Personal Fail?

[HumanPackMule]

Ever do something incredibly stupid, but you were completely oblivious to it when it occurred? I'm sure many of us here have at least one moment in the life where they screwed up(but didn't hurt anything seriously). I'll start off with two of my most infamous moments.

7th grade- got a washer stuck on my finger that I found in class and began to fiddle with it. Shortly after I ended up getting taken out of class and sent to the emergency room to get it removed after attempting to have the school nurse, and the local fire department remove it. My sister now calls me "washer boy" from time to time.

Summer of Freshman year- While working for my dad at his battery warehouse I found a button that looked like a doorbell. After asking other staff members there what it did without any response, I decided to press it. Turns out it was the hold-up button. The police then came and after a little discussion, the company ended up losing only 150$ for the false alarm.

Feel free to share your fails

[Luke McAwesome]

Yeah, I was walking in a Wal-Mart, wearing shoes I'd only had for twenty minutes, and tripped and nailed my head on some poor elderly man's leg.

This was on my birthday by the way.

Edited July 21, 2009 by Striker™

[cole]

Three times I can think of, but I'm sure there are many more.

Somtime around Gr. 5 I found a little orange ball from a bebe gun, and for some reason desided to stick it in my ear. It got stuck and I spent five minutes trying to get it out.

One time I swallowed a 1x1 lego tile. I couldn't get it off, so I used my teeth, then finaly it popped off and flew back into my throat, then after chocking trying to get it up, I desided it would be easier to swallow it.

And another time at my friends house I tried walking out onto the deck and didn't see the screen door. I walked right into it and busted it off the frame while his whole family whatched.

Edited July 21, 2009 by cole

[user]

One time I gota googly eye stuck in my ear and about 3 years ago I got my finger stuck in a protractor.

[prateek]

In Gr. 7 we (our class) went on a trip to Quebec City for 4 days and we went to an aboriginal village and in the gift shop I was fiddling around with a ring and got it stuck on my finger. It took 5 minutes to get off

[VBBN]

Well, 2 for me,

- When I swallowed a technic piece, it was whie with an axle hole through it, round, abou the size of a quarter, had to go to the Hospital(my only emergency!)

- I took a Shovel and stabbed it through a spray paint can. Funny thing is, I looked like spiderman when I removed my sunglasses. XD It was red, BTW.

[Finnigan]

I fell through the deck of our house once when I was in middle school. I knew there was a rotten part of the deck and to stay away from it, but I somehow fell through it anyway.

Luckily I didn't fall far....but my dad was annoyed at the hole.

[MrTools]

2 major ones for me

1.When i was in Kindergarden (spelling?) i was home early and when my older brother got home from school i gor so excited i rand to the dor, didnt stop and slamed into the doornob. I had to go to the emergency room and get stiches. Also i no longer get exited when anyone gets home anyomore.

2. (Age 8-9) When sitting in a fort my dad built me i was playing with a hotwheel car by making it drive in circles realy ast while i was spinning, hit my head in a board (hard) fell back (because i was dizzy) into the hole where the ladder gous up, fell five feet and landed on my head, giving me a concussion (Spelling?) MORAL-dont play with hot wheels or play outside. Dont fool around when you are in a small area you can easily fall out of, dont sleep with a concussion :skull:

Edit: In fourth grade at lunch while saying and making radom noises to entertain friends (Weird i know ) i accedentily said a swear woud, but didnt know it was a swear word and got in school suspension but my parents forgave me because i didn know it was bad

Edited July 21, 2009 by MrTools

[Nodwas]

My friend and I were walking along the school field, at the time we were in our last year, and a first year comes towards us and gets all mouthy in front of his friends. He then says his sister is 'over there' and will slap us.

Bringing family members into the argument, I decided to say "My dad is God and he'll beat your dad up."

I said this as I'm often called Jesus on account of my long hair.

My friend says his part which is a tad blue for Eurobricks.

We then find out the kids dad is dead. He attempts to hit me, and squares up to my friend. We saw a large crowd and we ran.

It all smoothed over in the end.

Edited July 22, 2009 by Nodwas

[Spyder]

OK, here's one for ya. When I was in second grade, I decided to mix up the word shut-up, and I somehow came up with s**t So I started telling the class about it. I didn't know it was a swear word, but they kept telling me that. However, I told them that they were tricking me and trying to ruin my fun. So I said it to my teacher and she told my parents. My parents then found out the whole story, and weren't mad at me. I explained to my teacher and she understood. So everything worked out in the end.

[Eilif]

All right, I'll play. These are all from my school days, and there are lots more, but just a few of my favorites...

In 7th grade gym class I jumped up and grabbed the box that holds the winch for lowering and raising the basketball hoop. Stepped up on a ledge and stood there for a minute. When I came down I realized I had sliced my hand open. 12 stitches later... I didn't get in trouble because the gym teacher said "We didn't have any rules about climbing the walls because we didn't think anyone would be stupid enough to try!"

Freshman year of high school Tried to climb over the acordian doors that separate some hall ways. ended up with 24 stiches in a one square inch area of my finger. Doctor says I nearly de-gloved my finger. I'll leave the full meaning of that up to your imagination, but the "glove" he was refering to was all the flesh over my finger bones. In trying to climb over the fence I also ripped the seat out of my pants and left my backpack behind. I was suspended for a day when they found a swiss army knife in my bag that I used to keep my nails and cuticles trimmed for playing doublebass in orchestra.

Sophomore year of high school. Got excited on the phone, lept out of the chair I was in. Managed to land awkwardly and fracture one of the bones in my foot. The real fail was my brother trying to punch me a few days later while I was sitting down. I lifted up my leg, he punched the cast, and fractured a bone in his hand! The third part of the fail was me needing a new cast because I went rock climbing with the first one on!

[Cyclone Titan]

When I was 4, I was tooling (no pun intended) around with my Dad's power tools. I found his electric drill and started playing with it, I put it up to my eye... turned it on, and somehow... nothing bad happened other than my eye hurting a bit for an hour, future damages, maybe?

When I was 7, my Dad and I went to the Dog Park to see our new dog play, I was fooling around and running on (flat) rocks that they had there. I kept running. After a few rounds of the circular rock running, a dog ran (jumped) into me and clipped me. I ended up with a fractured shoulder.

CT

[The Who]

And another time at my friends house I tried walking out onto the deck and didn't see the screen door. I walked right into it and busted it off the frame while his whole family whatched.

- I took a Shovel and stabbed it through a spray paint can. Funny thing is, I looked like spiderman when I removed my sunglasses. XD It was red, BTW.

I always wanted to do that.

2. (Age 8-9) When sitting in a fort my dad built me i was playing with a hotwheel car by making it drive in circles realy ast while i was spinning, hit my head in a board (hard) fell back (because i was dizzy) into the hole where the ladder gous up, fell five feet and landed on my head, giving me a concussion (Spelling?) MORAL-dont play with hot wheels or play outside. Dont fool around when you are in a small area you can easily fall out of, dont sleep with a concussion :skull:

Hey! Hotwheels rock, or at least vintage ones do.

With me, well... I used to love running down hills, for who knows what reason.

Many big scars later, I now choose to walk on flat ground. Need I say more?

EDIT: The hills were all so steep, you couldn't stand straight up if your life depended on it.

Edited July 22, 2009 by booger540

[Darth Legolas]

Well here's something oddly Lego related for me. I think a few members know this story already, but I was carrying down two of my favorite projects down the stairs, (a motorcycle rally stadium and something big and pirate related, each to me around four days to make and well over 500 pieces each, when I tripped and dropped both, fell on my face, skidded a few times and broke my toe.

What a lovely story! And to think, I had to drag myself across a floor of Lego pieces with a borken toe to get to the phone and call the hospital. Tihs was sometime last year too.

[Ricecracker]

Hehe...

When I was eight, I was at summer camp walking from the rock climbing area to cabin, which was across the road. There was a chain fence about a foot off the ground at the edge of the road. I ran to jump over it as I normally did, clipped my foot, fell and fracture-dislocated my left elbow.

The next year, again while I was at camp, I was rollerblading around in the Rec hall. For some reason, I tried jumping, but when I landed, the shoelace had come undone and had gotten caught in the wheels. Needless to say, I tripped. And you guessed it-I fracture-dislocated my left elbow. Again. It hurt. I then had surgery performed on my elbow, and two metals pins were inserted to hold it together.

About six months later, I noticed a bulge in my elbow, and always felt like something was poking at it inside. It turns out one of the pins had broken in two, and half of it was working it's way out of my elbow. I had another operation done on it, and they took that half of the pin, along with the other pin out. The other half is still lodged in my elbow. I also have a nasty scar about four inches long, and the bone still sticks out a little.

When I was 7 (?), I was at my aunt and uncle's house. They have a steep, slippery staircase. I fell, and got a half-inch gash in between my eyes; right above my nose. That scared.

Last year, while at summer camp (Again ), I was "playing" volleyball with my friend in our cabin, when I went to hit the ball up. I didn't see the door beside me, and sliced open the back of my hand. There is yet another scar there.

[Emperor Claudius Rome]

Hehe...

When I was eight, I was at summer camp walking from the rock climbing area to cabin, which was across the road. There was a chain fence about a foot off the ground at the edge of the road. I ran to jump over it as I normally did, clipped my foot, fell and fracture-dislocated my left elbow.

The next year, again while I was at camp, I was rollerblading around in the Rec hall. For some reason, I tried jumping, but when I landed, the shoelace had come undone and had gotten caught in the wheels. Needless to say, I tripped. And you guessed it-I fracture-dislocated my left elbow. Again. It hurt. I then had surgery performed on my elbow, and two metals pins were inserted to hold it together.

About six months later, I noticed a bulge in my elbow, and always felt like something was poking at it inside. It turns out one of the pins had broken in two, and half of it was working it's way out of my elbow. I had another operation done on it, and they took that half of the pin, along with the other pin out. The other half is still lodged in my elbow. I also have a nasty scar about four inches long, and the bone still sticks out a little.

When I was 7 (?), I was at my aunt and uncle's house. They have a steep, slippery staircase. I fell, and got a half-inch gash in between my eyes; right above my nose. That scared.

Last year, while at summer camp (Again ), I was "playing" volleyball with my friend in our cabin, when I went to hit the ball up. I didn't see the door beside me, and sliced open the back of my hand. There is yet another scar there.

They should call you "Scarface"

Once in sixt grade, I was heading for the garbage. I tripped on the recycle bin, and hit my arm off a chair! No major injuries, it just hurt

[Commander Flash]

I jumped off a jungle gym last summer, and fractured my ankle (18 inch drop)

[prateek]

I jumped off a jungle gym last summer, and fractured my ankle (18 inch drop)

Wow. But I've seen people jump lower heights and still get hurt.

Edited July 23, 2009 by prateek

[nintha]

In 5th grade I was playing capture the treasure where you play on a feild and there are two sides where they need to get all the tennis balls in a hullo hoop on the other side and there are some safe zones so you can"t get tagged by the other team and so I ran to get a tennis ball from one of the safe zones and I wasn't paying any attintion to whats in front of me and ran into a girl and for the rest of that year she had it in a spring and she never forgave me, the worst thing is that I had a crush on her.

[prateek]

...and I wasn't paying any attintion to whats in front of me and ran into a girl and for the rest of that year she had it in a spring and she never forgave me, the worst thing is that I had a crush on her.

I feel sorry for you

[HumanPackMule]

I got stuck in a kid's bounce house today. Tried to climb up the stairs to get to the slide and fell over and then became pressed against the mesh wall. I guess those things do have a weight limit

[prateek]

I got stuck in a kid's bounce house today. Tried to climb up the stairs to get to the slide and fell over and then became pressed against the mesh wall. I guess those things do have a weight limit

Things like that happen to me too. Now I don't go on those inflatable structures.

[JCC1004]

When I was 8-12 I kept falling down my basement stairs and stayed down in the basment for hours. When I was 3 or 4 I had a coin stuck in a bank and was shaking it and I swallowed it. I remeber my granny found it! In 08 I tore apart my Turbo tank. I decided to rebuild it a week ago. I have barely any MOCs or parts but I only had to sub like 10 parts. Around 7 or 8 I tryed to flush a sunny d bottle down the toilet. My dad was so pissed. Thank god my mom and granny where there. There are plenty more but I still need some respect.

[JimBee]

I've done too many stupid things in my life to remember. I've ran into a screen door to the patio (a few years ago, in Florida) as well, and busted it out of the frame.

Also, just last month at camp, I was carving a closed-grain piece of wood with my knife. The knife slipped and cut my right thumb open at the base, creating a flap about a quarter inch deep. Luckily, I didn't need stitches, and it's just about healed all the way by now. I'll have a scar to remember that one by.

[-JD-]

I took a wood panel off the chicken house a while back. It slipped out my hand and spun round, causing the old rusty nail holding it in to slice the flap of skin inbetween the thumb and fingers. It was about an inch deep, and what was really strange was that it healed in two days. No stitches.

But it hurt like hell.

I was on the top floor of the double decker bus, and saw my stop. So, as you would expect I walked down those steep stairs, and the bus braked really hard to stop at the bus stop. I went flying forwards into the glass panel scaring the couple sitting behind it. That left me very embaressed with a bruised nose.

Edited August 17, 2009 by Jammiedodger714