My sis and I were talking the other day about the accidents and mishaps we used to have as kids (which was started by a conversation we were having about the accidents and mishaps our kids are currently having!) For us it was mostly cuts and scrapes that came from falling of our bikes or coming off skateboards or while playing sport or something like that. Luckily there were no broken bones and no trips to the emergency ward unlike a lot of the other kids we knew!
Anyone out there have any interesting childhood accident stories?
I've never had any broken bones (touch-wood) but when I was 3 I fell off a slippery-dip and fractured my skull and spent a few days in hospital, that's probably the worst "accident". Whenever I do irrational things, I half-jokingly blame that incident from years ago. I once fell through the ceiling (and got stuck) at my great aunt's place when my father and I were fixing her roof, although I was about 14/15 then. It hurt quite a lot with scrape marks up my body, but it was more embarrassing than anything else. Apart from the usual array of cuts and abrasions from misadventure, falling off bikes and skateboards, bee stings, etc, that's about it.