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in elemetary school, i was racing this kid at recess on the blacktop. i was wearing flats (which are NOT made for running). i tripped and fell and my lower teeth almost went through my upper lip. i had a scar on the inside of it for probably 3ish years. it's gone now, but i remember how badly it hurt to get it lol

i have two scars and there both dumb stories and both on my left leg

the first one i scraped it on the bottom of a pool. how does that even happen???? 😭

the second is, because i grow my nails out pretty long, i was grabbing something and accidentally scraped myself with my thumbnail and picked it so now it’s a scar 😂

being born and falling off a segway

i was born deaf and got implanted with cochlear implants at nine mos so i hv two scars behind my ears from the surgery.

then once when i was like 11 we were in my cousins bungalow colony and i was segwayjng around to my hearts desire since my mom doesn’t let us hv a segway and i wasn’t watching were i was going since my hometown has very empty clear streets and ofc since it the country and no one cleans up after their children the walkway was littered with bikes and scooters. so im riding along dandily and suddenly im fricking airborne. then b4 i could process that i was airborne i wasn’t and i landed on my hands and knees and somehow my left elbow which has a nasty scar.

neither story is too glamourous. i’m the only one if my fam over age 3 who *hasnt* got stitches or broken a bone yet.

I have two very dumb experiences....

First, was when I was in kindergarten. I was playing on the swing when an older boy bullied me and pulled me down from the swing saying he wanted to swing right then. Not one to give in to such an action, I decided I was not going to let him swing and stood right in front of the swing, demanding he get down. The boy who didn't heed me, started swinging fast and as I was right in front, I ducked the first time it came towards me. But, then I realized that if I kept ducking he wouldn't get down from the swing. So, the next time he swing came towards me I stood upright, shouting at him to get down as it was smy turn on the swing. The boy did keep shouting asking me to move but I didn't.....I got hit pretty bad just above my forehead and became unconscious....it was really bad and had to get 6 stitches on my head.....if you part my hair a certain way...you can still see the scar.

Second, was when I was in my 2nd or 3rd grade and I was a class pet, everyone loved me. So, one day my best friend who was a stout girl, was feeling especially indulgent, suggested I sit on her shoulder and she would take me for a ride around our school floor during the break. I did say no telling her I would be too heavy but she was insistant saying she is strong. So, I don't even remember how but, I got on her shoulder and Yes she was strong enough to carry me around easily as I was tiny compared to her. Then just as we were turning a corner, the school bell rang indicating the end of the break. And then just as we turned the corner we collided with a boy who was running back to his class. We both fell down and I was sitting higher, I got hurt as I hit my chin, a tooth got broken in half and I also got hurt at the junction where my upper & lower lip met. My complete mouth was bloody. My kind friend immediately took me to the bathroom and helped me clean the wound like a mother hen, taking care of me. But, I had to get my tooth treated, and the doctor said I would need a stitch to the juncture of my lips (but I screamed like hell, as I remembered getting the 6 stitches from earlier) forcing him to just dress the wound. So, I just retain a small scar on my chin and thankfully my lips healed perfectly, there is just a tiny indent on my lip, which is mostly invisible even to me. Only sometimes when I open my mouth wide to apply lipstick.....I feel I can maybe make out a small 'something'...

These two incidents were pretty dumb even for a child I guess...LOL

So um every year my local area does a running challenge in the evening through the backstreets of my local city. I did it last year. I was running and my friend was beside me. We were coming up to a bollard. The bollard had a high vis wrappped around it, a light shone on it, and people on the sides shouting 'MIND THE BOLLARD' and I told my friend 'imagine being one of those people saying mind the bollard' and then guess what I did? I ran into the bollard :D Iv'e now got a scar on my chin lmao

Ran into a wall. broke my nose, never healed. Does that count as a scar?

I poked myself with a marker on accident.

The cap, not the actual marker.

not a scar but like two years ago I got this fat bruise (was so colorful and pretty btw) from a pumpkin patch they had see saws and you could move them as you go and the thing tipped over and I fell so hard to the ground (hurt so bad but was so funny)

okay i have 3 really dumb scars:

1) basically i saw a moving truck pass my house so i ran to the window to see where it was going and for some reason there was a piece of like super rustic splintery wood and i hit my leg on it and got like this huge cut from it and now i have like a 5in scar on my leg which actually crosses with another one of my dumb scars

2) aforementioned crossed scar: i was canoeing and and i fell (😬) out of the boat and got a huge scratch on my leg

3) i have a scar on my knee from 2nd grade when i tripped over those black plastic boarder things that hold the woodchips in…. into the woodchips

i also have loads of scars on my knuckles (also from canoeing, because my hands would get sunburned/super dry and they would split when i paddled

ok it's not really that dumb but it's so weird that it scarred cause it was like the tiniest cut ever

so basically when I was younger I was bushwalking and I stood on a stick that had like a bend in in and when I stood on it, the other end lifted into the air and jabbed me in the stomach

I got a really bad bruise when I ran into a wall.

i dropped the toilet lid on my wrist and it cut my skin. i don't even know what my hand was doing there😭 (i was 5)

Aleksandra wrote: "i dropped the toilet lid on my wrist and it cut my skin. i don't even know what my hand was doing there😭 (i was 5)"

My god, how sharp would a toilet lid be?

@bibliophile

sometimes it doesnt need to be sharp but its just the pressure of it kind of bursts the skin ( i cant think of a good example rn sorry 😞 ) especially if its like the edge of something ( like the lid i guess )

I was sitting on my couch and my cat had the zoomies so she was running around like crazy and she ran over me and accidentally scratched up my legs.

I cut my hand with a knife because I was cutting an apple, right after my dad told me to use my thumb to control the knife while coring it so I don't cut my hand

someone stepped on a long branch (like 15 ft) and it went up and scraped my shin and when it came down it banged on my knee 😭

I decided it was a great idea to play tag on this really rocky place that had a lot of really deep rocky holes and I fell in one, and needed to be rescued, but that day I learned when and when not to play tag.

cat scratch on the bewb ;-;

Another bruise from hitting my head on the wall. O.0

cutting myself while shaving my legs...

@maebelle

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i can also relate to this one was to much 😭😭

Scratching myself with long nails by accident 😅

When i was very young i had an itch on the bridge of my nose that wouldn’t go away. I’d scratch and it would come back… over and over, ad nauseum. Months went by. One day at my sitter’s apartment, where i spent every day after school, i scraped something hard. Turns out i had scratched my way down to the bone of my nose (basically where glasses sit.) now there a scar which i covered by the glasses i wear.

Jiaqi wrote: "Scratching myself with long nails by accident 😅"

Everyday for me, my nails grow long fast.

Prying some scissors apart and then playing with the broken pieces...

I went to go chase my brother down a tube slide head first, I got a slide burn on my elbow, and it scared. That one or I rammed a fence while rollerblading and bite the outside of my lip and it left a mark under the fold of my lip.

not the slide burn that probably hurt like hell

I got concrete burn once tripping on my roller skates it hurt like hell and I got a big ass scrape and my sister was just laughing like bruh come help

riding a bike without knowing how to ride a bike and crashing into a wall 😭

When I played racquetball for the first time, I took a huge swing, and with my follow-through, I hit myself with the edge of the racquet right between my eyes. It bled a lot, and the scar reminded me of my stupidity every time I looked in the mirror. I didn't even win that point! Now, I just stick to reading books, instead.

Bro all of my scars are from an iron😭😂 I have this big epic one on my forearm that looks super cool but it's only because my stupid self reached across the ironing board and hit the iron with my arm😂😅

My fingers got stuck in a zip line on a school trip in France and now my fingers have scars

A kid whacking his finger into my cheek 😭

doing a mini dance type thing and doing something weird with my feet and all that while walking with heeled leather shoes and falling down on the road. I don't even know how that happens. now I have scars on both my knees

danced into a hole and dislocated my knee cap continued to dislocate 4 more times over the summer and had surgery so with all of it adding up its a pretty dumb surgery scar

My friend also once pushed me in to the shallow end of the pool and I scraped my knee on the bottom and it was bleeding really bad now I have a big scar

I walked through a door way at my grandma’s house and I buffed my elbow. It didn’t break skin, but I’ve had a scar there’s.

Hiding myself to scare my brother... Spoiler alert, I couldn't scare him 🫠

Guille wrote: "Hiding myself to scare my brother... Spoiler alert, I couldn't scare him 🫠"

wow! this was long time go, when i was like 5 or 6ish, in Japan with my parents, we went out and see a person, she had really hot burrner type of thing where you put the log into and i put on my left side of my face on there and burn my left side of my side cheek type of thing.

I have very few scars, I hate getting hurt, haha. I did scrape my arm against my nightstand getting out of bed one morning. Got a scar from that. It's so lame compared to yours!

Went flying off a Segway bc I forgot to swerve around a scooter lying on the sidewalk

My best friends older brother TRASH TOXIC GIRLFRIEND (they broke up 😝) left me behind in a haunted house while people where RUNNING at us and I tripped over a twig and it pricked me (not bleeding deep though) into my leg and now they’re is a scar ✌️

when I was like two or three I was running around my basement with my older sister with those little hand held windmill things and I slipped on the carpet and hit my head on the corner of our pool table and it bled down from my forehead to my knee by the time I got upstairs and I had to go to the hospital and get stitches right in between my eyebrows

I fell off a horse when I was 4 and broke my arm. I have twin scars from the pins they had to use to reset the bone.

I put a batch of cupcakes in the oven. WITH OVEN MITTS ON. And I burned myself on the oNe PaRt that my arm was exposed 😀

When I was 5, I was messing around in the bathroom while brushing my teeth (after my mom had repeatedly told me to stop messing around) and fell down. I hit my chin on the linoleum and ended up splitting my chin open. The doctors at the ER glued it back, but I still have the scar to warn me to not mess around!

Late night run in the desert. Lost in my thoughts. Wind picked up and the sand blew, & I was almost back to the main road. Tumble weeds masked the C~wire. & I ran right through it, Trousers snagged.

Manged to rip myself free, but I learned not everything is as it seems, concealment can be deadly. Also before that bright lights shined in my direction losing my natural night vision. Then boom into the concealed mesh.

Really wasn't that bad, not to deep, but my calve recalls it better than I do because that wire tagged me... Should of just stopped but my mind was racing faster than my body could halt...

I was going trick or treating and not paying attention to the street and one of my crutches went through a gutter and I fell on the pavement (I'm a amputee). now right next to/above my left eyebrow is a scar that to this day looks very cool it like almost looks like a eyebrow slit but above the eyebrow.