Ooo, here's a good stupid one. I went running in Moldova with my host sister. We did one circuit and while waiting to see if she wanted to go again, I jogged backwards, slowly. On an unpaved road. Stepped in a hole, sprained the shit out of my ankle, and that was it for running for a long while. I'm lucky I didn't tear anything, but the ankle does still pop.

You're not seriously saying you only have four scars, Gud?

Pretty much. Only four of any consequence, anyhow.

When I was three I got talked in jumping off the roof by a pretty four year old. Always did have a thing for older women. Umm completely unhurt, and she was completely unimpressed.

Now that I check, I have one on my foot. I got that when my girlfriend pushed me into a river. I was on crutches for a couple of weeks.

I got that when my girlfriend pushed me into a river.

Huh. I had a girlfriend who twice caused me to crash into a snowbank while I was driving.

Gud, her name wasn't Diane, was it?

Does anyone's son wear size 10 slim pants?

I'm scarred from head to toe, starting from day 1. I can't imagine being unblemished. I even have bruises that are years old.

Most of my scars are small and pedestrian.

I DO have a scar from a stingray strike...so that's more exotic.

And the one on my ring finger. Lots some nerve action with that one. Won't go into the ever so gross description, but it was epic.

I cut the tip off my thumb trying to slice cheese w. a Swiss Army Knife while in a moving car. I was very, very hungover.

Hmm:

Age 3: cut up my face "shaving" with my dad's razor. Unknown number of stitches.

Age 4: to the ER after painting myself all over the body to look like a Dalmatian. (No scars from this, just too good not to tell.

Age 4: flipped the Big Wheel, 9 stitches in back of head

Age 13: tripped on a hill, hit sidewalk with face

Age 14: rode bike down hill, hit pothole, landed on chin (9 stitches)

Age 18: climbing Dunn's River Falls, step on glass, slice foot open across the [foot equivalent of the] palm. Still get random pain/itchiness across the scar.

Age 19: condemned pier collapsed under me, 30 some stitches, able to touch skull. Went to Guatemala 3 days later and had to use bottled water to wash my face or hair.

Age 21: gesturing with knife in hand, stabbed self in calf. No stitches but still have the scar.

Age 38: dropped chef's knife, stabbed through nail into big toe.

I think that's all? Possibly I'm forgetting some. Mostly I'm just glad that my destructive impluses have moved from my head and face to my legs.

I DO have a scar from a stingray strike...so that's more exotic.

Ooh, I forgot! Age 1: stung by jellyfish.