Story archives - tag: "injury"

C. Lee

As I sat in the stranger's van, clutching my knee, the only thing I managed to say was, "I am SO sorry for bleeding on you seat, ma'am."

tags: injury kindness strangers humor [add]

2008-06-09 12:14:44 / Rating: 131.5 /

Garry

Just after he hit the road with his face, he thought, "Now I have an excuse for missing class."

tags: injury mistakes accidents [add]

2008-05-28 15:58:34 / Rating: 87.75 /

cpumaster

I blew out my knee making love to my fiance a week before I had to go to the recruiters office.

tags: sex irony humor air force injury knee love [add]

2008-05-08 17:37:40 / Rating: 182.75 /

OminousGasPains

When I wrenched my back unpacking the massage table, her anniversary gift suddenly became "ours."

tags: humor anniversary injury gift irony [add]

2008-04-15 10:05:44 / Rating: 126.75 /

Andy M

The manager gave me a free pass to come back, but after 14 stitches I decided that ice skating wasn't for me.

tags: injury stitches ice skating [add]

2008-04-07 14:29:23 / Rating: 108 /

JoJo

As soon as he said "Be careful," I fell down the stairs, breaking both the typewriter and my finger.

tags: irony injury clumsy [add]

2008-04-02 15:23:21 / Rating: 138 /

Ibutton77

I swung the axe convinced I could show my dad a thing or two about cutting wood, but the lesson I learned that day was taught by my toe.

tags: father son chores injury enlightenment [add]

2007-11-07 13:14:36 / Rating: 154.25 /

James

Just one thing: never let a drunk man try to open a can of lager with a knife.

tags: injury ouch knife alcohol [add]

2007-03-07 09:41:28 / Rating: 180.75 /

Can you pay karmatic debt in advance?

After severly hurting my foot, losing my job, being evicted from our home without cause, nursing my 3 year old through strep, picking my fiance and his totaled car up at the hospital, and going into debt, I wondered, "what else can happen in one month?"

tags: bad luck injury fired children hospital car accident [add]

2006-12-10 13:15:25 / Rating: 196.75 /

Erik

Two stitches and twenty years later, I still don't know why she threw the rock at me, but I'm pretty sure that she was lying when she said, "I was playing hopscotch and missed."

tags: humor childhood rock injury hopscotch ouch [add]

2006-10-18 14:28:22 / Rating: 269.75 /