I can imagine, had he told his dad this story, he would’ve never seen that pocket knife again.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is always telling great stories about his childhood on both his Dale Jr. Download podcast and his Bless Your Hardt podcast with his wife Amy, and a lot them revolve around things he did, and didn’t, get away with when it comes to his legendary father, Dale Earnhardt Sr.
And recently, he told one where he actually go away with something, and it involves a pocket knife his dad gave him… and you can probably see where this is going:
“My dad gave me a pocket knife, and it was an old kind that both ends flipped open and it didn’t lock, so you had to be careful. But I didn’t… so I’m cutting, and I’m like, hey, I’m gonna use my new pocket knife.”
This whole thing occurred at church, which Amy pointed out, and Jr. explained that it was the 80’s, and he wouldn’t do it now, but that doesn’t seem like the craziest thing to me, but I digress…
Jr. says he accidentally slipped his hand, and the 3-inch blade went straight through his thigh:
“Yeah. I mean this was like, 1983, 1985, people could walk around with pocket knives all the time… I mean, I don’t anymore. It’s a different world. I don’t know, walking around with a knife and walking into church with it would feel weird today. But back then, every 15, 14-year-old kid had a pocket knife in their pocket.
I’m cutting the top of the lantern off, and I’m trying to cut and I slipped and that damn knife… now the blades about probably 4 inches long, little tiny little blade. Maybe 3 inches long, but it’s a little tiny blade. It’s one of them small pocket knife’s. That thing went into my leg, like the top of my thigh.”
Amy hilariously pointed out that “he Ricky Bobby’d himself,” alluding to the scene in the movie “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” where Ricky Bobby played by Will Ferrell, stabs himself in the leg with a kitchen knife because he believes he is paralyzed after a crash, though he painfully discovers he can still feel pain.
Jr. said he realized right away what happened, pulled the knife out, and looked around to discover that, somehow, no one had seen it. He went to the bathroom and says he bandaged himself up, didn’t tell a soul about it, and still has the scar as proof.
“It was like this, real quick. I pulled it right out, and I’m like, I just stabbed myself. So I’m around, nobody saw s***. I get up, I walk to the bathroom, got a little pain. Take my pants down. There’s a hole in my leg about the size of a dime… I told no one about this.
It’s not bleeding for some reason. I don’t know why it’s not bleeding, not doing any of that. But I butterfly Band-Aid my leg, never told a soul. I got I got a scar on my leg still from it.”
Amy asked if he didn’t tell anyone because hd didn’t want his dad to take it away, and he said that might have been part of it, but he also was embarrassed more than anything.
I’m sure he would have never seen that thing again, so he was probably smart not to mention it, and luckily it sounds like he didn’t need stitches (or maybe he did, but it worked out), and he was able to clean it all up and neither of his parents ever asked him about how he got a hole in his pants…
You can watch him tell it here, which is even funnier:
