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

[Jester]

So a while back I was adding some stuff to my kitchen, including a wine glass rack and a magnetic knife rack.

I had already put up the wine glass rack on this one wall in the kitchen, and figured that right below that would be a great place to put the magnetic knife rack. So, I figure out where I want the rack, mark the two screw hole locations on the wall, and start hammering nails into the wall to get the screw holes started. When suddenly there was broken glass everywhere.

See, dopey me, I had not taken the wine glasses off of the rack. Which was on the wall above where I was putting the knife rack. You know....the wall I was hammering on.

Yeah, real genius I was. Amazingly, only lost one wine glass that day. In actuality, the wine glass fell on my head then down to the counter where it shattered. Luckily, I was wearing a ball cap, or there might have been more damage than just one shattered wine glass.

I do the snap the sheet out to cover the bed trick - and somehow snap it UP into the light fixture so when I pull it back down to the bed, I shatter the entire fixture into about 20 pieces.

I did something eerily similar tonight. Been (finally) cleaning the place up, and as part of that, I was putting everything new on my bed: new pillows, new mattress pad, new pillowcases, and of course, new sheets. As I'm getting the fitted sheet in place, I give it a snap to spread it out....and somehow managed to get the sheet up into my ceiling fan. Nothing was broken, luckily, but the ceiling fan is, how shall we say, a bit dusty, and suddenly I had all this white ceiling fan dust on the sheet. The brand new, dark-colored sheet. Yeah. As I said...genius.

[MoonCat]

Well, I tried to change the light bulbs in my kitchen ceiling light fixture while standing on a chair. Two things wrong with this: (1) I can just barely reach the bulbs this way and (2) I cannot keep my balance while standing on tip-toe, on top of a chair, with my head tilted back to see the light.

The glass cover was just barely hanging on by one screw. I wobbled and just managed not to fall when the cover let go and banged me on the head. I managed not to drop the cover, too, but it was a near thing.

Not trying that again.

[ArcticChicken]

You know, I saw the title and I was so sure this was gonna be a Seraph thread. Rather relieved it's not, actually, she has enough comical accidents.

[Lady_Foxfire]

I once sprained one of my toes tripping over my sister's toys. Not my ankle, just one toe on my right foot. There was a big bruise around the base of the toe for a while, and it hurt like heck to walk on.

[EyeTeaGuy]

Okay, I had an experience last night that at least gives me a good laugh now, and could be a good off topic topic.

Let's here the weird, the bizzare, the strange ways you have managed to harm yourself while doing stuff around the house!

Anyways, last night I was being a nice hubby and making the bed while my wife was brushing her teeth. I am standing at the foot of my bed, which is right below the light fixture for our bedroom. It is one of the bowl shaped type fixtures, with enough room between it and the ceiling to switch bulbs without taking it off.

I do the snap the sheet out to cover the bed trick - and somehow snap it UP into the light fixture so when I pull it back down to the bed, I shatter the entire fixture into about 20 pieces.

Which then shower down upon me and my soft body. I think I got lucky, in that I had three small cuts on my arms/chest, and one REALLY good gash about an inch back of my hairline. Of course that freaked my wife out...

And the scalping bit? I'm part Native American. As much as I have pride in that, I do not want to commune with my NA ancestors by scalping anyone, let alone myself.

Ouch.