spill the best (accident) stories of your childhood

[AlethiaSi]

Originally Posted by 33girl

4th grade: I turned to the girl next to me to borrow a pencil, and we both misjudged so that instead of handing it to me the very shart point went into the back of my hand. She was so upset - she couldn't stop apologizing. I had to get a tetanus shot. You can still faintly see the scar on my hand where the pencil went in.

I still have a pencil point in my hand from something like that... you can see it and everything- it had healed over and i asked a doctor about it and he said it wouldn't do anything to me... so its still in there... lol

[KSUViolet06]

When I was 7, my dad and I went to the lake. The lake had a boat dock thing that went out into the water. The lake also had alot of ducks and big white geese.

So I went out onto the boat dock, without my dad (I think he was turning meat on the grill), to feed the ducks. I threw some breadcrumbs out onto the water for the ducks.

Well, the geese apparently wanted some bread too because at least 10 big white geese (who were taller than 5 yr old me) swooped down and started HONKING and attacking me trying to get the food out of my hand.

They were blocking my way so I couldn't get off the dock, so I went the opposite direction, towards the water. I screamed "DADDDDYYYY!" He came running to try to get me, but by then I was on the edge of this boat dock surrounded by big scary birds.

Well, when my dad ran out to try to scare the birds away, he scared them so bad that they ran TOWARDS me, knocking me off into the water which pretty deep (deep enough to sail in). I couldn't swim at all so I was frantic.

My dad jumped in and got me out of the water, as I was screaming "Help! I'm drowning! I'm gonna get eaten by a shark (which is funny because I really thought that)!"

I got yelled at when I got home because he apparently never told me I could go out there and feed ducks. He even cried because he was thinking of what could've happened if he hadn't been able to get to me. But after I got yelled at, he took me to Dairy Queen, so it was alright.

[Glitter650]

I stuck (Unpopped) popcorn up my nose and in my ears. I did such a good job my parents couldn't get it out of my ears and had to take me to the hosiptal where they had to get it out by pumping water into my ears. I was like 4, so I dont' remember.. but my parents love to tell the story.

[ZTAMich]

I also fell out of a little red wagon onto the drive way and got a concussion at age 2 and a half. I leaned back too far and tumbled out. After that my grandpa attached an old seat back to the back of the wagon which from then on was the dork-wagon of the neighborhood.

I fell out of bed during the night and broke my left clavicle at age 4. While I was in the hospital my grandma took matters into her own hands and started sawing down the legs of my bed.

My sister broke a small bone in her foot after falling the wrong way on her foot during a pillow case race with the pillow still in it at a childhood sleepover. Yuck. And my other sister dislocated her elbow while we played 'airplane' with her at age 3. Major ouch.

[Tom Earp]

Tried to catch ice cycles falling from the eves of the house.

Da, went through my lip! Ouch!

Still got the scar today.

[summer_gphib]

I have always been a klutz.... so I have many many stories I could post in this thread!

The funniest had to be when I was 16. I had been at softball practice all day Saturday, and as a catcher, I had been squatting all day (it was an 8 hour or more practice). So that night, I got a really bad cramp in my leg in the middle of the night. I was so startled that I rolled out of bed, and got a huge rug burn on my forehead.

You can imagine all of the horrible jokes that followed at school for the next two weeks. *LOL*

The most horrible was probably when I was 5. I was in Florida on vacation with my Mom, and she had me riding on the back of her bike. I got my foot caught in the spokes, and she didn't realize it, and kept riding. Of course my screams got her to stop. It took them over an hour to get my leg out. I still have a huge scar on my ankle. I couldn't walk for over a month, and had to crawl everywhere or use crutches. It was really bad. :-( I've never been a big fan of bike riding since then, which sucks because my hubby was on the racing team at Virginia Tech. He's really into it. I keep telling him I'll give it another chance...

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

When I was 7, my dad and I went to the lake. The lake had a boat dock thing that went out into the water. The lake also had alot of ducks and big white geese.

So I went out onto the boat dock, without my dad (I think he was turning meat on the grill), to feed the ducks. I threw some breadcrumbs out onto the water for the ducks.

Well, the geese apparently wanted some bread too because at least 10 big white geese (who were taller than 5 yr old me) swooped down and started HONKING and attacking me trying to get the food out of my hand.

Very similar story here, up to this point. I was 2 1/2 and feeding the geese themselves and when I ran out of bread, they still wanted more so they were trying to get into my pockets where the crumbs were. My dad rescued me, but thankfully I didn't end up in the water. I have no memory of this, but my mom loves to tell the story and I really don't like being around birds.

Originally Posted by Glitter650

I stuck (Unpopped) popcorn up my nose and in my ears. I did such a good job my parents couldn't get it out of my ears and had to take me to the hosiptal where they had to get it out by pumping water into my ears. I was like 4, so I dont' remember.. but my parents love to tell the story.

When my son was 4, he put a pebble in his ear on the playground at preschool and didn't tell anybody. He'd been really really bad that day at school and his teacher was telling me that she thought he hated her because he never listened to her. So, I'm driving to pick up my daughter from her school and I'm yelling at him for not following directions at school and he peeps up and says "I have a rock in my ear". I said "What do you mean you have a rock in your ear???". "Someone put a rock in my ear on the playground". "Who did that to you?" "I don't know" "YOU DON'T KNOW?? SOMEONE PUT A ROCK IN YOUR EAR AND YOU DON"T KNOW WHO???"

I was steaming mad at this point. We get to his sister's school and I look in his ear and can't see anything, so I think he's lying now, to avoid getting yelled at about his behavior at school, but he insists and finally confesses that he did it himself. I get home and get out a flashlight and sure enough, there's a rock in his ear. My husband takes him to ER where they do an x-ray and find that it's resting against his ear drum. We have to keep him sedated for the night so they can do outpatient surgery the next day to remove it. They were afraid to it unless he was knocked out because if he moved, they might puncture his eardrum. After the surgery, they bring us the rock in a biohazard bag! LOL.

None of my injuries are that funny.. My brother was going outside and I ran after him. He slammed the screendoor shut and my arm went through the glass because I was so close behind him. Still have that scar. Another time, he and I were fighting and I went to hit him. He ducked and my hand whacked the corner of the wall.. broke my hand. The other time, I was running up the stairs to get away from him during a fight and I fell. I landed my weight on my thumb and tore a ligament. That was painful, but having that thumb wrapped up for 10 weeks made me quit thumb sucking.

[aephi alum]

When I was around 8, I had a swing in the front yard. One day, I was on the swing when the support collapsed. One second I'm swinging away, the next I'm in a heap on the ground. No serious injuries, but my butt was sore for a while.

When I was around 4, I nearly drowned when I slipped out of my pool ring (I didn't know how to swim). Luckily my dad was keeping a very good eye on me.

When I was 14, I sliced my right index finger open and severed part of the tendon. I went to the hospital and wound up with a bunch of stitches, including one in the tendon... removing that stitch HURT. I had to spend several weeks (in July and August, no less) with a splint and a bandage that went halfway to my elbow. I recovered my full range of motion, but I have a nasty scar.

[WVU alpha phi]

Not really an accident, but still embarrassing.
I was at King's Dominion with my family and family friends when I was 7. I wanted to get on this roller coaster so my mom, the other family's daughter who was 6, and her mom all decided to get on. As we were in line I started to get really nervous but decided to get on anyway. I was crying when the ride left the station so the attendents saw me, STOPPED THE RIDE as it was going up the first hill, climbed up the hill and asked me if I wanted to get off. I said yes and I thought my mom was going to murder me and she just kept repeating, "Jamie is YOUNGER than you and she's staying on the ride!" My mom and I had to climb down the hill (which was about a foot wide with no railings) so I could get off. The roller coaster was stopped halfway up the hill for about 30 minutes, the people on there probably wanted to kill me.

[smiley21]

When I was 4 yrs old, I had a cold and needed to blow my nose. After I did, I went to throw my tissue away in the kitchen. My mom had just finished cooking and had turned the oven off but it was still hot. My sister, who was 3, was with me and told me that I should touch the coil in the oven (we could see it through the oven) with the tissue. I opened the oven and did it. It caught on fire while the tissue was still in my hand. I freaked and dropped it on the floor. The little fire went out but it charcoaled part of the kitchen floor. My parents were ticked!! lol....My sister and I were crazy when we were little!

[AlexMack]

When I was 4 I stuck my fingers in the VCR and I couldn't get them out. It ripped off one fingernail. That was pretty awesome.

[axidgl]

I think when I was little baseball was the root of all evil. When I was around 4 my brother decided to have batting practice off his tee in the garage. I was rocking on my rocking horse and he decided to put his tee right beside me. He took a swing, and yes, 4-year old axidgl took a metal bat to the noggin. My parents took me to the hospital, no problems other than the massive black eyes I had...and there have been no lasting effects...at least I hope not!!

Then when I was around 8 I went to watch my brother play a game at the "industrial park" where there were about a million fields, and 10,000 tons of gravel instead of sidewalk or grass. I, along with 4 of the other "team sisters" got bored and decided to have the Olympics-- on gravel. My cartwheel, front handspring combination did not earn me a ten. It earned me a trip to the ER with every bone in my right hand broken. An entire summer in a hot, itchy cast going to camp and not being able to swim- I was a sad little girl.

I have only recently been able to begin attending baseball games in person again.

[Dionysus]

Me and my mom and her mom, were going down the escalators in Macy's, and my grandmother accidently burned a cig hole in my head because she wasn't paying attention. I was several steps below them. My grandma had her head turned because she was talking to my mom, but she was holding her cig in front of her. She burned me because she didn't notice that I stopped at the bottom of the escalators to wait on them.

When I was like 7, the neighborhood bully was trying to pick on me and some of my friends. So...my mom taught me how to fight. At one point, she was holding up a cabbage patch, while I practiced throwing punches. I threw a very hard punch and knocked the CP out of her right hand. All of the weight from my punch and cabbage patch shifted to her left hand and broke one of her fingers. Oops!

This happened to one of my cousins. When she was like two, she put hot pepper (the kind you get w/ chinese food) where the sun didn't shine, and screamed for like 10 minutes. What posessed her to do that? I don't know.

[squirrely girl]

wanted to be superman (well maybe supergirl at that point) and thought i could accomplish this by putting my stomach on the seat of a roller racer. the first bump i hit in the sidewalk caused me to slide forward and slam my chin on the sidewalk. 12 stitches.

[AlethiaSi]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Me and my mom and her mom, were going down the escalators in Macy's, and my grandmother accidently burned a cig hole in my head because she wasn't paying attention. I was several steps below them. My grandma had her head turned because she was talking to my mom, but she was holding her cig in front of her. She burned me because she didn't notice that I stopped at the bottom of the escalators to wait on them.

Omg I definately laughed out loud at work and everyone stopped to look at me lol

When i was like 8- we had a toyota 4runner with the big back window that rolled up and down and was controlled by a button up front. My mom wasn't paying attention and I had my head stuck out the window for one reason or another and she rolled my head up and she didn't hear me screaming until it was stuck. When she realized what had happened, she started laughing so hard that she didn't roll the window down at first which made me start laughing in the middle of crying lol...... my family was so effed up lol