at 16, I went to a Metal gig
I also had braces, so those of you with a little imagination can see where this is going.

Anyway, so the night's going really well, the bands are really heavy and the mosh-pit is just a swirling mass of sweaty bodies and long hair. Most of the night I was in the pit jumping about getting smacked and giving as much back, very fun in a primal aggressor sort of way. We're coming up to the last few bands and all who are left in the pit are some massive bikers, the guys on pills who've got too much energy.... and me.

So, I get stuck in and almost as if on cue, the final snare and *WHAM* fist in the mouth, pissing blood out of my mouth, but laughing, until I realised that when I laugh I can feel my lip tugging on something... This isn't right thinks I, so I make my way to the toilets to check out what's happened, and horror of horrors, the inside of the lip has been forced into my brace and got caught somehow. Fuck.

Anyway, I leave this for the moment and ride out the rest of the gig (not in the pit however).

I get home and think about how I'm going to sort this out, I can't leave it overnight or it's going to be even worse when I try and free the lip in the morning... The only way I can sort this out is if I cut it free.

So I pop off to the kitchen and find myself a very sharp knife. up to the bathroom over the sink where the mirror hangs just in front of it, pull the lip out... brace myself... slice... "argh, fuckity shit bollocks piss". Now there's more blood in your lips than I previously thought, and the size of the hole I'd just made was now spilling a lot more blood than I was comfortable with. So I did the normal thing, got a cotton bud, stuffed it over the hole and went to bed.

I still have the scar on the inside, it looks a tiny bit like a vagina.

Apologies for length, but it's more about what came out.
(Maccy Divided by 0 on, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 12:53, 2 replies)

I feel your pain
Braces and metal gigs did not go well together.

And on the stuck in your lip front, I had a chav kick me straight in the lip, so I know exactly how it feels when you have to pull it back out through your lip.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 14:30, closed)

On a happier note
I was one head-butted right in the mouth, leaving me pleasantly unharmed (at the time at least, thanks to my cidershield)whereas my chavesque attacker was left with a neat, deep traintrack shaped wound across his forehead and a startled, uncomprehending look of extreme pain and anguish across his face.

Result!
(Roopy all is not what it seams, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 18:34, closed)