I used this on One-Liner Wednesday a while back and it still holds true.
An episode of Two And A Half Men a few years ago centered around Alan’s choice of relatives to send Jake to live with in the unlikely event that he and his estranged wife both died. He chose some distant relatives that lived on a farm in Vermont, which upset his mother and his brother Charlie. Alan made things worse by saying that Charlie was too irresponsible to be left in charge of Jake.
Alan had to go somewhere and reluctantly left Jake in Charlie’s care. Jake and Charlie were playing basketball in the driveway and Jake took a tumble and ended up needing stitches. Charlie actually did all right in this crisis and got the kid to the hospital, but still felt guilty that Jake had been injured. Alan wasn’t upset at all, saying that "it’s part of the job of a boy to injure himself."
I know I certainly did my job, constantly running into the radiator, dropping something on my head, or otherwise injuring myself in ways that required a trip to the hospital. At one point, my father turned to Mom and said "Bunny, we’d better hurry up and have another. I don’t think this one is going to last."
One day (I was about three), I managed to split the skin at the corner of my eye badly enough to need stitches. By then, Mom was pretty fed up with having to rush me to the hospital to get stitches, so she pushed the two sides of the injury together and stuck a Band-Aid over it. I have a scar on the outer corner of one of my eyes that’s the result of that wound not healing correctly. It gives me something to talk about at parties.
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I only have a tiny scar on my leg from when I cut myself with a glass shatter when I was 10, nothing remarcable, and one cat scratch from about that age, but I can´t remember the name of the cat.
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All the scars I have were given to me as an adult, both times because of crime.
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Oh my! Way scary
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In my younger and more foolish days…
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Scar on the inside of my right calf. Burn mark from a hot pipe on a motorcycle. I was seven and was fascinated. I still have that fascination, I’m just older and wiser.
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Wise enough to know not to get on a motorcycle in shorts, for one thing…
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Yeah. Wish my little seven year old brain hadn’t looked at that bike and thought “I wanna ride that!” I rode a lot with my ex but, I was in jeans & boots…and long sleeves, too.
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Probably a leeather jacket, too.
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Yep.
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Funny you mention this today. I have a scar on my temple and my wife (who has known me since 1987) asked me about it. So I told her the story about how my sister hit me with an “alligator stick” this big (we were 3 and 4) stick that looked like an alligator. Anyway she hit me in the head and knocked me off our front porch into my mom’s tomato garden. That was nearly 50 years ago and I still have the scar.
My wife told me I was likely doing something to deserve it.
She is likely right.
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Tim Brannan
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s usually the case…
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I have an ugly scar on my left hand from surgery to repair a broken bone that healed crooked. I broke it playing volleyball, a game I’m terrible at and don’t even like. I got dragooned into the game because I was at a party and that was what everyone else wanted to do, and I didn’t want to be the wet blanket. Sigh…
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That’s like adding injury to insult…
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I have 2 small bumps on my forehead when kids threw a baseball at me. That day I got hit in the shin, arm shoulder, head and eye. The bullies were out for blood that day. I also fell and hit the pavement hard and scraped my knee. Another time I was swinging between 2 desks, fell and spilt my lip open. It was so swollen all the kids couldn’t stop stating at me. I have a scar on the inside of my lip. How we can injure ourselves eh?
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It hurt just to read this…
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My daughter is v hyper and am always tensed abt her falls ans injuries
She alrdy has one on forehead
I remember that 2 1/2 men episode
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I have a childhood scar that I wouldn’t attribute to something dumb, but just typical kid stuff that turned into an accidental injury. I was pretty careful as a kid just as I am now. I hate getting hurt.
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So it was just normal wear and tear, then? I have one or two of those, too…
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I have a few scars from my childhood. I was an energetic kid and I ran (not walked) everywhere I went thus resulting in a few collisions. 🤕
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That’s just normal wear and tear for a kid, and I think boys and girls both get their share of that.
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Yep, I agree. It’s part of childhood.
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I have a scar on my stomach. My mother was teaching me to iron (using my dad’s boxer shorts) and I touched the side of my iron to my stomach. No hospitals or doctors for that injury though. I have a few other scars, but they were earned as a klutzy adult.
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A litte Unguentine and you were good to go, right?
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Now that’s a product I had not thought of in years! But yes we always kept it moving.
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A 1 oz. tube of Unguentine costs $15.83 at Amazon. Can you believe it?
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Hard to believe, John.
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You have to wear those scars like badges of glory, John.
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I wear ’em with pride….
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And sometimes there are the scars we don’t know how they got there….. ☺
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Glad you enjoy A to Z! And I know what you mean, where you look at yourself in a mirror and ask “where did THAT come from?”
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