Your most stupid injury

Well, I'm sitting here right now with a broken little toe on my right foot because I closed the car door on it. I was sitting in the car and just proceeded to close the door without moving my foot first. Oddly enough, it's not my first encounter with a car door. Years ago I slammed my thumb up in a car door that actually locked on it right across the knuckle. I started screaming and kicking at the door. My mom was sitting in the car, but she thought I had caught my coat sleeve so she very calmly unbuckled before reaching over and opening the door. Once free, I grabbed my injured thumb and did the 'hurt dance' - you know where you hop up and down. When I finally got in the car Mom demanded to know why I was acting like that and I told her I got my thumb caught in the door. She asked me to show her and my poor thumb was a bloody mess. It scared her so bad I had to calm her down on the way to hospital saying how everything would be all right. Luckily, it wasn't broken. When I was very young, I got my neck rolled up in a car window by my nearly deaf grandmother who kept muttering, "Why won't this window go up?" It was a two door car and she was in the front seat and I was behind her so she didn't even see me.

Come to think of it, I think I should learn to ride a horse or something and just avoid cars altogether.

Ice storm.
Driveway slopes down toward the street.
Flat soled shoes.
Great fun skating on the driveway.
Idea! Open the garage door & get a running start at the ice.
More speed = skate farther.
Correct.
Slid all the way into the street where car tires had melted the ice.
Bare asphalt.
Reached it.
Feet came to a sudden stop, but everything above that kept going.
Left arm between body & asphalt.
Broken wrist.

Dropping a cast iron frying pan on my toe.

Falling down ONE step (not that I like to admit it, but it was ONE FREAKING step!) and severely spraining both of my ankles. Ligaments completely torn on both. Needed an ambulance ride, and couldn't walk properly for months. Terrible injury but definitely a stupid one (because...it was one stupid step.....*sigh*) Can still feel it if I move my ankles a certain way, and it was 6 years ago.

I pulled something in my back zipping up my fly at work. :embarassed:

I am SO sorry that that made me chuckle. lol

I was walking up the stairs in a pair of slippers and fell, I consider this day as the day I fell up the stairs

Usually I don't risk injuries but I did one way back when I used a bit heavy dumbells(120 lbs each) doing shrugs with some jerking motion and injured my left trapezius!

It took many years to heal

I broke the blood vessels in my face from pooping too hard.

You win

I was a city girl on summer vacation in a tiny town in Iowa. I was around 11, and super awkward around others, especially boys. Mom talked me into going horse back riding with some of the country kids, I got on a horse behind a 13 year old boy I didn't know. everything about it freaked me out, riding a horse, boys etc. got my shoe lace caught on the gate on the way out to the driveway, slid right off the back of the horse, landed on my back on the cement with my shoe stuck up on the fence. hurt my back, but mostly crushed my ego! I am almost 50 years old and it feels like it happened yesterday!

I once got a black eye from shutting my own head in a car door. True story.

Stood up after going to the toilet, tripped over my trousers and fell onto the tiled floor. Put my hand out to stop myself from hitting my head. Ended up having my wrist X-rayed.

Sleepwalking out of an upstairs patio door with no balcony... Broke my back, ribs, shoulder head injury and punctured rib.... Now have a lot of titanium inside me, but very lucky I can still walk!

Tore my ACL in my right knee while playing kickball and collided with someone else on MY team. Diidn't actually go to the doctor for a month, and hurt myself 2x more before I finally went and got the MRI that diagnosed it, as well as a tear in the meniscus. It took ACL replacement surgery, weeks off work with bed rest, and months of PT to get back to normal, or as close to it as possible. It's been over a year and it still feels weird running or going down stairs. :grumble:

I was a receiver in HS, and caught a lame duck pass that broke two of my fingers on my left hand. The pain took me by surprise and I ducked my head down while still running to look at my fingers, and ran into the goal post, hard, giving myself a mild concussion. Two weeks later, during practice (here's the stupid part), I did it again, this time breaking two fingers on my right hand and again hit the goal post for concussion number two.

My mother seriously contemplated pulling me off the team at that point...not because I was girl or even because I was injured, but apparently i wasn't smart enough to avoid the same injury in less than two weeks.