Visiting my ESFP friend in NC about a week & a half ago - we stopped at a Walmart for some household items. I had some trouble at self checkout, ESFP started getting impatient to get home. Resolved the issue, & we exit the store. There's a torrential downpour, the actual can't-see-a-hand-in-front-of-you sort of rain. ESFP instructs me to stay at the store entrance, & she'll pull up with the car.
I pause for a moment, but, feeling anxious/irrationally guilty for taking up time at the checkout- not wanting to waste any additional time (in my own idiotic impulsive mind) - I decided to sprint across the lot to her car as she pulled out.
In the blinding rain.
About an hour later, I'm in the local ER, & the doctor's gluing shut a gash just below my bruising eye, & administering a tetanus shot.
Photo taken in exam room to show my INTP travel-buddy, who was off doing her own special hippie things at the time
Did the ESFP hit me with her car?
No.
Did my crappy sneakers lose traction, causing me to fall?
No.
Did a Walmart shopper fly into a Hulk-rage about the weather & hurl their rusty shopping cart at my head?
No.
..I somehow managed to slam the edge of her car door into my own face. Really fucking hard.
Her car (at a full stop when I did this) is a coupe - the passenger side doors are quite a bit longer than those on a 4-door, the latter of which are all I've been in for travel for probably over a year. Between the heavy rain, the gross underestimation of the door length, & rushing to her car in some ridiculous attempt at efficiency, I managed to bash the door into my own skull hard enough to blacken my eye & get a deep little cut on my face. I still try to visualize moment-to-moment precisely how the fuck I managed to do that, at all.. and I come up blank. Even the doctor looked baffled for a moment, before erupting into a fit of laughter. Couldn't help joining in.
Fortunately, the cut's healed up well - wouldn't have if I didn't get it glued shut. Cheekbone still hurts to the touch, but it's improving. Given my klutzy history, my pride remains technically unscathed & well preserved.. as it quietly laid down its life long long ago.
Ah well... it's not a road trip without at least one hospital visit, right?