Any injury caused by seemingly harmless things. From burning your mouth on coffee to slamming fingers in a car door.
Example: My sister got a paper cut on her finger; bad enough, but then it got infected and she had to see a doctor.
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Any injury caused by seemingly harmless things. From burning your mouth on coffee to slamming fingers in a car door.
Example: My sister got a paper cut on her finger; bad enough, but then it got infected and she had to see a doctor.
STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
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Stubbing my little toe on the 1" high platform on which my wood stove sat, in my old house... score: toe=0, platform= about a billion
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I posted this a couple of years ago, but it fits here.
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I'm sitting at the computer in my (typically messy) office at home. My left sock snagged on something in the carpet. I reached down to pull it loose, but instead, got my right middle finger snagged too -- painfully.
I couldn't get it free. (Upon later examination, it turned out to be a tiny but elaborate piece of metal wire - a spring from some VHS cassette that I'd recently taken apart to salvage the tape within for transfer to another casing.) It held my fingertip like a barbed fish hook. Some bleeding.
I could have called for help, but didn't want to upset the wife. And you have to admit that it's tough to explain that you've just wired your right middle finger to your left foot and as such need assistance.
So, I worked the sock off my foot - not too easy given that my left knee was rather inflexible in the lateral sense due to surgery I'd just had there; and, of course, I had to use my left hand. But I succeeded. My sock now dangled from my finger like some mad Christmas tree ornament, but I could now walk to the garage, go into the tool chest, and get a wire cutting pliers. The first one simply bent the wire and made it worse. But the second cutter did the job. I was now free of the sock, though I still had almost an inch of wire through the finger tip.
In the bathroom, I doused the whole biometallic assembly in disinfectant, and then diagnosed. The wire was bent on both sides, so I snipped off the bigger barb. Didn't need to cut off the other: I was able to pull it on through.
That wire, and the resultant wounds were so thin that after cleaning, they didn't bleed at all. It remained a bit sore for a day or so, but with hardly a visible trace.
So, keep your work area clean. I resolve to do so. Yeah, right.
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I had a pair of very comfortable but deteriorating slippers that I knew I'd eventually have to chuck.
While walking into my bedroom one day, the floppy sole of one slipper caught on the carpet tripping me. What should have been an embarrassing fall to the floor turned into a very painful injury when my other foot flew out and solidly connected with the edge of an open door. The big toe on that foot turned black and I had to hobble around for a week.
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My old boss shut a car door on my fingers once
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Trivial stuff that abuses me
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Early this morning a rug in my bathroom tried to kill me by tripping me face-first into the edge of my tub. Fortunately my shower curtain sacrificed itself to save me by taking the strain (popping the curtain rod right out of the wall in the process).
STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
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Ow. That doesn't sound trivial, that sounds potentially very bad. Glad you weren't hurt.Originally Posted by Noclevername
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Thank you. On the other hand it's a more effective eye-opener than a cup of coffee!
STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
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I take some very large vitamin pills which are difficult to eat. Does that count?
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Another attack of the killer rugs, glad you're OK.
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Just Say No to rugs!
STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
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getting in to my car after my daughter has used it - the seat is far enough forward that my head smacks the edge of the roof - you'd think I'd have learned to check...
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Fingernails. If you don't bite them they keep growing out, but if you do bite them you can't eat them.
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In some places, people drive on the left side of the road. But in others, they drive on the right.
I wish I knew all those years ago that simply joining this board and proclaiming myself to be rational would magically transform my uninformed opinions into science; it would have saved me a lot of time and effort.
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