Everyone has an injury story, and practically everyone also has an injury story that involves some level of stupidity.
C'mon, be honest. We've all injured ourselves in a dumb way.
Well, if you don't want to share publicly, you can check out a recent r/AskReddit thread with the title, "What is the stupidest injury you've ever gotten?"
"Awkwardly caught it on their body and the ligament of my stretched thumb popped off and took some bone with it!"
"When I landed on my back, my knee came down and I gave myself a black eye."
"Vertebrae in my lower back slipped out of position. Nine weeks on disability. Then got laid off."
"...so that I wouldn’t be in trouble from riding on the back of a moving truck."
"It looks like a big Captain Hook hand, except it's welded to a metal bar. You stab it into small bales of hay to make them easier to drag around.
One day I missed the hay and hit my knee."
"It dislodged a herniated disc causing me to collapse and rupturing my vertebrae, crippling me permanently. So yeah, I got crippled with a sneeze."
"I wasn't watching where I was going and rode off a retaining wall. I got a concussion from that."
"My mom said I had a llama foot-shaped bruise on my back for a couple weeks.
They closed the petting zoo after that. When it reopened, they no longer allowed people inside the animal pens."
"I was so excited I rode hard and fast towards her and forgot to brake. I rode my bike into a wall and broke my hand. On a positive note I got the biggest piece of cake."
"I have laughed at my idiot 20-year-old self all day, along with my husband and children. Apparently, I had never told them HOW I broke my foot long ago. They have been highly amused."
"So my bright six-year-old brain told me to get into an all fours position and try rubbing my forehead into the carpet… well I did that and ended up taking a small layer of skin off that took ages to heal completely."
"My dad missed the play where one of the wide receivers injured his ankle. 'Oh dad, he did this!'. I ended up with the same injury."
"He knocked me out cold for a few seconds and I ended up with a very swollen black eye, for about 10 days. He was actually just getting a better footing - not being difficult at all - and it was just a tap, but I looked like I had been KO'ed by Lennox Lewis in Round one."
"Tortícolis. I had to call my dad to come to the college, help me down three flights of stairs, and take me to the ER. Ruined my whole two-week Christmas break."
"Friend of mine was confused how he could have gotten hurt on that play, so he tried to mimic exactly what Rose did to see if he could feel any pressure in his knee.
...he tore his meniscus."
"I'm adding this because of a lot of the replies I'm getting: this was well before M.C. Hammer was famous. I was wearing a costume -- think Disney's version of Aladdin. Except this was before that, too."
"I hit a big root, went flying forward into the wheelbarrow, and ended up crashing into a tree like 40 feet down hill."
"So I give it 10 pumps, hand it to her, walk over to the tire and as I'm setting the pop can on the tire, she shoots me in the ass. Took a doctor ten minutes to dig it out."
"It did NOT hold my weight. In my defense, there WAS a thick layer of dust. However, I did fall 10ft, landed on a cement floor, my back hit first and then my head, I did go to the hospital, I did get all kinds of scans, and I got out of there with no injuries aside from a fractured vertebrae."
"Basic tendon repair went over well, but my middle finger got infected. They had to put a tendon from my leg into my hand. Three surgeries over a [expletive] bagel."
