Have you ever had a black eye?

Question

How did you get it?

Answer 1

i think answerer #1 is lying....

Answer 2

Yes! When I was a kid I played baseball with my friends in the neighborhood. One day we were short on players so I took the catchers position. I was usually a base position or outfield. Well, the kid came back with the bat, right into my nose. it broke my nose and I had a black eye, in fact they were both bruised.

Answer 3

Yes. Many years ago, I was in a car accident. My face hit the steering wheel of my '65 VW bug. I argued with my doctor when he told me I'd have a black eye because my face hit the wheel, not my eye. He was right. Big shiner.

Answer 4

Yes, many of them. playing sports. The worst one was when I broke my nose in softball and I had 2 black eyes for almost 2 weeks.

Answer 5

Yes. Ummm, I was working at an amusement park. We were riding the rollercoaster before the park opened. I was riding it without the safety bar - standing up. I slipped and hit my eye on a bar.

Answer 6

Broke my nose. Ended up with 2 shiners & looked like a raccoon.

Answer 7

Many times..

Answer 8

Yes, several times. -_- My family, especially my father, was violent and messed up that way.

The one that sticks with me the most is the one I got late in my sophomore year in high school. Summer had just ended, but out in southern California, down south of Needles, you can't really tell it out in the high desert....

My kid sister was babysitting some neighborhood kids, when a different family in the neighborhood, who had recently been nursing *nine kids of ill will* towards my mother over something she did while she was drunk, sent their daughter over to harrass my kid sister. Keep in mind that my kid sister was 12, maybe 13 at the time, and that the house she was babysitting in had no air conditioning.

And that family's daughter, was maybe all of ten years old. So she shows up, calling my kid sister all manner of obscene names a little girl that age would *NOT* know about. Porno-caliber stuff. It was a clear case of the little girl's having been coached. My kid sister was hot, tired, and busy babysitting kids who barely spoke her own language.....so she grabbed the little girl and hustled her out the door. Maybe she smacked her bottom on the way out. Whatever.

Point is, shortly after that, the whole entire family comes out looking for my kid sister wanting to beat her down, threatening lord knows what. And I'm the only guy in my family's house at the moment. My older sister had married but the guy was on probation and couldn't do anything.

So yeah, I had to step up, and defend my sister's honor, even though I personally didn't hold a grudge against the family that picked this fight. And yeah, I got my tail kicked pretty badly. It wasn't just that I was this out of shape guy going against an amateur boxer....it was that we were *on gravel* and when I slipped his *whole family* ran in and got theirs, while mine just hung back and did nothing. o_o It was a boot party and my face was the target.

I did get a black eye from this.....and my jaw still clicks to this day. And the concussions I suffered would end up screwing with my ability to do mental arithmetic and recall numbers *for years*. I had to relearn everything beyond simple addition and subtraction *from scratch entirely by myself*. And yes, it made my behavior erratic as hell for years after that too.

And you know what the pisser was? The kid, the amateur boxer, who was going to beat and rape my kid sister, that fellow was a couple of years younger than I was. Which meant that when the police showed up, they were going to take ME to jail in spite of my head injuries. WTF?? I *clearly* had a dislocated jaw and concussions bad enough that the cops thought I was retarded. And yet....I was going to go to jail, not the punk and his family who started all of this.

And my own family stood there and did nothing. Nobody had my back. Nobody.

Surely you can see where that sort of black eye would mess with your head, right?

Thanks for your time. -_-

Answer 9

Oh yes! My 'lovely ' ex-boyfriend...
As well as a cracked skull, dislocated shoulder, dead legs, bitten mouth & sliced tongue, cuts, bruises etc etc! It all culminated in the c *** trying to actually murder me.

Answer 10

Yeah. My mom's ex husband gave them to me often. That's why I had to beat him down when I became big enough to defend myself.

Answer 11

had two I got hit in the nose with a frizzby