My Personal History of Accidents: A Story of Childhood Chaos and Adult Adversity

As I sit here reflecting on my life, I am reminded of the numerous times I've managed to find myself in precarious situations. From childhood mishaps to adult misadventures, it seems like I have a knack for getting into trouble. In this article, I'll share with you some of the most memorable accidents that have shaped me into the person I am today.

One of my earliest memories is of slipping on a patch of ice outside my house when I was just four or five years old. My mom had warned me not to go out without wearing shoes, but I had been convinced that I could handle it without any problems. As I walked home from school with my tongue out, trying to catch myself, I lost my footing and slid down a nearby incline, jamming my chin into my knee. The pain was excruciating, but it was the aftermath that really got me – I had bitten off part of my tongue while trying to break my fall. To make matters worse, the stitches were made of catgut, which dissolved after it healed, leaving a nasty scar.

As I grew older, my accidents became more frequent and more serious. When I was nine years old, I was riding a scooter for a race when I fell and slid across the concrete on my knee. The sight of my own bone protruding from my skin still haunts me to this day. I was rushed to the hospital, where I spent several days in recovery. Three years later, I woke up with a scar on my knee that looked like raw meat – a constant reminder of my childhood mishap.

One of my favorite (and most embarrassing) stories is about the time I accidentally bit off part of my tongue while trying to catch a falling phone at 40 meters high. Yes, you read that right – 40 meters! I was sitting on a rooftop with my friend, taking a selfie, when my phone slipped out of my hands and fell towards me. Without hesitation, I leaned in to catch it, and ended up face-first onto the concrete below. Luckily, my phone survived, but I didn't fare so well – I suffered a broken nose and a sprained arch on my left foot.

As a teenager, I was involved in another serious accident when I fell off a scooter while racing down a slide at school. By the time I got to the bottom of the slide, I had jammed my chin into my knee, leaving me with a nasty gash that required stitches. The aftermath was traumatic – I had to spend several days on crutches and was unable to attend school for weeks.

One of my most recent accidents occurred when I was out sailing with friends last summer. I tripped over nothing (I still don't know what it was) and fell onto a rock, fracturing my wrist and slicing off the tip of my toe. It was a sobering experience, but one that taught me to always be more careful in the future.

Throughout my life, I've come to realize that accidents can happen to anyone at any time. While some may see them as mere mishaps, I believe they have the power to shape us into the people we are today. Mine have taught me valuable lessons about perseverance, humility, and the importance of wearing shoes on icy patches.

If you're wondering what my biggest accident ever was, I'll share that with you – it happened when I was five years old and fell off a swing at recess. It wasn't exactly a grand or dramatic experience, but it left me with a noticeable scar above my lip that still makes me laugh to this day.

In conclusion, accidents are an inevitable part of life. While they can be painful and frustrating, they can also teach us valuable lessons about ourselves and the world around us. So, the next time you find yourself in a precarious situation, just remember – it's all part of growing up!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow's it going guys I am Matthias and welcome to another reading at your comments and yes you probably noticed the background is slightly different it's because I am on the beach of carpinteria you might see a couple of these videos because well I'm on vacation today I am reading all the stories in which you hurt yourself really bad and remember instead of very end to hear my story of when I hurt myself really bad but before we begin that today's question of the day is what was your biggest accident like ever leave that down the comments below and I might read it for a future episode I was I think 9 when I went over to my neighbor's house to play on their trampoline I jumped on my butt in the trampoline and my knee hit my jaw I couldn't lose my teeth for two weeks ok I was like 4 when this happened I was sitting on the window seal when the window open and my mom kept telling me not to lean on the screen but I wouldn't listen and eventually after I leaned on the screen it popped out and I fell out the window which was a pretty big drop I was so close to hitting the concrete patio but luckily I missed and hit the grass and I hit the ground hard and slammed my chin to the ground making me bite my lip so hard ouch ouch ouch ouch was that you didn't clarify it but was second story or first story I'm hoping it was first story I was about 5 or 6 and I thought it was funny to stick my middle finger into a metal blade fan on a number three speed I lost my whole fingernail but it's ok now I thought you're gonna say you lost your old finger we had a substitute teacher in textiles who wasn't supervising the class at all so everyone was goofing off my two friends were joking around and started chasing each other around the table one running with a sharp fabrics shears as I held out my arm to stop her from running she started snipping the scissors and cut my open hand oh I had to get three stitches and the nerves in my right pinky and finger no longer when I was in third grade I was prone to nosebleeds during the lesson I felt blood running down my lip I was about to ask if I could go to the nurse but then I sneezed and it splattered on my forearm with nose blood also covering my lower lip with blood my teacher screamed and sent me to the nurse took me I was the hour to explain why no I don't need to go to the hospital all I did was sneeze when I was six I was playing tag with my friends I climbed through the metal fence that was on the wall get away but I didn't realize that a stray piece of metal had scratched my arm and latched into my skin so when I jumped off the wall by bites in on my arm oh I was walking down the stairs and fell over them I flew over the banister and landed on the TV I got up and took the TV back from this I had broke my nose arm and wrist I went to the kitchen and got my cereal I walked up the stairs and tripped up them proceeding to sprain my ankle I got my cereal though I'm like I just woke up guys can you break the bank used to see the creases on my face from when I was sleeping I was hanging out with my sister while she was playing a city building game on her PC she built a hospital and and I said nobody will ever need a hospital in your town or this town I went up to the kitchen to get water I slipped and cracked my head open we ended up meeting that hospital when I was about 6 I accidentally fell down a cliff I ended up breaking my right leg right arm and had to get a kneecap replaced oh when you were six when I was riding a bike the wheel suddenly turned to the side I fell face-first in the pavement and my tooth went all the way through my lip I was playing around with my friends in the backyard and a friend of mine accidentally pushed me i sprawled on the ground and another friend of mine he's really fat ran me over with a bicycle some of my bones were cracked real bad so I didn't have to go to the hospital wait so I did have to go toss well like you didn't what I was running to my friend like they do in the movies and I ended up getting my foot stuck in a hole and falling onto my face last time I hurt myself bad was when I was a little kid like six I decided to climb the bookshelf and I was a quarter of the way to the top when the whole bookshelf came down on top of me I haven't made her scar on my head now I was in Turkey for vacation when I went into the sea I got stung by a jellyfish I thought it was a plant so I grabbed it with my hand and threw it away a month ago I was making myself PB&J for a quick snack as I grabbed the jelly from the fridge I slipped and fell on the floor at the bottom of it coming off being the stupid person that I am I didn't check to see if there was glass anywhere and steps on a piece of glass my mother put some superglue on the cut and I had to sleep with my foot on a pillow all night superglue is actually a really great trick if you ever just like slice open something and want stitches right away Soubirous words when I was little I was at a restaurant running around and the waiter was walking with a burning hot plate of food and dropped it on me yep when I was climbing in my tree in the backyard and then I heard a snap and I looked down and the branches breaking under me I tried the jump but I missed and I fell all the way down and landed on my arm and a thorn bush oh I screamed for my mom and she carried me to the hospital I broke my arms so I've broken my wrist before I've I've liked bit off my tongue before I broken my hand before I think that's all only a things that I've broken personally but I was like super young so I don't really remember much of it last time I really hurt myself is when I was at my friend's house playing with a dog she has an aggressive little dog with a snaggletooth in fact I didn't know how snaggletooth so long story short the dog leaped at my face and I have a scar that reaches from my lip to my chin I'm never allowed to go back to her house when I was 9 I was riding a scooter for a race I fell and slid my knee across the concrete I saw a bone not the best sight three years later I have a scar on my knee that looks like meat when I was about five I want him graham gonna cut my Apple so I grabbed a sharp knife and accidentally slip on my thumb but I didn't have to go to the hospital but I have a scar on my thumb great-grandma just really great gorilla not lazy at all oh you were five okay I was gonna be like if you were 20 I mean she she would have been right and staying do it yourself but you're five the last time I hurt myself was last summer when I was out on the river and tripped over nothing I ended up fracturing my wrist and slicing off the tip of the end of my toe on a rock I had no clue what I tripped over then it sounds like you tripped over a knife I was sitting on a rooftop with my friend just talking then I wanted to take a selfie so I held my camera to the and my phone falls out the air of pure instinct I leaned in order to catch the phone I fell 40 meters but the phone is ok oh my gosh she fell 40 meters 40 meters 40 meters would that kill you when I was in a smoothie shop with my friend we were sitting in the high bar chair sipping our drinks with my crush walked by I wanted to look suave so I leaned back in the chair didn't have a bag that's the best that's the best that's my favorite comment it was just my bit was that was that well in sixth grade two days after my birthday I was walking to school when I slept on an incline patch of ice about three blocks away from my home because my hands were in my pockets preventing me from catching myself I felt face-first on the ice and broke my nose out the walk home was a shameful one about three days from my birthday I walked to the garage to get soda and then somehow slept this sprained my arch on my left foot and I was on crutches for about a month all because of that soda all right so when I hurt myself really bad I was about I don't know four or five and I was sliding down a slide and by the time I got down to the very end of the slide I jammed my chin into my knee right but my tongue was that you know when you're a kid your tongues always out you're always like doing stuff right so basically I jump my face into my knee and my tongue was out and I bit it off I bit it off it was hanging just by just just the tad just just a little bit I was hanging by a little bit I had to get it sewn back on evidently the stitches were like made of catgut so it dissolved after it healed it wasn't a really great experience all right guys if you enjoyed this video remember to give it a like and answer the question of the day which is what is your biggest accident ever and if you'd like check out a previous ROIC or or the next ryc I guess depending on when you're watching it there could be another one alright guys high-fivehow's it going guys I am Matthias and welcome to another reading at your comments and yes you probably noticed the background is slightly different it's because I am on the beach of carpinteria you might see a couple of these videos because well I'm on vacation today I am reading all the stories in which you hurt yourself really bad and remember instead of very end to hear my story of when I hurt myself really bad but before we begin that today's question of the day is what was your biggest accident like ever leave that down the comments below and I might read it for a future episode I was I think 9 when I went over to my neighbor's house to play on their trampoline I jumped on my butt in the trampoline and my knee hit my jaw I couldn't lose my teeth for two weeks ok I was like 4 when this happened I was sitting on the window seal when the window open and my mom kept telling me not to lean on the screen but I wouldn't listen and eventually after I leaned on the screen it popped out and I fell out the window which was a pretty big drop I was so close to hitting the concrete patio but luckily I missed and hit the grass and I hit the ground hard and slammed my chin to the ground making me bite my lip so hard ouch ouch ouch ouch was that you didn't clarify it but was second story or first story I'm hoping it was first story I was about 5 or 6 and I thought it was funny to stick my middle finger into a metal blade fan on a number three speed I lost my whole fingernail but it's ok now I thought you're gonna say you lost your old finger we had a substitute teacher in textiles who wasn't supervising the class at all so everyone was goofing off my two friends were joking around and started chasing each other around the table one running with a sharp fabrics shears as I held out my arm to stop her from running she started snipping the scissors and cut my open hand oh I had to get three stitches and the nerves in my right pinky and finger no longer when I was in third grade I was prone to nosebleeds during the lesson I felt blood running down my lip I was about to ask if I could go to the nurse but then I sneezed and it splattered on my forearm with nose blood also covering my lower lip with blood my teacher screamed and sent me to the nurse took me I was the hour to explain why no I don't need to go to the hospital all I did was sneeze when I was six I was playing tag with my friends I climbed through the metal fence that was on the wall get away but I didn't realize that a stray piece of metal had scratched my arm and latched into my skin so when I jumped off the wall by bites in on my arm oh I was walking down the stairs and fell over them I flew over the banister and landed on the TV I got up and took the TV back from this I had broke my nose arm and wrist I went to the kitchen and got my cereal I walked up the stairs and tripped up them proceeding to sprain my ankle I got my cereal though I'm like I just woke up guys can you break the bank used to see the creases on my face from when I was sleeping I was hanging out with my sister while she was playing a city building game on her PC she built a hospital and and I said nobody will ever need a hospital in your town or this town I went up to the kitchen to get water I slipped and cracked my head open we ended up meeting that hospital when I was about 6 I accidentally fell down a cliff I ended up breaking my right leg right arm and had to get a kneecap replaced oh when you were six when I was riding a bike the wheel suddenly turned to the side I fell face-first in the pavement and my tooth went all the way through my lip I was playing around with my friends in the backyard and a friend of mine accidentally pushed me i sprawled on the ground and another friend of mine he's really fat ran me over with a bicycle some of my bones were cracked real bad so I didn't have to go to the hospital wait so I did have to go toss well like you didn't what I was running to my friend like they do in the movies and I ended up getting my foot stuck in a hole and falling onto my face last time I hurt myself bad was when I was a little kid like six I decided to climb the bookshelf and I was a quarter of the way to the top when the whole bookshelf came down on top of me I haven't made her scar on my head now I was in Turkey for vacation when I went into the sea I got stung by a jellyfish I thought it was a plant so I grabbed it with my hand and threw it away a month ago I was making myself PB&J for a quick snack as I grabbed the jelly from the fridge I slipped and fell on the floor at the bottom of it coming off being the stupid person that I am I didn't check to see if there was glass anywhere and steps on a piece of glass my mother put some superglue on the cut and I had to sleep with my foot on a pillow all night superglue is actually a really great trick if you ever just like slice open something and want stitches right away Soubirous words when I was little I was at a restaurant running around and the waiter was walking with a burning hot plate of food and dropped it on me yep when I was climbing in my tree in the backyard and then I heard a snap and I looked down and the branches breaking under me I tried the jump but I missed and I fell all the way down and landed on my arm and a thorn bush oh I screamed for my mom and she carried me to the hospital I broke my arms so I've broken my wrist before I've I've liked bit off my tongue before I broken my hand before I think that's all only a things that I've broken personally but I was like super young so I don't really remember much of it last time I really hurt myself is when I was at my friend's house playing with a dog she has an aggressive little dog with a snaggletooth in fact I didn't know how snaggletooth so long story short the dog leaped at my face and I have a scar that reaches from my lip to my chin I'm never allowed to go back to her house when I was 9 I was riding a scooter for a race I fell and slid my knee across the concrete I saw a bone not the best sight three years later I have a scar on my knee that looks like meat when I was about five I want him graham gonna cut my Apple so I grabbed a sharp knife and accidentally slip on my thumb but I didn't have to go to the hospital but I have a scar on my thumb great-grandma just really great gorilla not lazy at all oh you were five okay I was gonna be like if you were 20 I mean she she would have been right and staying do it yourself but you're five the last time I hurt myself was last summer when I was out on the river and tripped over nothing I ended up fracturing my wrist and slicing off the tip of the end of my toe on a rock I had no clue what I tripped over then it sounds like you tripped over a knife I was sitting on a rooftop with my friend just talking then I wanted to take a selfie so I held my camera to the and my phone falls out the air of pure instinct I leaned in order to catch the phone I fell 40 meters but the phone is ok oh my gosh she fell 40 meters 40 meters 40 meters would that kill you when I was in a smoothie shop with my friend we were sitting in the high bar chair sipping our drinks with my crush walked by I wanted to look suave so I leaned back in the chair didn't have a bag that's the best that's the best that's my favorite comment it was just my bit was that was that well in sixth grade two days after my birthday I was walking to school when I slept on an incline patch of ice about three blocks away from my home because my hands were in my pockets preventing me from catching myself I felt face-first on the ice and broke my nose out the walk home was a shameful one about three days from my birthday I walked to the garage to get soda and then somehow slept this sprained my arch on my left foot and I was on crutches for about a month all because of that soda all right so when I hurt myself really bad I was about I don't know four or five and I was sliding down a slide and by the time I got down to the very end of the slide I jammed my chin into my knee right but my tongue was that you know when you're a kid your tongues always out you're always like doing stuff right so basically I jump my face into my knee and my tongue was out and I bit it off I bit it off it was hanging just by just just the tad just just a little bit I was hanging by a little bit I had to get it sewn back on evidently the stitches were like made of catgut so it dissolved after it healed it wasn't a really great experience all right guys if you enjoyed this video remember to give it a like and answer the question of the day which is what is your biggest accident ever and if you'd like check out a previous ROIC or or the next ryc I guess depending on when you're watching it there could be another one alright guys high-five\n"