When desks & Clipboards attack (or "EB is a klutz")

[Electric Banana]

So as I've said many times, I'm a massive klutz. MASSIVE doesn't even begin to describe it accurately sometimes. Speaking as a klutz, I will say that usually I wake up and can tell whether it's going to be a klutzy day or not.

Within 1 minute of waking up at 9:30 AM today, to Gorillaz playing through my iHome alarm clock... I stubbed my toe on my desk. Did I say toe? I mean TOES. No, not two... THREE. I stubbed 3 toes on my left foot. I hopped to my alarm clock with a tear rolling down my cheek, and shut it off... My toes were red and purple for about 30 minutes...

I already knew today was going to be a a rough day...

I got to work today, and within 30 minutes I'd already dropped a soap dish and broke it on the floor. Luckily, we had another one in a stock...because the customer had already bought it, and it was on a gift registry. Go me.

So then, 30 minutes before my shift ended? I was standing in customer service, being told to do something by one of the managers... I turned around to take care of it, and a clipboard jumped out and bit me.
...or at least, that's what the police report says.
No, I didn't really file a police report... lolz.

I'm in a goofy mood right now.

So anyway... here's a pic...

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh9/electricbanana/scrape.jpg

In case you can't see it... It's in the spot where the green crescent shape is...

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh9/electricbanana/scrapedoodle.jpg

What klutzy things have you gotten up to lately? Can you usually tell if it's going to be a klutzy day when you wake up?

[Evil]

LOL

Where do you work? It sound dangerous.

[Matron]

I've always been pretty klutzy myself. The other day, I managed to burn both hands, at different times, doing different things, I broke a glass, and I whacked my leg against the corner of a table.

I never get hurt bad enough to need medical attention, but I'm always knocking, whacking, cutting, burning, or bruising something.

[Electric Banana]

LOL

Where do you work? It sound dangerous.

Bed, Bath, and Beyond. :)

Dire: I have so many burn moments. The ones that really stand out is when I burned my hand on the heating element in the oven... The scar still makes a smilie face with my knuckles.
And you know something? A couple of weeks after I did that? I DID IT AGAIN. SAME SPOT.
Blarg!

[Matron]

Heh, I've done that too. More than once.

Setting a thumbnail on fire is quite interesting too, if stinky.

[Electric Banana]

I could really go on with stories...how about, when I was about 9 years old, my Dad was burning some branches he'd cut out of a tree... And I was walking around barefooted, as country girls often do... And I stepped on an ember! OUCHIE!

[Matron]

I've stepped on yellow jackets and honey bees and gotten stung. I stood on the hood of a riding lawn mower once, it opened up on me, dumped me off onto the motor, and I still have a scar on my back from that, I've been stung on the ass by a scorpion in my shorts, I knocked my front teeth out when I was 3, falling down door steps..... yeah I could go on and on for days too, lmao. But I'll stop now.

[Electric Banana]

Yeah I've done the stepping on a bee thing...I've also stepped on a gopher snake, it was in the house of all places... I stepped on it with the arch of my foot, so not much weight was put on it. But still!

I nearly broke my arm once tripping over my nephew's toys.
I broke my nose while tickling my nephew.
I'm just generally klutzy. lol I think we sing just about the same tune, Dire! :)

[Evil]

I broke my nose while tickling my nephew.

O.o

Please... elaborate. How does tickling your nephew lead to a broken nose? Did he punch you?

MY TURN!

I slipped on our cement carport, landing my face on the edge of a cement step when I was much younger. The scar is barely visible now, but it's there if you look.

I've smashed my left ring finger with a hammer. And I mean smashed. Skin torn, blood everywhere. Messy. Another scar.

I shattered a mirror against a wall and cut my finger. Well, breaking the mirror was intentional... And another scar.

I once decided it would be cool to take some of my toys... and burn them. Well one such toy decided to strike back, by having a hot blob of plastic fall onto my wrist and burn the hell out of it. Another scar.

I cut my finger with a sharp razor at my uncle's barber shop. I swear I don't know how. I don't remember even touching the damn blade. Scar.

[Matron]

I broke my big toe kicking a bowling ball when I was around 7.

Every other ball I'd ever seen was kickable, how was I supposed to know a bowling ball was hard and heavy?

[Electric Banana]

O.o

Please... elaborate. How does tickling your nephew lead to a broken nose? Did he punch you?He was lying on my lap... I was tickling him... He kicked me.

Yep. Living with a busted septum =/= fun. Luckily I had surgery to correct my septum about 5 or 6 years ago.

Another story?
When I was in high school, I was in drama. We had to write our own sketches and characters, and we were given a situation. Like being stuck in an elevator or on an airplane, or something. I borrowed my friend Beau's (yeah, his name was actually Beau) skateboard because my character was a skaterdude. I thought I'd play around with the skateboard just a little bit to get an idea about what I was getting into... Also, in case I was some natural at it, I could ride it during the sketch. Well... I was standing on it in the garage, and talking to Beau on the phone for pointers.

The board went one way, I went the other. I hit my teeth on the cement. I was lucky I didn't knock any out of my mouth! DAMN it hurt.

[Jarrid]

Jeez, EB. Take it easy there. ;)

I am very clumsy everyday. I always hit my head on ceiling fans. I usually trip over myself all the time, so it looks like I am a hungover bastard at work, however, that statement is most of the time true. There is a lot more to list, but most of it involves my horrible memory.

[Tenacious P]

You must be tall if you're hitting your head on ceiling fans. I'm 6'3'' and that never happens to me.

I don't get injured a lot due to clumsiness--just embarrassed. I accidentally pulled down my track shorts when removing my sweats at a track meet, exposing myself to like 50 people. And at that same meet, I smacked my head straight into the high jump bar on the way up. That was graceful.

[Jarrid]

6'5-6'6. Something around there. If it is not the fan I hit, it will be the bulb. Luckily, some people build their ceilings a little higher. Not in my room, though. When I wake up and step out of bed, I hit that thing all the time.

[Electric Banana]

I don't get injured a lot due to clumsiness--just embarrassed. I accidentally pulled down my track shorts when removing my sweats at a track meet, exposing myself to like 50 people. And at that same meet, I smacked my head straight into the high jump bar on the way up. That was graceful.Damn...and where was I!? ;)