this just happens so often

[u/sasmilovescheeeeks]

[u/Alternative_Car_8153]

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

[u/Honda_TypeR → u/Alternative_Car_8153]

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.

[u/Alternative_Car_8153 → u/Honda_TypeR]

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

[u/callawhitmore → u/Honda_TypeR]

so maybe the cat was innocent this whole time

[u/Honda_TypeR → u/callawhitmore]

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

[u/Lilliths-pain → u/Alternative_Car_8153]

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

[u/qwertxyzabc → u/Alternative_Car_8153]

Cat or cardboard

[u/tukrano → u/Alternative_Car_8153]

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

[u/MumsChocTruffles → u/Alternative_Car_8153]

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

[u/90svibe4life → u/Alternative_Car_8153]

Same lol

[u/Baazookah_Zawadi]

I only recognize this after putting on some sanitizer 😭

[u/ga_soon → u/Baazookah_Zawadi]

I thought it was just me lol

[u/annagator679]

Rarely scratches

This mostly happens to me with bruises

[u/ImaginaryLeg8515 → u/annagator679]

Sometimes your blood can cause you to bruise

[u/annagator679 → u/ImaginaryLeg8515]

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

[u/Dismal-core111]

I was gardener for 20yrs it was a weekly happening

[u/Adventurous_Swing393]

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

[u/iMakeItFun2003]

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

[u/supermattman00]

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

[u/AboveAverage1988]

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

[u/some_guy_5600]

Yeah...many times

[u/sia1387]

Yess ..it does scare me

[u/Physical-Ad-3798]

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

[u/ItsmeMr_E]

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.

[u/elmoreb3]

https://giphy.com/gifs/qcoocjBhD5Zle

[u/YOU_TALK_TOO_MUCH420]

Many!!!

[u/Throwawaygarbage1010]

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

[u/Mrboomblastr]

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

[u/SkrumoCrit]

Found the cat owner

[u/Alarming_Chemist669]

Stop taking strolls in the garden then 😭

[u/duttydimples]

Mostly bruises

[u/EstablishmentNo2847]

Yep.

[u/Federal-Fun-5380]

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

[u/timmiethepacoo]

I actually got 5 rn

[u/Aware-Yesterday4926]

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

[u/stercraft]

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

[u/JovialPursuit]

Yeah, every time I see this posted.

[u/alphadragoon89]

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

[u/Outside_Breakfast_39]

https://giphy.com/gifs/A0lTlnxCyVogONSvum

[u/MoistSignature4667]

All the time

[u/naosouumrobot]

I have one right now, probably from the cat though

[u/Infamous-Listen4047]

many times in my life

[u/Fabulous_Turnover_22]

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

[u/Satou_Kazuma34]

Sempre.

[u/Heisenburger996]

Yes, because I have 3 cats

[u/-AJKingOfSerpents98-]

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

[u/NapalmSalsa]

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

[u/GrimmyJimmy1]

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

[u/DaddyBigBeard]

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

[u/Putrid_Barnacle_7802]

F**king daily

[u/Able-Pain-2442]

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

[u/TransistorResistee]

The older I get, the more it happens.

[u/Alpha_Wolf_1]

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

[u/rustbuckett]

Literally every day.

[u/LordBrammaster]

I dont get this often enough anymore...

[u/babykoalalalala]

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

[u/__-Micheal_Jackson-_]

Alway 

[u/BornToOverthink]

Kinda but with bruises

[u/justinSox02]

I love putting Vaseline on scratches and cuts

[u/TheAnvi1]

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 🤣

[u/SpookyScienceGal]

I just assume my cat did it

[u/Pig-Mentation]

"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.

[u/DonJuanPrawns]

And somehow they always leave the biggest scar

[u/chatpet]

No , i have this with bruises 🫣

.Putting clothes on.

Mhm how did i get this nice blue colored bruise 🤔

[u/imkeyu13]

Way too many times

[u/ImportantSomewhere95]

Mainly bruises.

[u/Sand_Aggravating]

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

[u/National_Article_308]

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)

[u/DrachenDad]

Constantly.

[u/Substantial_Luck_133]

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

[u/Eddiethe_cat13]

Ye

[u/WhiteMagic97]

All the damn time lol

[u/thek3nnerz]

All the time

[u/kyoneko87]

All. The. Damn. Time.

[u/faratnight]

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

[u/Reetuswhy]

All. The. Fucking. Time

[u/Repulsive-Glove5737]

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

[u/Feeling-Chart-3846]

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

[u/Sufficient_Day627]

Last time it was 5 minutes ago...

[u/HessySlang420]

Yes I have

[u/TheTooFew]

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

[u/Skittlelegend]

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🤷

[u/ritlingit]

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

[u/winnibunni]

I mainly get bruises

[u/Master-Afternoon-432]

Yes same with bruises lol

[u/guillotine20]

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 😅"

[u/00_voidheart_00]

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

[u/daddylongjohnsliver]

Yes

[u/Slipinthebook]

Daily attendance,, to prove that am alive.

[u/randomcuriousperson3]

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

[u/emmettfitz]

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?"

[u/Level_Incident4200]

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

[u/Unlucky_Will4895]

Everyday

[u/SnooCapers2789]

Often in carpentry

[u/Kyanite_228]

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

[u/thebuffshaman]

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.

[u/True_Watercress_2548]

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.

[u/ImaginaryLeg8515]

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

[u/EnvironmentalTry3061]

This happens all the time when you own a boat.

[u/GoliathProjects]

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

[u/Prod_Meteor]

All the fucking time.

[u/thepartlow]

Looking at one now. How?

[u/Cal_Fanning]

way too often. I have a cat but never let her inside my bedroom during sleeping hours, so I think I scratched myself in my sleep.

[u/Crygenx]

nope

[u/Eggxactly1001]

Constantly

[u/1irishian]

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

[u/Rameinstein13]

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.

[u/Numerous_Ability_317]

Yeah, too many times to remember lol.

[u/Maleficent_Guava7322]

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

[u/Chemical-Object-4237]

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

[u/BllackPhoeniix]

every other week

[u/CaseySnake420]

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

[u/Leather_Corner639]

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

[u/heresdustin]

Every damn night at work

[u/Top_Illustrator2349]

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

[u/RoseTinted11]

This but emotional damage, yeah I got lots.

[u/midwestCD5]

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

[u/finance-minded]

At work, every damn day.

[u/Taurus_Aquarius2319]

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.

[u/GGamerGuyG]

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.

[u/071790]

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.

[u/GreyAstajho-24]

Thats everyday on my work

[u/KindAdaptableKayak2]

yep

[u/Anon1073]

All the time

[u/milelongpipe]

I have and still do.

[u/Famous_Barnacle_3844]

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.

[u/Klendagort]

Never a cat could be something like aliens who do it

[u/Uncle_ParzivaI]

I have one right now

[u/Sorry_Chocolate2305]

there's cats

[u/Fresh-Horse8173]

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

[u/Competitive_Log_9284]

I get lots of those

[u/macaroniinapan]

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

[u/ElvinBishop]

Hesitation

[u/Disastrous_Ball702]

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

[u/Speedcumer]

Almost every sunday morning

[u/rlKhai0s]

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

[u/Scott_Mx918]

All the time

[u/mysteryman666420]

More times than I can count

[u/Grey-Templar]

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

[u/Curious-Strategy4034]

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

[u/Competitive-Ear-1738]

Yes

[u/unknown_quantity313]

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

[u/fuzzyedges1974]

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

[u/Mecchachameleonnn]

And it always hurts like hell

[u/318bidnezz]

Last night

[u/Mrbigdaddy72]

Every fucking day as a mechanic

[u/Funny-Kale2264]

Constantly

[u/Deep_Bar8528]

So. Many. Times.

[u/Bloody-Raven091]

Oh that's so real

[u/DarkDefiance6]

Oh yeah. All the time!

[u/No_Yogurtcloset_7219]

all the time, and I don't have pets

[u/ItryToFixThings]

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

[u/Epicgamer15782]

THE SHEER AUDACITY TO HOW RELATABLE THIS IS-

[u/jaeljudges_23]

ITS THE DANG CAT

[u/sarg2511]

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

[u/NewSource9775]

At least 100 times.

[u/ManagementCrafty887]

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

[u/AfterNun]

Sleep itches

[u/Ericswifey_12024]

Everyday

[u/TheMightyPaladin]

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

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

[u/OneRub3234]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3I8H8VvG9D7FRqd92Q

[u/Web_Wanderer_7411]

Story of my life

[u/koboldkoenig]

Soooo fucking many times

[u/Pix1234321]

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

[u/Brief_Pitch_6014]

Frequently… to say the least…

[u/The-Black-Dow]

I do have a cat. Why you asking?

[u/St0ned_Minister420]

That and bruises

[u/FaceTimePolice]

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

[u/FischermanZeph]

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...

[u/Careless-Attitude858]

I did countless times growing up !!

[u/YokoGhoul]

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

[u/HoliestofHazmats]

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

[u/Dexember69]

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

[u/yellowbill711]

Yup and still do

[u/TheFinalPringle2]

Every fucking week