Ok, the chapati thing I can understand. I once bruised the base of my spine from sneezing in maths (this is a long time ago now) and it was really painful to get on and off chairs, walk up stairs etc. But picking up shoes? Dad dislocated his shoulder reading a book so I guess it's possible.
Any challenges for dafter injuries?
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 A neighbour of mine once dislocated his knee (a lovely 90 degree dislocation) by imitating Monkey Magic standing on his cloud.(Monkey Magic's, not my neighbour's)
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 I recently sent my back into agonising spasm by reaching down to lift a loo seat.
I also semi-amputated the end of my left thumb - broke the nail, ripped end open, broken bone sticking out, nice... - by somehow catching it between a mountain bike bar end and the metal edge of one of those tight bend chevron road signs. It was one of those things that would require incredible skill and determination to do deliberately, but somehow I managed it...
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 I broke my fingers spectating at a rugby match. The odd shaped ball thingy came flying towards my.. well... odd shaped ball thingies... so I put my hand out to protect them from imminent collision. Which worked... in the sense that my fingers served as a crumple zone and I shattered both knuckle joints on two fingers. . . . . And I had my arm nearly chewed clean off when I dug up a zombie by accident... 
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 I broke my fingers spectating at a rugby match. The odd shaped ball thingy came flying towards my.. well... odd shaped ball thingies... so I put my hand out to protect them from imminent collision. Which worked... in the sense that my fingers served as a crumple zone and I shattered both knuckle joints on two fingers.
Bloody 'ell John, imagine what might have happened if you hadn't got your fingers in the way!!   
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 I tore the ligaments in my right knee getting into the driver's seat of my car. I was on crutches for a fortnight.
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 That's pretty good going for a zombie thread resurrection! I damaged the disc between L5 and S1 in my back falling over on Ben Macdhui september last year. And hurts if I so much as sneeze in the wrong way.
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 I feel awfully left out in the injury stakes. No injuries or accidents to report. Just a charmed life!
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I'm sure something can be arranged, Paddy; wouldn't want you to feel left out
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I feel awfully left out in the injury stakes. No injuries or accidents to report. Just a charmed life!
Famous last words ??? Perhaps you were and accident, Paddy? Ever ask your mum that one
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That's pretty good going for a zombie thread resurrection! I damaged the disc between L5 and S1 in my back falling over on Ben Macdhui september last year. And hurts if I so much as sneeze in the wrong way.
Nine years buried and ripe for discussion, I feel...!
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Well... apart from having a milk bottle smashed across my head by my kid brother, and being savaged by a retired police dog when I was five years old... I've had a charmed life. Or maybe I just realised the world was a dangerous place when I was a kid, and have been taking evasive action ever since! A mate of mine used to have the most bloody accidents whenever he went out playing with me. After winding up in hospital for the THIRD time, his mum got rather suspicious, but they were all genuine accidents... or at least... all his fault rather than mine!
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 I broke a rib when I had a really bad cold! I was coughing really hard and just felt an excruciating pain! It was a really, really bad day...  Ess.
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 I ended up in a cervical collar for 2 weeks due to being hit on the head by a falling doctor. 
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Youch! So was that ripe as in festering, or ripe as in Surströmming skiva!
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Hey... I'm on my penultimate day... I'm not skiving, just decelerating . Just plain considerate, really- when the next guy has to 'pick up the ball running' it won't be moving so fast....  As for your stinking herring, Beth, I had the (mis)fortune to be able to try something that loosely translated from Icelandic meant Fermented Urine Shark. I'll not forget that in a hurry.
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My mum once treated a bloke who'd been trodden on by an elephant.
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