Um, M.Y.O.B?

[Mytical]

I am missing a toenail (completely removed due to my own clumsiness), and I am..awkward. Never really bruise or hurt myself (besides the toenail)..which is some kind of miracle. I swear doors, corners of rooms, etc move out in front of me or something.

[bainsidhe]

I am missing a toenail

Without thinking, my toes curled backwards and I winced at this. *shudder* That sounds painful.

[ShootMePlease]

There are 2 schools of thought on this one -

1. The people who are nosy, like drama, and want to know everyone's business. They ask because they like to gossip, not because they care what happened.

2. The people who are geniunely concerned for you and want to help. They know a good deal of the time those who are abused lie as to how they got their injuries. They ask because they care for your well being.

While it's difficult to figure out which category anyone falls under (and I have had strangers show genuine concern for my well being), all you can do is tell the truth and leave it at that. If the police are contacted, be honest with them. They can usually tell whether you're lying or not. Be grateful someone cared enough to involve the authorities.

My best friend's daughter fell of her bike and bruised her face up pretty bad. I took her to a baseball game a couple of days later. Of course, I looked like a Mom who had beaten the shit out of her kid. I got a lot of nasty looks and a few snide comments. She and I had a wonderful time together, and I ignored the bullshit, as I had done nothing wrong.

[Mytical]

I know it sounds painful bainsidhe, but surprisingly it wasn't. Happened so fast that the area went numb, and by the time the numbness would have wore off..I was medicated..so the only slightly painful part was when they had to remove the bit that was slightly hanging off. Metal grate + running and tripping..barefoot.

Hehe it is actually sort of a sickbay story...but a bit gross.

[manybellsdown]

Come on. That is in no way Mr.'s fault.

Well okay ... mostly my fault. But still! He should have closed the shower door and then I wouldn't have walked into the edge of it! It was a very small bathroom!

[MoonCat]

"It happened when I was fighting off the zombies. Please step through."

Oh, I could so use this! Those four holes in my gut? Zombie bites.

[Andara Bledin]

I actually did walk face-first into a door once. Got a black eye and everything.

Oh thank god! I thought I was the only one who ever did that!

My mother did this once, way back when. She'd gotten up from an afternoon nap and the door to the bedroom was at just the right angle that she couldn't see it at all and she walked right into the edge. Broke her nose.

She, too, had a bit of trouble convincing people that she really had walked into a door.

I still laugh when i remember being called to the nurses office so she could council me about my self injury cuts that where very evident up my arms.

But I also have a cat who plays rough, so my right hand is always covered in scratches and scabs. Never had anybody assume I was a cutter to my face, but I wouldn't be surprised if somebody thought it.

Funny story about my youngest aunt. She moved and got a new doctor, and the first time she went in he took one look at the mass of scratches as scars all over her knees and thighs and said, matter of factly, "Oh, you must have cats."

My brother has a cat that he trained to know that he's only allowed to bite and scratch when my brother is wearing his welding glove. Bare skin is "soft paw" time and no biting. Of course, at this point, the little guy can put his fangs right through the glove, but at least it takes most of the damage.

She finally let it go when I offered to take her to my house(three houses down from the school) to meet the new kitten, Panther(Warning, never name your cat something predatory!).

The warning about names is very true. Be careful with names. Names have power.

I have invisible bruises. I can feel the darned things, but you can't see them.

I get that, too. People don't believe me when I say I bruise easily because unless I've really whacked myself, nothing shows.

Without thinking, my toes curled backwards and I winced at this. *shudder* That sounds painful.

I lost a finger nail in a bike accident, once, more or less. I'd taken a hill a bit too fast and couldn't make the turn at the bottom, so my bike went over and I did a tuck and roll... years of klutzy roller skating taught me a lot about how to fall. Managed to get out of it with nothing more than the lost nail and being a little banged up. No real bruising or any breaks at all. Never even felt the nail go.

^-.-^

[Skeen]

I managed to slam the car door on my face once (yes I'm THAT tallented)

Holy crap, I've done the same! I clipped myself about a half-inch under my right eye with the corner of my MIL's car door as I was shutting it. I spent my first week as a newlywed looking like my husband had beat the crap out me.

On that note, I was recently stuck in a boot cast for a while and finally started telling people, "I literally broke my foot off in Mr. Skeen's ass" when they asked me what it was for.

[AccountingDrone]

I have walked into doors, opened cupboards into my face, fallen up and down stairs, out of trees, was moving house and loading up a truck and had a box fall off the stack and whack me in the face, rolled a ton cylinder of chlorine over my foot crushing my steel toe down across the top of my foot breaking bones, thrown from horses landing on fences, on barbed wire fences, in water jumps, on rocks, stepped on by horses, fell 90 feet down a cliff while cross country skiing. I have broken some 40 or so bones in my life, have cut scars, abrasion scars [road rash] evulsion scars. Almost cut the tips off several fingers and have alloy B bronze shards embedded in my face from various machine shop accidents.

[Sleepwalker]

Only time I have opened a door into my head, I had the bad luck to have a work accident that broke both my arms the next day. Emergency room so did not believe that I didn't have a head injury from the work accident.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Since part of this discussion has involved relationships with cats, I think this cartoon is relevant. Read the rest of the cartoons at your own risk. Some of them are really weird.

[Wolfshead]

My wife bruises easily as well. She went to the Dr. just before we got married and had to explain that the quarter-sized bruises on her chest were from SCA rapier fencing (mostly from her sister) and not from me.

[Anakah]

I had a zit on my lip and some lady asked LOUDLY if I had the "herpes"

[TheSnakeLady]

I tripped going up a friend's front porch steps and dislocated my elbow. (Not recommended for any of you.)

[XCashier]

Another member of the Hopeless Klutz Club here!

I walked into a door once. It was a perfectly clear glass door, no fingerprints, no signs, no lights reflecting off of it, and every other store in the mall was open. Except this one, as I found out when I tried to walk in and rebounded painfully off the door. Yes, many "you're an idiot" looks from bystanders followed.

I've tripped and fallen down the stairs twice. I've clipped door frames I don't know how many times.

I'm so clumsy, I could stumble and fall while lying in bed. I've had more bruises, cuts and torn clothing than I can recall, or even know how they happened.

Sometimes I think I'm the Dartboard Of The Universe. The Powers That Be feel bored, they think, "Ah, let's mess with XCashier today, she's always good for a laugh!"