How do you most often injure yourself?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (218828)
Walnut Creek, California
January 2, 2017 3:24pm CST
I am injured again. I will have to see if it affects my guitar playing.
After recovering from the ecstasy of vacuuming this morning, I decided to run my dishwasher.
It was then that it happened. While removing the clean silverware, a sharp knife sliced my finger virtually to ribbons.
I put antibacterial ointment on it and a made toilet paper and tape band-aid. I believe I will make a full recovery.
Two days ago I hiked into mountain lion and rattlesnake country and climbed over precarious rocks, with 50 foot drops. No injury.
Yesterday, on my way home from a New Years Day party, I drove Hwy 4 at night, where random shootings occur with regularity. No injury.
Earlier this morning, I pruned my tomato and succulent plants with a very sharp pocket knife. No injury.
Then I made bagels and lox with red onion, sliced with a sharp and serrated knife. No injury.
I realized that my most dangerous activity is removing silverware from my dishwasher. This has happened many times before.
What is your most dangerous activity?
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22 responses
@AliCanary (3239)
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2 Jan 17
I'm bad for simply bashing into things, and I bruise very easily, so I don't even have to hit too hard to leave a mark. Fortunately bruises don't hurt all that badly. I hope you heal quickly, and just a thought--put your knives in the dishwasher sharp end down, dude!
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@vandana7 (100282)
• India
3 Jan 17
@AliCanary ... Its an art..may be you can learn from Pony...
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@AliCanary (3239)
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2 Jan 17
@TheHorse - They occasionally slip down a bit when I'm putting them in, but I just reposition them. I've never once been cut like that.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
2 Jan 17
I guess cycling, although I take great pains not to crash.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
3 Jan 17
@vandana7 - Motor vehicles. I ride in traffic as little as possible.
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@celticeagle (166915)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Jan 17
I don't usually injure myself. I had a family member push me and I dislocated my shoulder. That is the first time in a long time. My most dangerous is probably going downstairs.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50250)
• United States
2 Jan 17
Walking would be my most dangerous activity. I like to trip myself 
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
3 Jan 17
Heck I don't do anything dangerous. If it's even slightly likely that it's dangerous, I whine and hubby does it lol. I am a fragile flower you know
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@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
2 Jan 17
Walking is my most dangerous activity. I am always running into a bunch of things. There are these brown arm chairs in the student development offices at my college and you have to walk past them to check your mailbox and I always run into them. Every time I walk that way no matter how far away I am from the chair I always seem to ram my thigh into it and they are hard chairs and always leave bruises. Bathroom door handles in the college library is also a problem for me. My hip bones take a beating almost every time.
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@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
3 Jan 17
You sound just like me (and my big sister @dorypanda ) We're often hurting ourselves on random objects. She's OK with knives but can slice her hand open on a spoon. I tend to injure myself without knowing how I've done it. I often cut myself (sometimes I know I've done it at the time) and I'll have cuts, scratches, and bruises which seem to turn up at random. Either because I didn't notice the injury at the time, or because I'd forgotten that I'd hurt myself before it showed up. I have a scratch on my hand at the moment. I remember doing it. I know I was in the kitchen at the time. And I know that I'd completely forgotten what I'd done as soon as I'd done it.
I've been in car accidents and come out entirely unscathed. I took a parachute jump and nothing worse than an ache afterwards. But leave me with a box or a piece of paper, I'll cut myself on it.
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@divalounger (6117)
• United States
2 Jan 17
Ouch! Here is the argument for loading silverware points down I suppose. The last time I cut myself, it hurt for a while all the more since I often make salads with fresh lime juice instead of vinegar--Take care and hope guitar doesn't suffer too much--Driving remains the most dangerous thing I do I suppose--and hopefully that will stay injury free
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@crossbones27 (49436)
• Mojave, California
2 Jan 17
That is the way it goes. I could tame lions and be fine, but get hurt getting out of bed in the morning. Back goes out or one of the dogs leave one of their toys right at the bed and I trip and fall over it. lol Life is weird like that.
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@Letranknight2015 (51957)
• Philippines
2 Jan 17
canned goods were mostly dangerous to me because I used an old canned opener, but my mom's the worst because she uses knife instead. I got injured with opening canned goods, specially the ones that doesn't have an opener.
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@just4him (317041)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
6 Jan 17
It almost seems like you need to wash by hand. Though for me, washing dishes by hand would be my most dangerous activity as I do not put sharp knives in the water. Below all those suds, you can't see them and I've been cut by them on many occasions.
@Dena91 (16636)
• United States
2 Jan 17
Weed eating. It doesn't matter that I've been doing it for years and I can tell you where all the dips and holes are in each yard that I mow and weedeat, it never fails that every season I find myself on the ground at least once because I stepped in a hole or uneven ground. Hope your finger heals. Have a blessed day
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@TheHorse (218828)
• Walnut Creek, California
2 Jan 17
I could see how weed eating could be dangerous. Oh, I forgot that I am regularly tripped by the Indian carpet in my living room. I think it has evil spirits in it because I bought it on the Flathead Indian reservation in Montana but it has a label on it that reads "Made in India."
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@zebra2222 (5268)
• United States
3 Jan 17
You certainly have encountered some dangerous activities.
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
4 Jan 17
I usually bang my toe into something in the house or cut my finger on something or other.
@Beatburn (4286)
• Philippines
3 Jan 17
Hope it heals faster than ever. I always hit my knee on anything that has an edge. As long as it's not against a person over the edge then I will be alright.
I've been more conscious about it the past few days since it's becoming an ordeal to fo up the stairs.
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Jan 17
My last injury involved a nice new peeler. I was scraping the unattractive skin off a carrot, slipped and cut quite a divot at the end of my middle finger, which proceeded to bleed profusely. I had to wear real bandaids for about a week. I even managed to break it open at work for more bleeding and had to re-bandage it there. Sharp instruments are hard on me. Anne even bought me a Michael Jackson-like metallic glove that is supposed to protect the hand.
