Scars!
 

People of NPF, answer my query!!

I recently got a new scar, or at least I received a flesh wound which will eventually turn into a scar. My hockey seasons are now over, so the guys on my team and I rented a rink for one last game of shinny. So we go out there, we're playing 4 on 4, we're having a good time. Normally I wear a cage over my helmet, but because we weren't in league I took it off, and instead slapped on a visor and popped in my mouthguard. We're goofing around, and I decide to try to go end-to-end, losing the puck and I'm coming back in a half-assed attempt to stop the breakaway. Simultaneously, I put my stick around his skates as a "Ha ha I'm going to trip you," my other friend pushes me from behind for I don't know fucking why. The friend of front steps on my stick, biffs it epicly as I fall forward and boom I get kicked in the face.

I get up, and I think I actually said "Ah! You just kicked my face!" and then realized that everyone was staring at me. Then I get the burn, look down and notice blood dripping on to the ice. Inch long gash along my chin, 5 stitches to close. This is the first scar I've gotten since I was 10, and it's totally going to ruin my baby-faced boyish handsomeness. Apparently my first scar, just under my nose, was as a baby from picking at chicken pox too much. Otherwise I'm mostly scar free.

How about you, bold NPFers? What was your first scar? How did you get it? Any notable ones since?

I believe I've shown the scar on my right leg once before. It's so grotesque that the mere length of it puts people in awe.

It's a constant reminder that kids can do really stupid things.

Don't remember my first one... got two on my face from a car crash I was involved in, along with one on my chest from surgery, and two on my left leg when I stabbed myself with something and didn't notice it, one near my knee and the other on the back of my ankle.

Inside of my upper lip. Pretty unnoticeable, I think.

Happened in warmups for a baseball game. Best friend jumped in front of me when a ball was thrown my way, then jumped back out of the way when the ball was half of a foot in front of my face. I expected him to catch it. He did not.

There was a decent amount of bleeding, since I nearly bit my upper lip off when the baseball hit me. Needless to say, I was very unhappy for the rest of the game (at least the bleeding stopped so I could play).

No scars since... that I know of.

I've got a couple of scars on my hands from wood carving and one on my knee from a bicycle accident a couple years ago where I ripped a chunk of skin off of my knee. I also got one on my elbow from something or other and a rather small one (I swear it's been shrinking or something) on my upper lip from having my face smashed into the ground during a fight.

One right above my upper lip, dead center, perfectly horizontal, and a little over a centimeter long. When I was three or four I ran into the corner of a side table while recklessly running around the house for some reason.

Two on my right knee, though it actually looks like a single scar now. Both were from falling while roller-blading. Both falls took a chunk of skin off my knee. The first happened near my house, and hurt like hell. The second time was when a friend and I were going to rent a game, but I didn't feel a thing. So he went to rent the game and I went to the nearby Mac's (a convenience store chain in Canada) to ask for a band-aid. Freaked the hell out of the girl working there with all the blood down my leg :D.

The fingers on my right hand have a few scars from when a dog bit me.

And the latest additions are two straight scars on my right palm. One's about two centimeters and the other is about a centimeter and a half. Got those when my cat (who has a knack for knowing the best way to scare/freak out people) started bothering my mom's friend. He also gets really edgy when there are people he doesn't know in the house. So when I went to pick him up and get him away from my mom's friend, out come the back claws and slice goes my hand.

e- Oh and my lower lip has a scar as well, though it's not noticeable since it's actually on my lip. That one happened in gym class playing soccer when the girl in front of me trips on the ball, falls forward, throws out her foot for balance or something and kicks me smack in the face, making me bite my lip and split it open. Went to the office, they thought I would need stitches so they called my dad. He looked at it, said I'd be fine and that they wouldn't be able to stitch it anyway, and I went home early :dance:

That's not a tear on my cheek. A guy did that with a fingernail because he was convulsing. He may or may not have been convulsing because we had a fight where I did naughty things to him. (Which in that case he probably had coming.)

One on my calf from a tick bite that got infected or something when I was 11ish, and another in the middle of my forehead from when I was a baby (apparently I'd just learned to run because I was darting all over the house and ran straight into a bookcase).