Comedy near misses on garden DIY

My funniest gardening moment was when I was 16 and my parents were on holiday I decided to tidy the front garden up for them.
While up a 10 foot ladder trimming the hedge with hedge trimmers my foot slipped off the ladder while over reaching then caught my little finger in the hedge cutters while it was still going!
The pain of cutting the top of my little finger off, made me fall off the ladder and twist my knee ligaments to the extent I could walk for 3 weeks
So there I was little finger bleeding and not able to get up and walk away.

 

Owch !! Did it grow back?

 

Hired a digger a few years back. Happy to tell you I now know where the Electricity, Water and Telephone (all separate routes) come into the property. And the cost of having each repaired!

 

Yep the hedge grew back and my little finger still has a odd shape to it!

 

Trivial compared to some on here - a couple of years ago I lost my balance in the garden - as I was falling, I grabbed the nearest thing to save myself - the prickly stem of a rose -

S

 

Not totally gardening, but..................

When the gutter started overflowing it turned out that the downpipe was blocked. After a lot of effort I got the rusty screws out for the d/pipe brackets and removed the bottom section of the downpipe.
Turned out the gutter and top three metres of the downpipe holds a lot of water and I was wearing most of it!

 

When I was about 3 my dad was digging in the garden, I think he was digging up spuds. It was the middle if summer and the ground was solid. To penetrate the ground he was raising the spade to shoulder height and ramming it into the earth. Just as he was on his down stroke I decided to put my foot in front of him and ask "are you going up dig there now". Wollop,severely severed 3 toes and not able to walk on it for months. Apparently a few minutes earlier I had changed my sandles for wellies, and the doctor in the hospital said that this saved me losing half a foot.

Rusty

 

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Glad i'm not the only one then

Diolch yn fawr

 

Not got an ouch, got a dangerous looking smiley though