Childhood Scars

[Sportin' Wood]

I don't want to hear about your mental trauma, I wanna hear about your crazy childhood injuries and the marks they left.

I have plenty that I collected over the years, each has a story.

My oldest scar is on my left ankle bone. It has served as a reminder of the cost of doing cool stuff my whole life. I got it when I was about five years old, maybe even four.

Dad dragged home one of those Briggs and Stratton powered mini bikes, he picked up used to let me learn how to ride around our ranch. I might have had a helmet, I'm honestly not sure. What I do remember was that it was missing the chain guard that covered the primary on the clutch. You guessed it, I got my shoe lace or pant cuff tangled up in that and it dragged my foot into the assembly at full tilt.

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I still can't imagine what my parents were thinking allowing a 4 or 5 year old on that death trap, but damn I sure had fun with it. The funny thing, is dad did not fix the chain guard after my mishap, he simply said, I bet you won't let that happen again. Parenting in the 70s was pretty loosely defined, so that is why us GenXers are feral. The good news is that my Daughter was asking me to find a PW 50 for her 4 year old daughter, so the apple did not fall far from the tree.

Let's hear your story.

 

[rivermobster]

Jesuz. I have too many to count!

But this the one that Still shows well...

We were in grade school. And walking home, we passed by this overgrown tree, in a yard full of overgrown shrubs.

The tree was Full of purple berries, so we picked a few, and started throwing them at each other. Of course this graduated to throwing them at cars driving by, and of course We thought that was great fun!

Until it wasn't...

We plasterd a big white car, and the dude slammed on his brakes and backed up!!! We diched it under the tree and into the bushes, and eventually he drove off.

We we stood up, my friend looks at me and says, fuck, look at your leg!!! My pants were soaked in blood.

I had kneeled down on the bottom of a broken coke bottle, with one jagged edge sticking up. Shit! So I started walking the last few blocks home, when some old man sees me...

Hey kid, come here!!!

So I do the smart thing, and run the rest of the way home. My dad is home, takes one look at me, and drives me to the local clinic.

I remember him having to lay on me to keep me from moving around, while they were trying to fix me up!

Sounds funny now, but yeah, it hurt like a bitch.

This was my first Real lesson about how karma actually works!

 

[Desert Whaler]

Skateboarding down the underpass of the Santa Ana Trail . . . the bike path goes under the bridge . . . but the whole thing is concrete.
So we'd run down it and bank off the slanted wall like it was a wave.
Then we got the smart idea to ride along the top of the 12" cap and drop in.
Well I bit off more than I couold chew . . . and the back wheels drifted out from under me just before I hit the flat path portion.
I remember looking over my shoulder, seeing the ground coming up at me thinking, "This isn't good".

I bounced my face off the concrete and bounced right back up & jumped to my feet . . . but my legs buckled.
I tried again and it was like my legs were spaghetti . . . . I was thinking 'Why the fuck are my legs not working, I hit my head"???

I put my hands on the ground to sort of help steady myself when I noticed blood everywhere on the concrete.
I went to feel my chin and there was skin flapped down a couple inches below . . . . oh shit . . . I got knocked the f out !!!

I took off my tshirt, wrapped it over my head and tied it into the sore tooth thing from the old comics and skated home.

On the way home waiting at a light, a cop saw me and asked if I wanted a ride . . . he must've seen all the blood.
I passed since I was already embarassed enough.

Got to the emergency room and the nurses had fun picking all of the rocks out of my chin.

36 stitches later and i was good to go !

My whiskers still grow weird around that scar, and it's still a bitch to shave there.
You don't want to see my mug / scar , I'm ugly enough.

 

[pwerwagn]

My oldest scar is on my left ankle bone. It has served as a reminder of the cost of doing cool stuff my whole life. I got it when I was about five years old, maybe even four.

Dad dragged home one of those Briggs and Stratton powered mini bikes, he picked up used to let me learn how to ride around our ranch. I might have had a helmet, I'm honestly not sure. What I do remember was that it was missing the chain guard that covered the primary on the clutch. You guessed it, I got my shoe lace or pant cuff tangled up in that and it dragged my foot into the assembly at full tilt.

Same story basically. I have a scar on my left ankle, from the bone forward and down. I was about 5. I had a 50cc Italia Jet, but my dad brought home a yamaha big wheel. We had one rule in the house, must wear a helmet and long pants, no shorts, on a dirt bike. I got on the big wheel in front of the whole family and the chain sucked the pants into the countershaft sprocket. When it did i went down hard on the left side, and it twisted my ankle just right so the left peg also shoved itself into the ankle. Made for a nice 3x4" scar that had to have some skin graftin done.

Also have a scar down my entire pinky that looks like it was surgery, but it was from a golf cart. I put a 400cc 2 stroke motor in an ez go golf cart. It was running real good...but only had rear brakes. Rolled it about 6 times and the only carnage on me was the pinky scar.

Most of my scars that were from being 12+ years old arent as cool, and seem more stupid when youre older.

 

[CommanderLee]

I am deaf in my right ear from an explosion when I was 10 or so. My mom watched me as I was doing it. Too many other scars from bikes and skateboards to count. How many of us have stories of our parents watching us build a sketchy ass ramp knowing there was no way in hell it would work. Then watching us send it and wad ourselves up. Ahh good times!

 

[poncho]

The rusty nail through my foot with the board still attached, don't remember why we were running but I know that nail was karma, we were up to no good.
Opened the back kitchen door and yelled Mom, got a problem here, she fainted.
The justice continued when they stuck that tetanus shot needle in there, looked like an instrument of death to my 8yo brain.

 

[BHC Vic]

The most noticeable one is my eye brow. Bottles don’t break on the head the way they do in the movies

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

Well I could type a book of all of them but the ones that came with 4 Titanium plates and 32 Phillips head screws to hold the left side of my face together probably is the most memorable

 

[rrrr]

All I can say is that I wish I had hired stuntmen.

 

[poncho]

All I can say is that I wish I had hired stuntmen.

My answer when someone asks how I got so many boo boo's, failed stuntman.

 

[OkHallett270]

Running through the yard on the 4th of July in 2nd or 3rd grade. We lived out in the sticks and I had no shoes on, I stepped on an old shitty bicycle pump I left in the grass and the edge of the foot pegs on it cut one of my middle toes to the bone. You can’t really see that scar because it’s on the bottom of my foot. That was my first stitches. I think I got 4 or 5 to hold my toe on while it healed. I also had a Yamaha tri zinger and I rode the shit out of that thing. I wrecked it more than once and folded the fender up over the tire and burned my calf on the spinning tire and the exhaust more than once. Good times!

 

[mjc]

Climbing a chain link fence with the tie crosses up. Caught my hand so I was just hanging by the thumb. Some year in grade school. Luckily didn't tear the nerve and thumb still works.

 

[DILLIGAF]

I don't want to hear about your mental trauma, I wanna hear about your crazy childhood injuries and the marks they left.

I have plenty that I collected over the years, each has a story.

My oldest scar is on my left ankle bone. It has served as a reminder of the cost of doing cool stuff my whole life. I got it when I was about five years old, maybe even four.

Dad dragged home one of those Briggs and Stratton powered mini bikes, he picked up used to let me learn how to ride around our ranch. I might have had a helmet, I'm honestly not sure. What I do remember was that it was missing the chain guard that covered the primary on the clutch. You guessed it, I got my shoe lace or pant cuff tangled up in that and it dragged my foot into the assembly at full tilt.

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I still can't imagine what my parents were thinking allowing a 4 or 5 year old on that death trap, but damn I sure had fun with it. The funny thing, is dad did not fix the chain guard after my mishap, he simply said, I bet you won't let that happen again. Parenting in the 70s was pretty loosely defined, so that is why us GenXers are feral. The good news is that my Daughter was asking me to find a PW 50 for her 4 year old daughter, so the apple did not fall far from the tree.

Let's hear your story.

Same thing with me on a mini bike except it cut right into my knee on a leaning turn. That one hurt for a while and still have scars from it. Dont lean into with no primary cover. Lol

 

[Mini Kat]

I broke my femur bone at 7 years old I was in traction for 9 months. And I had to learn to walk all over again! Sorry to disappoint I got no scars from it but I sure do feel it when it gets cold. But this one time at band camp I got a paper cut I think I have a scar from that LOL

 

[rivrrts429]

12 broken bones riding dirt bikes. At 46 years old they’re all catching up with me every morning I get out of bed.

My girlfriend thinks my scars are cool so I have that going for me lol

 

[MOUZER]

I have a scar on my chin from stitches at 10 yrs old .....made a jump in the street out of PC of plywood and cender blocks..this was right after I saw Evil jump cars at ascot park ...hit the jump as fast as I could peddle my mx bicycle caught some good air and my front tire fell off mid air landed on the forks .....ouch

 

[COCA COLA COWBOY]

Our family dog, a chow chow, bit my upper lip when I was like 9 years old. It was kind of traumatic as a kid because my lip and to me my whole face, was messed up. I had a great doctor and you could barely see it a few months later, but I remember being traumatized thinking it was the end of the world. My parents kept the dog....if that happened to my kid now, the dog would go for a one way ride.

My son rides motocross and he thinks chics dig scares. I'm still trying to keep him from major accidents.

 

[Ziggy]

I have a scar on my chin from stitches at 10 yrs old .....made a jump in the street out of PC of plywood and cender blocks..this was right after I saw Evil jump cars at ascot park ...hit the jump as fast as I could peddle my mx bicycle caught some good air and my front tire fell off mid air landed on the forks .....ouch

I had two instances similar. Around 5yo I was riding my bike on the rims(took tires off for) jumped a curb and rims slipped out like being on ice.

At 8yo I traded a go cart for a honda qa50 that needed some work.
With engine out I coasted it down my parents 10% grade 150ft long driveway, jumped curb, front wheel/forks came out of tubes.
No helmet in either incident btw, also lost consciousness in both
Two asphalt vs skull bouts I survived.

 

[poncho]

I have a scar on my chin from stitches at 10 yrs old .....made a jump in the street out of PC of plywood and cender blocks..this was right after I saw Evil jump cars at ascot park ...hit the jump as fast as I could peddle my mx bicycle caught some good air and my front tire fell off mid air landed on the forks .....ouch

I got my ass beat good for loosening my Sisters front wheel and telling her to do a wheelie.

 

[stokerwhore]

shimano dx, hutch bear trap, suntour bear trap knock offs, regular bear trap thats all i need to say for some of us lol

 

[CommanderLee]

shimano dx, hutch bear trap, suntour bear trap knock offs, regular bear trap thats all i need to say for some of us lol

Bear traps with Urchin cages! More than once I had to pull those damn things out of my shins. You always knew when your Vans were wearing out when you feet started to bleed!

 

[rivermobster]

This is gonna be a great thread!

 

[OCMerrill]

Motorcycles and the Desert was my nemesis. No broken bones but tore the upper half of my thumb off during the ride back from Kramer Jct. to El Mirage following the edwards base fence. Massive woops and of course were all on Big Bore stuff hauling ass when I flew off an hit the Edwards Barb wire fence. It took a 1/2 roll of duct tape to hold together the thumb, cover Barb Wire cuts, fix torn boots, and God knows what else. Got back on, fired that CR up and made it back to the truck. Loaded up with help and drove to Saddleback Hospital in Laguna Hills for many a stitch here and a stitch there and a shit ton of Durma Bond.

They asked who put my thumb back over the bone.....Me. That thumb had zero feeling for 10+ years then is slowly came back and now no issues.

 

[2Driver]

At 9 I jumped my stingray bike off a homemade plywood ramp. On take off the monkey bars folded and I endo’d on my head really bad. Fast forward several weeks, and being 9 not tying it to the accident, I had huge headaches that wouldn't go away.
After some xrays the Dr comes out and asks my Mom, “when did he have the skull fracture”?

 

[evantwheeler]

My worst scar is in the edge of the iris of my left eye ball. 17 years old, using an air powered die grinder with a cut off disc and no guard, and wearing a faceshield with no safety glasses. Disc blew up, face shield blew up, and a piece of the plastic face shield impaled my eye ball. Its a miracle I didn't lose my sight. The worst part about it was spending 3 weeks of my summer break lying face down after my retina surgery. The best part about it was the relationship built with my mother spending an entire summer with her.

My poor parents.... not long after my eye injury, my younger brother was working with a guy framing up my dad's new shop, and he was using a skill saw that either had the guard removed or disabled. He dropped the skill saw onto his inner thigh and fillet'ed that thing wide open and very deep. Apparently he was also pretty lucky as he barely missed the femoral artery. Hadn't really considered until this moment that both of those incidents would have been avoided with proper equipment guarding.

 

[OCMerrill]

Our family dog, a chow chow, bit my upper lip when I was like 9 years old. It was kind of traumatic as a kid because my lip and to me my whole face, was messed up. I had a great doctor and you could barely see it a few months later, but I remember being traumatized thinking it was the end of the world. My parents kept the dog....if that happened to my kid now, the dog would go for a one way ride.

My son rides motocross and he thinks chics dig scares. I'm still trying to keep him from major accidents.

I was bit in the face by my Keeshond Shepherd mix my first wife an I got as a puppy from the Rancho Cucamonga animal shelter. Bitchen dog and as he grew up his attitude became very Alpha and got worse by the day it seemed. One evening he was just growling and being an ass so I grabbed his collar and pulled him off the bed. As I laid down he jumped up and attacked my face. 20+ stitches in my right side corner of mouth mouth and Jaw. It was even worse as my HS Girlfriend turned wife was really against me putting him down. Everything with her was a war.....opps sorry no emotional cry baby shit allowed. LMAO.

 

[Angler]

I have a scar on my chin from stitches at 10 yrs old .....made a jump in the street out of PC of plywood and cender blocks..this was right after I saw Evil jump cars at ascot park ...hit the jump as fast as I could peddle my mx bicycle caught some good air and my front tire fell off mid air landed on the forks .....ouch

LOL, My friends and self all have that same scar!

 

[jetboatperformance]

Do Surf knots count

 

[spectras only]

Posted this in another thread in December.

"I had that was dangerous is a couple of vintage swords for me and my best buddy.They were rejects for the military museum in Budapest where my two older brothers worked in part time. My brother Charley brought them home without my Mom knowing about it. Low and behold, me and my buddy had an enactment of a duel and I stll have a scar on my leg as a reminder."

 

[F.U.IRS]

Climbing a chain link fence with the tie crosses up. Caught my hand so I was just hanging by the thumb. Some year in grade school. Luckily didn't tear the nerve and thumb still works. View attachment 1469128

I did the same thing in the early 60's at LAX. Mom yelled at me to get off the fence so I jumped down, but my ring finger got hooked up on the top of the fence. I did get this super cool squirt gun while I was in ER getting stitched up. You could rotate a nozzle on the end to shoot around corners.

 

[cofooter]

I have a scar on my lip from sitting in the "way back" of my parents station wagon when my Dad slammed on the brakes on the highway for some reason. Also, have a line of scars on my right index finger from starting up my Cox model airplane, did it more than once, haha......... also have a root canal and two fake front teeth from crashing in the street on my Stingray!

 

[rrrr]

......... also have a root canal and two fake front teeth from crashing in the street on my Stingray!

Mine are from doing a backflip a bit too close to the board of a neighbor's swimming pool when I was 12.

Like I said, I should have had stunt doubles.

 

[monkeyswrench]

First memorable scar, and first stitches, 4 years old hit a rock on my brother's fiberglass skateboard. 5 stitches on my chin. 6 years old when older brother beaned me with a rock...have a star shaped scar on the back of my head when shaved for summer.

More scars than I can count since. Quit counting stitches in my 20's when I broke 200. Every scar has a story. I wasn't ever going to be a model anyhow. Rather have the stories anyway...

 

[Sleek-Jet]

Used to have a really nice scar on my elbow, but it has faded quite a bit over time.

We were riding our bikes down the road that went by our house, and we lived at the top of the hill. The normal race was down our driveway and then down the gravel road to the highway, and no one wanted to be first loser. I drifted off into the fluffy gravel at the side of the road, washed out the front wheel and skidded along on my elbow for a while. My mom being a nurse made me clean the wound out in the sink at home and that was worse than the crash. It really was nothing more than a good case of road rash, but it scarred up nicely.

 

[lbhsbz]

I have lots....one of the most memorable is at the river. Dad had a 86 (first year of the watercooled) VW bus. My BMX bike was strapped down in the cargo hold in front of the pop top on the roof. We got to the river, I was doing whatever I was yelled at to do, then when we were all set up, I saw my bike sitting there so I jumped on it and took it for quick lap around our little road, there was a rock off to the side so I went to jump it, the bike came up but the front wheel didn't. I guess Dad just stuck the wheel there but failed to tell me he didn't tighten it up. Of course, the grips were cut and I put a real nice slide in my elbow as I planted the forks in the dirt road and when over the bars. Scar is still there and still feels funny when I set it on a armrest wrong lol.

 

[c_land]

The success of my cul de sac BMX career was well documented by the mid 90’s AYSO picture day. My teeth eventually returned to their normal position and the broken ones were luckily replaced with adult teeth

 

[Melloyellovector]

Iv got so many I could right a book, lol
The ones that stand out off the top of my head.
Around 3 or so, my brothers were on an old school 2 seat metal swing, one on each side. I ran towards the fun right as the swing came back took the metal edge to corner of my face/eye. Scar still there
skateboard face plants from 3 until well into my 20s lol
Around 8 Running at school chasin friends, when portables were the new way to expand schools, everyone ducked under the AC sticking out except me, took the metal corner to the face at full sprint. knocked out, stitches, fracture cheek something or other.
Maybe 13 running from security or cops where we were playing crash up derby with scissors lifts at new shopping center. Jumped chain link fence as I went over and dropped shirt snagged, pulled my body in and fish hooked me from stomach to middle of chest. when it happened was about 6in slice, now scar is barely visible. Super glue
Around 13 or so Throw the ball at the guy on the bike is fun until your on the bike and ball hits front rim and face plant with gift of breaking front tooth in half. Still sporting a cap
Prolly 13 maybe 14 Building a fort, lean around a branch to ask buddy what did he say, 20ft up, took an axe to the forehead at hairline. Fell from tree no broken bones, stitches

into teen years
Azusa canyon before raiders took it over, jumping off waterfall into basin I hit bottom took a broke beer bottle through my hand
Knife through my finger, stupidity
bullet - firing pin in my hand, more stupidity
razor blade my wrist, slipped stripping film off a window
cleaning a waterfall, found the edge that was not solid rock, fell 20+ ft down through a plexiglass basin. Turned my legs into hamburger meat, broke ribs

later Teen years and beyond
it got worse, lol

40 or so I finally leveled off playing dumb games

 

[rivrrts429]

Iv got so many I could right a book, lol
The ones that stand out off the top of my head.
Around 3 or so, my brothers were on an old school 2 seat metal swing, one on each side. I ran towards the fun right as the swing came back took the metal edge to corner of my face/eye. Scar still there
skateboard face plants from 3 until well into my 20s lol
Around 8 Running at school chasin friends, when portables were the new way to expand schools, everyone ducked under the AC sticking out except me, took the metal corner to the face at full sprint. knocked out, stitches, fracture cheek something or other.
Maybe 13 running from security or cops where we were playing crash up derby with scissors lifts at new shopping center. Jumped chain link fence as I went over and dropped shirt snagged, pulled my body in and fish hooked me from stomach to middle of chest. when it happened was about 6in slice, now scar is barely visible. Super glue
Around 13 or so Throw the ball at the guy on the bike is fun until your on the bike and ball hits front rim and face plant with gift of breaking front tooth in half. Still sporting a cap
Prolly 13 maybe 14 Building a fort, lean around a branch to ask buddy what did he say, 20ft up, took an axe to the forehead at hairline. Fell from tree no broken bones, stitches

into teen years
Azusa canyon before raiders took it over, jumping off waterfall into basin I hit bottom took a broke beer bottle through my hand
Knife through my finger, stupidity
bullet - firing pin in my hand, more stupidity
razor blade my wrist, slipped stripping film off a window
cleaning a waterfall, found the edge that was not solid rock, fell 20+ ft down through a plexiglass basin. Turned my legs into hamburger meat, broke ribs

later Teen years and beyond
it got worse, lol

40 or so I finally leveled off playing dumb games

Somehow we all turned out okay too

 

[JFMFG]

Ohhh man where do I start. When I was in the 5th or 6th grade we used to play football at recess. It was supposed to be 2 hand touch but we played tackle until the “noon guard” if that’s the proper name would come over and warn us to knock it off. Anyhow we were playing and I got tackled right into the metal backstop on the baseball field split my head wide open. Knocked me out cold I just remember waking up on the ground with a punch of people around me. Hair still hasn’t grown back in that spot. Fast forward to 16 years old just got my license me and some buddy’s went to Lucerne with our dirt bikes ended up shattering my radius and ulna In my right wrist. 3 surgeries and a skin graph later it was as good as it’s gonna get. Still gives me issues to this day. The skin graph they did on the inside of my wrist excuse my language to the ladies on RDP but it looked like meat curtains for years after just this big roast beef vagina on the bottom side of my wrist thank god about 10 years back I had another surgery and they took some pins out and closed it up pretty good now so that’s gone. Also took a piece of expanded metal to my ankle building a derby car got about 30 stitches in my leg. Good times.

 

[petie6464]

I have a huge one from a ruptured spleen. . Trying to imitate my childhood hero Evil Knievel almost killed me @ 12

My hands have 50 years worth of about every trades distinction.

My heart has the scars of five ex-wifes and a heart attack.