stupid accidents

**jazbug5** · 10th September 2004, 11:09

I just got home from the hospital, having managed to give myself a paper cut on my eyeball. On the up side, it's a day off work and I can now tell my boss that I have developed a deep-seated aversion to filing.
I think this is quite possibly the stupidest accident I have ever had. Now that I am off work and will be very very bored all day, would anyone care to share about their own stupid accidents so that I don't feel quite so... well, stupid..?

Jaz

**vifferman** · 10th September 2004, 11:12

Originally Posted by jazbug5

I just got home from the hospital, having managed to give myself a paper cut on my eyeball.

What?!? A paper cut on your eyeball?!?!! That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!
You've got the wrong forum - none of us here ever do things quite that stupid!

By the way - how long did it take to find an appropriate avatar, or did you just make one?

**Devil** · 10th September 2004, 11:18

Originally Posted by jazbug5

I just got home from the hospital, having managed to give myself a paper cut on my eyeball. On the up side, it's a day off work and I can now tell my boss that I have developed a deep-seated aversion to filing.
I think this is quite possibly the stupidest accident I have ever had. Now that I am off work and will be very very bored all day, would anyone care to share about their own stupid accidents so that I don't feel quite so... well, stupid..?

Jaz

hah! (but hah in a good way, eye injuries are not good

)
How did you manage it?

**Blakamin** · 10th September 2004, 11:19

how, exactly, do you get a paper cut on your eyeball??

i've had so many stupid things happen to me i cant even think where to begin... so i wont!

mind you there was the time I was changing a leafspring bush, and forcing it open with a screwdriver... which just happened to pop out and hit me in the mouth.. broke 2 teeth and put them thru my lip!

**Ms Piggy** · 10th September 2004, 11:19

Oh no! Poor squinty! You were looking a bit worse for wear by the time I said goodby last night. Just think on the upside you will be a ble to get that funky eye patch! Love the avatar!

Stupid...hmmmm, possibly for me it would be falling down our concrete stairs (granted I was a bit pissed & on my BIG boots) just after saying to myself "Oooo shit I'll have to make sure I don't fall down here." Next thing I know I'm on my back looking up at our stars going "Ouch, ouch, oooooo, ouch." Noone else was present to actually see how ridiculous I looked though.

Get better soon squinty!

NC · 10th September 2004, 11:20

Ew what the hell?

I have the day off too, I have a pinched nerve in my back..
Stupid dumbarse at work dropped his share of Reo bars down, without telling me and fooked my back. I couldn't even walk

**Mr Skid** · 10th September 2004, 11:21

Originally Posted by jazbug5

I just got home from the hospital, having managed to give myself a paper cut on my eyeball. On the up side, it's a day off work and I can now tell my boss that I have developed a deep-seated aversion to filing.
I think this is quite possibly the stupidest accident I have ever had. Now that I am off work and will be very very bored all day, would anyone care to share about their own stupid accidents so that I don't feel quite so... well, stupid..?

Jaz

Papercut on the eyeball? How shortsighted are you?

**vifferman** · 10th September 2004, 11:22

I bet that didn't half hurt. Like the time the doctor dribbled anaesthetic in my eye, when he was stitching up my face, after I slipped off the bumper bar of the 4WD when taking a shortcut agross the gargre...
Or the time I stabbed myself in the hand with a screwdriver. (Didn't actually hurt much).
Or the other time - the one where I was bedding in my new brake pads and fell on my head...
Or the time I dismounted from a bike on the downhill side...
And then there was the time I got barbed wire wrapped around my ankle when riding on a friend's farm....
The time I dropped my farm bike on the electric fence? Cut my finger with a post-mortem knife? Cut it (same finger) with a hacksaw? Or the other time I cut it with a hacksaw? Or with a pocket knife? (My left forefinger thinks I'm trying to excommunicate it from the rest of me...)
Or like, this one time, at bandcamp...

**jazbug5** · 10th September 2004, 11:22

Had the image on my desktop already; must have psychically 'known' this was going to happen!
I did it, er... filing. Was opening one to look, got distracted, turned my head suddenly, and the edge sliced into my eye... bleeeee.
Most embarrassing.

**vifferman** · 10th September 2004, 11:24

Originally Posted by NC30_chick

Stupid dumbarse at work dropped his share of Reo bars down, without telling me and fooked my back.

Well that's no good, NC.
Er... what's a Reo bar? Is it like, an REO Speedwagon bar or summat?

**k14** · 10th September 2004, 11:29

Ouch, that must have hurt. I assume you can still see out of it fine.

My stupid accident was cutting the tip of my finger off with a pair of long nosed pliers, haha, while changing the chain on my bike. Oh well, comes with the territory

**jazbug5** · 10th September 2004, 11:33

No. I can't.

Hurts like f*ck to open it, and it's swollen up.
Apparently I'll be able to see properly again in a couple of days. Oh good, fecked for the weekend, but fine just in time for work...

Did you lose a bit of your finger, then.
And NC30- you poor thing! But, er, what is a Reno (?) bar..?

Jazbah