| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/2/2008 5:11:00 PM | I have a terrible habbit of rushing around, head facing downwards and if i have walked into 1 lampost i have walked into them all at 1 time or another lol
the worst clumsy thing i did was get of a bus and walk straight into the glass bus shelter i knocked myself out lol | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/2/2008 8:24:34 PM | hi kath wish i could have seen that.
well you are a leo i think it may be that.
years ago the x used to kneel on the floor in the boys bedroom to iron the boys trousers for school.
she was wearing a blue silk dressing gown.
the youngest had a toy that squirted water. when she noticed some on her dressing gown she pressed the iron on it to dry it. then she got squirted on the bum. i think it must be leo logic. need i go on:)
her sister who's not a leo seems to have been infected.
they were together in a shop looking at clothes when her sister had a tug at the skirt on a nearby dummy, making comments about it. then realised the dummy was in fact a shop assistant.
and i can't recall the number of times we had to break in because she had left the keys inside and only remembered just as she slammed the door.
went to the corner shop to buy something. bought it but came home leaving it on the counter.
and didn't understand why the guy in the post office couldn't give her a "black and white colour tv licence?
when she worked it out she had a good laugh but he didn't.
her previous hubby went into the chemist and asked for a pack of rubbers "large ones" the young girl serving went bright red and got real embarassed. he of course meant rubber pants:)
ian | |
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Posted: 7/2/2008 10:11:20 PM | I'm forever whaching my head on things in the garage at work. There's a second floor built for storage, 5'11 from the ground. Unfortunately I'm 6'1!
I remember when I was a kid we were looking at the house I now live in. My dad had already bought it so it was empty. I'd been running through the living room and dining room and jumping out of the patio door into the garden for hours. Went to do it one last time before we left, but some git had closed the patio doors. Have you ever heard the sound of a 6 year old hitting unbreakable glass at 15 miles an hour? | |
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Posted: 7/2/2008 11:55:22 PM | Not sure if breaking my collar bone/arm/ shoulder at least six times as a child really counts- my pony was called Blitz for her ability to demolish fences rather than jump...
When living in West Africa I had a dog called Rasta. Georgeous thing- and way stronger than I. We would chill on the beach together, right up until I decided it was time for a swim. I kept him on a leash, to stop him eating tourists and he was quite keen on swimming- so would pull with rather more force than a runaway train.
One day, in his enthusiasm, he managed to pull me right off my feet....and dragged me, face down across the sand...unfortunately my bikini was not as tight as my grip....leaving me flashing my glory to the amusement of everybody.
Or the time I was taking a short cut across a car park on my way home from the pub. I stood on a drain pipe and landed face down in a puddle. As you do. There was no way I could get up again, so I called out and a very nice man came over and carried me home. I spent the night on my sofa in agony, before calling a friend to drive me to A&E next morning.
Broken leg.
That was bad enough, but when I got home I had no idea how to operate the crutches and as there was a small step on the path I put my hand on the gate post to steady myself....the coping stone dislodged, landed on my unplastered leg, I fell backwards squeeling like a stuck pig. Neighbours came out and shovelled me onto the sofa where I pretty much refused to move for the next two months.
Or Christmas 06. I had recently moved to a new town and knew very few people apart from work colleagues...On the Friday we finished for the hols, we all went out and had lots of falling down water... so it was not a huge surprise that I fell down stairs at home.
I realised straight away I had done something fairly bad, so crawled to the sitting room and phoned an ambulance. I then had to crawl again to the front door to let them in...
They were very sweet to me in A&E (well I was their finance manager)...and let me home at 3am with a bright pink flourescent plaster cast. And more crutches.
I had planned to travel to the Isle of Wight next day to stay with friends for the hols...no way could I travel. Also no way I could go shopping for all the food and drink I had not bought for Christmas.
Didn't really know anyone in town well enough to phone and disrupt their family Christmas. So that was me stuffed worse than any turkey.
I will stop before I bore you even more.... | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 1:38:42 AM | Just damn stupid! I was up late last night painting and had the windows wide open. Two moths the size of bats flew in (obviously attracted to the light). And started dive bombing me, I was on step ladders and first reaction was to swat them away. I swung my paintbrush at them, spraying paint everywhere and toppled off the ladders. Fortunately I was only on the second step and didnt hurt myself, it could have worse.
I spent 10 minutes trying to get them out, I caught one in a cloth and threw him out the window. The other one I couldnt find anywhere until I went to start painting again. He was in the paint tin drowning. Ahh revenge is sweet! | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/3/2008 1:49:26 AM |
I'm very clumsy, I blame it on a combination of being left-handed and not having 3d vision.
This must be the most plausable explaination as i too am left handed with only 2 dimensenional vision.Things that are simple to most people are a nightmare to me such as walking through doorways instead of walking into them and walking up steps instead of tripping up them!. I also struggle with the basics of placing cups on the edges of tables/sideboards...More often than not they will end up on the floor.
I have also learnt that opening a tin of paint downstairs when it is being used upstairs is not clever.It did take two ruined stair carpetsfor me to click on to this though. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 3:09:14 AM | Kath and Hula = You are scaring me!
When I was ill in March, the first symptom was my eye...apart from a cloud over one lens, I have lost my 3D vision... Almost daily I either fall down stairs, drop stuff- just don't see things...I dare not get behind the wheel of a car!
I saw the consultant last week and he said my brain would eventually work it out and compensate.... does not sound like it!
I suppose I had better book a regular slot at A&E - See you there! | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/3/2008 3:44:40 AM | I’m scorpio which is supposed to be the most accident-prone sign and I bear that out.
When I lived in Spalding, I became a regular at the A & E. The most memorable conversation with the nurse logging my details was: “Have you attended this department before?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
“Yesterday.”
There was the time I changed a light bulb in the loft, having got there via a step ladder. Clumsy me dropped the bulb, which shattered and covered the top step of the ladder with broken glass. I was bare footed and cut the sole of my foot when getting down.
Then there was the triple whammy in the kitchen. My cottage has a tiny kitchen, with very little distance between the work surface on the left (with a micro-wave on top) and the draining board on the right (with cupboard below). My chopping board is about 2 feet wide and 18 inches deep and when I placed it in front of the micro, it protuded over the edge of the work surface. I peeled the spuds and carrots and chopped them with a sharp knife, then bent down to open the fridge under the work surface for the brussel sprouts. I did not realise that when you bend down, your bum goes backward. My bum thumped against the cupboard behind me and the impact sent me forwards and I banged my forehead against the micro-wave. Then I fell backwards. At this point I wasn’t thinking too clearly and did something stupid. I slammed my hands down on the chopping board to break my fall. The chopping board slid off the work surface and my bum banged against the cupboard again. I finished up in a squatting position with the chopping board and vegetables in my lap. The knife was on the floor, having cut my hand on the way down.
By this time, I’d had enough of the kitchen and decided to order a takeaway. | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/3/2008 4:15:46 AM |
Kath and Hula = You are scaring me!
When I was ill in March, the first symptom was my eye...apart from a cloud over one lens, I have lost my 3D vision... Almost daily I either fall down stairs, drop stuff- just don't see things...I dare not get behind the wheel of a car!
I saw the consultant last week and he said my brain would eventually work it out and compensate.
Ah Mizz, it's not that bad, Kath and I are still here to tell the tale (just!) I only have 2D vision due to a lazy eye, I've had it all my life and yes, your brain does compensate. You learn other ways of judging distances and stuff, it's just that sometimes you get caught out, like with doorframes and door handles (I'm always catching my sleeve on door handles and tipping coffee or whatever down my front).
Scriba, thanks for that about Scorpio being the most clumsy, I'll add it to my list of excuses, three valid ones, I'm totally screwed! | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/3/2008 4:39:57 AM |
I only have 2D vision due to a lazy eye, I've had it all my life
Yep same here.When i was 3 my mother took to me to the doctors and announced that i must be backwards because i kept walking into things.!.The doctors response was simply "well lets get her eyes pointing in the right directions for a start"
My youngest daughter has the same affliction and i spend my life saying .."watch that lampost" "where mum?" ...Bang...too late!. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 5:53:50 AM | I'm a left hander with 2D vision and a fine collection of scars and torn clothes prove it. I am so clumsy, I busted my head through a glass door because of a step that magically appeared and I didn't see it.
In my teens whilst chatting to a guy I really fancied I was tapping one foot of the other, when I literally kicked the foot from under myself and landed flat on my back, balancing my head on a my bent arm... needless to say he pi$$ed himself laughing and I never got a sniff of him.
I got my sleeve caught on a door handle leaving an interview, and whacked the door of my head, didn't know if I was gonna pass out with pain or embarrassment.
On my honeymoon in Crete we went out round the Island on a boat, my foot caught on the step ladder between decks and I fell face first into a rather shocked German tourist. He wasn't amused, but my ex couldn't move laughing. The shame of it!!!
Ex used to say I should come with a health warning | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 5:57:45 AM | ^^^^^^
Kath
They say left handed people are gifted.......or was that special ? either way you're a star and this thread has cracked me up today  | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 7:24:03 AM | So, all you lot who have the stupid accidents and end up in A&E....do you ever think "Ohh, what undies am I wearing today?"
A Paramedic once told me that while I was being cut out of the car, I refused to go to hospital because my bra and pants didn't match! | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 8:22:48 AM | sorry scriba that really cracked me up.
did you have to mention lamp posts kath.
in my teens i was walking with a mate he was in the middle of the pavement i was on the edge. there were a couple of girls prancing around the garden of a house opposite in their bikini's. we were watching as we went, without slowing down. well until the lamp post. i was wrapped round it. i looked sooo cool.
hey miz a better question may be has anyone ever thought i wish i had some nic's on today:) | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/3/2008 9:18:21 AM | | just thought of another one. a mate asked me to weld up the inner sil on his escort (the vertical bit from the floor to the bottom of the door)there was little room in his garage. i told him there were wires that could get burned he said go ahead i've got a bucket of water ready. well something started burning he grabbed the bucket slipped and threw it all over me! after that the switches operated different things:) | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/3/2008 10:29:54 AM | Both!!!
Work in a hardwear store and have inflicted many a wounds on my self.
Big garden shears streight in the foot, after i told my work mate to watch out not to drop them.
Massive bubble on my head after slipping in some paint and flying streight into a shelf, after putting up the warning sign.
Dropping a garden table on my foot, whilst telling my work mate not to let it drop onto their foot.
Smashing my head into the corner of the kitchen cupboard after I told my daughter to mind her head when she came up again.
Poking myself into the eye with a mascara brush.
And the list goes on and on and on.
I should not be allowed out, I realy shouldnt. | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/3/2008 10:44:25 AM |
Big garden shears streight in the foot, after i told my work mate to watch out not to drop them.
Oooh eck Maggy that brought back childhood memories of the time my brother speared himself to the front lawn by a garden fork straight the way through his foot! (puke)
I have sustained two injuries through shear stupidity.
1 involving dropping my pen into a fryer at work and sticking my hand into retrieve it
the other was getting my fingers trapped in the hinges of a heavy dividing wall,instead of unfolding it slightly to free my fingers i just pulled them out taking the skin off down to the bone. | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/3/2008 10:50:03 AM |
the other was getting my fingers trapped in the hinges of a heavy dividing wall,instead of unfolding it slightly to free my fingers i just pulled them out taking the skin off down to the bone
Yup did something like that with a balcony door with my fingers still in between door and frame. Shut it, the automatic handle flew up and shut it for good and instead of just pulling the handle back up to open the door I pulled my hand out and took a nice lot of skin and flesh off.
Had no idea hands could bleed so much. | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/5/2008 5:35:59 AM | Yesterday I thought I was being clever by pushing the bin bag down in the wheelie bin, bad mistake as the lid of a dog meat tin was there.
Sliced through the skin between my thumb and finger like a knife through butter, and tiny bit more and I would have slicked through the nerve.
So trip to A and E , 5 stitches and strapped up..
Am I feeling sorry for myself today ?, you bet I am, been up all bloody night with the pain..Fact that the anasthetic didnt work when the last stitch was being put in didnt help.. | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/17/2008 5:37:24 AM | FFS i am sat here trying to prise my fingers open after glueing them together with unibond big gap filler.
Funnily enough it says on the tin Warning very adhesive
I would call this incident STUPID | |
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Posted: 7/17/2008 5:47:30 AM | That reminds me
when i was at middle school i got my fingers slammed in the hinge pasrt of the door,cutting the top clean off,and exposing the bone.I never felt a thing but i had to walk through school with blood following me,the teacher even went back to look for the top of it but they couldnt sew it back on | |
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| Clumsy or just damn stupid?
Posted: 7/17/2008 5:54:54 AM | Well Im sat here with a bump and a graze on my forehead from walking into a door at college.
So yeah...bit stupid and clumsy. | |
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