Reply #101: I actually gave myself an infection with a potato masher

[VelmaD]

True story. I had pulled it out of the kitchen drawer while Mom was cooking and was running around the house with it. She told me to stop. I didn't listen. I jumped up on top of a footstool in the living room, and when I jumped down, I landed with my leg on top of the potato masher. It didn't break the skin...but a couple hours later my leg was swollen and red and I ended up with a case of cellulitis in my leg. Had to get shots at the hospital every day for what seemed like forever when I was little.

Yup...I almost killed myself with a potato masher. *snort*

Not nearly as funny as riding the skateboard with the dog pulling it, hitting a patch of gravel and going flying. That time I ended up in the emergency room having a rock dug out of my hand (not a good thing when you're a serious pianist). Of course I only went to the emergency room after my parents, who both worked AT THE HOSPITAL, spent over an hour trying to dig it out themselves.

We won't even get into what happened with the mini-cycle and the tree.