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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 11:58 PM
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I did the stupidest thing an hour ago...
There was a cat fight in the neighbor's yard - Loud ! I did what I have done a few times in the past and grabbed a hose (it really breaks up the fights). The hose is always set to 'full power stream'. It was pitch dark, so I aimed carefully....and the hose was backwards. Full blast in the right eye - I saw white for 3-5 seconds. I'm OK now, but, DAMN, do I feel stupid.

Anyone have a worse one?
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:01 AM
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1. When my son was in high school, he was showing off for a girl and he...
...accidentally maced himself. The school nurse had a pretty hard time controlling her laughter when she called me about it.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:04 AM
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2. That's pretty good, almost on par w/ my idiocy.
But I am a 40+ adult, and should know better!
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MidwestMomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:04 AM
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3. Can't think of anything right off but one word of advice
You probably shouldn't carry pepper spray. :)

Glad your okay. Wouldn't you hate to have to go to doctors and tell them how you injured yourself? That's what I think off when I've done something super clutzy.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:09 AM
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5. My sister had to go to the ER after she fell from a 2nd story
window trying to spy on her boyfriend. That's bad.

I hope few here have incidents as embarassing.
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MidwestMomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:18 AM
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9. That made me laugh
I hope she wasn't seriously hurt. Did her boyfriend find out?
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:23 AM
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Yes, the ambulance came to his apt house.
I felt soooo sorry for her!

PS- not seriously hurt (aside from pride).
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:08 AM
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4. Well, the last time I tried to break up a cat fight
it was by putting my hand in between them...
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:11 AM
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6. I assume you were clawed and/or bitten severely
and got the appropriate shots (I did the same thing many years ago and had to get 2 shots in my B-hind).
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:17 AM
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8. That's an excellent assumption
And the really disillusioning part is that the cat who really did the ripping and tearing was the cute little kitten I was trying to protect...
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:13 AM
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7. Yow!
Sounds painful!

Back in my high school years, I reached across a "mixer" while it was off, and while I was plugging it in (and it was set to on) - My fingers got caught in it. The fingers being more solid than the mixer/beaters - they broke first... but not before I ended up with a long period of numbness in the finger tips...
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:19 AM
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10. My aunt (50 or so years ago) got her hair caught in a blender
Her brother was quick enough to stick a knife in the blender to stop it before she was scalped. Those things are dangerous (less so now).

PS- I have broken fingers as well, but not from a 'Darwin Award' moment.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:19 AM
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11. I agree
Edited on Thu Feb-24-05 12:21 AM by Floogeldy
You are definitely stupid.

Don't get me wrong. You're not stupid for the hose thing.

You're stupid for trying to break up a cat fight.

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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:21 AM
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13. Yup,,, geuss i'M a MorAn.
Yup. Gona tri it tammaraw too. Fuun!
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:46 AM
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27. Ha ha ha!
Meow!!!!!!!!!
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:25 AM
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15. I've broken up many cat fights, usually in an intelligent way
... not THIS time!!! My eye still hurts!
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Paul Hood Donating Member (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:21 AM
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12. Worse pain in the eye.
Putting a bead of toothpaste on the toothbrush. I got to the end and pulled the brush away bending the last few bristles which flicked some toothpaste right into my eye. I had managed to brush my teeth at least once a day (usually twice) for over thirty years without this happening. But this day, toothpaste in the eye. And if anyone tells you toothpaste doesn't hurt like hell when it gets in your eye, they're lying.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:30 AM
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17. OK, I must be doubly stupid....
I've done that twice.
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Paul Hood Donating Member (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:42 AM
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25. Yikes
I hope that was a one time experience for me. But you have to admit that stings a lot more than water in the eye, even a blast from a hose. Unless I was using some sort of extra caustic toothpaste.
And this is definitely a case where toothpaste isn't whitening it's reddening.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:47 AM
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28. This hose was on 'full pressure stream', and I blasted it...
... damn, what an idiot I am. I saw pure white out of the 'attacked' (aiming) eye for3-5 seconds.

The toothpaste incidents caused considerable redness, but no funky sight issues. I think it's better now though.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:37 AM
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22. Speaking of toothpaste,
never write your initials in toothpaste on his, uh, thing.

It was long ago.

I was so young.

Who knew?
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:23 AM
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14. I still remember, I was probably 14 years old...
I was lying in bed, unable to fall asleep. I had a basketball right beside my bed, so I started just tossing it up in the air and catching it. Over and over. I still don't know why on that last throw I just decided to put my arms down and not catch it. Took twenty minutes to stop the nose bleed.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:32 AM
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18. You were a kid - you have an excuse.
I have none.
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:33 AM
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19. You said it was dark.
It was an emergency.

Sounds like a good enough excuse for damn near anything.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:30 AM
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16. I bit the inside of my lip last night eating dinner....
After the bleeding stopped I commenced with my meal and promptly bit the same swollen area again! Took twice as long to stop the bleeding....

Tonight I had soup for dinner...
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:34 AM
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20. I've done that before
It seems like once you bite it, it is so easy to rebite.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:38 AM
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23. That's because it's swollen from the first bite.
My dentist explained the phenomenon (duh) to me.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:50 AM
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29. It still sucks.
One night I bit it every time I took a bite of something, spoke to someone, etc.
I gave up and went to bed.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:35 AM
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21. Hubby does that every year or so.
The horrifying thing is that he keeps biting the same spot for DAYS. I tried the soup thing, but then he'll have cookies and re-bite the spot (eeewww) !! Fortunately that does not happen to me.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:40 AM
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24. My law partner
He was having a bad night, got up to get some Preparation H (I really didn't need to know this about him), didn't turn on the light, and ended up with the Vicks Vapor Rub instead of the Preparation H.

For some reason, he had to call him while this was going on. I could not stop laughing.

I'm laughing now.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:55 AM
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30. OMG - I'eve only tried the Vicks, but I could imagine it would be
'tingly' where it should not be!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:44 AM
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26. More eye pain...
Harvested hot peppers without wearing gloves, then put my contacts in.
Excrutiating!

I felt a little better after Mr GoG told me about harvesting hot peppers with no gloves on, then taking a leak...
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:00 AM
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31. My brother roasted green chile on the grill - trying to
be soooo cool in front of new GF. One 'popped' and hit him square in the eye. It was red for 3+months on the inside rim of the left eye. He drank enough to kill a WWF Wrestler that night.

I had forgotten about that, I will re-torment him when we speak again.
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