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The Dumbest Ways People Have Ever Gotten A Scar

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"A Redditor asked: 'What is the dumbest way you've gotten a scar?'"

So many people try to do away with scars and blemishes.

They can be seen as ugly.

But they tell the stories of our lives.

Maybe it's not the best memory.

But you're still alive to tell the tale.

However, not all scars are from some epic story.


A deleted Redditor wanted to hear the best stories behind everyone's body blemishes, so they asked:

"What is the dumbest way you've gotten a scar?"

I have a scar on my upper lip from when I was 5.

I learned fast... don't dance to Madonna on your mother's bed, in her high heels, on a dark and rainy Saturday afternoon.

Save it for the light.

Killer Kitty

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"Tripped over my kitten and busted my head open on my sofa."

Fragrant-Prompt1826

"This is definitely believable, I swear my cat tries to off me everyday"

ShadAppNKissMe

Damn tart

"Pop tart. Wild berry flavor. Permanent burn scars on my leg. I was young and dumb. Toasting my pop tart. When I pulled it out the frosting was so hot it was literally bubbling. I dropped it because it was burning my fingertips. Dropped it right onto my leg frosting side down. I went to wipe it away. Gave me almost third-degree burns. Had to go straight to the hospital. Still have the scars 20 years later."

Travelerofuranus

Tough

"I have one on the back of my hand from rubbing the skin off with a pencil eraser longer than the other kid did when I was 13 just to prove I was 'tough.'"

REDDIT

"The real tough kids did three on each hand. So it looks like that's where your Wolverine claws came out."

KielReid

"I did that stupid crap in school, thank f**k it didn't leave any scars. But yeah I was that troubled youth who had no outlet. I hated myself for it until both hands healed up."

faultydatadisc

Bottles Flying

"An old roommate and I had a snowball fight but with beer bottles. We were the only ones home, one wall of the living room was like natural rock. And it started with throwing bottles across the living room into the wall and devolved into throwing them at each other. I caught a bit in the arm when one smashed near me across the counter, haha."

Reddit

Revenge

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"I twisted the head off of my little sister's baby doll."

"She hit me in the head with a garden hoe. 11 stitches."

TrailerParkPrepper

Revenge is real when it comes to the dolls.

Don't lose your head... or the heads of your siblings' favorite doll.

Stumbled

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"I got a glass bowl full of ice cream, stumbled, and didn't let go of the bowl, so it cut open my hand. It's a common reflex of small children because ice cream 'is precious,' but still stupid because I had to wear a bandage for 2 weeks."

cantSleepalready

Cracked Brows

"My brother, sister, and I all have the same kind of scar on our left eyebrow and got them at the same age. My brother opened an empty dresser drawer and smacked himself in the face, my sister ran into a brick wall and I fell off the couch onto a coffee table."

Alternative-Volume82

"My dad and brother have a similar saga. My dad climbed out of his crib when he was little and split his left eyebrow open, my brother got out of the bathtub and cracked his head on the toilet and they have matching eyebrow scars."

TallOne101213

Stalagmite

"For my 8th birthday, a classmate got me something like a 'grow your own stalagmite' kit you could buy at educational stores. Apparently, the purpose was to add water to some powder material and use a funnel in the kit to drip it down to make your own cave features. Exciting, I know. Anyway, I kept it and the other birthday presents I got in a cardboard box in my room. Evidently, at some point, moisture got into the box and the plastic the powder was in, and it began expanding."

"Having nowhere else to go, the 'stalagmite' material oozed its way out through the narrow slits in its box and hardened into razor-sharp edges. I found this out quite bloodily when I put my hand into my birthday box to grab another toy, and pulled it out with permanently altered fingerprints on my thumb, index, and middle fingers."

Real-Extent5559

Make the Cookies

"When I was 4 I got too excited to go outside and ran through a storm door. Ripped my arm up well and required a bunch of stitches. Due to the position, there was no way for them to numb it, so they stitched it without anything. Two days later, I was helping my mom make cookies, and I tripped and ripped them all over again."

"30+ years later and I now have a scar on my left arm that looks like a bite mark."

"I have another on my wrist because I once stuck my hand up a gumball machine, trying to steal a gumball, and it got stuck. When I finally got it out, it ripped the skin off a chunk of my wrist."

2PhatCC

The Fall

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"In fifth grade, I asked a girl to be my girlfriend. She said no. I turned around and fell down a hill and slashed my ankle open on a rock. I have a lifelong scar to remind me of the rejection."

drmanhattannfriends

We really have to be more careful.

Our bodies are way too fragile.

Do you have an scar stories to share? Let us know in the comments below.

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