• hinana said on Jan 23, 2008....

  There are these historic tunnels about 2 hours away from where I live..we normally go camping around that town cuz its great.
  So we went to those tunnels this summer, and we were just walkign through them and teh paths.
  the tunnels are carved rigth out of the mountain, and they go straight..
  I was walking in one of them , behind all my family because i was looking at my camera..and I walked into teh wall.
  I think I still have an indent on my forhead xD
   
  Another time, last week actually, my friend gave me this mini lesson in jazz and ballet. When I got home, I was deomstrating what I had learned, and I was doing one of those jumpturns. I kicked myself and fell.
   
  Ive also dropped a closet on myself.
  Ive kicked a closet door shut on my toe.
  Need I go on? =P

• Sunshine_Mariah said on Jan 23, 2008....

  LMAO, This is hilarious mr_box! I can't stop laughing at the moment. I'll come back and write my accident prone stories a little later... maybe... if I'm not too embarassed. :-)

• botoni said on Jan 23, 2008....

  I have the uncanny ability to miss the cup/glass when I pour things. I m also fully capable of not seeing anything below waist level which leads to plenty of cascading to the floor. If the phone rings during the night I m famed for picking up the lamp to answer. You got nuthin on me buddy.

• skald said on Jan 23, 2008....

  Oh you made me laugh dying with a bra wrapped around your feet.
  Yes I run into tables and when I want to be cool I have to run into something and spoil everything. I remember running over my kids shoes and their toys, oh how small toys under your feet hurt,
  Good post.
  

• Zayda said on Jan 23, 2008....

  I'm usually not accident prone. But you wouldn't be able to tell that today after I managed to burn the back of my hand by sloshing boiling water across it.
  
  
  Although, I am sure that a certain SC member is laughing his pants off out there at the idea of me not being accident prone since I inevitably let out an ouch any time I'm on the phone with said person.
  
  
  I'm usually not letting out an ouch because I've hand any type of accident, however minor. I'm usually saying that because I've stretched and popped my back or elbow or knee or hip or .....something.
  
  
  Although, Mr. B, I must admit that your telling of your rash of klutz-fu had me laughing, especially the breaking a door with your head part.
  
  
  I do walk into the corner of our sideboard occasionally and leave a good bruise on my hip. I usually do that when I'm carrying the laundry basket and trying to maneuver myself and said basket around a tight corner on the stairs while avoiding a giant slumbering cat that if I stepped on would surely result in me breaking a leg or my neck.

• the_infernal_optimist said on Jan 23, 2008....

  [tries to stifle a laugh, fails miserably]
  
  You broke a door with your head?? You must have a hard head, my friend! :-D
  
  I'm always a klutz, although mine runs more to just gathering scrapes and scratches without really knowing how they got there. I did burn my hand recently because I dropped something in the oven and reflexively went to get it (and wasn't skilled enough to not hit the hot oven itself in the process). There have also been several incidents caused by wooden blocks/Legos that had me hopping around in pain. Stupid small sharp parts! (The Legos are DH's, not my daughter's.)
  
  ~Infernal
  

• GracefullyGrowing said on Jan 23, 2008....

  LOL.  LOL.  LOL. 
   
   

• Mr_Box said on Jan 23, 2008....

  hinana.....you kicked yourself and fell over? Now that's funny. That must have been embarrassing. That's about how well I dance too. You sound like you've had your fair share of mishaps. Glad you're still around to talk about them.

  sunshine....I know you've needed a good laugh lately and I'm glad I could provide one. I look forward to your stories. Don't be embarrassed. This is just the stuff that happened to me in the last few days. I've got 30 years of material to work with.

  botoni....that's funny about answering the lamp in the middle of the night. I've done stuff like that too. I once answered the remote control for the TV. It took awhile for me to live that down.

  skald....so glad I could make you laugh. Dying with a bra around my feet would have been pretty funny. I remember stepping on toys and little pointy Barbie doll shoes. Kids make life an obstacle course.

  zayda.....sorry about your burn. Now that hurts. I've spilled boiling spaghetti water on myself before. Ouch. I've tripped over our cat before too. Happy I gave you a good chuckle.

  Infernal....I do have a hard head! I need to take a picture of this huge dent I put in the door. It's funny. Of course I need to fix it eventually. But it's worth capturing since I broke it with my HEAD. Like one of those karate guys. Your hubby needs to pick up his Legos! ;-)

  Grace.....happy to make you laugh out loud. Three times no less! I'm good.

• Zayda said on Jan 23, 2008....

  Ohhh...there is nothing worse than the sharp corner of a Lego on bare feet--right between the toes. GRRRRR....I can't tell you how many of those I have stepped on thanks to my husband and my son.
  
  
  And yes, Boxy, you should take a picture of the dent you put in your door with your head. That's a "must post to SC" kind of picture.

• evil_twin said on Jan 23, 2008....

  This was really funny! Oh my God...I can't believe you broke a door with your head. You should definitely take a picture of that. I'm glad you're okay though. But I needed to catch my breath from laughing about the bra thing!
  
  I've done all kinds of klutzy things. I routinely spill stuff and run into tables. One of the worst times was when I was at work and I leaned back to stretch in my chair and it broke and I fell backwards onto the floor! That was embarrassing because people rushed into my office to see what happened and I was lying on the ground with a chair on top of me. I wanted to die. I didn't have time to think about the pain because I was embarrassed!
  
  -Kyle
  

• Mr_Box said on Jan 23, 2008....

  Okay check this out. This is damage by head.

  

• Zayda said on Jan 23, 2008....

  Okay, I am really surprised you didn't hurt yourself.

• Mr_Box said on Jan 23, 2008....

  zayda....I'm surprised it didn't knock me out when I did that. I hit it with the middle of my forehead. It made me a little dizzy for a moment but that's it. The door had a harder time than I did.

  Kyle....you fell out of your chair? That is funny. But I'm glad the only thing that got hurt was your pride. I posted the picture for you too. Ouch!

• evil_twin said on Jan 23, 2008....

  Wow, that's a pretty bad dent in the door. You did that with your forehead?! It must be a really flimsy door or your head is made of concrete.
  
  -Kyle
  

• hinana said on Jan 23, 2008....

  wow.

• Eilan said on Jan 23, 2008....

  Usually not, but I have my moments.
  
  Today, actually, I slipped on some ice in the driveway and landed flat on my back.  I was getting ready to take my five-year-old to preschool, and as I lay on the ground groaning and trying to figure out what just happened, my little one came over and said, "Are you okay, Mommy?  Mommy?  Are you okay?"
  
  It took me a second to collect my bearings, but I got back inside so I could whine to my husband.  I tore three fingernails (no idea how) and bruised the crap out of my elbow.  My back's starting to get a little sore, too.  But at least I didn't hit my head.
  
  I think I'm gonna have a tough time getting out of bed tomorrow.
  

• nursecutie said on Jan 23, 2008....

  OMG.....I can't believe your HEAD made that hole in the door! You are lucky you didn't get a concussion!

  But the part about the bra around your foot and smacking the doorknob.......LMAO! You poor thing. That would not have been a good way to die. The obituary would read: death by doorknob and bra! LOL!

  Ummm.....a few weeks ago I was walking through our kitchen and the pocket on my jacket got caught on the drawer pull thingy. I didn't realize and I kept walking. I pulled the whole drawer out and it landed on the floor! Silverware spilled everywhere.......LOL!

  It made alot of noise and Kyle ran in there to see if I was dead. But I was just laughing and a little mad b/c it was a big mess to clean up! Luckily I was not impaled with a fork or anything........

  xxoo natalie xxoo

• minniemouse said on Jan 23, 2008....

  Wow....I thought I was done laughing....then I saw the picture!  Holy Cow!!!!  I am still laughing!  Anyhoo....I am extremely accident prone....I have had stiches in my toe, knee and chin.....I always have bruises and bumps.  Just last Saturday I was walking across the parking lot of a crowded shopping center...walking to my car, minding my own business, suddenly arms are flailing...legs flying...and I fell on my face.  I can't even tell you how I did it.  One minute I am walking, next minute I am flying through the air.  Mind you this was a crowded parking lot...Saturday afternoon, grocery store, restaurants etc....Fun!  Really nasty bruises.  I feel your pain...literally!  Watch out for those doors....  :-)  Minnie

• wakingharmony said on Jan 23, 2008....

  I am an accident waiting for a place to happen hehe!

• designedmoreforpublic said on Jan 23, 2008....

  OMG!  LOL!
  I, too, am very accident prone.
  I'll give you 3 examples:

  1.  I broke my wrist on the DUMBO RIDE at DisneyWorld - yes the children's DUMBO ride

  2.  I broke my ankle in my own garage!
  

  3.  I fell down the stairs in my house and broke my tailbone - very painful!
  
  Mr Box, you are not alone. 

• gingersoul said on Jan 23, 2008....

  Now......let me think...how can i call you this time...MrClumsyBoxy sounds good?....lol..

  I would have love to catch you in the dark with a bra wrapped around your ankles actually....too funny.....still laughing my panties off.....but, Boxy, you made a huge hole in the dor.....ironhead....:-D

  And for me...well, I have the uncanny ability to cut myseff anytime i have a knife in my hands.....scissors will do the same but somehow i can contain my accidents better with them.......knives are just a magnete for me....

  I also tend to smash my fingers a lot between drawers or closets doors.....and burn them in the oven.....i keep thinking that kitchen mittens are the most useless accessorie for a cook.....wrong!!!! But i do have a home remedy that works like a charm anytime....one potato slice over the burned skin and voila.......my fingers are ready for another oven accident ...:-)

• queenparanoia said on Jan 24, 2008....

  eheheheheheheheheheheheh okay i'm so sorry but i couldn't sop laughing!!!

• phoeby said on Jan 24, 2008....

  well nothing i could say could really beat yours *stiffles laughter* heehe.
  
  
  BUT.... there was this time.. many years ago when i first moved out on my own and i had an early start. I was rushing to get ready and accidentally chose 2 left shoes! they weren't even the same damn colour. One was dark blue the other black (ok... close but still...) get this... one was high and one was medium height.
  so i got to the city (yes! working in the city) and was wondering why on earth my shoes felt so weird. So i looked down and saw that they were ENTIRELY different.
  
  
  i swear i nearly died of embarrassment.
  
  
  so i walked straight to a shoe shop and bought new ones!
  
  
  good excuse.
  
  
  god i can be a twit.
  
  
  phoeby

• Mamie said on Jan 24, 2008....

  sorry to be laughing at your expense but too funny! Back in the day, I was new to my office and the big corner office, yada yada...I had a great pair of shoes that were simply too high for anyones good, but htye made th eoutfit, ya know? So what price glory? I strutted into the office one day, head high, feeling fabulous, rounded the corner a bit too quickly and landed in a heap after I actually fell off of my shoes...I just looked up at the secretary...said "good morning" and dusted off my backside and sauntered into the next room...I am so sure they were impressed with my authority at that point! NOT!

• silverwhisper said on Jan 24, 2008....

  dude, be careful! i'm shocked you weren't seriously hurt!
  
  as a rule, no, i'm not accident prone. it's strange, but true. i'm sure i must've managed to harm myself relatively recently but darned if i can remember what i did--o wait, a few weeks ago i was closing the apartment door and manged to get my finger stuck in it! darned thing is still a bit tender now, 3 weeks after the fact. it's most annoying.
  
  ed

• Mr_Box said on Jan 24, 2008....

  Kyle....it is a pretty flimsy door. When my head punched a hole in it, it looked hollow inside. Cheap piece of crap. But lucky for my head.

  Eilan....well that sucks. I'm glad you're alright. It sounds like you are going to be incredibly sore now. Stupid ice.

  Mrs. Cutie....I am lucky I didn't get a concussion. That's funny about the silverware drawer. I can only imagine what a racket that made. I'm glad it didn't land on your feet though.

  Minnie.....I'm happy to crack you up laughing. My wife fell down like you described before. We were walking down the street and all of sudden she was just on the ground. She was alright and laughing, but she did scrape up her elbows. She didn't know how it happened either.

  Ms. Harmony....be careful out there!

  designed.....how did you break your wrist on the Dumbo ride? You really are accident prone! Be careful. You don't want to break anything else.

  Gingery.....I seem to remember you mentioning the thing about the knives not being safe in your hands. It would have been a funny sight to see me knocked senseless with a bra around my foot.

  Miss Paranoia.....glad I made you laugh.

  Phoeby......two totally different left shoes? Now that's funny. But it's a good excuse to buy more right? That would be pretty embarrassing.

  Mamie.....high heels are just asking for trouble aren't they? If I had to wear those, I'd be dead for sure. I have trouble enough walking barefoot without hurting myself. At least you handled it like a pro. But I bet your Ugg boots from God are easier to walk in.

  Ed....I'm shocked I wasn't more hurt too. I've smashed my fingers in car doors and sliding doors. It hurts like hell!

• silverwhisper said on Jan 24, 2008....

  dude, it frigging smarted!
  
  ed

• polarheart said on Jan 24, 2008....

  MrBox, I was laughing all the way through your post!  I laughed because you were laughing when your head dented the door!! I would have cursed!  I am not too accident prone, but I am always hurting my hands.  I have very thin skin on my hands so even the slightest bump or scratch causes bleeding - right now I have a plaster on my finger from 2 days ago when I got my finger caught in the gate latch at Tigger's nursery!  Oh the joy!

• Mr_Box said on Jan 24, 2008....

  Ed.....I was afraid a few times that I'd broken my fingers. Luckily I didn't!

  Polar....I couldn't help laughing when I realized I'd put a hole in the door with my forehead. It just seemed so unreal. And oddly enough it hurt a lot worse when I smacked my head with the doorknob than when I actually made the hole. Be careful with those hands!

• destinydiva said on Jan 24, 2008....

  lmao!!  sorry but that was funny :-)
  I am a disaster when it comes to tripping and falling and crashing in to stuff!!
  if someones gonna trip, you can guarantee it will be me!
  glad you survived!! :-) xx
  
  

• wombat said on Jan 24, 2008....

  I don't mean to laugh at you, but that was a funny post just the same.  Made me wonder if you are under some stress, though--as that is when I hear that people are more prone to accidents.  Then again, you hear the phrase, "There are no accidents..."  Ha.  Poor guy, take it easy today!  I am not accident prone exactly, just a klutz--not watching where I am going.  I've walked into a few door frames in my day....  (the image with the bra incident cracked me up)

• designedmoreforpublic said on Jan 24, 2008....

  OK - This should give you quite the laugh :)
  
  I was riding the Dumbo Ride with my then 2 year old daughter.
  She wouldn't sit still and I was trying to put my arm around her so she wouldn't climb out.  But instead, banged my wrist on the elephant.  That was on a Monday, and we had just arrived the day before.
  I didn't want to go to an ER in Orlando, so I waited until we got home (the following Saturaday) to go. 
  I could hear the ER folks talking about me in the hall.
  She waited a week with a broken arm before she came to the dr??????
  

• beyondtheveil said on Jan 24, 2008....

  mrbox- I keep drinks around me often and I'm one of the best at turning over drinks. I'm constantly reaching for things at the computer and have become an expert at shoving the keyboard in so it won't get soaked. I'm also bad about walking in rooms without the light on and this is a recipe for disaster.
  
  I think the best way to keep from being accident prone is to keep your common sense in overdrive- something I should do more often.
  

• uniquely-ironic said on Jan 24, 2008....

  It's an honored family tradition to be accident prone in my family.  This post is but one example of just how dangerous I am to myself.  My favorite top five are:
   
  1) concussion from car door (tattoo incident)
  2) severed finger tendon from breaking window that wasn't locked in the first place.
  3) broken toe from walking into furniture
  4) drilling through part of my thumb with a hole saw bit
  5) whiplash from car accident because I over corrected driving
   
  It's standard procedure to call out "I'm okay!" after any event that causes a lot of noise (i.e. crashing furniture, thud from falling, etc) so that no one feels the need to rush in to help.

• Eilan said on Jan 24, 2008....

  Oh, my neck and back are really sore today, and my left elbow is turning an interesting shade of purple!
  
  When u-i mentioned her broken toe, it reminded me of when I was 14 and broke my little toe the night before my first junior varsity softball game.  As I was walking around my bed, I managed to get the little wheel wedged between the two smallest toes on my left foot.  I didn't realize it right away, so I kept on walking, ripping my baby toe backward in the process.
  
  The next day, I managed to wedge my swollen foot into my cleats so I could play catcher.  My coach found about my toe from my mom--after the game.
  

• nytquill17 said on Jan 24, 2008....

  Sorry I'm late to the party!  You guys had me in a giggle fit.  DH is looking at me wondering what's going on :p  I'm always bumping into things, closing my finger in stuff, scratching myself on something sharp.  I don't think of myself as accident prone because usually it's just clumsiness and not a big deal.  But...
  
  The very first time my mother ever let me out of her sight as a baby, I came back in seconds bleeding profusely from the forehead!  It was just a surface cut but it bled a lot and scared the hell out of my mom.  I still have the scar.  I have a nice set of scars on my hand from a "climbing" incident when I was about 10 (incidentally, if you're climbing a pile of gravel and start to slide, don't try to hang on to the gravel).
  
  My first year living with my husband, I was taking a pizza out of the oven and burned my arm.  I still have the scar.  A few days later I was shopping and bumped up against the corner of a shelf and cut my shoulder.  Same year, I cut my finger slicing potatoes.  The cut was curved so I drew eyes to make it a smiley face (yes, I took pictures!).  Still have that scar, too.
  
  My best stories are from when I was a teenager, though.  Once, I was bending over to put food down for the cats, and when I stood back up, I banged my head on th e overhang of the counter.  I hit it so hard I saw stars and couldn't breathe!  It freaked my mom out because she saw me hit my head and then I couldn't talk right (because I couldn't breathe, but she's thinking "brain injury").  So I'm trying to tell my mom I'm okay, but I'm half crying so I can't speak clearly, and my dad thinks I'm raising my voice and starts yelling at me, and then my mom starts yelling at my dad for yelling at me when I'm injured.  And I'm still trying to choke out to my mom that I'm okay!
  
  And then, the night before my 16th birthday, I broke my toe.  We had this chair in our living room that we didn't quite have room for, and it stuck out just a teensy bit into the doorway into the hall.  I walked smack into the leg of it at full force!  But the most embarassing thing is that it was a wicker chair.  So I had to tell all my friends that I'd broken my toe on a wicker chair! (the leg had a metal rod in it for support, but by the time you get to explaining that, people are saying "Suuuure it did!" and laughing).  It sucked having a broken toe on my sweet 16, too.  But then we went to the beach and I buried my foot in the sand and it felt soooo good!
  

• the_infernal_optimist said on Jan 24, 2008....

  Holy cow! (picture) You really do have a hard head! :-D
  
  ~Infernal
  

• Mr_Box said on Jan 24, 2008....

  Destiny.....I'm glad I survived too. Be careful walking into stuff.

  wombat.....you know, I have been under a little bit of stress lately. Maybe you're onto something? I need to chill out before I really hurt myself.

  designed.....I broke my arm when I was a kid and I didn't tell anyone about it for 4 days. I kept insisting it was just a sprain. So it doesn't surprise me that you'd wait until after your trip to go to the doctor. I would have too! But what a way to break your wrist.

  beyond.....I have a tendency to spill drinks on myself all the time. I'll go to take a sip and somehow I miss my mouth and spill it all over my face. I'm just losing cool points all over the place.

  Ms. Ironic.....I've had a few tattoos but never knocked myself out getting one. That must have sucked, but it was a good story. Drilling a hole in your finger sounds brutal. Ouch.

  Eilan.....I hope you feel better soon. And your broken toe sounded like when I broke my arm. I just worked through pain and kept on going.

  nytquill.....you do have a long list of accidents! And you started when you were just a baby too. Your poor parents. I've banged my head on an open cabinet before. That was pretty bad. I saw stars too. And yet breaking a door with my head barely hurt.

  Ms. Infernal.....like Kyle said up there somewhere, my head must be made of concrete!

• nytquill17 said on Jan 24, 2008....

  Would you believe my dad would let me go into the woods behind our house by myself, with his handsaw?  I built my own treehouse largely unsupervised (that's the kind of kid I was) and still have all my fingers.  It's just the crap I do every day where I hurt myself :p

• gingersoul said on Jan 24, 2008....

  Boxylou......how is your head doing? ..:-)

• rupert7 said on Jan 25, 2008....

  I had to laugh at you mis adventures!... Looks like you had a lucky escape with the door though!.....your head came very close to the door knob! could have been nasty!!

• Mr_Box said on Jan 25, 2008....

  nytquill.....you're lucky you still have all your fingers. Your parents were very trusting to give you a handsaw!

  gingery.....it's doing just fine, my dear. It's takes more than a door to break this hard head ;-)

  rupert.....you're very right. I almost smashed right into that doorknob. That would have hurt a lot more. I might not be typing this!

• gingersoul said on Jan 26, 2008....

  I am very happy to know it.....:-) 

• Angelbabe101 said on Oct 27, 2009....

  About 4 or five years ago I was in my back yard on my patio and I was trying to balance a broom on my hand, it was a wood deck and I was in my slippery socks. Next thing I knew, the broom came flying towards me and I began to fall back and my leg flew under me and I landed and I broke my ankle, my dad has to call ambulance and everything. As the ambulance was taking me away my dad had  accidentally locked himself out of the house in all of the commotion, so he ended up breaking the screen in a window and climbing in that way. After I had broken my ankle I was in a cast and crèches and everything. I needed new cloths so we went to target and I was tired so I wanted to ride one of the carts so I could give my leg a rest and so I did. It was wonderful, I was just cruising and I began to go into the cloths section and I was doing good and the next thing you know, I am flying down through the cloths, because the damn thing wouldn’t stop, I ran into one of those round clothing thingies and off it wasn’t, I was lost in it, it was terrible. The cart thing we found out was defective or something and I happened to be the one to get it. And last week I think was a really bad week, I was in gym and I was getting changed in the locker room, my friend had her locker open because she was still changing and I just needed to tie my shoe, so I bent down and began to tie my shoe and then my hair was all up in my face and I have really long hair so I did the classic hair flip and flipped my head right into the corner of my friends locker and oh man did that hurt. I ended up with a concussion because of that and so now when ever were in gym people make fun of me. I got a concussion another time before. I was flying back to Maine from California because I was with my mom for Christmas and my flight got cancelled like 3-4 times because of a big rain storm in California and eventually I got out and flying and I got to Maine and then I had a three hour drive to my house and so after we stopped by my aunts and after our visit, we were walking out and I began to walk down the stairs (which were covered in ice) and there were no railings and so I was walking and I slipped, flew up into the air and fell down and hit my head on the corner of the stair and so another hospital trip we had. Other then the concussion last week I was just walking down the hall with my friends and my friend did something to trip her sister and I was standing right behind her and so she flew forward and her foot flew back and then rammed into my toe and there for ripping my toe nail off. So yah that’s about all I have time for to tell, but lots more has happened! J

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