I probably should not publicly confess the many stupid things I do but I figure that my reputation cannot get any lower. It's pretty amazing as to how many silly ways I can find to hurt my self. Today, I was planting some new grapevines beside an existing trellis. I took a mighty swing with a pick mattock and caught the second trellis wire creating significant tension on the wire. Said tension propelled the mattock back causing the head of the mattock to strike its unfortunate user in the head. Luckily the pick did not hit me. Having witnessed this event, SWMBO let me take a five minute break. One silver lining to being as dense as I am is that I have a very hard head that metal objects bounce off of leaving only a slight headache.
I was squatting down hammering a nail with a hatchet that had a hammer head on one side and hatchet on the other. My little brother walked up behind me and I hit him in the head with the hatched blade on the backswing! Still has the scar.
That same hatchet got me, too. Winter was coming and we had wooden panels that fit into the windows on the horse stalls in the cold weather. I had left it too long and it snowed before I got them installed. They got wet and swelled enough that they didn't want to go in the windows. I had my shoulder against the panel and was hammering the bottom edge trying to drive it into the window opening, and missed. Hit myself right between the eyes with the hammer head. Woke up in a snowbank with a waffle mark on my forehead from the hammer. Wore that mark for weeks.
