[stevenstwin]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry. We're outside on our front steps trying to find the source of the most pitiful mewing. Finally we look UP and there's a cat on our roof! DH is trying to get a better look at it, and he steps backward - OFF the top step. He's a BIG guy, by the way. So he's flailing around trying to grab the railing and catch his balance and he BACK-HANDS K. HARD right across the face. She didn't even say "ow" she was so intent on the cat! I didn't even realize what happened! So the rescue the cat, we get in the car, and then she says "Huh...my face feels kind of hot and tingly" Yep. BIG red mark, a bruise coming up, and the eye is already turning black. AND the poor kids has a public piano recital to do today. I told her that if she tells people what happened, at least PLEASE give enough of the story to paint a clear picture and don't just say "My dad belted me upside the head!". God knows I'd hate to have to deal with the social workers in this town ;-)

[brookejohanna]

lol ok i had to laugh at this one.... my MIL was playing ball with my FIL and my 13 y/o BIL last 4th of july at a BBQ,well FIL goes to slide into home where MIL was and she got a foot right in the face.... for weeks after words the roumors were flying around town about how she got it....lol she is a very tiny thign and he is a pretty big guy but he is a big teddy bear... i was there and saw what happend but people still question it.....

[stevenstwin]

Originally Posted by brookejohanna

lol ok i had to laugh at this one.... my MIL was playing ball with my FIL and my 13 y/o BIL last 4th of july at a BBQ,well FIL goes to slide into home where MIL was and she got a foot right in the face.... for weeks after words the roumors were flying around town about how she got it....lol she is a very tiny thign and he is a pretty big guy but he is a big teddy bear... i was there and saw what happend but people still question it.....

LOL - yeah, it doesn't take much to get a rumour started! ;-) A couple of years ago I slipped and fell OUT of the shower and banged my face up pretty good. I don't think anyone believed me because it really sounds so silly- I should have just told them I walked into a door! :-)

[AmyAnne]

I worked in a pet shop for awhile and got a REALLY NASTY parrot bite that turned a good portion of my lower arm black and blue. I was ASTOUNDED at the number of friends of myself and my now DH who point blank ASKED if he'd done it to me.

[stevenstwin]

Originally Posted by AmyAnne

I worked in a pet shop for awhile and got a REALLY NASTY parrot bite that turned a good portion of my lower arm black and blue. I was ASTOUNDED at the number of friends of myself and my now DH who point blank ASKED if he'd done it to me.

A parrot bite?? Oh my! I wonder why so many people are so quick to assume domestic abuse...especially when they know the couple involved?

[greenrobin]

I think this one might qualify for the "no good deed goes unpunished" category!

[fostermomintx]

I had an incident happen to me a few months ago where I was trying to catch a dog and fell, hitting my head on a wooden fence post which resulted in a huge bump on my forehead. Within a few days my eye was black and blue as well as across the bridge of my nose. Unfortunately, I was to attend a PPT meeting a few days after the incident. And there I was sitting in a room full of CPS employees, attorneys, and CASA workers (which was embarrassing enough) but then having to explain what I did to myself so they wouldn't think someone else did it. One attorney told me that if I was one of their clients they wouldn't have believed me!

[stevenstwin]

Originally Posted by fostermomintx

I had an incident happen to me a few months ago where I was trying to catch a dog and fell, hitting my head on a wooden fence post which resulted in a huge bump on my forehead. Within a few days my eye was black and blue as well as across the bridge of my nose. Unfortunately, I was to attend a PPT meeting a few days after the incident. And there I was sitting in a room full of CPS employees, attorneys, and CASA workers (which was embarrassing enough) but then having to explain what I did to myself so they wouldn't think someone else did it. One attorney told me that if I was one of their clients they wouldn't have believed me!

ROTFL!! Refer to Greenrobin's post above...truly, no good deed goes unpunished :-)