(May 26, 2019 at 1:52 pm)Sal Wrote: Broke my right leg in a soccer match in school.

That's what you get for not wearing shoulder pads like innormal football.

Broke my little finger once playing touch rugby.

(May 26, 2019 at 2:47 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Broke my little finger once playing touch rugby.

Inappropriate touching?

(May 26, 2019 at 11:16 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Anyone else getting greasy this weekend wrenching on something?

I just sliced my knuckle on my left thumb - taking the tension off a serpentine belt on an engine I'm pulling. A job I have done a hundred times without incident.

Rule #1 of wrenching - the greasier it is, the more likely you'll cut yourself.

I make it a point never to do that sort of work, so no. But both hands and forearms are pretty well scarred from careless woodworking.

Boru

(May 26, 2019 at 2:54 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(May 26, 2019 at 2:47 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Broke my little finger once playing touch rugby.

Inappropriate touching?

Tackling.

I sliced my finger open pretty good on a serrated Saran-wrap dispenser today.

Very messy.

Nothing today, but I've sure busted 'em in all my years of wrenching on cars, and construction. A couple of the better examples: Mashed a thumb with a 2-pound sledge knocking some concrete foundation forms apart. My eldest son asked, "Why are you saying all those words, daddy?",  as I was ionizing the air in the vicinity. I dropped a disc brake rotor mounted in a mandrel, preparing to machine it. It was hot, so I was holding it with shop towels and it got away from me. About 40 pounds of steel on my right big toe. I was set to graduate from the university at the time I bought my last work boots, so I skimped and didn't pay the extra $10 for the safety toe caps.   I finished the brake job and then went to the hospital.

I had so many my injuries my bones must look like a road map by now

The first time I did that was 20 years ago. I was buying heroin and on my way out, a couple of dudes tried the intercept by syringe method of robbing me. I was in withdrawal and with the score on my pocket. What a nuissance when one just wanted to score in at the next public WC.

So busted my right hand on them, their menacing syringe flew away after a kick. I guess I wasn't so junkie at the time. I had my right hand blacked for like a month, nothing heroin can't make painless.

The second time, was 4 years later, when another dude grabbed my GF at the time, to pull her to dance and I intervened. Got a right wing onto my forehead (when you see them coming offer the forehead), and give him mine. This time I was already free of heroin slavery. Sored like a biatch those knucles. For like two months.

Now, I am reminded everytime the atmospheric pressure changes. A tiny tingling pain happens whenever the weather changes.

My worst one was as a machinist apprentice - I had a free floating drill press fixture grab and spin (850 rpm) and bash the shit out of my left hand. No broken bones -  but you can still see the scar - it caught the ring finger and pushed it outwards so hard that the flesh split backwards from the webbing almost an inch to the base knuckle.

Workmans comp for 3 weeks....

Other fun one - stuck my left thumb into a bandsaw blade - cut down to just nicking bone. Taped it up and went to my birthday party. No stitches. Left nice scar. Good party though. Worth the scar.