Your freak accidents!

[Aredhel]

And now I present this special thread that was essentially brought on by the mystiques, wonders and essence of rambling!! ! (It's late )


[glow=green,2,300]Share your freak accidents, my fellow elves (and Hobbits?(Hoppits) ) ;D[/glow]


And I suppose 'tis only fair that I should begin! I present my top two:

The first one was when I was 7 or 8, and was in a wooded area. I was walking with my brother (he is about 5 years older than I) and my father when we saw a bicycle tire up high in one of the tree branches. They both started throwing sticks and pieces of smaller broken off tree branches up towards the branch to try to get the tire to fall down. I remember moving out of way actually being worried that I could get hit with the tire as it came down...
What I can't remember is exactly how it happened, I just know that one minute I was backing away, and the next I had a stick stuck in the back of my head! It was at least an inch in diameter, and was sticking straight up. Yes, it was in there good enough to be doing that.
I just remember afterwards sitting in the bathroom with my hair extremely bloody and stiff and my head kind of throbbing. I can't really remember anymore details, which is probably a great thing, but I'm guessing my dad pulled the stick out, because we never did go get it checked out at the hospital. (lmao, just had this wonderful mental image of splinters of wood floating around my skull..though I know it can't have gone that deep or, let's hope. (lmao)
Probably could have benefited from a few stitches, but, oh well, it healed fine on it's own.

Okay and now I get to share Freak accident #2!
This one is more embarassing..only because I should have really known better...
I think it was my brother's birthday party (I was 10), and we were celebrating it at my grandparent's house because they had a huge pool and he wanted to invite over his friends plus the whole youth group at the church we used to go to. Well, I was supposed to just stay inside anyways, with the rest of our family until they all got done having fun out by the pool...but *no*, I just had to not listen..

So I decide to run out to the pool, and look super-cool by doing a back-flip off the deep end. I hear a brief but definite CRACK sound before I feel the water. After coming back up I remember swimming over to the little shallow part of the deep end and just sitting there for a minute, feeling weird, before moving off and starting to swim like nothing had happened. From then on I can't remember what happened exactly, I was feeling very sleepy at the moment itself so maybe that's why I can't remember...
I just know that several people swimming around me started telling me to hurry up (!) and get out of the pool right away. I remember doing it, and being ushered into the living room where I sat with a towel wrapped around me feeling extremely sleepy, as if not being able to keep my eyes up; but my grandmother, brother and aunt (my mother was not there) were just telling me not to go to sleep, over and over. Someone finally made me aware of what had happened- I had hit my head on the side of pool while doing the backflip, and only a week after my aunt had been lecturing me that this could happen if I wasn't careful ( stupid 10-year old self).
So then I sit there with something compressed against the wound while I pratically beg my grandmother and aunt if I can just go to sleep. I remember this lasting for quite a long time too..and I was hearing them talk about whether or not to call my mother, and I know that they finally decided against it for whatever reason. (My mother does freak out about things very easily and she will freak out a lot)
Eventually though, I think it was an hour or two later, my mom was called and as soon as she got there I remember going to the emergency room and sitting in the waiting room that entire night....hours.

Well, by the time they finally called us, the wound was no longer 'open', but closed by a 'thread' of tissue; apparently this determined I no longer would need stitches. In other words, the wound had closed up by itself (enough for them at least) while we were waiting at the hospital..

I'm reminded of this 'freak accident' (Again, stupid 10 year-old self! : very often, and everytime I get my hair cut I always explain it.. You see, the place where my head hit the pool is right in the front, right-centered, so I'm forced to part my hair left of the center always now.
Well, I suppose I could wear it down the center (which would definitely show the scar where no hair grows now, and will probably never grow again- it's been 6 years now and it still doesn't) and be the sixteen year old with the lovely looks-like-a-bald-spot! (And I have worn it like that to school a few days..heh.. ;D) hm, maybe I'll take a picture of it to post here on GotE

ahhhh, okay...I'm going to stop right now..I can't believe this post is so long just for those two things..this thread is making me feel like an old person reminiscing or something...
no..it's just 1:47, and I am..tired, tired and rambling. lol..
Now I'll be getting some sleep, 'night youngins'..
*limps away with her knarled staff* (it's an imitation of Gandalf's... )
Just take that as a clear sign of my mind in the need of sleep...

[Lady Luflia]

once got my thumb stuck inside a car door... ouchies. was like 5.

[Arandur]

When I was very young my older brother persuaded me to jump barefoot on top of a ball of yarn that had scissors sticking up in it. That hurt a lot.

My foot even starts hurting when I think about it... and then the week after when my sister left a sewing needle where I played with toys and stuff and I stepped on it with the same foot. I can still remember my dark green sock turning all red with blood. It felt like my foot was on fire. Freakeh…<br>
And then there was one time when I was about 10. I was going down a hill on my bike with no hands when I went over a speed bump. I got a painful bump on my head and a large scrape on the inside of my arm. That wasn’t too bad though…<br>

[Nienna Greenleaf of Mirkwood]

(HAHAHAHA I forgot that you were going to make this thread, Ared! I'm glad that I finally decided to look!!)

OH OWWW!! You people make me want to hurt all over!!! So much blood!!

Hmm I can't remember anything really bad that's ever happened to me (I'll probably remember later), but here are a few minor/random ones.

• I got hit in the head with a frozen turkey that I was *trying* to help my mom take out of the freezer. I think I was 7.
  
• One day when I was playing downstairs in my grandparent's house I was crawling on my hands and knees when I suddenly felt a very sharp pain in my left hand. I looked, and sticking upright was a (no joke) two inch splinter! I pulled it out right away without panicing and I never told anyone. After that I always walked upright and wore shoes in their basement.
  
• I was helping put up Halloween decorations in my dorm two years ago when I put a staple right in my thumb. Ouch!
  
• My last one for the night is when I was lost in the forest with my two screaming friends for a long time before we had to be rescued by a park ranger (whole story is in "Tree Hugger's Anonymus", if you are interested--it would take way too long to type it all out again).
  
  

~ Nienna

[Aikanaro]

when i was 2, i was running in my bathroom, and would you know it, i slipped, hit my head on a metal garbage can, and got a tooth rammed up into my skull.

[Glorfindel]

Age 8 - 9 Can't hardly remember that far back
Galloped my horse under an overhead grape arbor. He bucked and I went flying into the leaves above, shoving my head through the wire that held it all up there and getting dragged off my horse. I hung by my head until rescue which was kind of embarrassing. They had to cut the wire and I had to stand on my horse to ease the pressure.

Same age:
Fell out of a old apple tree from the top. I think I hit every branch on the way down, slowing my speed. A major limb at the bottom stopped my progress and sent out every bit of air I still had in my lungs. Falling from that branch to the ground I stayed there for several hours in shock before getting up and going home.

Age 22:
Had been driving in the desert when the road crossed a railroad track. The crossing arms went down so I stopped to wait for the train to go by (we had passed it a few minutes earlier). The only other traffic was a large camper van behind us who did not stop. I saw it coming and had both feet on the brake but didn't have time to warn anyone. It crashed into us, sending the car under the crossing arms and on to the tracks. Luckly the car still was running and I was able to think to put it in reverse. As we backed up the train came roaring by. The engineer's face is still memorable. His mouth was in an O and his eyes were bugged out. The train missed us by inches. I only got a whiplash out of that deal and a great story to tell.

Age 30 or so:
While crossing a river on mossy rocks I slipped and fell, catching myself with a hand. Then I looked and the ring finger of my right hand was dislocated badly. Before really bad pain set in I pulled the finger bone straight out and it stayed where it needed to stay. I never said anything to anyone. Now there is a bump of cartilage there to show for the injury and when its cold the finger aches.

In trying to sort yearlings once, a filly came at me and then turned quickly hitting me a major blow with her hip. This lifted me up and sent me back into a parked horsetrailer. Two welded door hinges broke and the door fell off, even though it was closed. I got out of that one with only cracked ribs.

Just two years ago a horse I was holding for someone got its tongue over the bit. Didn't know the horse was extremly headshy until she threw her head into me. I was aware of a bunch of metal stands and other sharp items close behind me so grabbed the horse's neck to not be thrown into them. The mare spun around trying to get rid of me and after about 2 or 3 times she reared and came down hard shaking me loose. I hit the ground and lost the feeling in my arms for a minute. I got my first and only ambulance ride to emergency.

Wow, I better stop now! As you can see, working around horses can be dangerous. My freak accidents are by no means a small list and the more I think about them the more I can come up with!

[Eldirn]

I got a couple I can tell about, too, but if folks are already cringing, better not, LOL. And yes, most of 'em involve horses like Glor's.

[Arandur]

Ah yes, horses. I work with horses right now.

I've gotten hit plenty of times in the face with multiple horses hitting me with their tails and heads.

I fell off once and landed straight on my back. I only had a sore neck for a couple days, everything else was fine, and I'm still good friends with the horse, Peanut. He's short anyways, so it wasn't a long fall.

I've had me foot stepped on multiple times too, but it's only like, one fourth their weight, so it doesn't hurt. I just move whichever horse it is out of the way and continue.

I've also had my index finger pulled back really far from trying to catch a basketball. It hurt a lot after that. It's fine now.

And I've been hit in the temples with a baseball. It was hard to focus/see for a minute but I was fine afterwards. It still kind've hurts though on my head...

I also crashed in a golf cart when I was visiting Oklahoma, but only my brother got hurt. I guess I was in a magical position or something because I only got flinging dirt from the impact on my back.

All of those aren't too bad, and I don't have any serious injuries from any of them, so it's all good.

[Nienna Greenleaf of Mirkwood]

Aww please share, Eldirn! We want to hear your stories no matter how gruesome, bloody, tendon-tearing, and horse-related they are!
Hmm, on that note I really am surprised how many of you guys have gotten hurt around horses! I mean, I am hardly *ever* around them, but I've heard how accidents can happen. I still want to learn how to ride one day, though. That would be cool.

~ Nienna

[Arandur]

It's not very hard to ride. I'm sure it'd be easy for you, and anyone else.

[Nienna Greenleaf of Mirkwood]

Yeah it probably would be. Hmm now all I need to get me started is a horse...

~ Nienna

[Árawen]

Ahhh ya gotta love the horses

Yeah pretty much all my accidents have to do with my loving equine friends...this might take awhile!

Age 3: Riding our old mare with just a saddle blanket. I didn't quite have balance yet, and when the blanket went off, so did I.

Age 5 & 7: These two kind of go together, since the same loving friend helped me with both of them. First, she bounced me off the teeter-totter at school and cracked the bone in my arm. Then, she was lowering a bike down from a hayloft and she dropped it on my head.
Age 10: Don't ever put your 10 year old on a two year old mare, that's all I have to say. She took off running and I sat there and screamed loudly, which made her run faster! (Meh not really an accident but it scared me!)

Age 10 again: This doesn't involve horses! I was running down the stairs, jumped down the last few but smacked my head on the doorframe and came down on the stairs, knocking the wind out of me. Got a concussion outta that one.

Age 11 or 12: Was riding double with my cousin and deer jumped out. I fell and pulled a muscle in my leg.

Same age: Was riding double with a friend. The horse spooked and took off running, and the friend decided she wasn't going to fall without me.

Age 15: Standing by my geilding who was tied up-one of our mares came up and started kicking at him (I hate mares lol!) He tried to get away, stepping on my foot and stretching the ligament in my ankle/leg.

Age 17: My dad had four broken(half-healed) ribs and we were trying to worm my brother's mare (go figure, mare). She threw her head around, knocked me on the ground (don't member falling), then took out a 10-foot section of a panel fence made with 2 x 12s. I got up, started to run, and passed out again, don't member falling, woke up and ran away.
We got the mare untied from the broken fence and tied to a post, then she smashed my finger between the rope and the post. Finally, she worked herself into a tizzy and fell over, so we wormed her on the ground.
17 again: (Nother one with no horsies!) I was sitting on a railing talking to friends and I slipped off, landing head first on cement. (peeps at palace should member dat one lol)

I've also had feet stepped on (by dad's 16 h, 2000 lb horse lol) and fallen off many more times, just not as bad
I prolly have more, but I'm sure you're all bored to tears by now, so I'll quit

[Lady Elianna Tar-Minyatur]

(Valar mine is gonna be like 3 pages long lolol....)

- 3 -
~ Got my foot shut in the door by my mom (she also killed my imaginary friend the same way LOL )
- 5 -
~ Got thrown off my Shetland pony, into the lawnmower (resulting in nice head gash), and then got kicked/stepped on. (ok so yeah it was a pony not a horse.... meh lol :
- 6 - (this was an exciting year lol)
~ Jumped out of tree house with trash bag as 'parachute' (had 4 friends do it too... was my brilliant idea lol), sprained an ankle, brusied just about everything, and I think dislocated somethin....
~ (not really an accident but interesting - another bright idea of mine :... Ate cherries off the tree in the backyard (along with same 4 friends... ;D), mom's thought they were poison, took us to hospitals and had stomachs pumped, only to find out that they were edible...
~ (my idea... again... lol...) Jumped out of top of about 10-12 foot tree onto mini exercise trampoline... with *same* 4 friends LOL... was sore for a week.... sure I cracked somethin then lol
~ Riding down sidewalk on bike my tire caught in between the grass/pavement; threw me over the handlebars, where I skid (while doing so skinned my arm from shoulder to elbow) across the pavement into the fence .
- 8 -
~ Fell down the hill at my grandma's house; rolled into sticker patch and sprained a wrist.
~ Fell off wet log and almost drowned myself in best friend's pond lol.
- 9 -
Was doing art project, went to reach for something on table and ran one of those loooong thumbtacks into - what else? - my thumb lol.
- 11 -
~ Fell through roof at best friend's house (friend w/ the pond lol) of her sheet metal shed... landed on pile of hay in corner so was saved many broken bones lol.
~ Slid through wire fence (same friend's house lol... this is my best friend w/ 7 almost 8 bros. and sisters so it is dangerous around there lol... luckly not barbed wire ) after sliding down hill on Slip-n-Slide
- 12 -
~ Was breaking up concrete with small sledgehammer when chunk of concrete flew up, hit me in the front of my leg (right where your calf is), and left a reaaly cool scar that's about as big around as a pencil that you can feel... (lol ok so that sounds weird but I win everytime in scar-showing contests with the guys hehe).
- 13 -
~ Took off running toward a friend's barn and didn't see the one-strand electric fence... owww lol
~ Stumbled out of car early in morning at school, turned around and ran smack into the flagpole... (that was really bad lol)
~ Got hair/neck nicely cripsy/burned by brother throwing flaming marshmellow in my hair on camping trip...
~ Fell off ladder while painting building in (ick!) Iowa...

Am gonna stop lol... would rather not actually take up 3 pages heh. Dun have anything quite as good as ya'll's (love the gettin your head stuck in the arbor Elrond lolol ;D)... but most of mine are rather funny so thought you'd get a laugh out of a few. (the flagpole was reeaaaallly bad lol).

(see lol I think actually most of these prove I have no accidents... they are all results of my brilliant ideas LOL. (either that or I'm just really clumsy/drunk lol (j/k hehe) ;D). But amazingly, as brilliant as they are, I have never broken anything or had stiches... have actually only gone to the emergency room once too lol. Got reeeal lucky there hehe... but you start to feel bad for those 4 friends of mine LOL)

[The Restless Shadow]

Dang!
Ya'll seem danger prone....for a lack of a better word,lol

[Lady Lily]

Good Heavens...Lets see....

-Walked straight into the door one morning, even though I was looking right at it..and no I wasn't being stupid...

-Opened the door and accidently wacked myself with it.

-Fell off me bike while purposley going over wet paint and trying to skid it. I had knee scrapes that hurt for weeks.

-Rode my cousins horse, Gracie for hours and hours...Running...and Gracie is a really really good runner. Beautiful girl she is. Anyhoo...I had got off her to get some water and I come back and I was about ready to mount her and I had just lifted myself up when she started running again. Yeah that hurt my leg really bad.

Lets seeee.....Uhm...Oh yeah

-Purposley tried to cut off my finger with mini-scissors. Which didn't work by the way..Got a nasty cut though

Heh, thats all I can think of at the moment. Ooh!!

Just about...2-3 weeks ago I was doing Tech and I was walking across the stage to help Malinda. WHEN I noticed Austin had a huge board. I was going to help him (left that part out to sis...Knowing her weird mind) and started to turn his way..Well I was wearing my open-toed high-heeled sandals and there was an electric screw-driver in the floor. No doubt, I hit it and cut my toe in three places..