Hey Pandas, Share Your Best Scar Story

Big scar on my whole back and sides and ribs from when my father set me on fire

I have a scar on my hip. The doctors took out a piece of my bone from my hip and then put it in my skull to compensate for certain structural weaknesses in my skull.

I was about three years old when this happened: I was just walking outside my house, minding my business, and this lady and her dog walked past. I didn't do ANYTHING to the dog or lady, but out of NOWHERE the dog lunged at me and almost tore my face off. My mom and dad rushed me to the ER and the bite was so deep they had to stitch my muscle, fat, and skin back together. They said it was the scariest moment of their lives. But the scar turned out really cool; it's a big "X" on the side of my head next to my ear. Looks pretty badass.

I was a little kid that wanted cherries, my grandmother told me to wait for her to get the cherry bowl, but I was impatient. I thought I could do it on my own, so I went to the fridge and tried to take the heavy glass cherry bowl out of a high shelf. The glass bowl fell out of the fridge and landed in my feet, some glass stuck in my foot, now I have two scars on my right foot. One is shaped vaguely like a trident.

I was about two I think and one of my older sisters had my feet and another had my hands and they were pulling me across my parent's bed (don't ask me why, sisters). According to them one said "I'm gonna let go!" and the other said "No, I'm gonna let go!". They let go at the same time and I went flying off the bed and cut my chin open. It's kinda weird I can remember being wheeled into the hospital and seeing the lights go by even though I usually don't remember things from way back then. I've had a scar on my chin since.

11 years old. Riding my bike. It was raining and a teenage boy was chasing me. I turned my bike to go down the alley behind my grandmother’s house and he hit my back tire. I went down on my right side and ripped open my knee on the gravel. I was tangled up in my bike and stuck there for about an hour before my aunt drove by. Then my grandmother dug gravel out of my knee with a spoon. She put me in the double sink, ass in one side and legs in the other. I still have a piece of gravel in my knee though. Few years back I was playing with it and popped it behind my knee cap. Now it hurts sometimes and my knee grinds. Oh well. I also have a scar on top of my foot from a broken beer bottle at the lake when I was around 5, a scar on my thumb where a broken glass rim cut me doing dishes when I was 15 (still made me finish them with one hand, the jerks), and quite a few scars on my wrists and arms that I think speak for themselves. I almost had a full face scar but medical intervention fixed me all up. Don’t tie your kid to a raft while white water rafting and then spill beer on their face. In summer. And then not rinse it off. I woke up with one hell of a massive sunburn. Guess that’s what happens when you fall asleep in a raft.

When I was about 9 years old I was at school. It was the end of the day and we put our bags on our desks and sat on the floor waiting to go. When the bell rang to signify school was over I ran to get my bag off the table, and one of the class bullies decided it would be funny to stick his foot out to trip me, and I tripped and smashed the middle of my head (between my eyebrows) into the corner of the table. My mum said it was so deep that you could see down to my skull when you lifted the skin. I have a nice long scar that cuts through my eyebrow now:)

Scar on my foot from stepping on a rusty nail as a kid.
Some kids said I had a crush on a boy, and I had to run outside as fast as I could (sans shoes) just to tell them NO.
I got a nail on my foot because I didn't want boy cooties 😆

The barista didn’t put the lid on my coffee on right and it spilled on my leg and gave me a 3rd degree burn.

I was frying some vegetables and some of the oil splattered onto my wrist.

I was in kindergarten on the playground, got accidentally pushed off a slide and landed on my chin. Had to get stitches and can still see it. Oddly enough every so often I will get a dark thick hair or 2 grow on each end of the scar which I immediately pluck (I’m a 41 yr old female)

When I was around 5-8ish? I went running down to the barn, tripped or slipped once I hit the cement and slid into a shovel, got a nice cut under my eye. Most people would never notice it anymore.

Had chicken pox when I was really young, I picked a big scab on my forehead. That’s the most obvious/noticeable scab that I have.

I have a big scar on my knee from a Maypole Dancing accident. That's not something most folks can boast.

When I was younger, around 5 I think, I said a curse word. My aunt told me i was going to go to hell for saying it. That night I dreamed I went to hell and backed into a hot rock while the devil was laughing at me. What really happened during my dream was that i was sleep walking and backed into a hot iron. My mom was doing laundry. I have the perfect imprint of about four inches of an iron on the back of my right leg. I did not go to hell for saying a curse word.

Faceplanted onto a chair when I was 6 and picked at the glue on my head so scar

I have a small scar on my thumb that's barely visible anymore, but you can still see it. I got this scar when I was building Legos. I had gotten this awesome Harry Potter castle that was 6k pieces. On one of my last days building it I was doing one of the towers. Out of nowhere the tower collapsed on my hand and It cut my thumb pretty bad. There was a lot of blood. I couldn't even believe Legos could do that. I was embarrassed then but now I find it hilarious.

I have a scar on my foot from falling off the side of a water slide when I was like 11.

I went for a 10 mile run up a mountain in Aspen. It was a very technical trail. When I got back to the parking lot I tripped on near my car on a stone in the road and split my knees open down to the bone. I had to drive my brand new white interior car to the ER with blood pouring everywhere. I have a massive scar that is still very visible 20 years later.

I was around 7/8 yrs old and was walking home from school with my childminders son who I had a major crush on! We walked past my house and I knew that my dads Gosh Hawk was in our back garden on his perch! Anyways I said to the boy “let’s go and see my dads bird” we walked in the back garden and I proceeded to show off and go right up to the bird not realising it was on a “long” leash! It attached right to my face with a claw right in my lip! Have a massive bump on my lip now with a scar next to it! Not funny at the time but looking back it was so silly of me!!!

When I was five I was trying to keep a balloon in the air and ran into the pointy corner where the wall met the doorway. I managed to crack my head open and had to spend 40 minutes in the car with a bag of peas on my face to try and numb the pain.

I kicked a price of grass while playing kickball barefoot. Cut my toe down to the bone. I didn't know grass could do that but I guess they are called "blades" of grass.