What is the dumbest thing you have done recently?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

Today apparently was not a good day...
And I found out that there really are good, honest Christians in the world...Who'd have thunk it?
Tonight, I went to Target to get my boss his birthday present and some things for the food day we're having tomorrow. I apparently put all the bags in the back seat, put my cart up, and left....Leaving my purse in the front part of the basket. I get three blocks away and I FREAK OUT, of course.
I high tail it back to the store, and as I get there, there is an elderly woman there with a dude in a straw golf hat who looks like he's probably her son. They're looking at me funny. I'm flipping my lid. I asked if they found a purse in the basket right there. THey nodded and said that they took it to the manager, and they hadn't even opened it. And she felt the need to include that he was a preacher, which just made me scared that something was missing.
Of course, nothing was. I found the girl and my purse at the customer service desk. THANK GOD...
But on a side note, I feel like a complete idiot. I can't believe I did that. I hold myself to a much higher standard than other people, and I expect myself to not do stupid shit like that. I'm mortified, and worried that I'm doing shit like that at work. I'm freaking out, still, but mainly because I'm such a dumb ass.
Please tell me your dumb ass moment from the recent past. Thanks!
Duckie

[martymar64]

1. Ranted like an idiot on GD

Made myself look like a grade A asshole.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. We all do that occasionally.

It'll be ok.
Duckie

[bigwillq]

2. Smoke a cigarette

but I can't stop. :mad:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. Everyone quits differently.

Just try them until it sticks? :shrug:
Duckie

[bigwillq]

9. I quit for a year and a half

when I was 19 until I turned 21 and starting going to the bar and since then I have not been able to stop.

I quit for three days when I had a bad cold but as soon as I was feeling better, I was in need of a smoke.

[Debi]

3. mentioned my bra size AGAIN in the Lounge

:banghead: TMI baby!!!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. I wear a 44C...

Does that make you feel better? I hate my boobs. I wish they were non existent.
Duckie

[Debi]

12. Not such a big deal in winter

But the summer months I really hate em! :(

[Breeze54]

35. Bra's???

What the hell are those????? :rofl:

I should wear one, I suppose, but I don't give a shit! :P

[trof]

4. Miz t. drove off with her purse on the roof of her car.

And she sure ain't a ditz.
From our house to a store about 3 miles away.
She discovered 'no purse' when she was getting out of the car.
Then remembered our daughter had asked her something and she put her purse on the roof while she went and found what our daughter was looking for and....

Went back over the 3 miles of country road and nada.
Came home in a PANIC.
I was about to start making the phone calls to alert credit card companies, bank, etc. when the phone rang.

"Is there a Miz trof there? I found a purse by the side of Tinker Road and..."

You are NOT alone.
;-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. Thank you...

THat makes me feel better. :hug:
Duckie

[ganeshji]

10. I put my hand on a hot burner yesterday.

My husband bought a replacement burner for the stove and decided to test it. I walked in the room, saw that it was lopsided enough that no pot would balance on it, and I reached down and grabbed it. It didn't feel hot until I heard the sizzle. I burnt the shit out of my right hand. I never do that sort of just outright stupid thing. I'm about tired of typing with one hand too. I hate feeling like a dumb ass.

[dysfunctional press]

11. i left a brand new $600 digital camera in a shopping cart at menard's.

i got about 10 minutes away when i realized what i had done- while on the brink of a heart attack/total nervous breakdown i drove back like a bat-out-of-hell -i was back there in about 4 minutes, and to my luck and amazement- the camera was still in the cart, in an aislke of the store where i had left it when i left the store.

[skygazer]

13. I've done the same thing more than once

In the most recent incident, I was just carrying my wallet, which is a large affair that hold my checkbook, all my credit cards, my driver's licence - in short, my life.

I went to the library and came home and got online. I have dial-up so when I'm online the phone can't ring. After a couple of hours, I logged off and the phone immediately rang.

It was a woman who breathlessly asked if I was skygazer dumbass. I replied yessss.

Well, she'd found my wallet in the bushes outside the library! How it got there, I have no idea. I may have put it on top of the car and it fell off - who knows? She looked inside and saw by my liscence that I lived near her so she brought it home and had been trying to call for two hours. She figured my phone was busy because I was frantically calling around trying to find it - little did she know that I was cheerfully oblivious on DU. :rofl:

I drove to her house and got it, brought her a nice bottle of wine and thanked her up and down. Nothing missing, nothing out of place. What a relief!

No, you're not alone. :dunce:

[BlueIris]

14. I lost my wallet last fall (first time ever). Never got it back.

Messed up my whole life. No identity theft though, (that I could determine) so I'm comfortable with the idea that an honest person or persons recovered it, if anyone did.

[Coyote_Bandit]

15. Ummmm

Lost my wallet in the sofa cushions. Looked EVERYWHERE. Couldn't find it. Freaked out. Called and cancelled every card I had. Found the wallet and all the stuff in it less than ten minutes later when I sat on a hard lump in the sofa. Took at least a couple of weeks to have all new working cards again. Yes, it could have been much worse.

[MonkeyFunk]

16. I tried to make a narrow constitutional argument in GD

but the upside is that I got really good at typing "constitution".

[AllegroRondo]

17. I lost my wallet in Korea.

stationed there with the Army.

I got to work one day, and couldnt get on post because my ID card was gone with it. (We lived and worked on separate small posts). I figured I had dropped it or it fell out of my pocket somewhere on the way. Went to the MP station and made a full report, cancelled all my bank cards, got a new ID, all the usual hassle.

Three days later, I got an envelope in the mail. Some Korean person had found it on the street, and mailed it to the Post address with my name. The only thing missing was about $10 in cash. All the cards and IDs were fine.

[1gobluedem]

18. Didn't send in my license plate renewal

I couldn't find the duplicate copy of my insurance certificate so I knew I'd have to grit my teeth and go in to the Secretary of State to renew it (plate expires Saturday), dreading it because I invariably get in line behind a recently arrived immigrant with all the wrong paperwork who can't speak English, and it takes forever. THEN as I pulled out the renewal notice to write my check before I left, I noticed a little blurb saying that I could renew online without proof of insurance and a PIN number. Arrgghh. This is brand new; I had no idea and now it was too late to renew online so I had to go in anyway.

I learned my lesson; will read these things thoroughly from this day forward.

[skygazer]

19. Bummer

Out here your insurance info is automatically conveyed to the DMV so they already have your proof of insurance.

However, I keep a AAA membership just so I can go there to do any DMV stuff because it's generally a nightmare at the DMV office. :scared:

[1gobluedem]

20. I don't think we have that option in Michigan

But now there is the online option in addition to mail so you can bet I will use it regularly. And it wasn't too bad today except for the chatty guy behind me whose birthday is Friday and is going be 'old' although he only feels like 37 (and has to be at least twice that).

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

21. I had pork rinds and beef jerky for dinner last night.

I have just moved and hadn't really done any grocery shopping. (Didn't feel like cooking anyway.) So I grabbed a bunch of snacks and soda at Wawa. Now I am paying for it big time. :hurts: Thank god the bathroom isn't too far from my desk.

:hi:

[Zuiderelle]

22. You mean the part about jumping to conclusions about the good samaritans who found your purse?

Or the leaving the purse in the cart? Because I don't see where you thanked them for returning it. Just sounds like they annoyed you.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

27. I thanked them profusely and blessed them.

:rofl: no lie. LOL
Oh my god. I'm not a mongrel!
Duckie

[Zuiderelle]

42. Oh good.

That wasn't clear to me. Good to know.

[CottonBear]

23. Installed a cat shelf-perch on a window & then realized it blocked my dresser drawer.

Doh! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I was so involved with assembling it and attatching it to the window that I failed to notice that I would no longer be able to open the top two drawers of my dresser.

:banghead:

[Forkboy]

24. Went to shake a bottle of ketchup without the lid on tight.

Big streaks of ketchup all over the room.Walls,PC,cds,floor,ceiling (some of that is still there).

[SmokingJacket]

25. Gave a customer WAY too much change.

Of course I didn't figure it out until I counted my drawer later. Then suddenly I remembered feeling that the numbers didn't add up when I was handing it over... ARGH!!!

Oh, yeah, and recently I left half my groceries at the store after I bought them. I only noticed when I went looking for that bread I bought, then realized I'd only taken one bag home. WAAAAHHH!!! Oh, and the receipt was in the bad I *didn't* bring home, so I was scrood.

[SPKrazy]

26. Posted On Yellow Rubber Duckie's thread...

that is without a doubt the dumbest thing i've done :crazy: isn't it?

I'm sure if you polled my coworkers, friends, and even people on DU they would all agree that posting here was the dumbest...

:hi:


:rofl:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

28. Wow...That smarts...

:cry:

[SPKrazy]

38. and it only took you what, 5 hours to respond?

now THAT SMARTS!

:hug:

I'm just kidding YRD, I lurve you and that's why I give you a hard time. It's 'cause I don't know how to relate to you so I tease.

:shrug:

:hi:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

43. You don't know how to relate to me?

WTF?

[ruiner4u]

29. opened the "Please Remove" thread...

it took FOREVER to load..

[Breeze54]

30. Hey? We all forget stuff. It's HUMAN!!

I left my keys, to my house and car, on the floor at Marshall's.
I was in such a hurry, it being Christmas Eve, to get home with my goodies!
I freaked when I got to the car! But there they were at the register!

Whew!!

:hug:

[KamaAina]

31. Bought the wrong kind of salami

a brand made in the Bay Area, available in the West, makes two kinds: Danish salami, and beef salami. At a glance the two look basically identical. Upon closer inspection, however, the innocently named "beef salami" turns out to have mustard seed ground into it! :puke: Yes, right into the meat! What sick, twisted mind could ever have thought of that?!

Well, let's just say I'm not one of those people who enjoys a leisurely shopping experience. I try to get in and out of there about like Tony Stewart off Pit Road. So guess what I saw when I got into the lunchroom today?!

Yup, salami riddled with mustard seed. :puke: I spent the next ten minutes poking out the damned things, which are tiny enough to have been used as a Biblical metaphor for tininess, with a plastic knife. And you know what? I still have two sandwiches' worth of the stuff! Aaaaaaauuuuggggghhhh! :dunce:

[Breeze54]

32. I loaned my son $120.00 to get his car towed with

the 'understanding' that I needed it back right away!!

He didn't (couldn't) pay me back right away and so;
I couldn't pay my car insurance payment on time and
now I'm cancelled and I now have to pay the whole year
IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banghead: :banghead:

I'm still not sure if I'm pissed at him or at me!!
:dilemma:

[crim son]

33. I'm not sure I can narrow it down to just one "dumbest" thing.

Every day there is a fresh list. I think losing my glasses two weeks ago Friday was pretty dumb but waiting a week to try and replace them was dumber still because now I may not have glasses for my trip home to Oregon. Dumb, dumb dumb but I can do dumber and probably will by the time the week is over.

[LSK]

34. Give my phone # to a used car salesman

Hes called 6 times now in 2 days.

Get a fucking clue!

:grr:

[Initech]

36. Got drunk BEFORE going into Coachella on Saturday

I was with a group and we were drinking quite heavily before we went to the show, and I made the mistake of drinking one shot too many. So what happened was I apparently blacked out from the time we got there until about 6:15 when the Decemberists came on. Which is OK, they were the first band on Saturday I really wanted to see.

But what I didn't know was that while blacked out, I tripped on the uneven horse track they had us walk on, and I stumbled my way into the venue, and apparently I was being dragged in with one arm resting on my buddy's backpack. So the next thing I wake up and I was passed out underneath a ventilated tent somewhere in the festival. D'oh!!!!

[Breeze54]

39. Sounds like you had a great time!!

:P

:rofl: Been there, done that at Watkins Glen in 1973!
But I cut my bare foot in a discarded broken beer bottle and passed out from the painkillers
after pouring my red snow cone all over the volunteer medics while fainting from the pain!
They had just pulled the gauze off the cut! OUCH!

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"The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen and Cal Jams I & II"

By Robert Santelli

http://www.superseventies.com/watkinsglen.html

The largest crowd that ever gathered for a rock festival did so at Watkins Glen,
New York, in July of 1973. Outdrawing the previous high at Woodstock almost two
to one, more than 600,000 young people sardined themselves into Watkins Glen
Grand Prix Raceway for a single-day festival known as the Summer Jam. Featured
groups were the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and the Band.

Many historians claimed that the Watkins Glen event was the largest gathering
of people in the history of the United States.

Received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "Largest audience at a pop festival."

[Initech]

41. Ouch!

Coachella was amazing though. Rage was fucking awesome. As was the Decemberists, Willie Nelson, the Roots, the Arcade Fire, RHCP, and so on. I was determined not to make that same mistake again on Sunday, so I didn't.

[otherlander]

37. I drank some water that I found

in a ditch next to the railroad tracks.
It wasn't a puddle, though.
It was running like a stream.
Looked clear.
I didn't get gonorrhea! :woohoo:

[electron_blue]

40. good that you got it back!! I can help you feel better...

I recently replied to an email from a friend saying something really kind of stupid and dumb and realized after I clicked send that it was a "reply all" and went to a huge list-serve, including many friends of my ex. I was pretty mortified.