Oh My God! Tram-AM-poline! TRAMPAMPOLINE!!!!

[I am the Lizard Queen!!]

Awww, glad you liked it Lyse. I actually said it to my friend on the way out of the store and he immediately responded with the "Just don't bring home any more used crutches" line. ::tear::

Employee: Certainly, ma'am. I will take care of these. (Turns around, dumps them into the nearest metal trash can, pulls out lighter, sets receipts on fire. Turns back to customer). Anything else I can help you with

Oh Mooncat....that is so fabulous. It gave me goosebumps!

[ozcatbug]

I am the biggest klutz. On a holiday with my family I fell over walking. I didn't trip, just one second I'm on my feet, the next I'm on the ground in severe pain. 10 months later I finally got the all clear for my sprained ankle. Yes, a 10 month sprain. I had 2 orthopedic surgeons say it was the worst sprain they had ever seen, 3 physiotherapists agree with the surgeons, as well as adding they wished I had've broken the damn thing, and my GP just shaking his head as he added it to my huge medical file.

Now despite us being on holiday (I did it exactly half way through our 2 week trip to Western Australia), despite me needing a wheelchair for touristy things, and crutches when I could use them, despite the hospital and specialist visits, x-rays, CT scans, bone scans, and months of physiotherapy, my mother wouldn't have even thought about trying to sue someone over it. We all know why. IT WAS MY FAULT. I still have problems with it 15 years later, and it acts like a barometer, but I was the one that tripped. My brother insists that I fell over an ant, and for all I could tell at the time I probably did.

Oddly enough not the most stupid injury I've had. That would probably be either the slipped disc from the jumping castle, or permanently dislocated knee cap from swimming.

[FenigDurak]

I broke a girls arm on a trampoline. She stole my bounce and then landed on her arm on one of the springs. It was that day I learned to brace a break in newspaper and duct tape until the Doc can get to it.
Did her parents come after me, or the store or the manufacturer? No, they chalked it up to kids being kids.

[AccountingDrone]

Geez, when growing up I fell down stairs, up stairs [I'm talented] off my bike on flat terrain, off my bike from hurtling full speed down a hill and hitting a rock that rolled, off my first pony, off my second welsh cobb, [both multiple times] 20 feet out of a pine tree [it was hard getting all that pine sap out of my hair, we thought we were going to have to shave my head at one point] stepped on glass, a nail that put a hole entirely through my foot, bashed my head into doors, cupboard doors, trees, walls and rocks, and in sports I got spiked on the patellar tendon twice on my right knee and once on my left knee, broke both wrists getting thrown off a horse in a race, broke my ankle in a different race [and had to get back up and ride the rest of the race to get back to the barn, mainly because it was the shortest way to get back] broke my back and neck in 3 places skiing in a race and more random cuts, scrapes, bruises and looking silly pratfalls than I can count.

None of which ended up in a lawsuit, but lots of snickers at some of the injuries.

Oh, and a broken toe from landing wrong while dancing.

[morgana]

So, should I have sued the bike maker or the rock when I caught a pebble under the front wheel and took a buck's worth of hamburger out of my backside?

[BrenDAnn]

*looks at both knees, scarred from childhood falls from bicycle/trips over nothing at all* Yeah...My mom never sued anyone either. Oh, and ozcatbug, just tell whoever gives you crap that, hey, it takes talent to trip over a flat surface. I have that talent, too. I've never injured myself that badly, though!

[ApolloSZ]

AccountingDrone - I beleive there is a phrase that applies to you and I. "Everyone is born with a bag of Luck, and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience, before the bag of luck runs out. ((Addendum by friend to me)) -In your case you got the Mary Poppins bag of luck"

I'm surprised some of the things I've done haven't killed me or left me severly injured. A few examples

Mountain Biking with bad brakes on the bike (plus the landing area after my involuntary flying lesson was a gravel road)
Climbing nearly every tree I find. Just to find out how far I could see from the top.
Clambering over rocks at the coast (in Jandals on ocassion no less)

My personal best? - Arcing mains electricity with my bare hands. Because I wanted to see what happened. XD

[sstabeler]

Apollo, I've got better

running into a tree branch, cutting my neck. about 1 millimeter away from cutting my jugular. healed within a week
cutting my leg in that soft spot below the kneecap- thought I could see bone, it was certainly fairly deep, at least 2 cm ( this was falling onto grass somehow, there were no visible rocks or glass)- took a month to heal, but left no mark.
head over handlebars on mountain bike having been going down a hill- no injuries despite falling onto broken-up concrete. Start always wearing helmet when riding bike.

[Moosenogger]

If customers were able to force businesses to pay for injuries incurred during play, then every sporting goods store would be out of business within a month.

Injuries happen, whether the toys/gear are being used correctly or not. The only way to prevent them completely is to live in a comfy, padded bubble.

[Gizmo]

I started out pretty bad... I fell through a glass pane door at 18 months old and managed to drink a bottle of bleach (from the highest shelf in the bathroom no less! They never could get me to tell them how I got up there!) at 2 years old.

I can trip up over thin air these days.

[RayvenQ]

Shattered the back of my skull when I was like 3 or 4 and I turned out perfectly fine *twitch*

In nursery school, before a photo was meant to be taken, ontop of a 6 foot or so tall slide, about to go down, teacher shouts at me to get down because they were taking the photo soon, startled, I fell backwards, landed on my skull ona tile floor.

Oddly enough, I was perfectly fine, ad to that various cuts, some serious, some not, broken jaw, broken arm once, broken toes tons of times, also nearly shattered the front of my skull running with a toy car that had a spoiler, tripped up leaving a scar in the middle of my forehead, combine that with glasses, brown hair and Harry potter getting famous around the time i was starting to work, led to me being called Harry the entire time I worked there.

[bainsidhe]

Holy crap! My "big" injury was around 1-1/2 years ago where I slipped down some stairs and got a big goose egg on my shin. I still have a big "bruise" where the injury was, which doctor says will probably never go away.

That's it folks. Nothing broken, no stitches from injury, etc. I now consider myself blessed!

[RayvenQ]

I should also mention, that any heavy impact to the back of my head (such as say, passing out and falling backwards, or even have something solid hit me int he back of the head with any force) will, more than likely kill me or leave me with severe brain damage, yay!

But other than that, my body has had a suprising reaction by making the rest of my bones much stronger than they should be.

Fun fact about me and broken toes (broke different ones about a dozen times all told) I don't notice them, there's no pain or anything, UNTIL, I go for a bath, hot water somehow triggers my pain receptors in my toes to finally kick in, with annoyingly painful results.

[raudf]

Okay, let see... dimpling in the muscles of the forehead from when I rode a toy riding horse down the steps. Skull probably as dense as rocks from all the times I tripped over things like my feet and wound up forehead first into concrete. Nice scar on the palm of my right hand from where I tripped over a hula hoop and landed hands down on a broken jar full of bugs. Sprains from finding every blasted hole in the front yards of where ever we were. Disjointed my hand letting my little sister play horsey and another friend decided to play leap frog at the same time.

Little older, two stitches from getting into a fight with the bathtub and toilet and losing. Surprised I didn't get my tongue bit during that one. Then the spindle assembly from a tractor on the top of the foot due to stupidity on my part.

But never broke a bone until I dropped one of those flimsy, light TV trays on my little toe.... >.<

[wheeitsmee]

My mother broke her tailbone skateboarding in the kitchen. Not only didn't she not ask for renumeration, she preferred not to explain how the injury actually happened.