The 'stupidest' thing you've ever done?

[ACvmk]

Although there are too many to list, here is one of my favorites. I was hard boiling eggs on the stove. Being the culinary master that I am, I forgot about them and only remembered them when I heard explosions from the kitchen. The water had boiled away and the eggs had exploded all over the kitchen floor, walls, and ceiling.

 

[laura001]

My DH and I were going to watch golf at the Canadian Open in Oakville, Ontario a few years ago. Our car was parked in a huge field and we took a bus into the golf course from the field. The day went on (about 3-4 hours later) and we were enjoying the golf when all of a sudden my husband realized he couldn't find the keys to the car, not wanting to wait until late that night to find out we had left them in the car he headed back to the car to check and to have someone get the keys out. When he reached the car, there it was, sitting in the field, still running, radio on etc, with the keys in it.
We are still not sure how we both got out and walked away with the car still running. Can't believe it sat there running for all that time.

 

[dis ms.]

When he reached the car, there it was, sitting in the field, still running, radio on etc, with the keys in it.
We are still not sure how we both got out and walked away with the car still running. Can't believe it sat there running for all that time.

Glad to know I'm not the only one! (See post #47, pg. 4)

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I stole someone's car!
I went to my DD grammer school one day to talk to the teacher.
When I left, I just kept thinking about our conversation. I took my key
out and started the car and went home.
An hour later, I get a call from school asking me if I have a Taurus, I said Yes. Then she tells me to look and see if it's my car. I look out the window
I DROVE SOMEONE ELSE'S CAR HOME!!!
And my key fit in it no problem!
I drove it back and a cop was there to escort to my car which was sitting in the lot. He then asked me "Didn't you notice the other car didn't have the stickers on the back" I just muttered " I guess not". I was totally embarrassed! My DD class looked out the window and asked her why a cop was with me!

How the school figured it out was that the owner of the car I "stole" remember that there was a car similiar parked next to hers. So they called everyone on the sign in list in the prinicipal office.

It's been 3 years and I still feel stupid.

 

[dis ms.]

I stole someone's car!
I went to my DD grammer school one day to talk to the teacher.
When I left, I just kept thinking about our conversation. I took my key
out and started the car and went home.
An hour later, I get a call from school asking me if I have a Taurus, I said Yes. Then she tells me to look and see if it's my car. I look out the window
I DROVE SOMEONE ELSE'S CAR HOME!!!
And my key fit in it no problem!
I drove it back and a cop was there to escort to my car which was sitting in the lot. He then asked me "Didn't you notice the other car didn't have the stickers on the back" I just muttered " I guess not". I was totally embarrassed! My DD class looked out the window and asked her why a cop was with me!

How the school figured it out was that the owner of the car I "stole" remember that there was a car similiar parked next to hers. So they called everyone on the sign in list in the prinicipal office.

It's been 3 years and I still feel stupid.

Okay, this is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. You win!

 

[Jeafl]

These are absolutely hysterical! What a great thread!

As for me, I had just started a new job at Walgreens coporate office in the art department. I did not have my own office at this point, I just had an art table in a big pit with a bunch of other people. We were allowed to listen to personal cassette players or radios while we worked as long as we used headphones. (This was before the days of CDs!)

Well, I think it was my 3rd or 4th day there, and I was starting to feel more comfortable. I was listening to a Queen cassette and just quietly doing my work when I looked up to see my boss walk by me with an extremely red face looking like he was valiantly trying not to laugh. I looked around me, quite puzzled, to see everyone around me laughing hysterically. Apparently I had been singing very loudly along with "Bohemian Rhapsody". Since I head headphones on all they could here was me and not the music. I never even realized I was doing it!! I took the headphones off totally embarassed and I could hear this snotty co-worker saying "OMG!! The new girl is SINGING!!!, Can you HEAR her?"

To this day I still get embarassed every time I hear that song.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

My DH and I were going to watch golf at the Canadian Open in Oakville, Ontario a few years ago. Our car was parked in a huge field and we took a bus into the golf course from the field. The day went on (about 3-4 hours later) and we were enjoying the golf when all of a sudden my husband realized he couldn't find the keys to the car, not wanting to wait until late that night to find out we had left them in the car he headed back to the car to check and to have someone get the keys out. When he reached the car, there it was, sitting in the field, still running, radio on etc, with the keys in it.
We are still not sure how we both got out and walked away with the car still running. Can't believe it sat there running for all that time.

I did this also, but we were parked in a Wendys. However, compared to my other post, I consider this mild (for me)

 

[liamsaunt]

A few years ago my sister and I were at an arcade. We are umm...pretty competitive. We decided to play a game called "Stomp the Spider." Basically, bulbs light up on a platform and you step on them to squish the spider. Well, she went first and did really well, so I was intent on being even better. I jumped around so much and so high that I ended up falling off the platform and breaking my wrist. She took me to the hospital to get a cast put on, and said she could hear the laughter of the doctors all the way down the hallway. I actually had to describe what happened three or four times because medical staff kept coming by to see what was so funny.

Then there was the time that I was on vacation, and went to take a picture of the beautiful Caribbean sunset from the deck of our vacation home...and walked directly into a plate glass window. I had a nice golf ball on my head for the rest of the trip.

There are more, many more, but I will stop now.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Well I was a teen my friend and I were driving off the beach and people where honking their horns and waving so we were waving and horning back. That was until I took the first turn and the cooler went sliding off the roof of the car.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

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

I am so sorry but I can't stop over this one. It just hit my funny bone this morning.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

I stole someone's car!
I went to my DD grammer school one day to talk to the teacher.
When I left, I just kept thinking about our conversation. I took my key
out and started the car and went home.
An hour later, I get a call from school asking me if I have a Taurus, I said Yes. Then she tells me to look and see if it's my car. I look out the window
I DROVE SOMEONE ELSE'S CAR HOME!!!
And my key fit in it no problem!
I drove it back and a cop was there to escort to my car which was sitting in the lot. He then asked me "Didn't you notice the other car didn't have the stickers on the back" I just muttered " I guess not". I was totally embarrassed! My DD class looked out the window and asked her why a cop was with me!

How the school figured it out was that the owner of the car I "stole" remember that there was a car similiar parked next to hers. So they called everyone on the sign in list in the prinicipal office.

It's been 3 years and I still feel stupid.

OMG!! You guys are killing me.
I have tears running down my face. And everyone wants to know what is wrong with me.

 

[KAMLEM]

I keep thinking and laughing about this one. I am giving you 1st place for the Stupidest thing you've ever done.

I guess that the TF agrees with you - I got TWO tags for being stupid!

 

[barkley]

not me but my mom.

this happened in her mid 60's. mom had had one to many holiday brandies and walked up behind who she thought was my brother, grabbed his tush and said "you know i've always loved that little tush of yours from day one". the grabbee was not my brother, it was MY BOYFRIEND who turned around and without missing a beat said "your daughter feels the same way, it must run in the family".

my mom nearly died of embarrassment, and some 20 years later she is still teased about this (and i understand still thought of fondly by my former boyfriend).

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Car Story: I did the same thing asa the OP's sister. I drive an SUV and when the gas prices went insanely high this year, my boyfriend offered me his car which saved me a ton of $$$. Well his mom was coming to visit us and she needed his car to get around so I came home and backed his car into a pole that seperates our two garage parking spaces. I was mortified and so upset. My boyfriend was very nice and said it was just a car, but I felt horrible.

Cooking story: I was trying to be helpful to my mom and reheat dinner that was cooking. Well I took that as reheat in the microwave instead of the stove and that is exactly what I did, I reheated the dish that was in the metal pot in the microwave. I have never heard such a noise, seen such sparks, let a lone the smell that came with it. Top it off my dad came rushing into the kitchen and took the pot out with his bare hands and burnt himself.

 

[noseybuddy]

DH (DBF at the time) did this but I was with him when it happened. He lived in NJ at the time and I lived in PA. We were in NJ and we were riding in my car, can't remember where we were headed. Well he realized we were going in the wrong direction and he needed to turn around. There was a NO U-TURN sign right in front of us as big as life, and yeah he decied to do it anyway. So he continues to drive and all of a sudden we see the flashing lights behind us. So I am thinking, ok he will pull over, get a ticket, no big deal right? Wrong, decided he was going to try and get away from the police. I couldn't believe it! So he keeps driving, and I'm like pull over already. Finally he makes a quick turn pulls into a parking lot and turns off the car like the cop isn't going to see him. Wrong, the cop pulls up right next to us, gets, out and goes through the whole routine, license, etc. DH(DBF at the time) tells him that he hasn't lived here long and wasn't sure where he was going, and the COP LET US GO! I couldn't believe it. Luckly for DH.

 

[gr8ful4Him]

This was a time when I didn't cry over spilled milk...lol
One morning when my ds was 4 or so, I was making him breakfast. We were having over-easy eggs and toast in the living room where he was watching cartoons. I took 2 cups of milk into the room first and then went out to get the breakfast. I no sooner got back into the room when my ds knocked a whole glass of milk over. I reacted quickly, setting the plates down and getting a towel and wiping the whole mess up. After I got it all cleaned up, I let out a sigh of relief and sat down....on the chair right where I had placed the plate of over-easy eggs!! I jumped up and my ds watched in anticipation of how I was going to react. All all of a sudden I just burst out laughing, thinking about how stupid I must look with egg all over my...oh, you get the idea! Talk about feeling stupid! We still laugh about that!

 

[Hootiss]

Talk about feeling stupid, my house a/c was not working. The fan would come on, but the condensor was not turning on. Being that the system in on 1 yr old I was peeved. So I call the a/c company and explained that it is not working, I told them it was not an "emergency" and figured they would send someone in a couple of days. The lady said " honey having no air is an emergency" and she will send the owner over asap. When he arrives he checks everything over and can't find anything wrong. So he comes inside and informs me that you do have to change the batteries in the thermostat. I felt like such an idiot. He felt so bad for me he said no charge.

 

[kimmar067]

....a few years back, my DH invited his whole peewee football squad to our house to watch films of their latest game (sorta like a "skull session") since we have a large TV screen. I love to burn candles, and with company, decided to do so. There it sat on a high shlef in the kitchen near the back door. Every few minutes, a new football player would arrive, so I'd open the door and let him in. Well, after about the 4th time, I happened to be standing in the open doorway, with the door open a little bit TOO MUCH. You guessed it, the curtains that were hanging on the door came too close to the lit candle and caught on fire! I quickly grabbed the burning curtains, curtain rod and all, and ran outside with it to douse the flames in the snow. Unfortunately, I ran so fast that I tripped on one of the deck steps and twisted/sprained my ankle. It immediately blew up like a balloon and turned purple! To top it off, I was on my way to WIlliam Paterson University for a night class that I abolutely could not miss! I could barely walk and get my shoe on, but, I sure did suffer for my stupidity....

 

[Skywalker]

Thought of one my friend did...

Her and a group of other friends decided to go to Montreal for a weekend, this is about an 8 hour drive east from Toronto. So, they loaded up their stuff and headed out first thing in the morning and were driving for approximately 6 hours before someone realized that they had headed West on the 401 instead of east.

Oh man, by the time they drove back 12 hours had gone by, they lost half of their weekend, and they were right back where they started. You'd think SOMEONE would have noticed at some point long before 6 hours! Sorry, I know I shouldn't laugh. LOL.

 

[EltonJohn]

When I was 16 I met a random guy, and we then went to his car to make out a little.

STUPID!!!! STUPID!!! STUPID!!! For all I know he could have raped me *shudder* I'm not that smart when it comes to guys ans safety

The saving grace of that night is that I stuck to my morals and kept my virginity praise God Almighty!

What your sister had is called an accident, what I did is called stupidity.