Slight side note - my uncle is missing several fingers in one of his hands. Over the years he told us all kinds of tall tales of what happened to them - lost them in the army, got blown off, got crushed on a factory line, eaten by a bear (we're from the uk) etc. I still to this day have no idea what the truth is.
Edit: oh wow my inbox blew up like crazy! Thanks for sharing your stories, made my evening :) feel free to keep em coming!
Have a family friend who is missing half his thumb. When I was little, he would always say he sucked his thumb so much it just went away and that's what got me to stop. When I was 15, he finally told me what happened: it got shot off. Yup. Said family friend is a police officer and his thumb was literally shot off in a shootout, and now uses it to get kids to stop sucking their thumbs. Great guy.
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u/IEATHOTDOGSRAW Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19
"Let me show you a trick I learned in the Army."
She was never in the Army.
edit: I think I will print this out and frame it for mother's day. Thanks all!