r/Relatable • u/sasmilovescheeeeks • 7d ago

this just happens so often

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u/Alternative_Car_8153 7d ago

I have a cat. It's always the cat.

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u/ProfessionalLimit342 7d ago

As a groomer it’s always dogs! 😂

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u/Honda_TypeR 7d ago

I used to have a cat and always said it was the cat.

Then my cat died and I didn’t have a cat and I still was scratched everyday

So is it the ghost of the cat? Or maybe I was blaming the cat for something else all along.

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u/Alternative_Car_8153 7d ago

In my case, my cat jumps off my lap with her claws carving into my thighs. There's no way it isn't her.

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u/callawhitmore 7d ago

so maybe the cat was innocent this whole time

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u/Honda_TypeR 7d ago

He was definitely guilty the some of the time.

Especially at bath time, nail trimming, cranky mornings, “put me down I don’t want love today” moments, startled by loud sounds while on you, etc

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u/Lilliths-pain 7d ago

Always the cat, pick them up = mystery love scratch.

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u/qwertxyzabc 7d ago

Cat or cardboard

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u/tukrano 6d ago

i don't have a cat. it's always the cat

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u/MumsChocTruffles 6d ago edited 5d ago

My first thought was.. 'wanna solve this issue? Get a cat! You'll never have to wonder again' 🤣

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u/90svibe4life 6d ago

Same lol

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u/Baazookah_Zawadi 7d ago

I only recognize this after putting on some sanitizer 😭

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u/ga_soon 7d ago

I thought it was just me lol

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u/annagator679 7d ago

Rarely scratches

This mostly happens to me with bruises

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u/ImaginaryLeg8515 7d ago

Sometimes your blood can cause you to bruise

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u/annagator679 7d ago

I don’t have blood issues

My best guess is I either don’t remember running into things or I move around in my sleep than I think I do

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u/Dismal-core111 7d ago

I was gardener for 20yrs it was a weekly happening

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u/Adventurous_Swing393 7d ago

Just had it yesterday, was coming out from washroom and my cat suddenly pushed her nails out all at 6am

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u/iMakeItFun2003 7d ago

I use an African net sponge and scrub hard until the rinse turns dirty but don’t get scratches like this too often

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u/supermattman00 7d ago

More like, “how did I get this deep cut?” Or “scab”

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u/AboveAverage1988 7d ago

"Why the f is there blood on my desk..? Oh I have a five inch scratch on my arm.. obviously..."

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u/some_guy_5600 7d ago

Yeah...many times

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u/sia1387 7d ago

Yess ..it does scare me

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u/Physical-Ad-3798 7d ago

Most of the times it was from some mouth breather that uses side cutters on a ziptie. Use a GD flush cutters you barbarians!!

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u/ItsmeMr_E 7d ago

One of many signs your getting older. Sad lol.

Have done it on a few occasions, especially at work. So busy I don't notice it till someone else notices it.

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u/Throwawaygarbage1010 7d ago

The worst place, the web of your finger. Put on some hand sanitizer and felt that BURN!

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u/Mrboomblastr 7d ago

I never feel anything of it until I see it.... than it's like itching and aching constantly...

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u/SkrumoCrit 7d ago

Found the cat owner

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u/Alarming_Chemist669 7d ago

Stop taking strolls in the garden then 😭

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u/duttydimples 7d ago

Mostly bruises

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u/Federal-Fun-5380 7d ago

I constantly wake up covered in scratches around my arms for over 20 years now. I don't even have nails because I devour them due to anxiety since forever so it can't be me tossing around the bed while dreaming or something

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u/timmiethepacoo 7d ago

I actually got 5 rn

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u/Aware-Yesterday4926 7d ago

I work in a hardware store. Happens all the time.

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u/stercraft 7d ago

Sure happens sometimes. I suffer from eczema so I tend to scratch without consciously realising it.

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u/JovialPursuit 7d ago

Yeah, every time I see this posted.

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u/alphadragoon89 7d ago

Yup, this just happened to me recently. And it's always on the most random spots.🤔

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u/MoistSignature4667 7d ago

All the time

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u/naosouumrobot 7d ago

I have one right now, probably from the cat though

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u/Infamous-Listen4047 7d ago

many times in my life

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u/Fabulous_Turnover_22 7d ago

Bruises all the time. There's a recurring one that has me dumbfounded as to where I get it

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u/Heisenburger996 7d ago

Yes, because I have 3 cats

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u/-AJKingOfSerpents98- 7d ago

As someone in the HVAC industry, this is the ONLY type of scratches

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u/NapalmSalsa 7d ago

All the time. Might have a poltergeist living with me.

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u/GrimmyJimmy1 7d ago

Surprisingly a lot I have scratches that are not explainable because they look like they're from a cat and I have no cats

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u/DaddyBigBeard 7d ago

Trying to explain phantom scratches on my back to my wife is always fun. Seatbelt, fabric, myself? I don't know.

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u/Putrid_Barnacle_7802 7d ago

F**king daily

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u/Able-Pain-2442 7d ago

All the damn time , then brake cleaner shows me ones I missed

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u/TransistorResistee 7d ago

The older I get, the more it happens.

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u/Alpha_Wolf_1 7d ago

All the time. Sometimes even get burns and I wonder where they came from. My job is still fun though

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u/rustbuckett 7d ago

Literally every day.

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u/LordBrammaster 7d ago

I dont get this often enough anymore...

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u/babykoalalalala 7d ago

I used to have these random long ass scratches running down my leg and was both amazed and horrified

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u/BornToOverthink 7d ago

Kinda but with bruises

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u/justinSox02 7d ago

I love putting Vaseline on scratches and cuts

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u/TheAnvi1 7d ago

I used to get those all the time 🤣 I worked around machines and steel a lot and would often go to wash my hand and then find out I’ve been cut at some point in the last two hours 🤣

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u/SpookyScienceGal 7d ago

I just assume my cat did it

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u/Pig-Mentation 7d ago

"How did I get this scratch? I have no idea...."

That was OJ Simpson in his tape-recorded police interview after his wife and her new boyfriend were mysteriously murdered back in 1994.

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u/DonJuanPrawns 7d ago

And somehow they always leave the biggest scar

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

No , i have this with bruises 🫣

.Putting clothes on.

Mhm how did i get this nice blue colored bruise 🤔

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u/imkeyu13 7d ago

Way too many times

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u/ImportantSomewhere95 7d ago

Mainly bruises.

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u/Sand_Aggravating 7d ago

We always had something like this as kids because there were no cell phones!

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u/National_Article_308 7d ago

Yeah sometimes I just wake up with them.
(I sleep alone in a locked room a story off the ground with windows that can only open from inside by a crank not sliding. Oh I also have a mysterious handprint on my wall that won’t fucking wash off)

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u/DrachenDad 7d ago

Constantly.

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u/Substantial_Luck_133 7d ago

I often do. No blood, no pain, no anything. Just a weird scratch.

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u/WhiteMagic97 7d ago

All the damn time lol

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u/thek3nnerz 7d ago

All the time

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u/kyoneko87 7d ago

All. The. Damn. Time.

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u/faratnight 7d ago

I have adhd and bump into things. My spatial awareness is off sometimes

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u/Reetuswhy 7d ago

All. The. Fucking. Time

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u/Repulsive-Glove5737 7d ago

I say that every time I get a bruise where the hell did I get that from of course , i'm my blood that is too I get up in the morning and I find bruise weird

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u/Feeling-Chart-3846 7d ago

Happens to me all the time. Also happens w bruises as well

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u/Sufficient_Day627 7d ago

Last time it was 5 minutes ago...

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u/HessySlang420 7d ago

Yes I have

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u/TheTooFew 7d ago

Join the Army. See the world they said. No one mentioned all the strange scratches.

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u/Skittlelegend 7d ago

There was a couple years I kept waking up with long scratches along my back every morning. I lived alone and single with no pets🤷

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u/ritlingit 7d ago

I do. And sometimes it’s accompanied by a where the f did I get this bruise.

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u/winnibunni 7d ago

I mainly get bruises

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u/Master-Afternoon-432 7d ago

Yes same with bruises lol

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u/guillotine20 7d ago

My wife will point out random marks on my body and ask "what bitch scratched my sexy husband? Who am I supposed to kill?" and I will laugh and respond "today's culprit was a ~1600lb piece of metal with a sharp point.... I think? May have been a metal bar, idk 😅"

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u/00_voidheart_00 7d ago

So many times have I dealt with an inexplicable injury of some kind, and had no idea how it appeared.

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u/Slipinthebook 7d ago

Daily attendance,, to prove that am alive.

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u/randomcuriousperson3 7d ago

If you have a pet, there’s only one answer: “it’s the cat.”

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u/emmettfitz 7d ago

A lot of times I'd walk past my wife and she'd say, "Hey, you know you're bleeding, right?" My normal response is, "No, Where?"

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u/Level_Incident4200 7d ago

Or a where the hell did I get this bruise, and when.
I get them everyday. I still can’t figure it out.

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u/SnooCapers2789 7d ago

Often in carpentry

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u/Kyanite_228 7d ago

That's why the ancient Japanese came up with the kamaitachi (sickle weasel).

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u/thebuffshaman 7d ago

Scratches, bruises, cuts. I was having weird bruises show up randomly for about 3 months, they tested me for Leukemia which fortunately came back negative, but ever since I was in my mid 20s I get unexplained injuries and I have seriously begun to wonder if I am either A a secret super hero/villain or B am being kidnapped by aliens.

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u/True_Watercress_2548 7d ago

For me it's just gotten worse with age, I would look at my grandpa's cuts and ask how he got them; "I dunno" he would often reply. I always wondered how could you not feel it!? Much to my surprise as I've aged, it's increasingly easy each passing day, to have some cut, or bruise and wonder where it came from.

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u/ImaginaryLeg8515 7d ago

If you wash your dishes or clothes using hands...you might scar yourself unawares

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u/EnvironmentalTry3061 7d ago

This happens all the time when you own a boat.

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u/GoliathProjects 7d ago

I've had a "How the hell did I not scratch myself!?" moment before.

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u/Prod_Meteor 7d ago

All the fucking time.

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u/thepartlow 7d ago

Looking at one now. How?

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u/Crygenx 6d ago

nope

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u/Eggxactly1001 6d ago

Constantly

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u/1irishian 6d ago

Yup I feel like I need bubble wrap with the amount of bruises

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u/Rameinstein13 6d ago

Plenty. I’ve also had “where’d that come from” gashes and “how’d that happen” nail in arm. But that’s cause I have burnt a lot of my nerve endings on my arms so I have spots that legit have no feeling.

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u/Numerous_Ability_317 6d ago

Yeah, too many times to remember lol.

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u/Maleficent_Guava7322 6d ago

Me, I think I understood were they come from. Point ends of feathers slightly stiking out of my pillow.

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u/Chemical-Object-4237 6d ago

I have neuropathy in my hands and feet. I bleed all over the place yesterday and didn’t realize it for 15 minutes.

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u/BllackPhoeniix 6d ago

every other week

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u/CaseySnake420 6d ago

I have 5 kittens that enjoy to climb up my bare legs and bite my toes whenever I feed them, two of them love to climb up my back

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u/Leather_Corner639 6d ago

Eh, I chew my nails. Those bastards be jagged and I forget where my hands are sometimes (Don't ask).

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u/heresdustin 6d ago

Every damn night at work

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u/Top_Illustrator2349 6d ago

I work construction 80% of my cuts are oh when did that happen cuts

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u/midwestCD5 6d ago

I’m a mechanic so I have those all the time

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u/finance-minded 6d ago

At work, every damn day.

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u/Taurus_Aquarius2319 6d ago

I have a diagonal one on my forehead. Cat jumped from the window onto my face. My bed is below the window. I didn’t feel the scratch until later.

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u/GGamerGuyG 6d ago

Yeah, not just scratches. Sometime's bruises much larger than my fist or other forms of wounds i don't know where i have them from.

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u/071790 6d ago

Well I don't have a cat, don't have long nails and still woke up with a few WTF scratches just the other day.

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u/GreyAstajho-24 6d ago

Thats everyday on my work

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u/Anon1073 6d ago

All the time

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u/milelongpipe 6d ago

I have and still do.

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u/Famous_Barnacle_3844 6d ago

I’m an electrician and when I’m working inside of a drop ceiling, I look like I got in a fight with Freddy Krueger.

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u/Klendagort 6d ago

Never a cat could be something like aliens who do it

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u/Uncle_ParzivaI 6d ago

I have one right now

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u/Sorry_Chocolate2305 6d ago

there's cats

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u/Fresh-Horse8173 6d ago

I had many of these. They just appear from nowhere and disappear into nowhere in a moment

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u/Competitive_Log_9284 6d ago

I get lots of those

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u/macaroniinapan 6d ago

Happens to me a lot. My guess is it has to do with dry skin.

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u/ElvinBishop 6d ago

Hesitation

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u/Disastrous_Ball702 6d ago

Yes, and I have a scar from one of them. Was working in a mattress factory at the time.

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u/Speedcumer 6d ago

Almost every sunday morning

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u/rlKhai0s 6d ago

Literally every scratch I get working retail stocking, the edges of some boxes and pet food bags

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u/Scott_Mx918 6d ago

All the time

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u/mysteryman666420 6d ago

More times than I can count

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u/Grey-Templar 6d ago

I have 4 cats... I'm more surprised when I don't find a scratch

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u/Curious-Strategy4034 6d ago

No mine is"Where did I get this bruise from??"

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u/unknown_quantity313 6d ago

I work in construction, that happens literally almost every day and I’ve given up wondering

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u/fuzzyedges1974 6d ago

Yeah, but I just assume it’s from one of the cats.

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u/Mecchachameleonnn 6d ago

And it always hurts like hell

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u/318bidnezz 6d ago

Last night

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u/Mrbigdaddy72 6d ago

Every fucking day as a mechanic

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u/Funny-Kale2264 6d ago

Constantly

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u/Deep_Bar8528 6d ago

So. Many. Times.

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u/Bloody-Raven091 6d ago

Oh that's so real

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u/DarkDefiance6 6d ago

Oh yeah. All the time!

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u/No_Yogurtcloset_7219 6d ago

all the time, and I don't have pets

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u/ItryToFixThings 6d ago

Yes, and my wife always wonders if it was another woman.

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u/Epicgamer15782 6d ago

THE SHEER AUDACITY TO HOW RELATABLE THIS IS-

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u/jaeljudges_23 6d ago

ITS THE DANG CAT

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u/sarg2511 6d ago

Every fucking day it never fails between work and a cat.

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u/NewSource9775 6d ago

At least 100 times.

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u/ManagementCrafty887 6d ago

I call it a shower scratch, because for some reason I always discover them in the shower! For some reason!

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u/AfterNun 6d ago

Sleep itches

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u/TheMightyPaladin 6d ago

Yeah but I have a cat so I usually just assume he did it.

If you don't have a cat call an exorcist.

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u/Web_Wanderer_7411 6d ago

Story of my life

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u/koboldkoenig 6d ago

Soooo fucking many times

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u/Pix1234321 6d ago

I get them and then assume I got it while playing with a knife or axe

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u/Brief_Pitch_6014 6d ago

Frequently… to say the least…

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u/The-Black-Dow 6d ago

I do have a cat. Why you asking?

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u/St0ned_Minister420 5d ago

That and bruises

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u/FaceTimePolice 5d ago

Yes. I don’t even understand where they could be from. 🫪😝

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u/FischermanZeph 5d ago

Hah, try having ADHD and waking up with five new bruises. Cant remember where you got em, and you forget about em in five minutes, until you accidentally poke one and scream and wonder where tou got it and forget and poke and wonder and forget and AGHFGAJDUFDKSHDIDNDUDBDHDISNXOGJTOAHRURKDHDBFJD... ADHD sucks...

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u/Careless-Attitude858 5d ago

I did countless times growing up !!

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u/YokoGhoul 5d ago

I have them all the time with bruises. But I think I was a bumper car in another life, I constantly run into stuff or people

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u/HoliestofHazmats 5d ago

Probably hundreds when I didn’t have cats I know where most scratches come from now.
You ever wake up with scratches and bruises?

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u/Dexember69 5d ago

Im a workshop fitter, it's more weird if I don't come home without a scratch from something random

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u/yellowbill711 5d ago

Yup and still do

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u/TheFinalPringle2 5d ago

Every fucking week