This was inspired by my own experiences.
I never knew you were all so clumsy.
Grabbed a scrap of paper instead.
Lets just say a scrap of paper does not make a good potholder."
“Getting ready for bed.
I was so tired I didn’t feel like bending down to get my socks off.
saltyspice75
3.
“Sprained my knee pulling dirty sheets off the bed.”
absepa
5.
“I spilled boiling hot chili on my hand trying to ladle it into a bowl.
Took forever to heal.”
erintrimber
7.
“I once fractured my ribs falling off the teeter-totter when I was 29.”
“[I] broke my foot taking off my shoe.
Had to be in a boot and on crutches for WEEKS.”
lalalace1640
9.
I dislocated my shoulder.”
“I broke my ankle sleepwalking when I was a teen.
Right now I have a broken ankle the same one from stepping on a walnut.”
holyaki
11.
[I] felt something in my eye, which I thought was a gnat.
She goes, ‘Oh my God!'"
“Dislocated my knee kicking a balloon.
selenakylecalico
13.
“I tore my ACL turning to sit in an airplane seat.”
Thats not the dumb part.
Its that after that, my back would just go out for stupid reasons.”
Its been almost 30 years and I never know when its going to happen."
altheab
15.
“My friend was in the kitchen with her boyfriend and things were getting heated romantically.
They were making out and he picked her up and put her on the stove top.
“I cracked two separate teeth on two different jolly ranchers.
Havent touched them since.”
jessicatalbert
17.
“Found my ex husband in bed with another woman.
Got mad and picked up a chair and slammed it down on my own foot and broke it.”
“Slipped getting out of the tub and landed on the edge a couple days before a road trip.
a4c870b245
19.
“I had a job where I worked with kids.
There was one of those low to the ground, small ball pits.
I was stepping out of it and somehow tripped.
Used my arm to brace my fall into the wall.
Torn labrum, neck injury, nerve entrapment, and 4 years later…
I’m still not the same.”
“My ankle broke when I got up to show my mom how to turn off a YouTube video.
Heard a snap and I went down.
I STILLL can’t figure that one out.”
aislincross
21.
“Hurt my back doing embroidery.
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
