Injuries are inevitable. Everybody gets injured at some point. Most people can't go a week without some sort of injury. Some are just minor annoyances. Something like a paper cut. It's rare that a paper cut turns out to be life threatening but they are definitely annoying. I once got a paper cut when licking an envelope...that was seriously annoying. Along with those are the ones that are simply really infuriating. Like when you smack your head on something or bite your tongue. Biting the tongue ranks up there with one of the most irritating injuries you can inflict upon yourself. Think about it, your tongue never leaves your mouth, it's always in the same spot, you know exactly how it and the rest of your mouth functions yet you can still manage to get it between your teeth right when you bite down on that potato chip. Then you just feel like an idiot. I mean what can you say, "Gee I didn't realize my tongue was in my mouth while I was eating, darn!" No you can't, all you can do is feel dumb...and irritated.
Other times you might be afflicted by a more serious injury but hopefully it happens when you are doing something really cool or, I don't know, saving a baby from a burning building. Sports injuries fall into this category. They can be seriously painful but you have a really cool back story that you can share.
"Dan, why are you on crutches?"
"Well," says Dan, "I sprained my ankle last night in my hockey game."
"No way!" says the interested friend. "What happened?"
"I was on a two on one breakaway with my line mate and he passed the puck behind me so I twisted and reached backwards to try to slide the puck in the net. When I did that both feet went out from under me and I ended up going horizontal in the air and slammed feet first into the boards behind the net. Hence, severely twisted ankle."
That's actually a true story and one of my better ones. At least from the
