The 'stupidest' thing you've ever done?

[chi_girl]

My baby sister backed her boyfriends father’s brand new car into a pole today. She feels as if no one has every done anything ‘stupider’ then her. I want to compile an email to cheer her up.

So… What is the stupidest thing you’ve ever done?

I’ll start… Although I’ve done a number (a very large number, that is...) of stupid things in my teens, the stupidest and craziest was probably:

Hitchhiking at night through Serbia after our rental car broke down. None of us spoke a word of Serbian, and it wasn’t all that safe back then (1998 – I was 16). Looking back at it, I am surprised we lived through that. We got into 4 different rides before we got to Belgrade.

 

[swanmom]

Can I write for my DH who ironed a shirt on our dining room table? Except, it was a glass-top table. The sonic boom that sounded when that table cracked shook the house and the seconds-later shattering sound when the table exploded into pieces was truly astounding! I ran into the room from the basement and DH mumbled "Sorry, honey, I guess I blew up the table."
Now, that's stupid.........not sure he'll ever live that down!

 

[Stacerita]

Ive done my share of stupid things....but this one was one of the biggest. It was about 11 years ago (a year before I had the sweetpea) and I was in college. During finals week a group of us decided to drive down to Ensenada to party one night. We left in two car loads after an early evening final and drove straight down there. We partied all night till about 3 or 4 am. Half of us needed to be back early, the rest were staying till later that morning. I was driving home early since my roommate needed to be back for a very early final. I had originally went down there with myself and 3 passengers, but on the way home there was some confusion and car swapping going on so the same group was not coming home with me. The rest stayed the night in a hotel. I drove home with 2 passengers. Not very safe considering I had never driven the area before, I had been drinking a bit, and i had no money to my name except enough to get me to the boarder on the toll road. Scary ride since I almost went off the road a few times and had almost ran out of gas. Flash forward quite a few hours to the afternoon and I get a call from one of my friends asking if one of the guys had come to my place since he wasn't at his. I said he wasn't with me....so I was asked where did I drop him off at then. Well, long story short. One of our group ended up not coming home with us. I thought he was coming home later in the day with the second group and they assumed that he came home with me. Not cool. His wallet and ID were in my cars glovebox for safe keeping (he didn't want to get pick pocketed) and he was all alone down there. He ended up getting some money from other americans at the hotel to take a bus to the boarder and had to call his brother to bring him ID and pick him up. He was in one of my classes the following semester, i was so embarrased by the Ensenada trip that I transfered out.

So, let your sister know that nothing is stupider than leaving someone stranded in another country without money or ID.

 

[Twinkles6892]

There was the time, I wasn't watching where I was going in the mall, and I flat-tired an old lady. I was extremely apologetic and she said "that's ok deary, just hold me up while I adjust my metal hip!" My friends were dying, and I was mortified

 

[DreaminDisney]

I've done a lot of stupid things but one is in high school I asked someone to pass me a diaphragm. I meant to say diagram . Diaphragm just kinda rolled off my tongue!

 

[diznygirl]

This wasn't me, but it was pretty stupid - I once handled an insurance claim for a woman who backed into her husband's car - through the garage door!!!!!

I, of course, have never done anything stupid in my life (don't talk to my brothers!)

 

[Miller1412]

I've got two for you...

A couple of years ago I ordered tickets for Jungle Stories on Ice. Premium tickets, about $30 a piece x 10 people going to the show. Come the Saturday of the show, we're on our way to the stadium and I glance at the tickets and realize they were ordered for the Wednesday prior!! I had to buy everyone's new tickets. And the seats weren't nearly as good. The best part was when I argued with the poor ticket master guy that they had sent me the wrong tickets, only to find my email and realize it was my fault!!

DH was in Vermont about 5 years ago staying at my best friend's family camp. He decided to put the cool ashes from the fire in the wood shed (????Why...We'll never know????) and proceeded to burn down the entire wood shed, 3 large pine trees and almost the whole camp. He put the ashes in the woodshed and left for home. The neighbor up there had to hose down the house to keep it from going up too.

 

[Aux2534]

If it is car related you want... I drove into our driveway and just before stopping in the garage I got a bad coughing..sneezing..fit and hit the gas instead of the break. Yuppers car went thru the garage into the kitchen and hubby was just about to start dinner when all the dishes in the cupboard came down to meet him.. Tell her like me after 24 years it will be funny.

 

[smilingmouse]

Ok, I add a car-related story. Last week (I can't believe I am posting this) I was driving into the parking ramp at work and I scrapped my mirror on the ticket machine. sigh.....

 

[Shutterbug]

Staying out of this thread. This type of thread is Tag Fairy bait.

 

[jonestavern]

there is not room on this board to enumurate all the dumb things I've managed to do..
car things
how many curbs have I parked on, over, into? numberless. how many gas caps lost? legion. & lately, did not put on oil cap tight enough!
once I even gave my boss' delivery car--I was out to the PO & delivering drugs--a flat tire & they were new tires!
speaking of the pharmacy, at least once every 2 weeks someone would run in to the side of the building--I mean it's a big white cinderblock wall, the parking lot even sloped away from building! boy, would that make a huge bang!
also, folks would on an average of once every 6 wks or so would back up into our pole sign. It was quite a way from the parking spots, too. All the fountain customers would have a great view of these fender benders
Friends owned a moving company. A prospective employee, well into his 20's, going up for his commercial driver's liscence, in a moving van, during the road test, wrapped the van around a pole. did I mention he flunked?
another moving truck driver didn't pay attention to a bridge clearance in RI & pealed back (sardined) the top of one of the moving vans. Mind you, he'd been a driver for some years & was stone cold sober--

when I get nervous I say some real stupid stuff--& I have to talk to groups in my job--

Jean

 

[mum4jenn]

The husband of someone I used to work with was a part time forest ranger. One night he was cleaning out his fireplace and put warm ashes in a plastic bucket and left it on the carpet. The next day his wife got a call from a neighbor saying their house was on fire.

 

[luvmy2sams]

DH and I left the kids at my parents last New Years and went to Disney for our anniversary. The morning after returning to my parents' house, we needed to back my car into the garage to load up the Christmas presents for the ride home. DD was sitting in the front seat with me, filling me in on all that had happened. I was so happy to see her and was so focused on the story she was telling that I didn't make sure I had cleared the sides of the garage before backing up. I left a lovely scrape on my left rear fender and took out a hunk of my parents' garage frame to boot. DH still gives me a hard time about it, especially since he had backed the same car into a retaining wall 2 months earlier, making me so mad that I gave him the silent treatment while we drove the entire length of Louisiana.

In high school a friend of mine was desperately trying to teach herself to parallel park in front of her dad's trailer. I was in the passenger seat trying to coach her along. She was doing a great job, but she got so excited that she hit the gas a little too hard when straightening the wheel out. She knocked the trailer off its foundation! Her dad worked nights and had been sleeping on the couch at the time. The impact knocked him onto the floor and into his coffee table. I'll never forget the look on his face when he came out the front door.

When my sister was 16 she was babysitting my younger cousins while aunt and uncle went out to dinner. She was making french fries when the grease caught on fire, so being the brillant mind she was, she quickly moved the pan into the sink and turned on the water. The burst of flames caught the kitchen drapes on fire and burned down the kitchen in a matter of minutes. To this day some 14 years later, dear sis is still known as "scorch". Rightfully so, I might add, since she caught her in-laws oven on fire about a week ago. I don't even want to know the story on that one...

Tell your sis to cheer up...it could always be worse.

 

[rascalmom]

Getting a and subscribing to this thread...


When I was 15 and had a driver's permit, I somehow persuaded my mom to let me drive her brand new car to a youth group activity. What could happen - I was just going to church, right?

You guessed it, I wrapped the shiny new grill on that new car right around a pole in the parking lot! No driver's license - Mom & Dad made me pay for that one out of my own pocket. Needless to say, I did not drive without an adult again until after I got my license!

 

[sweet angel]

Subscribing -- you guys are making me giggle.

 

[SleepyMom]

Several years ago right after we had just gotten a brand new van I was leaving home in it to go drive for DD's Kindergarten field trip to the Pumpkin Patch. I didn't wait long enough for the garage door to go all the way up before I backed out and ran right into the door! Bent the garage door so bad it wouldn't close and scraped up the back of my new van

I had to call DH to come home from work to stay in the house (I didn't want to leave with the door wide open) then rushed to get to the school to pick up kids. The teacher ended up riding with us and I was so embarrassed, I'm sure she was wondering how safe her and the kids riding with us were if I can't even manage to back out of my own driveway.

I can laugh about it now, but it sure wasn't funny that day!!!

 

[Tinkertude]

I backed into a fire hydrant in our front yard with DH watching

 

[daisyduck123]

Can I write for my DH who ironed a shirt on our dining room table? Except, it was a glass-top table. The sonic boom that sounded when that table cracked shook the house and the seconds-later shattering sound when the table exploded into pieces was truly astounding! I ran into the room from the basement and DH mumbled "Sorry, honey, I guess I blew up the table."
Now, that's stupid.........not sure he'll ever live that down!

I'm sorry...but this had me really laughing. I'm trying to imagine my DH in that position...and BTW, he never irons anything.

 

[daisyduck123]

I'm trying to think of a car related story...Hmmmmm....

One time I was driving down the road & someone motioned to me that my Diet Coke can was on top of my car. Embarassing....

 

[KAMLEM]

I have two that I can think of right away. DH and I always liked to keep some extra money around the house in case we ordered take-out or we just didn’t have time to go to an ATM. I always kept it in an old shoe in my closet. Foolishly I decided to go through my shoes and give some to Goodwill and I forgot to take out the $200 in one of the shoes. My only hope is that someone who really needed it got it!

When I was in college I went to D’Angelos for lunch one day with some friends. When I went to pay instead of pulling out a bill I took out a feminine hygiene product. Naturally the cashier was a young guy. I was mortified!

This next one is by far the worst and I have not told this story to many people. You men out there may not want to read this. The first time that my “friend” came to visit my mother gave me a package of pads that she had bought for me. I don’t know what I was thinking, but when I peeled the backing off of the adhesive strip I proceeded to stick the pad onto myself instead of to my underwear. Need I say more?