Re: WHAT'S THE MOST STUPID THING YOU'VE EVER DONE?

hopi · ‎03-09-2010

Get rid of my sons origianl Star Wars toys.

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

Actually, it's all a learning process along the way.

If there's no stupid questions, then how can there be stupid things we've done?

Blk&GoldFan · ‎11-08-2011

Where to begin?? So many stupid things and this post brought many to the forefront of my old brain. Decided to share this one because it SCREAMS stupid. While doing an extensive clearing out of kitchen cabinets, I was tossing out that last bit of cereal, stale crackers, old spices, etc etc, all going into my kitchen sink with the disposal running....worked at a hectic pace....gettin' this project done....last few potato chips, pretzels, old rice....and then I heard it..........no sound...disposal stopped. YEP....the raw rice puffed up in the plumbing pipes with the water running and blocked eveything. Nothing I tried to fix it worked. Tough confession about the stupid thing I had done when DH got home. He worked on all the undersink pipes, nothing there. Used drain cleaners, snakes and all we could...Nothing moved. Ended up cutting the pipes in the basement, digging out the rice with spoons to get it out, and then had to repair the pipes. Naturally my DH shared his repair ordeal with all his co-workers and golf buddies while we were trying to resolve this issue. Talk about embarassed and feeling stupid. His co-workers even sent a letter to the house from the "plumbers' union" saying they were filing charges for him performing plumbing duties while not an authorized plumber!! Still getting tortured after several years. Probably should have posted this in the Kitchen forum to prevent anyone else doing this most stupid thing.

2blonde · ‎03-10-2010

@Blk&GoldFan OMG, now that IS a good one! Of course, after all the hoopla you realized you could have just thrown the dry rice (and the pretzels, chips, etc) into the trash with no problems.

You make me think of my next door neighbors. I live in a condo, and their kitchen sink butts up to my downstairs bathroom and living room wall. I can hear their disposal running for long periods of time morning, noon and night every day. I can't help but wonder what the heck is going in there!

Laura loves cats!

viva923 · ‎03-12-2010

there are way to many to list, but some vague thoughts would be

the time I got drunk with some of my fellow student nurses many years ago

the time I used nair on my eyebrows, guess what I lost all my eyebrows and they never grew back. that happened some 50 years ago.

Blk&GoldFan · ‎11-08-2011

@2blonde

Wondering what those neighbors are doing with the disposal?????

Here's a thought....When I was nagging DH about something I'd asked him to do AGAIN, he turned on the kitchen disposal and told me "someday this will be the last sound you'll ever hear". We both collapsed laughing and he completed the "Honey Do List" the next day! BTW, we are getting close to 50 years together.

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

@GCR18 wrote:
As usual, I was running late this morning. I keep my shoes in the garage. I slipped them on and off to work I went. I get to work and get out of the car, I notice I have on two different color shoes. They are the same style, but one was black and the other navy. I work in a large building with a couple hundred people. Luckily, I had work to do that kept me at my desk all day. No idea if anyone noticed, but no one said a word.

@GCR18

I did the same thing with my shoes.

I think my stupidest was being upset that I had lost my diamond solitaire engagement ring. I looked everywhere and was pretty hysterical for hours. Then I looked down and saw it in my right hand ring finger. I swear I don't remember putting it on the wrong hand.

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

Years ago, I encountered an empty plastic bag on the highway and drove over it. That bag adhered to the catalytic converter and melted. The smell of melting plastic never went away in that car.

IlliniGirl88 · ‎06-20-2010

My husband and our two kids all had a bad stomach virus. I was taking care of everyone and sanitizing EVERYTHING they touched. (I'm not good dealing with a stomach virus). After a bout of them all getting sick about the same time, I was running back and forth between bedrooms, cleaning and sanitizing and about ready to lose my mind. I was determined that I was going to get myself ready for the day like always and was "fixing" my hair. I began spraying my hair, and noticed the unmistakable smell of Lysol. Yep, I was spraying my hair with Lysol! I never did get that stomach virus though!

noodleann · ‎06-10-2015

@qualitygal wrote:
Actually, it's all a learning process along the way.
If there's no stupid questions, then how can there be stupid things we've done?

There are plenty of stupid questions. In fact, most questions are stupid. Just read these forums if you want proof.

"There are no stupid questions" is one of the Big Lies, usually uttered by profs on the first day of class, who then spend the rest of the semester pointing out the stupidity of 99% of what they're asked.

Many of us have done stupid things. Just read this thread for proof. Actually, just read 99% of the threads here for proof. But we're all in it together, and that's really the point. So we get to ask stupid things and do stupid things, and it's okay. Because I said so.

FYI, there is no correlation between stupid questions and stupid acts, just as there is no comma between "Let me be the kind of person" and "my dog thinks I am."