Scars
- peningplots
- Sep 7, 2023
- 3 min read

C-section scar. A child asks the mother to tell the story of his/her birth as a bedtime story.
Knife scar from cooking. An extremely clumsy new chef was learning the skills from the restaurant's chef. Despite getting scolded often for being so clumsy while outside the kitchen, no serious mistake had been made. Still, the student doubt his/her decision to become a chef and asks the senior chef's advice. After talking for a while they found the doubts simply boiled down to the clumsiness. So the older chef shows his hand full of tiny knife scars to the younger and pointed out how the younger had scars from every daily accidents but zero kitchen related injuries. Pointing out how the clumsiness was left outside the kitchen's curtains.
Knees from biking. A mechanic asks her co-worker where she got the scar on her knees from and why it's not fading knowing that the co-worker loves her caring for her skin. "It's when I fell of my bike." "When? As a kid?" "No, as an adult about 3 years ago." "And you're keeping it? Why? Don't you hate scars?" "Well, I kinda won the biking competition even though I fell off just before the finish line." "Then, how did you win it?" "Fell over the finish line and the bike followed. No prize money but I'm keeping the scar as a memento." "Which race was this again?" "XXX year XX at XXXX." "Hey, I was there too! I was competing." "Cool. Did you get a prize?" "Yes, I, Did. First place." Continue the story with your imagination...
Lightning. On a fight two passengers sitting across the aisle noticed how the look very similar. Both secretly compares their body shape, face, same outfit and slightly differing hair style. It was only a trip to the restroom, did they notice another similar mark on both their skins. A conversation after they from that one of them had lightning marks tattooed to his/her left arm and the original reference photo was actually of the other passenger's arm from the news.
Hamster bite. It wasn't visible. Not unless you are extremely bored from math class and keep squeezing your left index finger until the skin goes white leaving two tiny, faintly pint, healed punctures. Needless to say, its much more interesting the worksheet you've finished 10 minutes ago and your desk mate agrees too.
Zit scars looks like stitches. Your friend who never bothers to dress up for Halloween show up in a white uniform with lightly dapped red marks near the collar. You notice their cheek has slightly red bumpy dots perfectly alined and compliments them for finally participating in the fun. A misunderstanding and an apology later, you convince them to let you connect the dots with eyeliner. The Halloween fun wasn't worth the panic when the zituation worsen the next day, Nowadays, your friend still has the scars and while they're not holding a grudge you still developed a habit of sending scar erasing beauty products as an annual apology.
Foot scar from getting caught in the door. A father gets questioned about the origin of his habit of slowing down after going through doors and looking back. Turns out nearly two decades ago his 4-year-old daughter's foot got glazed by the steel door twice by excitingly walking after him.
Unknown scar. The kind where you unknowingly injured yourself while sleeping or going on a trip and somehow didn't notice. You spend so long trying to figure out where the injury came from but even after it scars you still have no idea of its origin.
Gunshot scar. A veteran granddad tells his grandchild an epic tale of when he was a soldier and got shot from getting deployed to XX. The mother was also in awe and felt deep love for their country after listening through the door. Afterwards, she asks the specifics of when the event happened. The granddad laughed and clarified no enemy shot him and he accidentally got that scar from a shot from a newbie before deployment. He emphasize that the tale was real, he just didn't get an awesome looking scar out of it.
Surgical scar. People keeps thinking the scars were from breast implantation when they're actually from breast cancer. The swimwear model isn't going to talk about it though, since no one talks about the assumption to her face.
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