#843 – Cranium

I’m trying to remember if broken arms or broken legs were more common back in school. Broken legs were definitely more dramatic. Not everyone liked getting their cast covered in graffiti, but I liked getting to draw on the casts of those that did. One thing I didn’t do was ask to try out someone’s crutches. That always seemed rude. I’ve actually never used crutches since the only bone I’ve ever broken is my skull.

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33 thoughts on “#843 – Cranium”

  1. SilentDragon says:

    Ouch, most I’ve ever done is sprain my arm. I take it Biff is planning some forgery? That’s the only thing I can think of for his need of signatures.
    Crutches are deffinitely not something you ask to ‘try out’ I think my response would be, “Go break your own leg.”

  2. Sepezz says:

    I once broke my ankle and all I got was this deep purple cast
    and what marker shows on deep purple?

    They put a screw in my ankle and there it is rest of my life.

  3. Gary says:

    I too broke an ankle. Luckily, I narrowly missed getting an ankle screw.

    I let people try my crutches all the time!

  4. Space Butler says:

    I have been guilty of goofing around with a friend’s crutches.

  5. Sciuridae says:

    In my school it was assumed that anyone who needed crutches had to remember they eventually became everybody’s to goof around with. Maybe we all tried to practice just in case we broke our own legs (or got our legs broken by the crutch’s owner… I’m not saying that actually happened but it could happen)
    And so far, I’ve never broken any bone…

  6. Croc says:

    I’ve never broken anything… *furiously knocks on wood*
    But I DID have to walk on crutches the time I landed a rake under my toenail… couldn’t put weight on it or blood shot out of it for a few days.

    That sucked.

  7. Linzleh says:

    I broke my wrist in a bike crash as a kid, my cast got signed which was cool but it got itchy & smelly before it came off…Broke my ankle twice as an adult. Klutziness is incurable.

  8. Kree says:

    Step 2: Forge all those signatures
    Step 3: ???
    Step 4: Profit!

  9. Nilly says:

    I broke my arm falling up a set of stairs. I’m so cool, heh. XD My cast was red, and I was able to have it signed with black marker. It became itchy and smelly the very day I was supposed to get it off… wtf. XD

  10. MaskedMan says:

    Screwed up my knee something fierce… Then later, tore my quads clean through on the same leg. Yeah, I can work the crutches. But no casts. Probably just as well… I’d have likely broken that, too.

  11. hunt says:

    i broke my ankle once, but when i got it xrayed to see if it was broken they read it wrong, so my ankle got a wrap and i got sent back home to lay in pain, 3 weeks later i get a call from my doctor saying ” o btw your ankle was broken” …… fun

  12. Hershey says:

    I refuse to believe Biff feels pain.

  13. dartigen says:

    I’ve only broken a toe (and I managed to live with it, seeing as it was school holidays and I really had no excuse for being up and about), but I have used crutches before for a sprained ankle. It’s cool to have crutch-sword-fights, but not cool when you have to go up stairs.

  14. DracoZereul says:

    Worst I’ve ever had was a sprained wrist; never worn a cast in my life. I did, however, try my mom’s crutches once or twice, both during and after a period in which she sprained her ankle. It was when she was on the bed, and I think she must’ve found it amusing to watch a 10-year old try and use a pair of adult-sized crutches.

    To this day, I have no idea how to use them without putting intense, near-painful pressure on my armpits

  15. baughbe says:

    Hmm, lets see, broken ankle, broken knee, same one twice, every 10 to 12 years, so I think its connected to sunspot activity.

  16. SirBaggsQHeadington says:

    What I’m wondering is how you managed to break your skull without dying.

    On topic, I’ve only sprained my ankle jumping off a swingset when wal like, 7.

  17. Broke an arm reaching under a rebounder when I was 2.

  18. MaskedMan says:

    @DracoZereul;
    You’re not really supposed to rest your armpits on the crutches whilst moving – The top should be an inch or so lower than that. The yoke at the top is really only useful for leaning on when you’re not moving.

    @SirBaggsQHeadington;
    Cranial fractures are serious but are generally survivable, given proper care.

  19. sco3tt says:

    Head casts are all the rage now, Biff sets trends like some people set things . . . that . . . get set alot. Nothing comes to mind.

    Wrecked my ankle this year, got four screws and a very stylish plate too. This month, if I can find a good week to take off, it all comes out. I wanna keep them and make a nice wall plaque of the hardware and a small copy of the x-ray showing where they were at.

  20. Tirinka says:

    Never broken anything whatsoever. The worst thing (and I guess the only thing) that’s happened is I had to get stitches under my chin when I was probably about six. I still have the scar, but it’s faded by now and has always been juuuuust out of eyesight unless I tilt my head up.
    If you’re wondering how it happened, I was jumping on the bed, fell off, and hit my chin on the corner of an end table. Ow.

    Also, I like how one of the signatures reads ‘Not again!’

  21. Bryce says:

    @ Chris: How did you manage to break your skull?

  22. Grent says:

    @Bryce: By hitting it really hard, obviously.

  23. Chris says:

    @Bryce – Table + Gravity + Floor + 18 months old.

  24. Roborat says:

    Hah! Four broken arms, broken jaw, broken collarbone, broken thumb, bone chips in my shins, torn ligament in my knee, two severe sprains. These were all separate accidents, spanning ages 12 to 21. I drove my parents nuts, they honestly didn’t think I would survive to adulthood; I’m 48 now, and luckily the accident rate has slowed considerably.

  25. Miles says:

    I’ve broken most of my fingers, several bones in both hands, multiple toes, ribs, nose. eyesocket shattered, and radius cracked. So far, never a cast. Only the shattered eyesocket ever really scared me, but what scared me more was how much the doctor said it would cost to fix. I left it alone.

  26. reynard61 says:

    I broke my shoulder when I took a header off of my bicycle. (It was a new mountain bike and I was looking down to shift gears — at night… Front wheel hit a pothole… *Ouch!*…) All I got was a collarbone brace and a scrip for a week’s worth of pain meds. I still can’t completely hold that arm straight up, and I can predict when the next cold front is coming within a 12-24 hour window.

  27. Amy says:

    I broke both wrists and my right elbow in a bike wreck in 6th grade. My left hand was pink, and my right was purple. This was near Easter, and when I woke up Easter morning, I found that “E.B.” had signed my pink cast (including a paw print) sometime that night.

  28. Kimmeh says:

    I’m 22 and never broken a bone. I was actually jealous when my sister broke her wrist from falling off the “monkey bars” when we were in school. She got a cast and everyone called to see how she was doing.

    I’m studying to become a veterinary technician, and we did casts on each other’s arms one day. I wasn’t so jealous of her when I decided to keep it for a prank. It’s so annoyingly itchy and hot and humid. And mine wasn’t professional so it crumbled everywhere.

    I was glad to take it off the next day.

  29. Fafnir13 says:

    The only bone I’ve ever broken was my little sisters arm.
    We stopped playing “catapult” after that.

  30. Lunaya says:

    As klutziness seems to run in my family, I can’t help but wonder if nature gave me and my mother some extra durability to go with it. We’ve had every kind of horrible fall and/or accident imaginable, yet I’ve never gotten worse than a scrape. Mom did break her arm as a child, but she’s had more of a head start. 😉

  31. Marr965 says:

    Did I read the words “Not again” on that cast?

  32. Radical Edward says:

    The only bone I’ve ever broken was a tooth. It was very recent. I was eating ice cream and I broke one of my teeth.

  33. YukiSnowflake says:

    My mother still has some cructhes she got 5 years ago.
    Apparently she hasn’t returned them because she can’t be bothered taking the 3 hour trip to London to return them, or the 3 hour trip back. (*does that sentence make sense?*)

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