The 'stupidest' thing you've ever done?

[HoneyPooh]

Wanted to keep a couple of pizzas warm so I put them in the oven and turned it on only, duh, I put them in the oven in their boxes and the cardboard caught on fire, I've done the exploding egg thing, I exploded a baking dish of asparagus that I turned the burner on under...once again to keep it warm (I never learn), I sideswiped a light pole and caved in the side of my van because I thought a car was coming at me (there was a glare) and it turned out to be a seagull, I got my pinkie finger caught in a cat food can between the can and the lid (needed stitches), I stood in the middle of my kitchen floor and dumped a can of tomatoes through a colander and onto my feet and floor (forgot I wasn't at the sink), locked myself in the attic (long story), walked around at work with my skirt in my hose, put two of the same shoes on only they were each a different color and wore them to work without realizing it.

I could go on and on and on.

The one I'm teased about all the time is the time I was playing in our attic with my best friend and we decided to pour all kinds of stuff in a bowl and watch what happened when we mixed them. Well we put in ink, perfume, makeup. The light wasn't very good so we lit a match to see better.....can you see this one comming?.......and of course POOOFFFFF, up went the concoction along with my hair! My best friend runs downstairs to get water and comes back with on of those old cartoon fruit juice glasses full. I still tease her that she hates me because she brought me like a thimble full of water for my blazing head. I lost most of the hair on one side of my head plus my eyebrow has never been the same. We threw the bowl out the window into a snowbank or the house would have burned down.

 

[lisak1]

I have a good one. We used to have an old car that you could take the keys out of the ignition while it was running. This came in handy when you wanted to start the car to warm it up on a cold morning, and not accidently lock the keys in the car. Well, i started the car, and then went back into the house to let it warm up so I could drive to work. After a few minutes, i came back out, and put my things into the car, and started to drive to work. After a few minutes on the road, i realized that the keys weren't in the ignition. I still can't figure out how i did this, but I had left the keys dangling in the door lock. How weird must that have looked? a car, driving down the road with a set of keys in the door?

i guess i just opened the car door, and drove blithely off, not caring where the keys were. i hate to think what would have happened, if they had fallen off of the door somewhere... i never would have been able to find them, or have been able to shut off the ignition of the car, until it had ran out of gas.

 

[Lil_Tink]

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.

Lol...Something simaler to that happened to me...

 

[Micheme]

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).

I did this as well, but to a complete stranger. Dh and I were in a bookstore checking out the racks of magazines. Well Dh walked away and i didn't notice. I reached around and grabbed what i thought was Dh's tush and asked if he was done looking. To my horror a strange voice said "ummm no miss" and i looked up into a complete strangers' eyes !!!! Dh was a few feet away wondering why i had my hand on some guys tush !!!! Very embarrassing. What do you say after that.... i'm sorry just doesn't seem to do it justice.

I thought of one my mom did - I had just finished reading Harry Potter - and my mom was coming to read it. I told her to relax, sit outside in the beautiful sunshine and lay in our large hammock. Dh and I come home for lunch from work to find my mom there but at the patio table. I ask her "having you been reading the book isn't great" "Oh yes" she replied. "Well I'll get us some nice lunch" I reply. "That would be wonderful" mom says " oh and after lunch do you think you can drive me to the hospital, i just broke my arm".

You guessed it, she fell out of the hammock while reading and broke her arm. How do you explain that one... she told everyone she broke it bungee jumping!!!

 

[AnaheimGirl]

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....

I do that all the time! Usually, I heard a wierd metallic rolling sound, and wonder for a couple of miles what it could be, then figure it out when I see a brown bubbly liquid drip down from the roof onto my windshield.

Here's a dumb bike one. 8th grade, but I still remember it like it was yesterday. Riding my bike home from school, with no hands. I decided I needed to touch the handlebar to adjust just for a second, and since I was holding some books in my right arm, I had to use my left. Trouble is, I reached across to touch the right handlebar with my left hand. Duh? What was I thinking? The shift of weight sent me sprawling to the pavement, right in front of all the other kids, and of course, the boy I liked.

Not nearly as funny, but by far the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life, though, is drive drunk.

 

[SleepyMom]

This one happened to someone we know in the small town where DH grew up, she kept telling everyone that her car was making these funny sounds and she couldn't figure out why. The car seemed to be running fine, just these weird noises, very loud klunks every once in awhile. This went on for a few weeks and she finally took it in to have it looked at, but they couldn't find anything wrong. More time went by and she is telling everyone about this weird noise and now it is happening every time she turns a corner. She took it back in and they finally discovered the problem, there was a bowling ball rolling around in the trunk That poor lady will never live that one down!

 

[macraven]

i sure hope your sister feels better now hearing from all the people telling their stories. let me add mine but it has nothing to do with a car.

in my first pregnancy, i decided the hubby and i would take lamaze classes.
he hated it every minute and was a horrible coach, not supportive of this new adventure i signed us up for.

we would go to the instructor's house with 9 other couples for 9 weeks.
at the last class of the sessions, dh and i had a hugh argument. (which happened everytime we went to this class)
we got out of the car at the instructors home and i started to walk ahead of dh. he starts in again on me and yells for me to stop. i chose to ignore him.
i opened the side door of the house and walk down to the basement.

some large man comes running down the stairs asking me who am i and what am i doing here..........i stand in the room with my pillow and being 9 months pregnant and look around..........i was in the instructor's neighbor's house. all i could think of to say to this man was, did the lamaze classes change places?
totally and completely embarrassed...............yea, pretty stupid...for once i should have listened to the hubby

 

[Squem]

Oh, here we go -

I think my most memorable is definitely the time when I saw an advert on TV for the Veet Wax Strips and being a bit tired of having to shave my legs every day or two I decided to try them. I figured that the advert said they were painless, so why not? Anyhoo, I got them, put one on my leg, and pulled - It took everything I had not to scream bloody murder! It was really painful! And to make things even worse... most of the wax was still on my leg. I tried everything from an ordinary bar of soap, to shower gel, to toothpaste - yes, toothpaste! - to get the wax off my leg. There was no way I was gonna try and get it off using one of those strips again, oh no! It did finally all come off, but my leg was really sore afterwards. Don't think I'll be doing that again in a hurry!

Another one was today actually. Mum was heating a baguette in the oven for me and when she took it out and put in on the kitchen counter, I then immediately picked it up to put it on a plate, but it was extremely hot and I ended up chucking it half way across the kitchen in shock! Ooops!

 

[Pugsley]

Several years ago a friend and I were getting ready to go on vacation to Hawaii and had an early morning flight the next day. She had planned to take her car to the shop to be worked on while we were gone, so we were going to drop it off the night before the trip and leave the keys in the night drop slot. So she takes the car key off her key ring, and instead of dropping the car key, she drops her other keys (including her house key) in the slot. We had to get back into her apartment since her luggage was in there, and we had to leave for the airport before the car repair shop would open in the morning. So I had the bright idea to find a stick, put some chewing gum on the end of it, stick it in the slot and try to retrieve the keys with it. And it worked! Kind of scary since it would be pretty easy for someone to steal a car that way. And I don’t know what would have happened if someone had seen us doing this.

The most recent really dumb thing I did was scrape the snow off my car with a snow shovel. There was a lot of snow and I really didn’t think I was actually touching the car with the shovel, just trying to get the top layers of snow off. Apparently I was wrong because when the rest of the snow melted there were scratches all over my car. It looks terrible and it’s pretty embarrassing when someone asks where all those scratches came from. Oh, and another brilliant snow scraping story… One time many years ago the snow on my car was so deep that I decided to lay on top of the car and roll my body down the car to remove the snow. Snapped the antenna right off. It’s a good thing I have a garage now!

 

[Pugsley]

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

Oh, that reminds me of a good one. I left a bar/club at closing time one night with a guy. Before leaving the parking lot, he got in my car for a goodnight kiss. Well I guess this kiss went on for quite a while. Finally he gets out of my car, and we hear some hooting and applause coming from the roof of the building next door. Some workmen had apparently been observing this entire make-out session. Of course I was mortified and couldn’t wait to get out of there. The guy gets in his car and leaves and when I try to start my car it’s dead because apparently my headlights have been on this whole time. Now I’m alone in a deserted parking lot at around 2am (there were no cell phones at the time, and who would I call anyway?!?). So I yelled up to the roof, “OK, you’ve had your entertainment, now can you come help me?!?” And they came down and jump started my car. Oh, the humiliation.

 

[JVL1018]

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

Oh no, I did that, too! In high school I worked at A&P..came time to leave I couldn;t find my keys anywhere..finally I decide to check my car to see if I dropped them near it.
The car has been running for 6 hours. Duh! I did remember to lock the doors.

 

[clarabelle]

When I was about 16 and growing up in a small town- There was a house that we would pass in the car every day. It was on a main road and had junk cars parked all in the yard and across the street.One day -not to long after I had gotten my license I was driving too fast on that road.
Now just a week or so before one of the occupants of the house had been arrested for rape. It was a big deal in our small town and everyone was talking about it.
You guessed it as I approached the road someone starting backing out of the yard of the house (there wasn't really a driveway) and I slammed on my brakes. I started sliding and spun around in the road and hit one of the parked junk cars across the road.
The people living in the house rushed out and tried to get me to stay put. I said I was fine and needed to call my mother. They took me in the house to use the phone (this is pre-cell phone days).
Then it occured to me whose house it was! I thought they were going to rape me or something! So then I was freaking out wanting to get out of the house (I don't think they realized this)
The whole thing was so silly and embarrasing. When my Mom got there -she was steamed -I almost wished I had been hurt!

 

[JVL1018]

Oh I have one that still makes me LOL..

My friend and I were drving one day years ago..and We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel was on, so we're singng along..lalalalala.. JFK blown away what else do I have to say...
She turns the radio down and says to me, I didn't know the airport blew up!

Uhhh JFK the man, not the airport.

Same girl..we're watching Jay Leno and he says I'm going to do an impression of Richard Simmons..and turns aorund in his chair, turns back and through the magic of television, it actually was Richard Simmons. My friend goes Oh my God..he looks JUST like him!
We all look at her and she goes wait wait wait!!! Okay I get it now..shut up!

I have another one, the sister of the girl above..during the Gulf War..also happened to be when Billy Graham was going to be speaking at Giants Stadium near us, so there are billboards and bumper stickers all over the place for Billy Graham.

Coincidentally a guy from my town named Billy Graham had joined the Navy and would maybe be going to the mideast.
So we were on our way down the shore, I'm driving and as we go through a toll plaza she says, "Oh the person ahead of us must be from ____(my town)".
I say "How do you know?"
She says, "They have a Billy Graham bumper sticker to support his joining the Navy."
I was laughing SO hard I had to pull over.
Did you not notice the billboards, the media coverage, the bumper stickers everywhere for the evangelist Billy Graham??
Oh those girls crack me up! They are successful women too...just airheads!

 

[Calliaz]

I was 16 and driving my parents' new van. I had gone to my grandma's house to feed their dog so no one was home. I pulled out to leave and hit the fire hydrant--and I couldn't get the car off. I had ripped a hole into the side panel of the van and the "arm" of the hydrant was stuck inside. We almost had to call the fire department to get the car off.

At least my parents were nice about it. Almost every family member has hit that fire hydrant at one time or another.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

I had ripped a hole into the side panel of the van and the "arm" of the hydrant was stuck inside. We almost had to call the fire department to get the car off.

Now that is funny!!! I would have NEVER lived that one down!!

 

[almacdonald]

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.

A very similar thing happened to me. My BF and I were on our way out of town and had stopped at McDonalds for lunch. Well, i'm coming out of the restaurant and see some guy sitting in MY car (packed with suitcases, vacation money and my dog) adjusting the mirrors and seat. Of course i freak out, start yelling and swearing and rather confused-like, looks towards his car which is parked next to mine, gets out of my car and into his car and drives away. Now, both cars were red grand-ams but seriously, you'd think someone would notice a strange dog in "their" car. And how about adjusting the seat and mirrors.... wouldn't you have done that BEFORE leaving your house? Did they magically change while you were eating McNuggets?

 

[dumboiu]

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

You deserve your second tag I still laugh outloud when I think of it. aw:

 

[Costumesaremylife]

I was 16 and driving my parents' new van. I had gone to my grandma's house to feed their dog so no one was home. I pulled out to leave and hit the fire hydrant--and I couldn't get the car off. I had ripped a hole into the side panel of the van and the "arm" of the hydrant was stuck inside. We almost had to call the fire department to get the car off.

At least my parents were nice about it. Almost every family member has hit that fire hydrant at one time or another.

That fire hydrant needs a big inflatable fence so people will bounce off of it.

 

[Sthronds]

When I was 15, I rode my dad's riding mower into an orange tree and instead of stopping it or turning it off, I just jumped off and let it continue grinding into the tree. I have yet to live that down in my family.

 

[mum4jenn]

This is not nearly as funny as all these others are but here goes..... This happened in 1999 and I had just started a new job at a school lunchroom. I was getting things ready for breakfast the next day and the manager asked me to crack several dozen eggs. The cases of fresh eggs come 90 Dozen to a case and I only had to use maybe 9 dozen out of the case. Ok...fine and dandy. I get all of that done and then I put the rest of the eggs in the DUMPSTER!!! I threw away about 80 dozen eggs!!!!!! I thought the box sure was heavy when I was struggling to lift it up enough to get in in the dumpster but it still did not dawn on me what I had done.


Finally just before time for us to go home it came to me what I had done and then I had to get the case out of the trash. Luckily since the eggs come packaged pretty well there was only about 8 or 9 eggs that had cracked or broken and those were the only ones we had to throw away. I felt SOOOO stupid but I did confess to the manager and she was not even mad!!! I think now that if one of my employees did that I would have hit the roof!!