Posted on 08/19/2016 7:38:14 AM PDT by gigster
I was at my local Rexall Drugstore shipping out a package from UPS when I went outside and walked around the corner, my left foot shot out from under me almost over my head. After regaining my balance, I looked back and there was a Banana peel on the sidewalk behind me with a skid-mark underneath it.
I had an anvil fall on my head
I was bit by a centipede in the hand once, my hand swelled to cartoon size.
I was sledding in Connecticut during the great ice storm in the early ‘70s. The ice on top of the snow was so thick and hard that the sled runners went on top of it. I wen down the hill fast, but had VERY little control. I could not avoid the willow tree, each piece covered with ice, and my head went clink clink clink all along its northern perimeter. It didn’t hurt, of course, but it still looked like something that would happen in an Archie comic book.
Stepped on tines of a garden rake that was leaning against the fence and the handle jumped forward and hit me in the head.
In my defense, I didn’t even see the rake because it was hidden in the weeds. Because that is what I grow in my garden.
My legs turned into a sled gliding down the stairs. One leg in front. The other bent back at the knee. With me trying to grab the rail to stop the slide and my body swiveling toward the rail.
How I didn’t break something is beyond me. My knee is still jacked up over it.
I was riding my bike at night. A cat ran directly in front of me. I swerved sharply, hit something (not the cat), went airborn, flipped, and landed in a ditch. Unhurt, by God’s grace.
I went "Drag Racing"
I was about 10 riding my pony in a field and he tripped, falling slightly on his front legs. I did a perfect somersault down his neck and landed on my butt.
Entry on behalf of my dear departed cat, Jean-Marie. We had just moved into a new house, and kitty brough home a rabbit. The rabbit played dead. When Jean-Marie loosened his grip, the rabbit ran onto the newly polished wood floors and a large open floor plan. The turning and skidding throughout the house looked just like a Tom and Jerry cartoon, they are more realistic than you’d think. After five minutes of this I opened the front door and let the bunny go out to freedom. Jean-Marie was never a good finisher. He sulked for a while, and the bunny had a story to tell to Flopsie and her litter.
At my first industrial job in school, I was walking around the plant, turned a corner, and ran full-tilt into a 2-foot pipe that was hanging at forehead level. I was knocked flat on my back before I realized what had happened.
If I hadn’t been wearing a hard hat, I’d probably have knocked myself out cold. As it was, it didn’t hurt a bit. Ironically, it was because of the hat that I didn’t see the pipe...
I tried to drive through a tunnel, but it was a rock wall that was just painted to look like a tunnel entrance...
I had a hard time getting my insurance co. to believe me....
I had an anvil fall on my head
Steinway, I believe.
If it was a cartoon, I would have looked at the camera, rolled my eyes and shook my head.
Didn’t happen to me but several of my friends were taking turns water skiing. One guy had finished his rounds of the lake and turned loose of the tow rope and glided to shore.
He came in too fast, hit the shore, did a 360 degree somersault in the air, landed perfectly on his feet and ran another 10 yards.
I would not have believed it if I had not seen it.
Wrecked my pickup, flipped over. Crawled out, woozily went to nearby house to ask to use phone. Tiny mutt barked its head off at me in yard, I walked by it to go up porch and it jumped up and bit me directly upon my butt cheek. Yes, it hung there until I swatted it off.
Freegards
Ran into the grocery store to hit the ATM, while my husband was going to drive around and pick me up at the door in gold Toyota. Got the money and ran out, opened the car door and got in. Said, “I only got $240, because it only gives twenties....”. Looked over, and the driver was a teenage boy, in his gold Honda. I WAS MORTIFIED.... He was probably stunned. Later it was funny.
Most cartoonish thing? I finished mowing the lawn, put the lawnmower in the garage, and pulled the rope for the door while looking out onto the driveway. BAM! Closed the bloody thing right onto my head. That is one heavy item crashing down on your coconut.
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