What is the weirdest accident that happened to you, that you had to explain to people?
So what is the weirdest accident that you had to explain, responding to an: "So, how exactly did that happen?"
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Well, that all went south when I decided I needed "someone" to see saw with! So what did I use? You guessed it.. another piece of concrete block!! I put it on one end of my see saw, and I jumped onto the other end. Hmmm... I stood there for a few seconds wodering where my se sawing partner, "Mr. Block" had gone. I found out soon enough when he landed right on top of my head!
I ran inside screaming and crying and told my Mother what I had done, and I swear.. she thought I made it up, and sent me right back outside to play!! good thing it was only a portion of a concrete block and not the whole thing!!
real life
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I did have the perfect costume (Dracula) that Halloween.
I did not impress the girl.
Both turned out to be continuing trends in my life.
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When I was a toddler, I had measles and mumps back-to-back. I had just recovered from measles--still had a visible rash--when I got the mumps. I was barely two.
The day after my mom got the diagnosis, my grandma was over to help her with housework. Someone came to the door as the phone rang, and my grandma turned around holding the iron at waist level. I came running to see who was at the door and ran smack into the iron, raising second and even a couple of third degree burns. Of course, the person on the phone and the other one at the door were ditched for yet another hospital run.
My mom says they were all terrified I'd end up with bad scars, but I didn't.
If you can imagine:
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I also had fun explaining what happened to my boyfriend in college, when he was walking around with cotton tied to his tongue and his faced swelled up and his arm in a sling and a wrap-around bandage on his knee. He'd gotten a carmel apple at the dining commons and didn't realize a yellow jacket (wasp) was on the back of it when he turned it in taking a bite. The thing stuck him multiple times; in the meantime he stumbled off the curb, skinning his knee and dislocating his elbow and spraining his wrist!
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Well, we got back, and being the "big boy" I was, I was helping them carry groceries in (they would hand me loaves of bread or single cans of soup). Eventually, all that was left was juice and milk, so they said, "That's ok baby, go play, we've got the rest." Only problem was, *I* wasn't done helping yet. I felt bad since I wasn't big enough to carry those when I noticed they left the station wagon door open!
Score! I can close the door for them so they wouldn't have to come back out. Only problem...I was too short! I couldn't reach the hatchback to pull it down. So, in all of my little boy genius-ness, I decided I could reach the door if I climbed on top of the car. So, I ran around to the front of the car, climbed over the hood and roof and got to the back. I then proceeded to put my hands on the hatchback and push down to close it...didn't quite think my plan all the way through.
Of course, as soon as the door closed, I didn't have anything under me any longer. I fell face first into the gravel driveway...*wince* Apparently, I immediately started bawling, and my mom ran out. I had split my upper lip in half, bloodied my nose, knocked all my front teeth loose/out, and had gravel embedded in my face...probably lucky I didn't break my neck in hindsight!
So my mom took me back in, put my lip back together, scrubbed out all of the gravel (tweezers and a washcloth...ouch), and pushed all of my teeth back in. I still have the scar in my upper lip to this day from where it split. Apparently when they asked what happened I just said, "I was trying to help...*sniff**sob**sniff*"
I always get hurt when I do a good deed...you'd think I would have learned my lesson by now...
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We heard the tree beginning to crack and just as we looked it it started to fall into our yard, I started to run, my buddy ducked, lucky for him because he was under the swingset in our yard, it bent pretty good but never gave way, the rest of the landed onto top of me, I was knocked out, rushed to the hospital.. couple bruises but I survived.
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So I made up an excuse to run back to the classroom and get it. (dont remember the excuse)
I ran in to the room and slipped on a piece of paper.
When I was falling to the floor I grabbed a chair that was upside down on top of a desk (we had to put them up like that back then... don't know why)
I think I bumped my head a bit but nothing seemed to hurt, so I got up.
That's when I looked down and realized that the chair and managed to remove the fingernail from my pinky finger.. all of it, and a bit of chipped bone as a bonus.
I was not aware of my vocal capacity at that early age, but apparently the principle heard the scream from a block away.
He and my teacher took me to the bathroom to rinse if off and wait for the bandage that was on the way. That's when the principle started to pass out.
That was a lot to explain to people at that age when they asked "What happened to your finger?"
Childhood trauma
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My skin is black or brownish and she is white (just for illustration sake.) She must have used the same stuff she uses on her skin but I remember her putting powder on my face to keep me from sweating since it was an outdoors July wedding. I spent the day white like a ghost or grayish in the face like a corpse with red lipstick. All my make up was done in a dimly lit basement so when we went outside, I was so strange and silly looking and nobody told me until I looked at the pictures weeks later. I still do not know how I will explain this clown experience to my daughters. The wedding had over 100 mostly white people in attendance. To this day I hate looking at my wedding photos and I threw away most of them. Hopefully I can photoshop them someday but I cannot bear to look.
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This photo is not of me (Ha!), but it's the best that I could find that depicts what I looked like... just a few years older.
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Ooohhh the memories this brings. LOL This brought tears to my eyes. Tears of laughter.