.

Glass sliding doors. Really clean glass sliding doors. Can't see them and don't run in to house in socks KWATHACK!!!. Even pets get done with that one.

Most cringe worthy accident was a male friend's little toilet accident. He was sitting down and the wooden toilet seat cracked right at the front trapping his 2 fellas in a painful pinch and a few splinters to top it off. Apparently singing soprano can be achieved with a full baritone, poor guy. He was fine thankfully.