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androo wrote:...I know quite a few nurses and several in the family so I recognise the lack of sympathy. :lol:
+! I can empathise.
However, I take your nurse and raise you a psychiatric nurse. The type that can have you sectioned! Nice...


...don't get me started on the uniforms :oops: :-"

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I am now totally perfect :lol: but when a kid I was very accident prone. Bouncing off the bed, pulling the garage door onto my head and standing too close to a swinging cricket bat all landed me in hospital to get sutured. I also had to attend hospital on Christmas day as I had got a pearl from my grandmother's necklace stuck in my ear (not sure if my pfamily were more concerned about me or the pearl....)
However I think the 2 injuries that spring to mind are impaling my foot to the ground when using a garden fork (straight through my wellingtons, through my foot and the through the sole into the ground) and stapling my jeans to my leg with an upholstery stapler. Thinking about it, I was very lucky, in neither case did I manage to hit anything of importance and even the foot injury didn't bleed too much. Needless to say, my parents were never told.
I also managed to jump out of an upstairs window when I was less than 3 believing that I could fly. Spread my arms holding onto the fabric of my towelling dressing gown and tried a bit of gliding. Needless to say, fell straight down, wouldn't be here to tell the tale if it hadn't been for a horizontally growing conifer that meant I didn't hit the concrete just below the window. Earliest memory......happy days :lol:
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Sounds like great grounding for your vocation castle.

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The dumbest one I can remember is from my days in the Air Force. I was using a stapler to post some documents on the lab's bulletin board and got distracted by a coworker. I didn't notice that I'd put the stapler up to the wall with the opening towards me & buried the next staple in my thumb. Removing the staple hurt just as much as putting it in. lol
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JAG wrote:Come on scooter join in there must have been 1 occasion :shock:
Hadn't posted as nothing came to mind that fitted your criteria. Most of my accidents emanted from when I was young and drink related, either myself or others.

That said I recall going to work at Longleat Restaurant in the early 70s on my Lambretta. I knew/know nothing about engines. In those days it was common to take off your side panels and we never wore helmets. The scooter was misfiring, I was going down hill at the time, and tried to tighten up my spark plug with my hand. You can guess the rest.

The separate stories that don't meet your criteria involved:

1. Skidding on ice and driving straight into Longleat gates in the 70s for which I received a bill for £1600 for straightening the gates and re gold leaving their spiky tops. I was in a left hand drive Ford Anglia 105E that I had borrowed from a mate. It had CH plates on it. My girlfriend went through the windscreen and I broke my sternum on the steering wheel. I ended up in the RUH at Bath for a week.

2. As a passenger with a drunken mate leaving the road flying through the air and landing in a ploughed up field 6 feet below road level. We had a devil of a job finding a way out of the field but managed to do so. We continued on our way to watch Bristol City versus Arsenal in the days when City were in the old 1st Division. We arrived at The Robins pub at Ashton Gate for refuelling, trailing branches and with bits of hedge sticking out from all parts of the car. I can't remember the score so it can't have been a great match.

3. As a passenger coming back from a friends 21st and driving into the first parked car we came to on the outskirts of my home town. Being in the back of a minivan (no seat belts) I came away with a broken elbow which was swinging 360 degrees. My mate's girlfriend stopped a passerby who was worse for wear and wearing a tie. She acquired his tie and managed to make a sling for me prior to being rushed by ambulance to the Royal United Hospital in Bath. This was 6 months after 1 and I ended up in the same hospital bed.

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PS @ JAG now pop over and post a picture of your worst watch :shock:

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Dislocated my angle join and ripped the tendants......and then it popped back in again.




Bouncy castle coporate day.. ended up in little hospital in the New Forest. at least I had lots of Free Champaine :lol:
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Banged my head..

1 day later I started to understand why my head hurt so much.. flash backs.

The night before I was in the pub some 10 miles of so from my house.. I rode my push bike home, and I remembered that at a major road T junction I fell a sleep, fell off my bike in the junction.. only to be woken up by a motorist, with his car in the junction head lights full on in my face going you ok.. I got up and carried on home. ops!!
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I chopped the second finger on my right hand off at the second knuckle when a child. Trying to get a "plasticraft" cufflink out of its mold! I was distracted by my mate and stuck the knife straight in my finger. It was just dangling there held by the skin either side of the finger. I stuck it under the tap to try and stop the bleeding :lol:

Didn't work of course and I ended up in hospital having it re-attached.
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xtriple wrote:I chopped the second finger on my right hand off at the second knuckle when a child.
xtriple's accident reminded me of this:

It must have been Christmas 1970 or 71, young Jammy Devil decides the candles need replacing on Christmas decoration in centre of the dinning table. The new candles are too big and don't fit. So I decide to chop them down to size - - - with a bread knife !!

Holding bread knife in right hand and candle in left hand between thumb and index finger, I give the candle a good clout with the bread knife. Knife blade slips along candle and into the side of my left index finger. :shock:

Result: trip to A & E and eight stiches in my finger. Oh! that was a merry Christmas ........
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What is the collective noun for watch enthusiasts? Based on this thread, I fear it may be either an "idiot" or a "masochist".

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The stupidest injury I can think of comes from when I was probably around 8 years old. I was playing hockey in the driveway with my Dad, brother and sister. The ball was knocked onto the grass so I went running to get it, holding my stick in front of me with the blade towards the ground. Of course, the blade caught in the grass, dug in to the soil and I attempted to pole vault with my upper lip. I had a purple grape-sized welt on my lip for a few weeks and never heard the end of it from my older brother.

I once tried to punch a hole into the side of a house. I had been drinking of course. The result was that one of my knuckles was crushed and the wall looked fine.

I'm sure there are more but I cannot recall anything at the moment.
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What the hell did you have in the bags?

Sorry to hear that mate hope it gets better soon
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androo wrote:What the hell did you have in the bags?

Sorry to hear that mate hope it gets better soon
I don't care what he had i the bags, what did you DO!? :shock: :shock:
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As a teenager - bored, bored, bored, bored...

I wonder what happens if I put just a tiny bit of candle wax in a bottle-top with a piece of string ... can I make a night light?
Hmmm, OK, but boring...
I wonder what happens if I put just a tiny bit more candle wax in a bottle-top with two pieces of string ... can I make a better night light?
Hmmm, OK, this has potential...
I wonder what happens if I put just a lot more candle wax in a bigger bottle-top with six pieces of string ... can I make the daddy of night lights?
This looks great... but I can't blow it out... and I don't want to set fire to the house, I'll just carry it over to the - F*** THAT'S HOT - oops, spilled it - AAAAAAARRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

One thumb is still thinner than the other.
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Jammy's knife story reminded me of the time, when I was eight, I was at the lake with the family. Fishing quickly became boring so I decided to do some whittling like my Grandpa was doing. Long story short, I ended up at the local hospital after slicing open the skin between my thumb and forefinger.
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