.
What's the dumbest way you injured yourself that required a trip to the hospital or clinic?
Up until age 44, I could pop a wheelie on a bicycle and ride the wheelie for as long as I wanted to ride it.
Then my pituitary gland died and all my hormones went off the chart low. I lost all my muscle mass and gained 50 pounds (23 kg) of fat, going from 165 to 215 pounds (75 to 98 kg). Over the next several years, I was able to lose 20 pounds (9 kg) and got down to 195 pounds (88 kg).
So, then one day, we got out the mountain bikes and I thought it would be fun to pop a wheelie and ride down the street past all the houses on one wheel.
Unfortunately, I hadn’t compensated for my body carrying the extra 30 pounds (14 kg) attached to my belly. I was able to pop the wheelie just fine, but I could not sustain the wheelie because of the load imbalance out front. I literally went up on one wheel and immediately came down. I wasn’t expecting to come back down onto two wheels until I decided to go come back down onto two wheels. The front wheel came down so fast and so unexpectedly that I went over the handlebars and landed on my face. Fortunately, the pavement broke my fall. Of course, I didn’t have a helmet on because I never wore one as a kid and I didn’t want to look like a sissy. Better to sustain a massive concussion than look like a sissy. Yeah, right.
Anyway, I landed on the left side of my face and split open a nice gash that necessitated making a trip to the emergency room to get 11 stitches next to my left eye.
Yes, pretty stupid reason to make a trip to the ER.
.