Everyone has a scar on their body from something dumb, they did as a child. What's your story?

8th grade me was waiting to be picked up from school by my mom. It was towards the end of the school year so we had just had a field day where I did a lot of running to prove that I was the fastest runner. Some kids who were waiting for their parents with me encouraged me to take off running one more time. The only problem is that I was basically at the top of a small hill. I managed to run down the hill enough alright, but then there was a strip of pavement for a wheelchair accessibility ramp ahead of me. When I got to the cement, I managed to angle my body so I could continue running, but I was carrying so much downward momentum from coming down the hill that I basically collapsed on the pavement.

What's really weird about this injury is that I essentially fell with the front of my body, and I tried to catch myself with the front of my arms, but all of my injuries were on the back of my arms. The front of my arms which actually hit the pavement were sore and there were a few scratches where the skin kind of peeled, but they weren't bleeding. I did get some pretty bad road rash on my upper left arm that healed nicely and didn't scar, but I also had 2 big scrapes on the back of my left wrist that were about the size of a nickle each and bleeding pretty badly. Now I have 2 very prominent scars on the back of my left wrist as a reminder that Newton's Laws of Motion should always be taken into consideration before doing something like that again.

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