What stupid thing have you done today?

[Jay200MPH]

Welp, I don't really remember much of this morning because I was just retardedly tired. I got home from work today and found I'd left the milk out on the kitchen counter. Oops, but no biggie. I didn't think that was particularly dumb until I opened the fridge and found the cereal in its spot, nice and chilled.

:doh:

We've all had those times when the brain just refuses to turn itself on for whatever reason - right? Let's hear your stories.

[Studioguy]

I walked out of my office with the remote to a projector in my hand instead of my cell phone. That's not too bad, right? I mean, all I did was pick up the wrong thing!

Well, it probably wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't started trying to press buttons on it to call my wife and let her know I was coming home. It actually took me a few seconds to realize that something was odd about my "phone."

[jokergirl]

Starting to cook quite late in the evening...
...yeah, still sitting and waiting for that last batch.

;)

[Buttercup]

I couldn't get my microwaved bag of popcorn opened. Had to finally CUT it open. Fumble fingers here...

[chrissy]

I have had a few uh ohs, my mother however did a biggie, they still have coal fires and she went to the coal bunker as normal got a shovel of coal and proceeded to the kitchen and put it in the washing machine, I am glad she didn't attempt to put the washing into the fire.... What a mess she made. :D

[ABR.]

I have had a few uh ohs, my mother however did a biggie, they still have coal fires and she went to the coal bunker as normal got a shovel of coal and proceeded to the kitchen and put it in the washing machine, I am glad she didn't attempt to put the washing into the fire.... What a mess she made. :D

So that's how clean coal technology works!

[kleindoofy]

Well, I can't answer for today, as the OP asked, but I did a nice one recently.

I usually put in an evening shift of work when I come home from the office (self-employment is all laughs, all that free time ...), so last week I had boxed up a project to take home with me. When I got home and had a bite to eat, I realized that I had left the box in the office. It's only a few miles, so I drove back to get it.

When I got to the office, there were some orders in the fax, so I decided to write up the invoices right away and save some sacred office time for the next day. As long as I had the computer on, I thought I might as well do some short entries in the book-keeping.

When I finally got home, I discovered that I had forgotten the box again. :doh:

[jrkeller]

I walked all the way from my car to my office building and left my badges in the car which was on the third level of the parking deck. But I did remember my Diet Coke.

[Nowhere Man]

Same thing I do every day, Pinky.

"Woke up, got out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head..."

Fred

[mike alexander]

Post acidic comments about mandatory military service.

[LaurelHS]

A few days ago, I watched In The Shadow of the Moon on DVD, then instead of putting it back in its case, I put it into a CD case. I didn't realize this until later when I went to listen to the CD and found both discs jammed in the case.

[Solfe]

I used my kids bubblegum toothpaste this morning. Once it was on the brush I though, oh what the heck... Ick.

[jokergirl]

I can't remember doing it, but I must have turned off the AC in the server room yesterday when I went to switch the backup tape. (I was the last person in the room... and I did put my feet up on the AC while waiting for the tape to be spit out :think: )

At least now we know that our servers can survive being without AC for a night.

;)

[mfumbesi]

That was not stupid jokergirl, there is a name for it.
It is called stress testing!!!
See you were doing your part on the stress testing of your server.

[Fiery Phoenix]

I lost five consecutive UNO games on Xbox LIVE this afternoon, if that counts as a "stupid" thing. :lol:

[geonuc]

Not today, but recently ..

I made a plane/hotel/car reservation for Tuesday, Feb 3. Except, I actually made it for Tuesday, Mar 3 and found out when I went to print out my boarding pass. I blame it on the fact that Feb has 28 days.

But that's not too bad. Scrambling to make a new reservation for Feb 3 on Feb 3, I ended up reserving another car ... for Mar 3, again. Doh! I got it right the third time. :p

[slang]

Patted down my pockets to find my cigarette lighter, suddenly realising I have it in my hand. Cup my hands, flick lighter on... to light already lit cigarette.

[Trebuchet]

Came to work once again...

[gzhpcu]

Went to town to do some shopping with my wife. Saw a nice buttondown shirt, which I promptly bought. I carried this in a bag, and another bag with somethings my wife had bought. We visited a department store and a botique. As we were walking back to the car, I suddenly noticed I had no longer had the bag with my shirt...:wall:

I retraced my steps, went to the section of the department store we had gone to and asked if they found a bag with a shirt - nope. Went to the botique and asked if I left the bag there - nope was the answer.

I can't for the life of me figure out when I let the bag out of my hands...:confused:
But I must have, and someone swiped it...:(

[BigDon]

Patted down my pockets to find my cigarette lighter, suddenly realising I have it in my hand. Cup my hands, flick lighter on... to light already lit cigarette.

Well this whole story counts as "dumb".

Back in my younger days, when I smoked cigarettes, some friends and I were messing around on a mountain higher up than we were equipped or trained for and my best friend and I (out of eight people) had a series of near fatal incidents in the space of less than two hours. My friend slid on ice covered snow, fifty feet nice and slow and stopped at the very edge of a major drop. With no reason in the world to think he was going to stop.

*I* some time later made the delightful discovering that I was actually standing on a cornice when I went to take in the view. Didn't now it until my friends wife, who was following about twenty feet behind in my tracks, put a leg through it. On pulling her up I saw we were both standing on what seemed to be a shelf of snow and ice maybe two feet thick over a godaweful drop.

You heard of people lighting the wrong end of a cigarette while tense? I was so tense I drew on the lit end by mistake. Burnt my lips.

Sometimes I'm honestly amazed I'm still alive.

[Fazor]

Sometimes I'm honestly amazed I'm still alive.
We have plenty of those 'how are we still here' stories (by 'we', I mean me and my close friends) ... yet somehow, I imagine ours don't even hold a candle to yours.

This thread seems tailor made for me... yet I can't think of anything recent. Problem is, I'm usually so aloof I don't know what dumb things I've done. :) I have been mis-speaking a lot lately (in posting and in person). And more than once in the past few days, that has it turned something I've said into a shining example of irony and stupidity. I can't remember what it was I said after seeing something on tv, but it came out something along the lines of "What an idiot? What could he have possibly thinked?" ...without intentionally mocking stupidity. *sigh*.

[closetgeek]

There was something wrong with the coffee grinder part of my Cuisinart. I had the top open and the compartment filled with beans. Not realizing I still had my hand on the power button, I started fiddling around and discovered the part that works as sort of a safety; if it's not pushed down, the grinder won't turn on. It turned on, with the cap off as bits of coffee beans went airborn, some landing in my eyes. That's always a good start to the day. I fixed my coffee pot though : ).

[Fazor]

Don't you know that absorbing caffeine through the eyes is more effective than doing so through the digestive system? I call that a brilliant time-saver.

[NEOWatcher]

Don't you know that absorbing caffeine through the eyes is more effective than doing so through the digestive system? I call that a brilliant time-saver.
True, it is more effective, but not effective enough.
Directly through the bloodstream is better. Possibly through a mangled finger.

[BigDon]

I'm given to understand that mainlining coffee can be bad for your blood pH.

[Buttercup]

Looked again at web sites featuring a piece of jewelry I'd like to have and can afford, but shouldn't buy. *sigh* Self torture!!

Generally I don't like jewelry, but do want this item.

[Fazor]

Looked again at web sites featuring a piece of jewelry I'd like to have and can afford, but shouldn't buy. *sigh* Self torture!!

Generally I don't like jewelry, but do want this item.

I do the same thing with guitars. It'll start innocently at first. Just looking at ones I think are cool or nice. Then I'll fall for one and go back to look at it once in a while. Then once a month. Then once a week. Then one day I break down and buy it.

I have too many guitars for a guy who can't play worth a spit. :)

[Buttercup]

I hear you, Fazor. :( What complicates this is I've recently purchased a nice ring. This is unprecedented for me. If I buy this 2nd ring, my hubby will not be pleased.

I'd rather have the 2nd than the 1st, but I'm stuck with the 1st.

[BigDon]

With me it's tropical fish...

[KaiYeves]

I was too slow when we played handball in gym, and, as a result, the other team kicked our butts.

[kleindoofy]

I forgot this one from a few weeks ago.

A bookshop ordered a copy of a periodical (yearbook) we publish. They ordered the 2006 volume. Since the 2008 volume had just come out, I rung them up to be sure they really meant the 2006 volume and not the 2008 volume. Remissions etc. are a royal P in the A, so I wanted to avoid one, if possible.

Anyway, the customer confirmed that they indeed wanted the 2006 volume.

I sent them the 2008 volume. :doh:

[HenrikOlsen]

I've twice managed to buy a dvd in a shop just to feel really stupid when the copy I had ordered a couple of days before on Amazon arrived in the mail.

[chrissy]

Today....Humphhh! It started to snow and normally I do my food shopping first thing and yesterday decided it would be a good idea to do it later as I had a load of other things to do, the snow fell hard and never ceased, I had to go to the town and on my return home the brake disks must have filled with the snow/slush and as I was slowing down near a round about my car just wouldn't stop, I had to depress the brakes a few times to try and get the stuff out of the system before coming to a halt, it scared the living daylights out of me as there was a car coming from the direction I had to give way to, just glad I was driving slow and prepared to stop much earlier, otherwise I might not have been here tonight. :(

[Fazor]

Well, glad to hear there's at least one other driver on the road that knows you don't drive according to the conditions you expect, you drive according to the conditions you don't.

[Buttercup]

I'm glad you're safe, Chrissy. :)

[chrissy]

I agree, the car that was coming from the other direction was speeding, thats what scared me, because it would have been my side of the car he would have crashed into.

I know many other would have just chanced it and drove out regardless of the consequences.

[edit to add] I am too Buttercup, thanks. :)

[SharkByte]

Honestly, nothing comes to mind at the moment... So I'll relate a story i witnssed instead... lol

I was working the front desk of systems configuration management one day when one of my friends stops by to see if I wanted to go to lunch with him. I had already had lunch but we talked for a few minutes while he's holding his car keys in one hnd and hat in the other. As we talk he throws his keys into his hat, takes them out and repeats several times. After about 5 minutes we finish our conversation, he puts his hat on his head and heads out to lunch. A few minutes later he comes back in and says he can't find his keys. He searched around the front desk for a good 20 minutes looking for them before he took his hat off and the keys fell out.:lol:

[Tinaa]

Few few years before my mom died she found her eyesight was deteriorating. She had macular degeneration and glaucoma. She called me one day hysterically laughing. Once she calmed down and told me I started laughing just as hard.

She was in the bathroom getting ready for bed. She reached into the drawer and pulled out the toothpaste and proceeded to brush her teeth. She spit out the tooth paste because it tasted bad.

Apparently the housekeeper had cleaned the bathroom and out the Preparation H in the same drawer as the toothpaste.

Yeah pretty gross but it was a great laugh that she and I both needed.

[ABR.]

Keys. Okay, I've got a couple stories involving keys. First one was probably in the late 80s when I was doing preliminary field work on a possible MS Thesis topic involving frogs (yeah, you heard me, Swift -- frogs). I was out late one night in NE Arkansas with a buddy trying to home in on a colony of chorus frogs. We'd stop the car, turn off the ignition and listen. Then we'd start up the car and drive some, stop, turn off the ignition and listen some more. When we got closer to the chorus, we stopped and got out of the car for better hearing. Sure enough, I'd left the keys in the ignition and locked the doors (as I always do). The dilemma was this: late at night, all the farms were dark and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to walk up to them, obviously no cell phones so no way to call for help. Solution: we found a rock. I made my buddy smash the window. I always carried an extra key after that.

Except for this one time in Arizona. Sure enough, I locked myself out of the brand new truck (another good story). I actually had an extra key but it was 7 miles back into town at the motel with my wife. That was a long walk.

[jokergirl]

Don't you know that absorbing caffeine through the eyes is more effective than doing so through the digestive system? I call that a brilliant time-saver.

I'm sure there's a market for caffeinated contact lenses.

Now if I could just find an investor...

;)

[geonuc]

I'm sure there's a market for caffeinated contact lenses.

Now if I could just find an investor...

;)
I have a couple of dollars.

No, wait. I just checked my 401K. :(

[jrkeller]

I was vacuuming my bedroom closet and sucked up a tie that had fallen on the floor. In no short time, it was wrapped around the beater bar shaft and I could smell some ozone.

[closetgeek]

The most stupid thing I've done today was thinking I was just going to log on BAUT and goof around for a few, while I drink my morning coffee. I am now on cup 4 and lost almost two hours of the day.

[mugaliens]

The stupidist thing I've done today is say "I didn't do anything stupid, today" on a public message forum and in front of friends who I'm quite sure know better...

[BigDon]

Does accidently getting dog poop on your own face count? (Yes, I had to spit. Said bannable words too.)

[LotusExcelle]

Don - what position must one be in and what must one be doing to drop it on your face Just curious.

[ABR.]

Does accidently getting dog poop on your own face count? (Yes, I had to spit. Said bannable words too.)

Suddenly, a certain Cheech and Chong routine gets stuck in my head.

[mc391776]

should be obvious

[BigDon]

Don - what position must one be in and what must one be doing to drop it on your face Just curious.

What with me being ill and then rainy weather, I wasn't able to do my parents yard work for the last three weeks. Well we had a break in the weather today and I went about first thing picking up "Buddy mines". Bubby is my folk's dog.

A friend mowed the lawn just before the rains hit. He also mowed a bed of petunias that had been overgrown by oxalis, but I won't gripe to him about it.

Well later on in the day, after weeding the potted plants, repairing bird feeders and pruning and shaping the bougainvilla, a naturalized pointsetta and various jasmines I noticed I missed one of Bubby's leavings near the edge of the lawn but since I didn't want to go back to the tool shed to get the scoop AND I had a long dry stick I thought I'd just flick it over to the rather thick border of jasmines where it would be out of sight.

Pretty much I used too much stick.

The stick bent in my attempt to flick it and the ground being soft from all the rain, the stick straightened unexpectedly and well, yuck. I'm telling myself it was mud that made me have to spit BTW.

[chrissy]

:sick:

That reminded me of a friend who had new sandals and she didn't see a dog mine, man it was fresh the stuff went between her toes :sick: we avoided her for ages after that.

[iniaes]

I can't honestly remember an "uh oh" moment, well, there was that one time i was working on some live equipment with an un insulated screw driver, but I digress. Iw as working pot wash, and my oppo was putting baked potatos down the disposal (turns food into slurry for treatment before we discharge it) and a spud got stuck, so my oppo goes to put his hand in...... I yelled that loud the people 2 decks up heard me... What was the careers office thinking letting him in?

[slang]

Today I responded to cosmicdave.

[BigDon]

Today I responded to cosmicdave.

Awww, dude!

[KaiYeves]

I invited my brother into my room to see my new Galileo thermometer and now he wants to smash it...

[Fazor]

Shouldn't you be in school young lady? :think:

Aside from waiting until five minutes after I have to leave for work to start getting ready from work; I've had a fairly stupid-free morning. Relatively anyway. I'm sure something will arise though.

[KaiYeves]

We have this week off as Mid-Winter Break.

Most schools in the Northeast do, actually, because during the oil trouble in the 70s, it helped them pay the heating bills, and once you've got a week off, nobody wants to stop.

[Buttercup]

Dropped a box of Fig Newtons all over the floor (which had just been swept clean yesterday). :( Thought I'd reached far enough to place the box on the table...

[HAD29]

Before retiring my daughter to bed tonight. I changed her nappy (diaper) and heated a drink of milk for her. I heated the soiled nappy for 60 seconds in the microwave, and threw out her milk cup!

[Fazor]

I bet that was a wonderful smell.

[BigDon]

Before retiring my daughter to bed tonight. I changed her nappy (diaper) and heated a drink of milk for her. I heated the soiled nappy for 60 seconds in the microwave, and threw out her milk cup!

Welcome to BAUT Had,

Also, I sincerely hope no spitting became necessary. :silenced:

[closetgeek]

Welcome HAD29, I think you take second place, following Big Don.

Well, currently typing with one hand because the other one is still wrapped in a cold cloth. I had a pot holder in my hand but reached in to grab the biscuits with the other.

[HAD29]

Thanks all for the kind words of welcome,

I am thankful there was no spitting involved Big Don. I think in your situation, the dog and I would be having words!!

Luckily there was no cross contamination and after a good scrub of the microwave, all ended ok. Daughter got milk (pan headed I may add) and wife now drawing up the paperwork to have me committed, as she is now questioning my ability to function safely.

[KaiYeves]

Once, I was in a restaurant waiting for my father to take me back to the car. I saw somebody wearing his coat, so I hugged the man's arm... but he wasn't my father!

So embarrassing trying to explain that one...

[Euniculus]

Once, I was in a restaurant waiting for my father to take me back to the car. I saw somebody wearing his coat, so I hugged the man's arm... but he wasn't my father!

So embarrassing trying to explain that one...

Been there, done that.

Except replace father with boyfriend.

[Fazor]

Except replace father with boyfriend.

I hope it was his arm you grabbed aswell...

[Robinson]

So we can talk about stupid things we did in the past.




































Oh boy! I have sooooo many stories ...

[Jay200MPH]

This is more of an ongoing stupidity: I wanted to bring my camera to work on Monday, and of course I didn't bring it. Every night since I've reminded myself to bring it and then forgot again in the morning. Last night I even went so far as to put it IN my boot, but this morning I still managed to take it out and forget it. Not really sure how I did that. Arrgh.

Sigh. There's always next week.

- J

[Tinaa]

I send myself emails so that I don't forget important stuff.

[geonuc]

I hope it was his arm you grabbed aswell...
The poor fellow was lucky she didn't drop him to the ground. :)

[jokergirl]

I send myself emails so that I don't forget important stuff.

In accordance with GTD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD) I keep all my to-do list and important notes in my little red Moleskine calendar. To quote Dr. Jones, Sr: "I wrote it down so I wouldn't HAVE to remember it!".

...but I can't find the book right now. I'm lost!

AARGH!

;)

[KaiYeves]

Over the Winter Holidays, I took my homework with me to my grandmother's house to get a jump on it. I did all my Math on Christmas Eve. But I forgot my books at her house, so I had to wait a few days for her to mail them back.

[peteshimmon]

On the phone to the Police asking advice
about Harrassment by TV Licencing. The nice
chap said his name was Clamp and I
immeadiately said something about not going
near any cars. Biting my tongue I quickly
said he must know that "joke". He said yes!

Well I established my credentials as another
bone headed member of the public wanting
personel service:(

[Tinaa]

Today I needed to get something from the supply closet. I keep the key with my car keys. I got up and pressed the unlock button for my car. It took me a minute to realize why the stinkin' door wouldn't open. Of course I had to do this in front of several of the office staff, a couple of students and a parent.

[BigDon]

Yeah, "stuff" happens.

So I'm down with the "Barbershop" crowd and one guy just annoys the tar out of me, being as he's a 48 year old teenager that's a living characturture of a "lady's man", a married one to boot. So he was going on about how he "romanced" his teacher in high school until I was tired of hearing it and I stole a line from some unremembered stand up comic and replied, "Yeah, too bad you were home schooled."

He didn't seem to like that or the fact that everybody else thought it was very funny. (They were tired of it too.)

This could get good. He thinks he wants to get froggy with me.

[sarongsong]

:doh: Woke up 1/2 hour ago after falling asleep 4 hours ago---and thought it was the next morning and kept waiting for the sky to lighten. http://www.bautforum.com/images/icons/icon11.gif

[Salty]

Up early, I thought I had plenty of time to go to the bank, refuel the car and stop by a store to get cigarettes for me and my house-mate. Thinking this, I left the house at 5:00PM, local time (11:00UT)

It was dusk, over an hour at these errands, before I was able to return to the house.

[GeorgeLeRoyTirebiter]

A few hours ago I was working on a screengrab in an image editor and I repeatedly tried to scroll by using the scrollbars in the image instead of the real ones.

[BigDon]

A few hours ago I was working on a screengrab in an image editor and I repeatedly tried to scroll by using the scrollbars in the image instead of the real ones.


Been there...dumb that.

[KaiYeves]

In Stage Crew, we were rolling out some props and making sure they were ready to be used in the school play. One prop was a flight of wooden stairs. I walked up them, only for the stairs to give way under my weight and fall apart, leaving me lying on the stage with a sore butt.

At least we learned that prop wasn't stable enough for the show.

[mugaliens]

So we can talk about stupid things we did in the past.




































Oh boy! I have sooooo many stories ...

I really enjoy your comments, Robinson, but am beginning to find the very lengthy lack thereof quite annoying (all that whitespace). It sort of falls into the same class as all-caps yelling, and people who use extra-large bold red type all the time "to be heard."

I find you comments valuable, Robinson! And I welcome them. So please, continue to contribute, and fill up some (all, please) of that white space with something that's worth more than any annoying flick down of the mouse wheel.

Thanks.

[BigDon]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Robinson
So we can talk about stupid things we did in the past.




































Oh boy! I have sooooo many stories ...

I really enjoy your comments, Robinson, but am beginning to find the very lengthy lack thereof quite annoying (all that whitespace). It sort of falls into the same class as all-caps yelling, and people who use extra-large bold red type all the time "to be heard."

I find you comments valuable, Robinson! And I welcome them. So please, continue to contribute, and fill up some (all, please) of that white space with something that's worth more than any annoying flick down of the mouse wheel.

Thanks.
__________________


This message brought to you by the Whitespace Conservation Council.

[mugaliens]

This message brought to you by the Whitespace Conservation Council.

Actually, by the time you quoted it, it was more of a bluish-gray space..

:)

[LaurelHS]

I dropped a lightbulb on the bathroom floor today. It looks like I picked up all the pieces, but I suspect I'll eventually walk in there in my bare feet and discover that I missed one or two sharp fragments...

[KaiYeves]

Back in Kindergarten, I spilled soda on a table, forgot about it, leaned on the table, and got all sticky. Yuck, bad memory.

[mugaliens]

I did much of nothing. That was stupid... Lots of fun though, which for me, is what Sundays are all about.

:)

[jokergirl]

hurgh... looking at the time, going "Well... this is the time wheer I usually decide no to get up and shower yet, and end up being late"... and deciding not to get up and go shower yet, but check BAUTforum another time.

;)

[closetgeek]

I can't take credit for this one but it's one of the funniest bonehead moments I have ever heard. A good friend of mine was rushing to get to work. She pulled into the parking lot, got out of the car, put the keys in her jacket pocket, manually locked the door, shut it, then went to walk away. The problem was, she shut her jacket in the door; the pocket with the keys in it, down to where the zipper separated so she couldn't even take the jacket off. She locked herself to the car and had to stand there till someone else came along to help her out.

[BigDon]

Reached into the medicine chest for my toothbrush and ran my thumb along my razor.

Ouch.

[Robinson]

I really enjoy your comments, Robinson, but am beginning to find the very lengthy lack thereof quite annoying (all that whitespace).

So, my very first post, which didn't actually talk about something stupid, turns out to be, at least in one persons view, a stupid thing I did that day.

Well thank Gopod for that little irony of life. Of course I am totally crushed that a total stranger has criticized my empty space, my very own "wait for it" sort of humor, which, if the horrible truth be known, involves having to actually ..



gasp


it requires scrolling down!!!

After thinking about it for some time, (less than a second), I decided that such empty space is offensive to the very spirit of teh Internets, and that making somebody spend a half second more to actually read something, that contains space, which may or may not be empty, is an affront to humanity.

So in the future I will never ever again make somebody waste a precious split second of their life looking at a blank page.

No, everything will be a giant incomprehensible wall of text. Just to please somebody else, I will change my very nature.











And if you believe that, then I got some real estate in Florida you might be interested in.









Sweet!

[SolusLupus]

I did absolutely nothing stupid today!

(yet)

[Buttercup]

Checked my e-mail for a note from Steve. :p (No one here). Seems that's an exercise in futility.

[weatherc]

A few hours ago I was working on a screengrab in an image editor and I repeatedly tried to scroll by using the scrollbars in the image instead of the real ones.

Oh yeah. I've done that one. "Hey, why won't this window close? Oh..."

[mugaliens]

Stayed up past my bedtime...

Good-night!

[Fazor]

Heh, I almost made it through the (work) day. But I just started typing a reply to a post in another thread, then decided against it (believe it or not, I *do* sometimes decide to not post my comments ;)). Then, after checking something else, I went back and couldn't figure out why the thread I was going to reply to was below another thread, and why it said there was no new posts, but I wasn't the last poster.

I refreshed the BAUT main page as well as the sub-forum page trying to figure out why it looked like I hadn't posted. Then I remembered that I hadnt posted. :doh:

[Tinaa]

Today I had to call the high school to let them know I was picking up my stepson early. I reached over, dialed the phone and someone answered "hello" instead of the standard greeting. I immediately said, "Sorry, I dialed the wrong number." After I hung up I realized I had dialed my own house and my stepdaughter had answered. There was a parent in the office waiting on their child. I told my coworker what I had done. The parent asked if I'd had a rough day. He had NO IDEA how rough it had been. We had crazy people in yelling at us all day because their kids had been referred to the principal.

All I'm thinking is that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[KaiYeves]

I took a route to my bus that involved walking past bullies because it was quickest. They shouted the "f" word at me over and over again because they know it bothers me.

[BigDon]

I took a route to my bus that involved walking past bullies because it was quickest. They shouted the "f" word at me over and over again because they know it bothers me.

Now I'm bothered.

[SolusLupus]

I took a route to my bus that involved walking past bullies because it was quickest. They shouted the "f" word at me over and over again because they know it bothers me.

I once almost got jumped by a group while bicycling in New Jersey. I was maybe 16 at the time.

[Ozzy]

#1 dumb thing today ~ went to work and found out I wasnt rostered on.

#2 dumb thing today ~ wondered why my key wouldnt unlock my car. It wasnt my car.

[jokergirl]

Googled a quote and ended up on http://tvtropes.org. :wall:

;)

[Whirlpool]

Forgot my company ID at home and make an explanation letter . This is my first offense.

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[darkhunter]

#2 dumb thing today ~ wondered why my key wouldnt unlock my car. It wasnt my car.


One time I came out of the bank and hopped into my car (funny--I thought I'd locked it?). Started trying to start it, then some things started to dawn on me:

1: Dog-ends in the ashtray (I didn't smoke at the time)
2: The air freshener hung from the mirror had changed
3: There was shopping in the passenger seat that wasn't mine
4: There was a car that looked just like mine parked next to me now...

Got out, waved at the owner (who was having a good laugh by now), and got into my car and drove off... :)

[KaiYeves]

Googled a quote and ended up on http://tvtropes.org.
No, don't link to there! I'm just getting over my addiction to that site.

[Robinson]

I clicked on the link to http://tvtropes.org

[SolusLupus]

I'm staying up past my bedtime. Again.

(At least I got about a page written for yet ANOTHER story idea that I'll NEVER complete)

[jlhredshift]

When I got up, I turned the TV news on, immediately became ticked off, muted, and went outside to cool off. Which, of course meant that I immediately reached for a cigarette, again, which ticked me off........

[KaiYeves]

I went on fanfiction.net and read a very depressing, yet well written story.

[GeorgeLeRoyTirebiter]

I was trying to find the link to Gillian's film journal in my (horribly disorganized) bookmarks menu, and after clicking on the wrong link twice I realized that instead of reading the bookmark name, I was instead just clicking on the ones with red favicons.

There's nothing quite like momentary illiteracy to make a person feel really smart.

[slang]

Got up, walked the dog, while thinking about Frog march's analogy of a building block tower and scientific theories, got home, grabbed my thermos mug to pour coffee for during the ride to work, still deep in thought about that analogy, opened the lid, threw out the leftover bit, turn around to reach for our (also thermos) coffee can... and discover I just opened it's lid and threw away my fresh coffee :( I hate you, Froggy! ;)

[BigDon]

I went on fanfiction.net and read a very depressing, yet well written story.

Stay away from those.

Back about '84 or '85 I read Robert Jordan's entire Flux and Anchor series in five days. Not recomended. It didn't leave me with a healthy outlook.

[Robinson]

I turned on the defroster (heated air to clear ice from the windshield of my car) and the little tiny ding from a rock turned into a giant crack in the glass, that spread across my once beautiful car, ruining the moment.

Ice on glass, hot air on same glass, damn you laws of physics.

[Robinson]

Oh, and damn you giant trucks, you trucks that throw rocks up in the air.

[Fazor]

Heh. We constatly tell people to get those chips repaired ASAP. If you have comprehensive coverage on your vehicle, most insurance companies will pay for the full repair without charging your deductable.

But people never want to bother with it. Then, the problem grows.

[KaiYeves]

I messed up in class and said that Lex Luthor was from Batman instead of Superman. To be fair, he probably has fought Batman a few times, though...

[cosmocrazy]

Carried 4000 roof tiles up a ladder on to some scaffolding ready to re-tile a roof. the conveyor was broken!:( so to hell with health and safety up and down 400 times (packs of 10) i went..!:doh:

[Buttercup]

Carried 4000 roof tiles up a ladder on to some scaffolding ready to re-tile a roof. the conveyor was broken!:( so to hell with health and safety up and down 400 times (packs of 10) i went..!:doh:

Wow! :( Your knees must be sore. And shoulders. Must've burned just as many calories!

[Robinson]

If you have comprehensive coverage on your vehicle,...

If I had comprehensive I wouldn't have said anything about it.

The damnable thing is, that little ding could have been there for years. I have no idea when I got it.

[cosmocrazy]

Wow! :( Your knees must be sore. And shoulders. Must've burned just as many calories!

I enjoyed the workout and was determined to get it done! I started the day doing the electrics on this particular house but then the young lad could not get the conveyor working so i said I'd carry them up the ladder if he took them of me at the top, worked out ok in the end! :)

[Robinson]

Only 4000 tiles?

[cosmocrazy]

Only 4000 tiles?

yeah it turns out we are 1500 short! :)

[cosmocrazy]

Hey i just had another thought! while i was at this new gym i have been trying out me and my friend decided to go for a sauna after our workout. In the sauna my friend asked if he could put some water on the coals. I had a quick look and replied saying it would be fine, Just as he was about to, i yelled! suddenly realising that it was an electrical element heated sauna and the coals were only visual effects. We were very very close to a big shock!!!

[Robinson]

I've been in saunas like that, never seemed to bother the electric coals, us dumping water on them.

Hmm...

[sarongsong]

Went to see two (gorgeous) women (http://calendar.signonsandiego.com/?q=node/53120) in the BA's life---with my camera---and forgot to use it... :doh:
(Great talk and star party afterwards, featuring glimpses of Saturn, Orion's belt and green http://www.bautforum.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Comet Lulin (http://spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_lulin_page4.htm?PHPSESSID=hdv3b6ilbu74uoc7 q6g7ap7e45).)

[KaiYeves]

I spent way too much time looking at cartoons on Deviant Art last night.
(But I did find this cute one of Carl Sagan and Optimus Prime (http://stripedwine.deviantart.com/art/Carl-Sagan-and-Optimus-Prime-79149699))

Oh, and I just found out that in something I wrote, I got the Gulf Stream and the Jet Stream mixed up.

[trinitree88]

I took a night school class at BU in the winter. Big ice storm. I got the bright idea to chip the ice off the car keyhole with my key, and then because the interior of the lock was filled with ice....purse my lips to melt the ice out by blowing through the lock. Yep. Lips froze to the metal collar on the lock, and I tore off a patch about a quarter inch square. Hurt when I drank coffee or ate salty foods for a while, but I ignored the pain when my girlfriend was around...:shifty::doh::lol: pete

[Frantic Freddie]

The other day I was working on my mother's house & had my Sawzall to cut some 4x4s.I'd laid it down & then looked at the vicious 10" wood blade & thought "I'd better put that away before I cut myself".So I reached for it & for some unfathomable reason,managed to drag my little finger across the blade.

Told Mom later the house would forever be a part of me as my blood was literally in it.

[steffanie]

The stupid thing i did today was spend 100euro on a dress and i have no where to go to wear it:( Does anyone have weddings coming up or anything formal that i could tag along to!?

[Robinson]

If you put it on, and make a video, and put it on YouTube, we all benefit!

[Robinson]

Of course that could be considered a stupid thing to do ...

[Spirit]

If you put it on, and make a video, and put it on YouTube, we all benefit!

Naughty Naughty. :dance:

[dirty_g]

I forgot where i had parked my car just 1 minute earlier. Seriously considered going to see a doctor about it too.

[megrfl]

Upon exiting my parents conversion van today, I miss stepped (running board) and almost did a full face plant (it was close), so some sweet gentleman says "Clear the way, Grace has arrived" and insisted on escorting me to the house (estate sale). It took me a while to lose the red face and to stop laughing.

[steffanie]

If you put it on, and make a video, and put it on YouTube, we all benefit!

Ha! Oh Robinson... Ill put on the dress if you put on a dress:D

[Buttercup]

I unthawed a frozen pizza too long in the 'fridge [no room in the freezer]. The dough was too soft to transfer by hand onto a baking sheet, so I had to do a nifty/careful little "slide off the cardboard" trick. :rolleyes: It did bake up beautifully.

[Robinson]

Ha! Oh Robinson... Ill put on the dress if you put on a dress:D

Deal!!


You go first ...

[KaiYeves]

I promised myself I'd look at something and then forgot to.

[slang]

Does anyone have weddings coming up or anything formal that i could tag along to!?

Yep! I do. Got one coming up next month, you can accompany me!

Back on topic:

A stupid thing I did today was inviting a lady with a new dress to come with me to my wife's sister's wedding... :doh: :)

[LaurelHS]

Yesterday I grabbed a strange dog's leash. The dog ran away from its owner and it was near me so I took its leash to help the lady catch up to her dog, which didn't take too long. She appreciated the gesture and said thank you, it wasn't a very big dog and it wasn't snarling or anything, but if I'd been bitten I would have felt pretty stupid for trying to catch it.

[steffanie]

Deal!!


You go first ...


It would be a stupid thing for me to agree to going first Robinson. My idea so you first:p

[steffanie]

Yep! I do. Got one coming up next month, you can accompany me!

Back on topic:

A stupid thing I did today was inviting a lady with a new dress to come with me to my wife's sister's wedding... :doh: :)

:lol: Two stupid things i did yesterday- spend too much on a dress and asked to tag along to complete strangers formal do's!

[BigDon]

Yesterday I grabbed a strange dog's leash. The dog ran away from its owner and it was near me so I took its leash to help the lady catch up to her dog, which didn't take too long. She appreciated the gesture and said thank you, it wasn't a very big dog and it wasn't snarling or anything, but if I'd been bitten I would have felt pretty stupid for trying to catch it.

Laurel, you live in the California?

Part of the furniture mover's creed is in civil court a dog bite is always $3000 above and beyond medical. Pain and suffering don't you know. Honest. Bring your documentation and the judge doesn't even blink.

[SolusLupus]

Laurel, you live in the California?

Part of the furniture mover's creed is in civil court a dog bite is always $3000 above and beyond medical. Pain and suffering don't you know. Honest. Bring your documentation and the judge doesn't even blink.

I'm glad it didn't come to that, myself. It didn't seem like the dog's owner "deserved" to have $3000 taken from her...

[KaiYeves]

I was smart and got into an AP class and now I have way too much homework.

[LaurelHS]

Actually, I live in southern Ontario, but coincidentally, my mother grew up in California. :)

[RalofTyr]

Made out with a coworker's daughter.

[Fazor]

Lunch time. At work, we keep our bread/buns in the microwave. They last longer that way. Well, I went to make the microwaveable rice packet I brought, and I removed the bag of buns my co-worker currently has stored there.

What I failed to do was notice my single kaiser roll that had apparently been pushed to the back. So I not only microwaved the rice, but also the roll and the plastic bag it was in. What an awful smell...but nothing melted so no damage done (other than the mess that was the soggy, hot roll. But it was well past its prime anyway).

[LaurelHS]

I recently received a replacement for my credit card. But I forgot to destroy the old card and I kept it in my wallet. Then today I had to use my credit card to pay for something. I tried to use the old card and didn't realize my mistake until it was declined. :doh:

[chrissy]

Opened a box of bugs for my lizard and the last bit of the lid was a bit tight, they flew everywhere over the floor and my lizard decided to eat only two that were near him and run off, I had to pick them all up and get the vacuum cleaner out again and clear up all the saw dust, :( the funny side of it my daughter was dancing all over the living room trying to avoid the bugs.

Yes ABR bugs. :D

[ABR.]

Mmmmmm...bugs! It's what's for dinner!

ETA: I placed a can of pickled butterfly pupae in the pantry, took a picture and posted it on the Internet where anyone -- including my wife who has said if she ever saw that can inside the house again she'd hit me with the skillet -- can see it.

[KaiYeves]

I started a space thread on Marvel.com and a serious SAHF (http://www.bautforum.com/off-topic-babbling/75748-useful-term-i-made-up.html) posted on it. Should I just ignore him?

[chrissy]

I wondered what that was ABR. :eek:

[slang]

I continued a Monty Python joke in an active thread. Sorry.

[Robinson]

I used the word "acronym" when I meant "synonym". I think I'm losing my mind.

[Robinson]

No really, it was the kind of mental stumble that really has me concerned about my fading mental powers. I'm not kidding.