Burn Stories

[Woutert]

Baaf bringing a very old thread back to life!

Well my burn story is the following:
One night in Czech, my girlfriend had just gone home and I was going to my exchange partner at the kinder garden where he used to smoke his hookah (amazing hookah btw, he made it out of a cocktail mixer maybe i'll ask him some pics of it). Anyways, I find them on one of those slide thingies ( http://www.gamma-belgie.be/myImages/04/006...peeltoren_i.jpg ) with 2 other guys so I decided to climb up to join them.
As I sit down I feel this really painfull sting in my ass but being a bit drunk I thought it was just immagination so I make some joke about it, everyone laughs and I sit down again.
Baaaaaaaaf again this painfull sting in my ass! I get op to check what's wrong and of course I was sitting on the old coal that hadn't really 100% burned out yet

What made it even funnier was that the girlfriend came around about 15 minutes later and with my amnesia I forgot the event
Anyways, she grabs my touchie and feels a hole, she touches it and AUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH!!

Couldn't sit normally on a chair for 5 weeks after that night

(sorry for the english, me belgica, me bad english ) Edited June 19, 2007 by Woutert

[leadpipecinch21]

the worst burn i've gotten from a hookah is when my little guy was sitting on my coffee table, and i had just finished smoking. My buddy went to wrap the hose around the hookah, since we were both finished with it, and in the process knocked over the hookah. the coals fell, hit the corner of the table, burst into smaller pieces, and smeared all over my foot. I tried to kick them off to no avail, then finally realized i'd have to brush them off, but by that point the coal had already gone out. Total damage was a 2nd degree burn that covered all of my toes, and most of the top of my foot.


the worst burn i've ever had was two spring breaks ago...we were at my buddies cabin in west virginia, drinking and building fires, and just having a good time. Well, the second night we were there the fire was raging, the alcohol was flowing, and i was extremely inebriated...long story short, my hand landed in the fire and i had a couple 3rd degree burns...that shit sucked.

[The fabulous Ian]

I cook professionally, and since I'm relatively new at it, I burn myself a lot. Not half as bad as Scalli's story, but I think I can compete here.

Once, about six months ago, I was kneeling down and reaching into an oven for a tray of asparagus. As I'm pulling out the food our very large dishwasher waddles along behind me without declaring the appropriate "Behind you." or "Watch your back!" or something like that that would let me know the dude was coming along. And as I start to stand up, he knocks into me, I trip forward, and the oven that's been running at 550 degrees for the past seven hours closes tight on my right arm. It wasn't the biggest or most painful burn I've ever had, but it comes in second for doing the most damage to my skin.


And there's a saying among the cooking folk when it comes to holding hot pans: "You burn your hands before you burn your food."

So, once during a summer rush, I was holding a large saute pan with four seared rockfish. I had to pick it up turn around, and put it down on the table behind me, that's all. But midway-round the pain from the screaming hot pan got to be too much (I was in such a rush that I forgot to wrap a towel around the metal handle. Dumbass me.) and in order to be rid of it, I swung the pan too fast. The food made it to the counter, but a good cup and a half of the searing-hot butter splashed out onto my bar arm. The skin instantly bubbled and blistered. The initial splash area and the drip-marks left the most bad-ass scar of all my burns. :3


And lastly, the backstory I won't go into, but at the end of what turned out to be the worst year of my young life I succumed to an emo-moment, and screaming blasphemies into the night sky, I put out a cigar on my left arm, just above the wrist and between the bones, holding it there until the cigar didn't have any heat left. There's still a crater underneath the scar tissue. No matter how upset you are, self-mutilation never solves anything.

[ghostofdavid]

Not to laugh at the expense of your pain, but being emo doesn't solve anything either. Mwahah!

I kid, because I have like 20348920 emo CDs in my car.

And I've seen the Get Up Kids.

And The Anniversary... and all the good ole emo bands.

But, uhm... back to your burns.. Those are pretty serious burns, I think. Scars are awesome... I only have a few. Most on my knuckles and one on my left eye brown.

Do stretchmarks count as scars?

[Allia22]

Oog, I have a few welding scars. Overhead MIG welding isn't cool... I was standing there practicing some overhead fillet welds or something of that nature when the weld just dropped right out of the metal and onto me, missing my leathers and hitting my ribs on the right side. This was a good... 9 months ago? and there's still a nice big round mark, and a little jagged line where it bounced down my ribs before landing on the floor. Ruined one of my Nintendo shirts, too

[The fabulous Ian]

<---- Very clumsy cook + very cramped space = Much scarring.

Not to laugh at the expense of your pain, but being emo doesn't solve anything either. Mwahah!

I kid, because I have like 20348920 emo CDs in my car.

And I've seen the Get Up Kids.

And The Anniversary... and all the good ole emo bands.

But, uhm... back to your burns.. Those are pretty serious burns, I think. Scars are awesome... I only have a few. Most on my knuckles and one on my left eye brown.

Do stretchmarks count as scars? wink.gif

And HAH! I bet you don't even look at the camera when you take a picture. Emo kids never look at the camera. Edited June 21, 2007 by The fabulous Ian

[ghostofdavid]

I am looking at the camera!

Or am I!?

How can you tell if someone is looking at the camera when they have a lazy eye?

How about two lazy eyes? Bhaahah.

[Rani]

well i got a cool one. when i was working at mcdonalds we would have to clean the grills and you would burn the shit outa yourself all the time. like first degree burns just from getting to close to the grill. some second degree if you touched it a bit. well i was having a hardcore cleaning sesion and was doing a good job. just before i was done i decided to clean this last part realy good. and caught my arm on the top thing on the girll. got a 7inch long half inch wide 3ed degree burn, and didnt even flinch, finished cleaning and walked over to the sink to wash my hands. there was skin hanging off my arm so i pulled it off and went back to work, got off went home like usual.

about 3 days later it started to look nasty as f*ck so i went to the pharmasy and was like do you have anythign i can put on this, i burnt myself the other day and its looking kinda gross. When i showed her my arm her jaw droped and she wsa like, you need to go to a doctor now. so went to the doctor somtime the next day, he got me some good shit and it was healing it up nice.

next day i went to a rock show and was in a pit. looked at this guy that was coverd in blood and was like fuck dud that guy is bleeding, and my friend was like NO MAN thats you, looked down at my arm and was like fuck. went to the bathroom, wrapped it in paper towls and some tape and whent right back in the pit. for shizzle

neways, the point is that i dont feal burns much and can pick shit right outa of a fryer bare handed, and deffneatly have no trouble with coals.

peace

Hey, seriously, you might want to get fully checked out. I understand inability to feel pain like that can be a warning sign of some pretty serious medical conditions. You might just be a freak of nature in regard to burns, but hey, better safe than sorry later, right?