Daft accidents in the home

I was hacking off plaster in my house, as we were gutting it.

I thought to myself "weird there are no pipes to the sink", while I was knocking off the plaster with a cold chisel in the downstairs loo.

Next thing, there is an almighty blast of cold water in my face, so I shout to the in-laws (who are "helping", ie drinking tea and chatting) to turn off the water.

My rather elderly father in law, rather than going to the stop ****, decides to come in and have a chat: "I think you've hit a pipe. Did you know it was there? That's a lot of water, isn't it?" and so on.

After a few seconds of this, I give up trying to stem the flood and run off and turn off the stopcock myself, only to find my new fountain continues, unabated.

Realise there is a HUGE cold water tank in the attic, so turn on all the taps downstairs to drain it, which takes time.

Spend half an hour I don't have to spare clearing up black plaster dust and water mix, while the in laws drink tea and eat cakes.
 
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Fell down the stairs a couple times which is expected living in a 1850's Victorian terrace but recent fall down the stairs was due to the hand rail popping off the wall, after having been repaired 3 weeks ago. As it came loose,i fell forawrd and I started to flip. For some reason, mid flip I grabbed the handrail and ripped it off the wall and broke my pinky finger. Landed on the floor, slapped the wall head first knocked myself out for 5 seconds and came round to my kids and wife screaming and crying. When i stood up the pain hit me all at once and ambulance came and took me to hospital and was discharged an hour later :)
 
potatolord said:
I was hacking off plaster in my house, as we were gutting it.

I thought to myself "weird there are no pipes to the sink", while I was knocking off the plaster with a cold chisel in the downstairs loo.

Next thing, there is an almighty blast of cold water in my face, so I shout to the in-laws (who are "helping", ie drinking tea and chatting) to turn off the water.

My rather elderly father in law, rather than going to the stop ****, decides to come in and have a chat: "I think you've hit a pipe. Did you know it was there? That's a lot of water, isn't it?" and so on.

After a few seconds of this, I give up trying to stem the flood and run off and turn off the stopcock myself, only to find my new fountain continues, unabated.

Realise there is a HUGE cold water tank in the attic, so turn on all the taps downstairs to drain it, which takes time.

Spend half an hour I don't have to spare clearing up black plaster dust and water mix, while the in laws drink tea and eat cakes.
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Surprised he didn't say "now you didn't want to do now did you"
 
I'm the least clumsy person going; but my body falls apart at regular intervals with the least of fuss; You mention an injury I've probably done it. My latest one was dislocating my shoulder in my sleep - resulting in me having to have surgery to repair the knackered lining and hook it back into place, with some bone removed from the collar bone too.

I've not done nails through the hands, or angle grinders up the wall etc; but if I even think about going for a run, something will fall off me.

I have the bone construction of paper mache.
 
cheesefest said:
I dropped a Le Cruset style cooking pot on my foot. Surprised I didn't break a bone.
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i too have done this, but with the lid. Sideways down onto my foot. I hadn't thought much about those old leather loafers until then. The leather beading saved my foot i think.
 
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Few bad ones.

Fell up some concrete steps in the garden as a kid. Split head open. Stitches etc. Scar to this day.

Last year I was up early and it was pitch black. Decided I couldn't be bothered to put a light on to go down the stairs. Got to the bottom, instead of hitting the floor I hit a trainer which had not been put away. Went over on my ankle and ended up with a sprain which, 10 months later, is still causing me issues. Interestingly when I went for an x-ray a week later because it was hurting so much they told me I had broken my foot..... But not from this injury - There was a previous break which had healed oddly, which I never knew I had done, explaining why the sprain was so painful and is taking so long to heal.

Then a month ago I was moving house, in a rush, was dismantling my PC desk and in my hurrying instead of using my hand to support me going to the floor, I put my whole body weight down on my left thumb and damaged that.


Morale of the story.... stop rushing and being lazy. I now always turn the light on to traverse stairs if it is dark.
 
As an adult, I had a 30L pedal / drawstring bin liner split as I was taking it out to the wheely bin. Thankfully I was already outside when it split, but the mess in the garden took about half an hour to clean up :P

In childhood, my bedroom had a cork noticeboard with a florescent tube light just above it. One Christmas, I was given a pen-knife and thought it was a brilliant idea to throw it at the cork board like a flick knife. 1st attempt was perfect - into the cork and it stuck in there like a dart on a dartboard. So I did it again and again, and on about the 5th throw, it hit the tube light and smashed it to smithereens. I made up a BS story to my parents about having my head too close to the light and hitting by accident. They replaced the tube no probs but it did cost £35 in early 90s prices. Ooops lol

Semple said:
Tripped over some shoes in the hallway, just after my missus had taken them off.
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BDEE said:
Got to the bottom, instead of hitting the floor I hit a trainer which had not been put away. Went over on my ankle and ended up with a sprain which, 10 months later, is still causing me issues.
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I've done the ol' shoe/trainer trip-up as well. It usually happens when I've left my trainers somewhere and forgot they were there. No major injury though - a sprained wrist on one of my trip-ups and a stubbed toe another time (but didn't trip).
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
As an adult, I had a 30L pedal / drawstring bin liner split as I was taking it out to the wheely bin. Thankfully I was already outside when it split, but the mess in the garden took about half an hour to clean up :p

In childhood, my bedroom had a cork noticeboard with a florescent tube light just above it. One Christmas, I was given a pen-knife and thought it was a brilliant idea to throw it at the cork board like a flick knife. 1st attempt was perfect - into the cork and it stuck in there like a dart on a dartboard. So I did it again and again, and on about the 5th throw, it hit the tube light and smashed it to smithereens. I made up a BS story to my parents about having my head too close to the light and hitting by accident. They replaced the tube no probs but it did cost £35 in early 90s prices. Ooops lol





I've done the ol' shoe/trainer trip-up as well. It usually happens when I've left my trainers somewhere and forgot they were there. No major injury though - a sprained wrist on one of my trip-ups and a stubbed toe another time (but didn't trip).
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You actually reminded me of probably the worst accident I've had at home (only been here 3.5 years). I was walking down the stairs and it was either the last or second-to-last step that I went to step on and for some reason missed the step and landed on our tiled floor side foot followed by all my weight.

No idea how I didn't end up breaking it, but I struggled to walk on it for a good week.
 
A few from my history:

* Closed the car boot on my thumb. I mean properly closed with it stuck inside the lip. Boot closed. Thumb inside. Me swearing. A lot.
* Managed to drop a reinforced fireplace lintel on my little toe, splatting it quite flat (I was pulling it out and gave it large, then dropped it).
* Wife then later dropped a bag of sand on that same toe. She was getting it out of the boot because I could barely walk. But she couldn't hold it.
* When my kids were young I went to lean into the back of the car to unstrap one of them and managed to whack my forehead on the car door, almost knocking myself out.

A couple of near misses from my wife:

* Back before marriage when she was my girlfriend she was round my house and managed to drop her car keys into my open gas fire. She didn't realise it was an actual gas fire and thought it was fake in some way so stuck her hand in to grab the keys. I just managed to grab her hand and pull it away before she did.
* The lawn mower jammed. Without unplugging it she stuck her hands in to free all the grass around the blade and it then restarted. Nearly cut her fingers off. Luckily it was an old used mower that we bought from the previous elderly lady owner of the house so it was completely blunt.

An actual hit from my wife:

* She was cooking something and took it out of the oven. Without oven gloves. Major burns.
 
When I was about 15 my parents were having a dinner party. I offered to sharpen the carving knife and managed to slice the side of my index finger to the bone.

Luckily one of the guests was the local GP who popped out to his car and after checking for tendon damage, stiched it all together for me.

Still got the scar 40 years later.
 
I had lots of near misses and lucky escapes when renovating the house the past few years.

I did however go through the downstairs ceiling twice while all the floorboards were up on the first floor. Once was my fault slipping off a joist. The other was my fathers fault moving a piece of wood slightly so the end wasn't on the joist, cue comedy moment of my leg going through to the lounge below while getting hit by the piece of wood.

Most painful accident was when I was around 5 years old I think. My mother used to fill the bath up with hot water first then add cold. I was reaching in while it was filling and fell in. Have memories of being in hospital/doctors with them peeling skin off most of my body.

Drank a bottle of vosene hair shampoo as well around that age for some reason.

Had a few nails in my foot as a teenager stepping on old planks, strangely no pain either time.

And sliced the skin off the top of my thumb knuckle when trying to prise a canned tin lid off some beans, seeing the blood and the skin flopping around made me quite queasy.
 
When we moved into our house around 10 years ago (its still not finished) we were chiselling the tiles off the wall in the bathroom. A piece hit me in the face and cut pretty deep. Quite a bit of bleeding.
Also drilling into my hand while opening up the holes on an electrical back box once. not my finest hour.
 
I worked with a fella that had a wasps nest in his shed or garden somewhere so he started whacking it with something. Of course, wasps everywhere and started stinging him, and when he was telling us what happened in work the next day we were asking him why did he start hitting it and annoy the wasps. He said he didn't expect them to do that, he thought it was just something that happened in cartoons. :cry:
 
Chatted to a customer who you can have a laugh with. Saw her with a wrist in a cast. “What have you done”. Said a colleague.

She slipped out of the bath smacking her head on the toilet and wrist on the cistern. Resulting in two broken bones in wrist which needed pinning.
 
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