Thursday 16 December 2010

Pinky Toes, Midnight Wrecks & Nutters

It never fails. I will wake up in the middle of the night, stumble to the bathroom and always—always!—step on something that causes me to have a massive wreck in the son's room, at the base of the stairs, the living room, or, the worst room of all for debris, the kitchen.

Yes, you read that correctly. I said the kitchen. I'll explain in a bit.

However, it's not just me who seems to have this problem. The hubby and my oldest dau have magnet toes. If there's something that they can catch their pinky toes on, they will, especially the hubby. I'm constantly telling him he needs curb sensors on his toes, but then if he walked around wearing those sticking out from his little toes, I'd probably sound like a loon losing its mind.

Now, before I proceed with this blog post, I have to explain something. I'm one of those weird people who laugh at pain, whether it's mine or someone else's doesn't matter. I can't help it, and if I'm honest, I think it's genetic. My mother is a Nutter (okay, Emmy, if you read this, I'm saying this one more time: Yes, Nutter is a real last name and it's English! Uh, wait. Mom's family is nuts, so maybe...nah, it's just a coincidence...right?), and the entire family has this warped sense of humor that also dances on the dark side.

I don't laugh at serious injuries, mind you. It's just those everyday mishaps that strike me as hilarious—and I have no idea why.

Trip and fall? Oh, dear. Let's make sure you're okay—glances at you quickly and sees no pool of blood or bones poking out—and promptly, "Bwahaha!" until tears stream down the face.

Stub your toe? That's a sure method of making me, or anyone on my mother's side, to burst out laughing, especially if I have an image of curb sensors on toes flashing through my brain.

Step on something sharp? OMG, don't yell or dance around; otherwise, I won't be able to help you because I'll be leaning against the wall or on the floor cracking up.

Bang your head off of a cabinet door or light? You better hold your hand on it just in case you need stitches because it'll take me a few minutes to compose myself.

Point in case, just ask my friend Trinity. Since she lives only three hours north of me, we see one another every now and then, so she's been exposed to my warped sense of humor (then again, she laughs so hard at me sometimes she has to be a li'l warped too, right?) and she'll tell you my oldest dau has this same trait.

While getting ready to go home from one of the Lori Foster Get Togethers, my dau opened the room door so I could push this massive suitcase on wheels out into the hall. I rolled it over my toe.

Pain! Glorious pain! I squealed, performed a jig only someone who suffers a serious body tick could understand, and promptly began laughing so hard I could barely walk or talk. The dau totally lost it, too, but the thing is she had no idea what she was even laughing at.

Trinity, who was ahead of us, turned around and said, "All right, Faith. What did you do now?" Which set me off again!

The poor hubby automatically yells, "Just shut up!" when he stubs a toe or cracks his head. He also misses doorways because he has this uncanny knack of looking at me as he's talking and walking then crashes headlong into a doorframe, wall, or sometimes the sides of vehicles. He's also been known to miss a step or two.

The other night, my youngest, who is six, fell off the couch and poked my oldest dau in the eye with his big toe. I totally lost it. As a matter of fact, I'm wiping away tears as I type this!

En garde! It's El Toe-O! (Okay, so maybe you had to be there)

Back to the kitchen...my hubby has a TV in our kitchen where he spends 90% of his time when he's home. Since my youngest boy fights with my youngest dau (12) over the big living room television, my son spends a lot of time playing on the floor in front of the kitchen TV because he shares interest in many of the same programs as my hubby (and if I have to see one more episode of Ax Men I might find an ax of my own...).

Therefore, the boy leaves a lot of Hot Wheels and pieces of his construction town, etc., lying on the floor. Oh, the hubby does his best to scoot the debris off to the side out of the way, but somehow, someway, one or two items are missed or they just sprout legs and wander back out into the traffic area.

Need a drink of water? Take my advice and get it out of the bathroom. No, scratch that. You might step on something in the boy's room since we have to walk through it to get to the bathroom from our bedroom. What's a Hot Wheel between two toes, eh? And seriously, if the boy enjoys playing with the tiny traffic cones—with friggin' points—that goes to his Hot Wheels City, what's stepping on one when you're half-asleep, beary-eyed, and needing to pee? Just don't piss on the carpet as you're disco dancing in the middle of the bedroom, okay?

Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's the Nutter gene of pain=hilarity.

One day my mom opened the freezer of an upright fridge and a frozen chicken fell out and mashed her pinky. An hour later, that sucker looked like a blue-black sausage. What did she do? Laughed and cried at the same time (I couldn't have helped her if my life depended on it).

A couple of months later, she was outside, tripped and fell on the SAME finger. I lost it. Seriously, how do you FALL ON ONE SINGLE FINGER???

Another time my dad was working on the engine of mom's Gran Torino. She walked up behind my father, goosed him, and he jumped, cracking his head. She took off laughing like a hyena as dad cussed the air blue.

I guess I'm a bit curious if this "problem" I have is just me, something genetic, or if others out there have a bit of the same warped sense of humor.

Tap.Tap. Tap. Is this thing on?

Am I alone out here?

20 comments:

trinity said...

OH my god I laughed so hard! Yep that is Faith. You guys are nuts! Just glad you didn't mention the other thing you guys were laughing at so hard at Lori's! Or should I say all of us were laughing at.
Trinity

Faith Bicknell said...

LMAO, well, it wasn't a stubbed toe or a mashed finger, but it was still so funny I couldn't catch my breath.

Marci Baun said...

It's you, Faith. I don't laugh at that. Well, okay, maybe a little and only sometimes. Instead, I get testy. (g) I'm a bitch when I'm testy.

Tess MacKall said...

Oh God. I think I must be a Nutter. Helpppppppp! I laugh at stuff like that. But it's not so funny when you're the one being laughed at and you're in pain. Broke my finger when my middle girl jumped from the side of the pool and into my arms. Her swimsuit caught my finger and broke it. Yep. Broke my pinky finger. To this day I can't fully close those fingers together. sighhh

And hubby walks into doorframes, huh? LMAO

Faith Bicknell said...

Uhm, Marci...you're in trouble. So far it's three to zero, lol. But that's okay. Someday we'll meet face to face, I'll trip, fall, and for some crazy reason, it'll crack you up, lmao.

Tess! OMG, I have something similar that happened to me too. It wasn't swimming, but my youngest girl went to hug me, stepped on my toes, and the middle toe broke. No clue why. I had no idea it even broke until a few hours later when it swelled up like a Vienna sausage and turned black and blue.

Broke one of my fingers too. A 16 pound bowling ball fell on it.

And no, don't ask.

Marci Baun said...

I didn't say I didn't laugh at other people. (g) I just don't laugh when say my daughter smacks in my boob with her elbow, etc.

Faith Bicknell said...

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

I think that's the PO button for a women because I'm the same way.

Valerie Mann said...

I'm a nutter (he's a nutter, she's a nutter, we're a nutter, wouldn't you like to be a nutter, too?...sorry, I couldn't help that). I only laugh at my DH when he hurts himself. He makes this contained noise, like Homer Simpson - DOH, DOH, DOH! Not a dry eye in the house when he gets hurt, nope.

Faith Bicknell said...

OMG, Valerie, that is too funny!

Cassie Exline said...

OMG we're related! Lord have mercy, I laugh at all of that. Someone gets hurt, I get hurt, I'm laughing until I can't stand or get my breath. Tissue!!

Emmy Ellis said...

I'm the odd one out. I have this terrible thing where, if someone hurts themselves, I imagine how bad it is, and then, if I don't see anything wrong, I imagine how bad it could have been. So a stubbed toe becomes a ripped off one, and a grazed knee becomes no knee cap. I always--and bug myself for it--say, "Oh..." in this low voice, as though I'm going to have to deal with something awful.

Hubby must have had someone in his life who laughed at one time, because if he hurts himself, he always says, "Go on, you can laugh now." And I'm going, "Oh!" imagining, when he banged his head, that his skull has broken in half, and I think: But I never laugh...

I'm boring like that. My guts roll over when anyone hurts themselves. Can't even stand seeing it on TV. Even those caught on camera shows.

If I hurt myself, though, the air turns blue. I've called many a table corner an asshole, as though they did it to me on purpose.

:o)

Faith Bicknell said...

Serious injuries bother me, but like I said in the blog post, it's the li'l everyday things that strike me as amusing and I have no clue why.

All my kids are the same way too.

And why I laugh when I stub MY toe is beyond me. Although someone did tell me once that it's like a person who jokes constantly about everything, even themselves. They do it as a defense mechanism, so if someone laughs at stubbing h/her own toe it's like it won't hurt as bad.

Faith Bicknell said...

Cassie, it seems that some of us have loose wires, lolol, and others have theirs snugly plugged in.

Nicki (D.N.) said...

My laptop landed on my toes (because my new kitten attacked me in the back), and instead of screaming like I always do at his little hell-claws, I laughed myself half to death....

It probably helped that I was reading this at the time. xD

I'm still laughing. o_o;;

Faith Bicknell said...

LOL, I sure hope you don't have black and blue toes!

Nicki (D.N.) said...

No, Faith, but I do have a gouged back...Ganymede's claws are nasty sharp (like rose thorns ;_;)

How's it been? A while since I've talked to you all----and this blog is bloody fantastic. I hope you don't mind if I follow it...I miss you guys a lot. :)

Faith Bicknell said...

We've all been pulling our hair out to keep up with everything.

Today I'm going out with the hubby for our a sixth wedding anniversary.

Nice to "see" you and I'm glad you're enjoying the blog!

Nicki (D.N.) said...

Oh, isn't that the truth around Christmas? :)

Congratulations on your anniversary, and many happy returns! Best wishes for your day to go well.

It's good to see you guys as well. I've done a lot of growing up in these last few years...one would actually hardly recognize me as the person I was. Hopefully someday I can regain at least a bit of friendship with my lost contacts----I feel awful about what has come and gone, and it's all my fault.

--

And you can bet your boots this blog is followed, as of today. :)

Faith Bicknell said...

{smiles} Welcome, Nicki!

Emmy Ellis said...

Is that our Nicki? If it is, big hugs, love.

From Emmy AKA Sarah.

:O)