For me, I think it was when I was playing in the yard, and saw one of my mom’s pots of dirt for her garden, and I thought “yeah this would be good to dump on my lap”

It was full of fire ants. Big, angry, north carolinian fire ants.

I was covered in red welts and all I remember is screaming at the top of my lungs while my mom sprayed me down with a hose

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    Bike riding in the 80s and jumping ramps, the slope was too high and sent the bike upward so I let go (bad plan) and supermanned myself across the pavement on my chest. I had vertical road rash stripes all down my front.

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    25 days ago

    While chasing around the house I tripped over a bed board and slid my upper lip on a carpet.

    A strip of skin down from the base of the nose to my lip was gone. Everyone freaked out about me disfiguring myself.

    I picked at it, of course, 25 years later there’s no trace of it. Kids heal fast.

    I was sheltered I think, considering some other injuries here.

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    66 days ago

    Mine wasn’t really all that bad, but the time that occurs to me involves me at like 5 or 6 years old, snow, a sled, a metal fence post, and a big red bump on my forehead. I hit pretty hard, but I don’t think I was concussed or anything.

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    116 days ago

    Got hit by a car. Blacked out. I have some scars on my face from being pushed into the road.

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      66 days ago

      did you also break your jaw, and lose almost 25lbs over 3.5 weeks?

      that was a fun may 2025… wear full-face helmets y’all. they’d save you so much pain and suffering from not being able to eat.

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        36 days ago

        Nope. Other than a concussion and some face damage nothing came of it. The driver was a teenager just learning how to drive.

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          25 days ago

          good to hear. nobody should have to go thru 3.5 weeks of being unable to eat solid food.

          I never, EVER want to see a smoothie, or shake, or blended soup, ever again.

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    Was running around with my cousins on pavement wearing flip flops. I was chasing my cousin who ran up stairs and I slipped and hit my face on the side of a stair. To this day, I still have the scar on my lip that my tooth opened up.

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    I went camping with my family, was probably seven or eight years old. There was a sign right next to our camping spot to notify people about something not to do, who knows what the message was in reality but I like to imagine it as “do not bend this sign backwards to use it to catapult rocks you find laying around nearby”.

    Anyway, while my parents were preoccupied with setting up our tent, my makeshift catapult hit me right by the eye. Thankfully it did not actually injure my eye itself, just huge cuts both above and below the eye, but I had a pretty good talent for screaming at that age regardless of which part of my body was hurting. I remember after an hour or something my parents kept pushing that all the other campers were going to think I was being abused, and then we packed up and left our week-long camping trip a couple hours after arriving.

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    66 days ago

    Spilled boiling water on my chest, caused second degree burns

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      25 days ago

      Same but got it worse.

      Importance of making sure handle is not facing out when running kids are about.

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    76 days ago

    Ran my index finger down the blade of a pocket knife and nearly cut the tip off. Got a nice big scar and had a bunch of stitches

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    I was lucky, my worst childhood injury was breaking a toe on the bottom of a swimming pool I jumped into.

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    106 days ago

    Funnily enough, mine’s also garden-pot related. I was playing with my sister and our friend and I tripped over and faceplanted into a terracotta pot. It could’ve been a lot worse because there was a cactus in it, but even as it was I needed six stitches.

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    Not me obviously, but you should look up the accident Adam Devine had as a kid. Pretty serious, but it is hilarious how he talks about it. His leg is so crazy knarley