Dumb Ways People Are Injured

Last week, I mentioned some weird or absurd ways I managed to get hurt. This week, we'll discuss stories other people have shared about clumsiness, poor judgment, or just plain bad luck.

One day, one of the boys appeared at church with multiple bandages on his legs. We were wondering what in the world he had done to himself.

"Oh," his sister said, "he decided it would be a good idea to stand on an old aquarium in the garage."

The same guy, a few years later, was goofing around with one of his friends outside. His friend decided to pick him up and flip him, but fumbled and accidentally dropped the guy. There was a concrete ramp and landing leading to the nearby classroom, and his head hit the edge of the landing. We all stared in horror at him for a long moment. Then he got up, laughing. A bit of hair came out, but that was it. No signs of serious injury. The concrete, on the other hand, was chipped.

A friend of mine had a cut on her leg, and we asked what happened. She was reluctant to share, which only made us more curious. Finally, she admitted the truth. She had been shaving her legs, got distracted by something shiny, and accidentally cut herself.

As a child, my friend got nursemaid's elbow from pulling out of her mother's grip because she didn't want to go shopping.

One of my friends was going down a slide, and her brother grabbed her arm in that moment, causing her to swing to the side and bang her head on the side of the treehouse.

Someone in my online writing group said they broke their wrist from jumping off the top of a bunk bed. Not long after, her sister broke an arm in a fistfight.

Another person from a writing group said they threw a water balloon high in the air so it would land on their head and splash them. Somehow, they got a concussion from doing this.

Someone made the mistake of running on a light rail platform when it was wet. They slipped, fell on their butt, and slid about five feet.

While using an industrial-sized deli grinder, a fellow writer made the mistake of wearing the protective glove on the wrong hand. A chunk of their story was written while they had one finger wrapped in a thick layer of bandages.