GTKY - clumsy stories

LiveNLove44 · June 2015

I know GIFs aren't for everyone, so I'll fire up another GTKY that will hopefully get a couple more bumpees involved! What is the silliest/stupidest/most embarrassing way you've injured yourself?*

*This post was inspired by @tate62610 and her ability to injure herself washing dishes

tate62610 · June 2015

Hahaha!! I'm glad I'm not the only one so impressed by this!

Also, yesterday I went to go get out of the car and forgot I hadn't opened the door yet so I just kind of flailed against the door and window.

LiveNLove44 · June 2015

@tate62610, I absolutely laughed almost loud enough to wake DD at the visual of a grown woman flailing against the closed door of her car. Come on. That's golden.

J1D · June 2015

Oh lord... Where to start... How about that one time I was babysitting and the older kids came outside and the baby was inside. The older kids closed the glass sliding door when I wasn't looking and when the baby started crying inside suddenly I whipped around and slammed face first into the glass door in front of everyone. Owwwwww!!!! + Embarrassing. Thank goodness the glass didn't break!

csy2947 · June 2015

When I was opening my cabinet for a bowl my hand slipped and I smacked myself in the face. It was a proud moment!

tate62610 · June 2015

Omg! I'm glad your face didn't break!

LiveNLove44 · June 2015

I think mine was on my first date with my now husband. After the movie, we were walking down the stairs in the theater, I was holding the almost-empty popcorn container and a half-empty diet Coke. He let me walk ahead of him, what a gentleman (ha), and when I took one of my first steps down, I tumbled into a full somersault. The heel of my boot had caught the step, just not the front part of my foot...so essentially I looked like a baby flamingo who couldn't get her poop in a group. My pride was badly damaged. He married me. Happily ever after. The end.

gabrielafrnqyepez · June 2015

so far i suffered a kinda severe cut with a mandolin on my hand, it was with a brand new one blades fresh i sliced a good slice on my palm!....i banged my forehead on the cabinet door because i had left it open...i was walking to pick up ds from school and one of the moms waved hello from across the street and in front of everyone i lost my balance and fell onto a gate! and my fav one i was in the car and didnt realize the window was closed ..yea full face into glass !! i felt like a total dope!!

tate62610 · June 2015

PAHAHAHA! Holy crap. Man, physical comedy is the best.

tate62610 · June 2015

csy2947 said:
When I was opening my cabinet for a bowl my hand slipped and I smacked myself in the face. It was a proud moment!

This. Omg I'm going to come back to this post when I'm ready to go into labor. That gif just really sealed it.

csy2947 · June 2015

J1D said:
Oh lord... Where to start... How about that one time I was babysitting and the older kids came outside and the baby was inside. The older kids closed the glass sliding door when I wasn't looking and when the baby started crying inside suddenly I whipped around and slammed face first into the glass door in front of everyone. Owwwwww!!!! + Embarrassing. Thank goodness the glass didn't break!

Not exactly but made me giggle!

BBaires · June 2015

I walk into things frequently.
My first memory of this graceful habit was when I was around 8. I was walking with my family down the street engrossed simultaneously in a book and a cherry slushee. You can see where this is going. Yep. A pole. I walked straight into street sign and was bathed in cherry slushee. My family still goes into hysterics reliving the story.
Oh, and then there was the time when I was about 15 years old and decided to chase my little sister around our house with my step-dad's underwear (held by fireplace tongs, cuz eewwww), and she slammed a bedroom door closed to escape me -- inadvertently catching my big toe nail under the frame and nearly ripping it off.

gabrielafrnqyepez · June 2015

omg we are talking about in general! i thought just during pregnancy...wow i'm the champ here ! i was slicing an avocado with a really small sharp knife it went straight thru into my palm and the point out the other side. my sister and i were running around chasing each other and i tripped on a pair of sandals i had a hair line fracture on both my ankles! i was coming out of school and those heavy lock doors closed on my ring finger because i was bz looking at a kid i liked! i was at work and decided to wear my very expensive betsy johnson heels when i made a run to the bank, my heel got caught in the subway grates on the floor and broke my heel i fell and scraped my knees!...o man my list is long!!!!

tate62610 · June 2015

::faints::

BBaires · June 2015

@gabrielafrnqyepez I get the feeling this is the tip of your great-fails iceberg!

csy2947 · June 2015

BBaires said:
I walk into things frequently.
My first memory of this graceful habit was when I was around 8. I was walking with my family down the street engrossed simultaneously in a book and a cherry slushee. You can see where this is going. Yep. A pole. I walked straight into street sign and was bathed in cherry slushee. My family still goes into hysterics reliving the story.
Oh, and then there was the time when I was about 15 years old and decided to chase my little sister around our house with my step-dad's underwear (held by fireplace tongs, cuz eewwww), and she slammed a bedroom door closed to escape me -- inadvertently catching my big toe nail under the frame and nearly ripping it off.

This is so much fun lol

gabrielafrnqyepez · June 2015

@BBaires i have always been the clumsiest person in the world and it doesn't get any easier while being preg! ....the whole mandolin injury dh took it and hid it high up in my closet so only he can use it cuz he's scared i'm seriously going injure myself . what makes me sad is the fact ds got the same clumsiness from me ive seen my poor son fall from a standing position..he says he trips on his feet 8-|

Sbrouwer0706 · June 2015

Ok so I'm pretty sure my story is the most embarrassing thing ever but is also too fitting not to share...:

About 6 years ago I went for a run, made it a whole 3 miles (longest distance I had run thus far), and was so proud of myself when I was done. I got a cramp in my leg so I started to stretch my quad. While standing on one leg I managed to lose my balance, roll my ankle, and dislocate my kneecap. After having my kneecap popped back into place they told me that I had a hairline fracture in my ankle. After a couple weeks of my knee still hurting a ton, I went to a different doctor who took new X-rays. My ankle wasn't broken but when my kneecap dislocated it dislocated at an angle which chipped off a piece of my kneecap AND a piece of my femur. They went in to try to nail the piece of my kneecap back into place but it had been floating around in there so long it was no longer viable. Since they couldn't reattach it, they just removed both the piece of the kneecap and the small piece of my femur (which was too small to reattach anyway). I ended up having major knee surgery to repair all the damage.

So to sum it up I am now missing a piece of my kneecap that was the size of a man's thumbnail all because I am not graceful enough to stretch properly. It's super embarrassing. When people see the scars all around my knee and ask what happened I sometimes just say it was a running accident. It isn't entirely a lie...lol

DeeGreer · June 2015

Walking into work at 8am when THE ENTIRE BUILDING is getting in and I tripped over nothing and fell in front of at least 50 people. One guy was like oh god are you okay and my face was so RED! I was just like I'M WALKING IT OFF!! then when I was 4 I was on my mom's stationary bike and my foot got caught in the chain and sprockets and cut me from the tip of my big toe down to the middle of my foot. I call it a "butt-toe" because of the scar it left after they stitched my cut in half toe back together.

furelise93 · June 2015

Okay, so two of the most memorable clumsy stories for me, happened several years ago and within hours of each other.

I was dating this guy, and I was new to the area and hadn't found a church that I liked, so I decided that I would go to church with him one Sunday morning. I ended up meeting his family that morning as well. When church ends and we're walking back to his car, I had to walk in the grass to get in, and it had just rained that morning. I completely slipped on the wet grass, fell flat on my face, and my dress flew up revealing my underwear (at least I was wearing a cute pair - ha!!) to him and his friends. Omg. You could've roasted marshmallows on my cheeks they were so red. I just laughed it off and quickly got up when on the inside I just wanted to die. Lol!!

THEN, that afternoon, the sun was out and it was a beautiful day to go biking around a lake in the area. We ended up biking 8 miles without a break (looking back on it, I should've taken a break but I didn't want to say anything lol), and this is in June in Texas, so it is HOT. When we get back to the car, I take off my helmet while he's putting the bikes up on the rack, and I trip on some rocks, fall, and everything goes black. I hit my head on the rocks and got a concussion and there was blood all down the back of my shirt and head. He didn't even help me up. Some old men who were fishing came to my aid. He just complained about me getting blood on his seats that he just got detailed! Agh! Needless to say, that was our last date. Lol! At least I got some good stories out of it. I met my now husband a couple of months after that, so it all worked out for the best.

My husband loves me... Clumsiness and all. Haha!

leighann1 · June 2015

I had a fairly new job as a retail management trainee at a department store. We were resetting a department and while fiddling with one of the fixtures, I stood up quickly and bashed my head on one of the metal arms. I had to go get checked out for a concussion. Awesome day.

realmamma · June 2015

Ok everyone can laugh at me for this one. When I was 13 it was the first day of summer before I started high school I was staying at a friends house and she snores really badly I was on the top bunk and I was getting down to go to the other room and I missed the last rung on the bunk bed landed on my ankle and broke it. I had two surgeries screws in my foot and thatvyear my family was going to jamaica for summer vacation and I couldnt do anything cause I was in a cast. The worst summer ever

CaitLewis15 · June 2015

These are all delightfully cringeworthy.

My worst moment was my first day of work as a nurse. I was fresh out of school and had gotten hired to a PCU floor at a big local hospital. That first day of orientation they wanted me to shadow as many procedures as possible. I was so excited and so nervous to make a good impression that I forgot to stop for lunch. So around 2 pm, when I had been on my shift going on 8 hours, I was watching a PICC line placement and assisting the nurse with the US to find the vein on this tiny elderly woman. I saw the blood well up from the incision, and then I saw nothing else for about 5 minutes.

I managed to knock over her IV pole with my head, which snagged her one good line and yanked It out of her hand on my way down.

It took me 6 months to live that down. The whole floor remembered me as Blackout Girl (not original, but mortifying enough) for the longest time.

That was the only time I've ever fainted in my life

LiveNLove44 · June 2015

@sbrouwer0706, it isn't entirely a lie! It's a half truth

You were running. The accident was just at the cool down point! I'm sorry that happened to you. I am one of those people who runs because I love it, and when I have an injury, it kills me a little inside!!

Carmofrap · June 2015

I woke up and went to walk into my bathroom and walked straight into the doorjamb as a teenager and broke my nose. I woke up real fast. haha.

MrsN092714 · June 2015

When we were TTC I had been charting and using OPKs and knew it was ovulation day. I was running down the stairs to tell my hubby to hurry up and come to our bedroom and completely missed the last stair and went tumbling, we spent the next 6 hours in emergency to find out it wasn't broken, just sprained (thankfully!) 12 days later we got our BFP! I am notoriously clumsy, always have been! I think my husband wins in the funny injury category though! When he was pretty young he fell off the couch while sleeping and broke his collar bone!

TurtlesMum · June 2015

I punched myself in the face trying to open a cardboard box. I split my lip open, it started bleeding, bruised, and got swollen. Everyone asked about it for about a week until the swelling went down.

I have terrible vision and walk into a lot of stuff because of that, usually just walls and doors. When I was younger I rode my bicycle straight into a parked car and another time I rode it straight into a fence.
The funniest one was when I was taking a walk with my grandma. She asked me to hold her hand so I wouldn't walk into anything. As I was telling her that I would be fine, I walked into a telephone pole.
I have a lot of scars from running into things.

ljburrelli · June 2015

I was helping with freshman orientation and the presentation was about to start. I went to sit down & I didn't realize the chair had wheels. I completely missed the chair, fell backwards and showed off my goodies to a bunch of ppl (staff and students/parents) and tried to play it off like it was NBD. It was horrible!!!

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