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Sitting down in a restaurant and hitting the table pole with my knee. I ALWAYS do that.

I stepped down my singular step porch and tore a ligament in my ankle the day I moved into this house.

Two years later (a week ago) I broke my toe in the same place.

Trying to longboard again as an aging millennial.

Fell down ice skating like four days ago. Not the best skater!

I was trying to use a mandolin to remove the wax from a section of Gouda cheese, and slipped. Chopped off about 3mm of my thumb and about 5mm of thumbnail.

Not a serious one, but it hurt like a bitch.

Coworker was cleaning the donut case for the day, and left the dishes beside the sink. I decided to be nice and get them soaking, so I grab all the wire racks.

One slipped, and while I was trying to catch it, I somehow pinched my thumb right behind the nail between two others. I had to take a moment in the back office after that.

I tried carefully picking up a small knife right after getting my nails painted. Dropped the knife and slightly stabbed myself in the foot. Also flipped on some ice delivering a package , fell on my ass and sent my phone flying 10 feet in the air .

Broke apart my filling by biting into a steel fork.

This was a few days ago, I peeled my thumb knuckle with a potato peeler again

Used to work in a bagel shop. We have a big ass slicer, spinning blade you drop bagels into down a chute.

Every day we turn it off and wipe the chute. I wasn't thinking. Unplugged the machine, scooted it out, and began wiping down the chute inside, brushing down crumbs.

It's a fucking miracle my finger barely grazed the still spinning blade that hadn't come to a stop yet. Immediately recoiled my hand and just got a scratch from it, not that deep.

I was pissed at myself for not realizing the blade was still spinning. That shit could've been so much worse.

Stabbed myself in the thumb when trying to remove those indistructable zip ties from a new knife we purchased.

I took a step, I should not have done that.

I had to mop the basement floor after new tile was laid and now my back is stiff.

Lay on my back. When I stood up my back was seized.

I was cotting carrots in to carrot sticks, at the last cut I put my finger in between the cutting board and the knife ant started cutting in to my finger tip. Instant regrett.

Literally happened tonight, I was trying to break one of these chicken jerky treats for my dog by folding it over on itself and somehow smashed a finger inside the two halves when it snapped over.

Had a dull knife for a while and recently bought a new knife last week. Underestimated how sharp the new knife was and accidentally cut into the surface of my thumb

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I was helping take the trash out recently. The paradox of regular trashcans on wheels is this. If you have the wheels on the same side as the handle, the weight of the trash tries to push the can back down from the side. However, if you have the wheels on the opposite side than the handle, you need to pull it down highly irregularly. So here I am trying to hook the trash can to a wagon or cart for physical convenience, and like the weeble it was, it just flipped it over due to drag.

I wish someone could make giant trash hamster balls so you could just roll the trash down a driveway like a marble.

@toomanypancakes took the dog for a long long run, and clearly she'd had enough by the time we got back to the local park, so she clipped my heel and sent me flying before unapologetically sidling up to me as I nursed my wounds 😭

Put a large cup of tea on my bed. Cup quickly falls over and spills itself on my hand. Somehow get 2nd degree burns