What's the DUMBEST thing you've ever done ?

What's the DUMBEST thing that you've ever done . I'm talking completely and totally MINDLESS . One of those " What the hell was I thinking " moments .

Here's mine...I was trying to hang some shelves in my room when I was 16 or so , and had a power drill that I was using . I'm on a ladder trying to line up the drill when the extension chord comes out of it . I set the drill down on top of the ladder , climb down , and grab the chord , and go back up the ladder . I'm holding the chord in one hand and I'm holding the drill in the other . I decide that I need two hands to line up the drill properly , but I don't want to drop the chord . Here's the DUMB part . I , without any rational human thought , decide to hold onto the chord with my teeth while I line the drill up . Then I can just grab it and plug it in once everything's how I want it . The chord is PLUGGED IN by the way . I enact my brilliant plan , and once I have the chord in my teeth I receive a brutal shock that makes my brain feel like it's on fire . I sort of tumble off the ladder and crumple on the floor for a few seconds . I received no permanent injury , but felt like a COMPLETE IDIOT once I realized what I had done .

Now please tell me that you've done some stupid shit too . I don't want to be the only dumbass in the place .

When I was 11, I ran full speed into the side of a metal slide. It was at head height, and I struck a steel bolt square in the middle of my forehead, knocking myself unconcious. I woke up on my face, and when I sat up in a daze, blood poured over my eyes.

Strangely enough, I did not have a headache that day, nor did I take any painkillers. I felt like this though:

I stuck my fingers in a home ice crusher (it was a little bigger than an electric can opener) when i was about 12 just to see what was going on in there.

ok i know im gonna get hammered for this one but since you're all kewl people i'll share.

well a few years ago while i was still in the military i took out a military credit line to help a friend buy a sterio and video entertainment system. and expencive one. and i got stuck with the bill. i payed it off eventually and i thought i was being a good friend. but i was to naive back then to realize how stupid that was. i think he ended up pawning it eventually too.

Dumbest thing ay? Well I've done so many stupid things in my short pathetic life, here's just one

I guess I was about 8, and well does anyone remember those Kreepy Krawlers (or whatnot)? Well my friend had made me a few and I found out they were glow in the dark. However they needed to be "charged" under the light first in order to glow. Well what better way to charge them, then by sitting one right ontop of a light bulb....

Needless to say the attention span of an 8 year old isn't that great, and soon I realized there was smoke coming off the light bulb. Not wanting my mother to find out what I had done, I quickly grabbed a wet sponge and proceded to "clean off" the bulb. Not wanting to turn it off to draw even more suspicion from my mother, I applied the wet sponge, leading only in the light bulb exploding and liquid glow in the dark goo flinging through the air, that ended up landing on my mothers arm.

To this day my dad thinks the scars are from her making me chicken nuggets in the frying pan....

[Edited on Dec 07, 2002 by Graphix]

what an asshole!

Great story, and great first post.

I went to work for a major corporation. It's a common mistake.

i decided to breath when i was born. Boy that was a mistake.

Honestly, i have done a million stupid things. pretty much everything i do is stupid or inane and unecessary, so i can't pick one event.

Dating a Canadian was a bad idea Jk. i love Canada. I'm just glad its far away

i guess the short version is: go to the bow wow wow reunion show, wait all night for a girl that never shows up, get maddeningly drunk, try to walk home, decide to climb a wall instead of find a way around it, decide to jump down instead of climb down, and that jumping down was right into traffic, still try to walk home, blah blah blah. the good part is that the girl i had been waiting for at the show ended up taking me to the hospital the next day. how romantic.

my girlfriend did something similar... her bright idea was to melt chocolate in a plastic bag on top of the light bulb... her story only resulted in a few tiny patches of burnt carpet from flaming plastic and a nasty mess to clean up, though.

the dumbest thing i've ever done was not beating up my little brother more while we were growing up... he's got such a superiority complex now.

either that or going $20K in debt going to college for engineering for 2 years and then transferring to a 2 year school and getting my 2yr. degree in c.i.s. after 4 years of college... and then still working at an $8/hr. job not at all related to my degree / interests.

just deleted the great big long post i was gonna leave here. i realised that relaying the "dumbest thing i've ever done" might turn out to be the dumbest thing i've ever done.

get back to you when the statute of limitations runs out.

haha agreed

took back a girlfriend that cheated on me....'nuf said really....

I walked into a colleague's office who has severe crippling degenerative arthrits, she's always walked on her own and I saw one of those scooter type things for disabled people and exclaimed "WHAT'S WITH THE INVALID CHAIR??" She started crying and I fucking walked out feeling like the biggest piece of shit that ever stank up the earth after I realized that her condition had worsened and it was obviously hers. I'm such a fucking dumb ass sometimes, I went into my office and started crying and called her in to apologize. She forgave me but then she told me her husband bought it for her so they could continue going on long walks together and then I felt like utter shit again. BTW, I said it infront of 3 other people who also probably think I'm a loud mouthed asshole. Yep, my mouth in general is the supidest thing I ever did.....

moved back home after university

drank so much i blacked out . . . came to in a car, making out with some guy . . . dunno who it was.

[Edited on Dec 08, 2002 by Strawbettie]

ditto. bad idea.

i also handled a relationship a few years ago very poorly to say the least, strung a guy along for almost two years before i broke his heart. and it's probably the dumbest thing i've done because now i have very bad relationship karma and it's biting me in the ass.

I told my Best friend that I'm madly in love with her and that i can't stop thinging about her. The bad part is she was like "meh" and now i'm

when I was 8I got one of those little battery powered cars for Christmas. The commercial said "These cars will drive over ANYTHING"

so, I tried. Needless to say "ANYTHING" does not include the head of an 8 year old boy. My hair got caught up in the gears and I soon had a battery powered car fastned firmly to my head.

For a more recent version of Dan's stupidity. 2 years ago.......I broke my own leg trying to throw and empty beer keg.

Oh, and as a freshman in college I turned down a 3some because I felt awkward. what a jackass.

The kick dan in the ass line forms to the left.

Once my mom and my dad and one of my brothers and I were on a road trip. My bro and I were sitting in the back seat, harrassing each other as usual. I had the window down and was resting my hand out the window. Suddenly I cried out in pain as my fingers got caught when someone rolled the window up. I turned to my brother and yelled accusingly "OW!!!" He looked at me and said quietly "Kathryn, you're the one rolling the window up" I quitely said "Oh, right" and rolled the window back down and nursed my bruised hand. Oh my lord, that was dumb.

How about climbing into someone's back garden completely wasted to retrieve a mini air-hockey game my friend had thrown over...
Spike

Lost my virginity to who I did.

I was in a cafe with a bunch of mates. We were all drunk and decided to get some munchies before we headed to a club. I was the last in the place and my buddies had grabbed a booth table and wouldnt move around to make space "nah man, you got to eat standing up" so I decided to be clever and drag over a chair from one on the centre tables. It was bolted to the floor, I spent a couple of minutes drunkedly wrestling with the damn thing before I realised. My friend were killing themselves laughing and moved up out of pity, Even now 10 years later they rip the piss out of me about it.

* messing around with a plug when i was about 10, had a little bit of electrical cord still attached to it. i plugged it into the socket, sent 1000s of volts of electricity into my hand and got thrown across the room. only blew a little hole in my hand, luckily...

* totally slagged off a band in front of someone i didn't know - who turned out to be a member of said band.

* stayed in various relationships about twice as long as i should've done.