Stupidity, how has it affected you?

Guill

I woke last night when the baby started to cry. Instead of turning on the light to go to her i decided to feel my was through the room (GF was asleep). As i shifted through the dark i stepped on the GFs hairdryer setting it off, in my panic not to wake the GF i quickly bent over to switch it off and in the process i gave the corner of a chest of drawers a nice headbutt, i woke sprawled on the floor (in nothing only boxers), Gf standing over me baby in hand wondering WTF i was making all the noise for, next time i'll turn on the ****in light.....

Blinding headache all day and a nice lump to show for my consideration, GF cant stop laughin and telling everyone.

So anyways, what is the stupidest thing you've done or seen someone do lately?


(In before 'this thread'!!)

Topper Harley

Guill wrote: »

in my panic not to wake the GF ... i gave the corner of a chest of drawers a nice headbutt.

GF cant stop laughin and telling everyone.

That's nice of her but be sure you use this to your advantage, but in a good natured way. Regularly joke of how you injured yourself while trying look after both her and the baby, this will always remind her of how nice you are, which I'm sure you are.

As for doing something stupid myself, I've been very careful for quite a while so nothing to report really. But I'm sure I'll have something soon enough after making that statement.

stevejr

Coming out of the garage the other day with the paper in hand reading...distracted...pressed the beeper to unlock the car doors and got into the back seat...thought someone had knicked my steering wheel or something.

Tesco Massacre

Not sure if you could classify this as stupid, but it was fairly clumsy (and hilarious):

I was getting the 66 bus yesterday evening and some old guy (60ish) got up to get off the bus. I think his trouser button must have snapped off because his trousers just hit the floor giving everyone on the lower deck a good look at grubby looking undies. He was obviously flustered by the whole thing and he didn't have the presence of mind to just put the bags on the floor to pull up his trousers. Instead, he looked around for about 10 seconds for an empty seat to place his bags. It was excruciating to watch. Pretty funny, though.

Always wear a belt!

FatherLen

i was reaching to turn off the alarm on my bedside locker one morning. as i leaned over, the arm i was using to prop myself up slipped off the bed causing me to smash my face into said bedside locker. always a good way to start a day

MagicMarker

I accidentally the whole thing.

stevejr

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

Not sure if you could classify this as stupid, but it was fairly clumsy (and hilarious):

I was getting the 66 bus yesterday evening and some old guy (60ish) got up to get off the bus. I think his trouser button must have snapped off because his trousers just hit the floor giving everyone on the lower deck a good look at grubby looking undies. He was obviously flustered by the whole thing and he didn't have the presence of mind to just put the bags on the floor to pull up his trousers. Instead, he looked around for about 10 seconds for an empty seat to place his bags. It was excruciating to watch. Pretty funny, though.

Always wear a belt!

Always wear clean underwear!

tigger123

listening to my mate when he told me about AH, f*ckin addicted to this little cabbage patch of internet. :rolleyes:

m@cc@

I don't know if it can be termed stupidity but in the past I've said thankyou to an ATM and apologised for kicking a chair that nobody was sitting on.

stovelid

Walked into a fountain in a shopping centre while sending a text. I don't think anybody spotted me, thankfully.

stevejr

stovelid wrote: »

Walked into a fountain in a shopping centre while sending a text. I don't think anybody spotted me, thankfully.

Lol :pac: Don't worry your secrets safe on the interweb...

TeddyTedson

I used to cross dress and present tele bingo and then one day i forgot to do it.

Devil08

stevejr wrote: »

Coming out of the garage the other day with the paper in hand reading...distracted...pressed the beeper to unlock the car doors and got into the back seat...thought someone had knicked my steering wheel or something.

Ive a similar one to this. Walked over to my car in the shopping centre car park, put all my shopping down beside the boot, pressed the button to open the central locking, tried to open the boot. Wouldnt open. Pulled harder on the boot. Still wouldnt open. Soon realised it wasnt actually my car and that an identical car had parked a couple of spaces away from mine. Quickly picked up my bags, rushed to my actual car, and made sure no one was looking at me making a fool of myself.

Devil08

stovelid wrote: »

Walked into a fountain in a shopping centre while sending a text. I don't think anybody spotted me, thankfully.

Im sure they noticed you were soaked though...;)

Mind44

I was part of a group of people who were being introduced to another group of people. I was hungover. In my stupidity I leant over and shook hands with someone I have known for many years and said "pleased to meet you". He was with MY group. Yeah I felt like a ****in eejit and I blushed for Ireland.

orourkeda

Guill wrote: »

I woke last night when the baby started to cry. Instead of turning on the light to go to her i decided to feel my was through the room (GF was asleep). As i shifted through the dark i stepped on the GFs hairdryer setting it off, in my panic not to wake the GF i quickly bent over to switch it off and in the process i gave the corner of a chest of drawers a nice headbutt, i woke sprawled on the floor (in nothing only boxers), Gf standing over me baby in hand wondering WTF i was making all the noise for, next time i'll turn on the ****in light.....

Blinding headache all day and a nice lump to show for my consideration, GF cant stop laughin and telling everyone.

So anyways, what is the stupidest thing you've done or seen someone do lately?


(In before 'this thread'!!)

Sex before marriage. You deserve it

Devil08

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I used to cross dress and present tele bingo and then one day i forgot to do it.

Forgot to cross dress or do the bingo??

stevejr

Has anyone ever approached someone on the street thinking it was a friend/relative/acquantance/colleague and it turned out to be a complete stranger? I've done this at least twice...very embarrassing:eek:

jos28

Can't claim this one myself but a close friend (bit scatty) put her college assignments in the freezer and went to college with a bag of chicken fillets.

Devil08

jos28 wrote: »

Can't claim this one myself but a close friend (bit scatty) put her college assignments in the freezer and went to college with a bag of chicken fillets.

Hope they were Grade A

Guill

orourkeda wrote: »

Sex before marriage. You deserve it

The lord obviously works in mysterious ways..

Einhard

It means I'm incapable of getting a job.

jackie1974

Devil08 wrote: »

Ive a similar one to this. Walked over to my car in the shopping centre car park, put all my shopping down beside the boot, pressed the button to open the central locking, tried to open the boot. Wouldnt open. Pulled harder on the boot. Still wouldnt open. Soon realised it wasnt actually my car and that an identical car had parked a couple of spaces away from mine. Quickly picked up my bags, rushed to my actual car, and made sure no one was looking at me making a fool of myself.

I've done this only my car was a battered 97 opel astra parked right next to the lovely 06 BMW I was trying to get into. My sister was sitting in the passenger seat of the Astra laughing her head off at me making a tit of myself.

stevejr

Einhard wrote: »

It means I'm incapable of getting a job.

Sure apply to Fianna Fail..they're hiring.

Einhard

stevejr wrote: »

Sure apply to Fianna Fail..they're hiring.

I'm not that stupid!:eek:

BickNarry

Last night in work I was helping a girl clean the bar so we could get out quicker. I kept showing her small things to make it easier/less messy.

She said to me ''You're really smart.........where are you from?''

Now,i'm only new and there was a few people cleaning round us now. I however forgot I was not in the presence of friends and thought it was a sarcastic comment as I wasn't paaying attention. Just as I was replying I realised I didn't know her...so out came a stupid dead pan reply-

''EEh......I'm from Mars.....where all the smart people are from".

Everyone turns round.Awkward silence.

''.............oh right,cause I was gonna say I really like your accent.....''

I'm retarded.

jubella

Mind44 wrote: »

I was part of a group of people who were being introduced to another group of people. I was hungover. In my stupidity I leant over and shook hands with someone I have known for many years and said "pleased to meet you". He was with MY group. Yeah I felt like a ****in eejit and I blushed for Ireland.

Several times when I've been introduced to someone new, they'd say "Hi I'm XXX" ... Instead of replying with "Hi, I'm Jubella", I'd say "Hi, I'm XXX" repeating THEIR name! I always get a few strange looks after that

Einhard

This is actually very terrible:

I worked in a toy shop years ago, and one Christmas I sold a gameboy or some such device to a woman as a santa present for her kid. Only thing was, I sold her the display box, and forgot to put the gameboy inside it. So, Christmas morn, the kid runs downstairs full of expectation and joy, tears open his present only to find it empty! And I saunter into work Stephens' Day to find a long, rather angry, expletive filled fax from the irate mother!! I still feel bad about it, but can;t help giggling whenever I remember it. Poor kid is probably scarred for life. I've probably played a decisive role in the development of Ireland's next serial killer!

garv123

BickNarry wrote: »

Last night in work I was helping a girl clean the bar so we could get out quicker. I kept showing her small things to make it easier/less messy.

She said to me ''You're really smart.........where are you from?''

Now,i'm only new and there was a few people cleaning round us now. I however forgot I was not in the presence of friends and thought it was a sarcastic comment as I wasn't paaying attention. Just as I was replying I realised I didn't know her...so out came a stupid dead pan reply-

''EEh......I'm from Mars.....where all the smart people are from".

Everyone turns round.Awkward silence.

''.............oh right,cause I was gonna say I really like your accent.....''

I'm retarded.

so I take it you didn't get the ride?

stevejr

jubella wrote: »

Several times when I've been introduced to someone new, they'd say "Hi I'm XXX" ... Instead of replying with "Hi, I'm Jubella", I'd say "Hi, I'm XXX" repeating THEIR name! I always get a few strange looks after that

Just blame it on the echo;)

Einhard

BickNarry wrote: »

I kept showing her small things to make it easier/less messy.

Ye whipped it out just like that?!:eek:

Durt bird.

BickNarry

garv123 wrote: »

so I take it you didn't get the ride?

Define ride.....

Aoifey!

I live in what is sort of the attic room of an apartment block (so there's some roof below the window). The other day I was alone in the apartment and I walked over to the window. Suddenly something popped up at the window and I screamed and started hyper ventilated...before realising it was a pigeon that had been sitting on the roof.

Azureus

I was waiting on a lift from a mate outside a shopping centre awhile ago, someone pulled up and i blindly hopped into the car and started chatting away... til I looked up and realised it wasnt my mate. It was a 40-something year old mother with a kid in the back looking at me as if I was stark raving mad! Felt a wee bit silly after that one..

Birdnuts

Telling a good lookin Hippy bird who was chatting me up a few weeks ago that "I couldn't afford one" when she asked me "Do you like children??":rolleyes:

Guill

When i was young, probably around 8 or 9 i was climbing the large tree out the back of the house, a branch i was using broke and i fell. I landed on the ground on my back. I lept up and ran into the house screaming my 'back is broken, my back is broken!'. My family still laugh at me for it. I am getting married in three months and i know for a fact that the best man will tell it.

james098

stevejr wrote: »

Coming out of the garage the other day with the paper in hand reading...distracted...pressed the beeper to unlock the car doors and got into the back seat...thought someone had knicked my steering wheel or something.[/Q
got into passenger seat many times even though it was me driving:p

Forest Master

Devil08 wrote: »

stovelid wrote: »

Walked into a fountain in a shopping centre while sending a text. I don't think anybody spotted me, thankfully.

Im sure they noticed you were soaked though...;)

^^ Lives under a rock.

gravityisalie

Einhard wrote: »

This is actually very terrible:

I worked in a toy shop years ago, and one Christmas I sold a gameboy or some such device to a woman as a santa present for her kid. Only thing was, I sold her the display box, and forgot to put the gameboy inside it. So, Christmas morn, the kid runs downstairs full of expectation and joy, tears open his present only to find it empty! And I saunter into work Stephens' Day to find a long, rather angry, expletive filled fax from the irate mother!! I still feel bad about it, but can;t help giggling whenever I remember it. Poor kid is probably scarred for life. I've probably played a decisive role in the development of Ireland's next serial killer!

:eek: i did the exact same thing a few of times when i first started working in a toystore , noone told me the boxes were empty so as far as i'm concerned it wasn't my fault . By the time i copped it , it was too late , there was no way to track down the customers so i kept quiet and quit on christmas eve

ejmaztec

Devil08 wrote: »

Im sure they noticed you were soaked though...;)

They probably thought he was Lee Evans.

jackiebaron

m@cc@ wrote: »

I don't know if it can be termed stupidity but in the past I've said thankyou to an ATM and apologised for kicking a chair that nobody was sitting on.

I always seem to reply "You too!" when the girl at the check in desk says to me "Enjoy your flight". Feel like a tool afterwards.

OutlawPete

1Went to see Ardal O'Hanlon last night and when he was introduced (forgetting I was holding a pint) I clapped it - tsunami of Guinness all over me, bright.

blaze1

stovelid wrote: »

Walked into a fountain in a shopping centre while sending a text. I don't think anybody spotted me, thankfully.

get your lawyer to go public and sue, because although we couldnt see you.....

EVERYONE knows its you :eek:

Guill

OutlawPete wrote: »

1Went to see Ardal O'Hanlon last night and when he was introduced (forgetting I was holding a pint) I clapped it - tsunami of Guinness all over me, bright.

Top class stupidity!

Hooked

Guill wrote: »

Top glass stupidity!

Fixed that for ya!

So, I'm the only one guilty of raising my hand in school when answering a question and yell 'mum! instead of 'miss'! The fluhucking shame of it!

Guill

Mammy, Mammy, i mean Miss, Miss!
The shame....

xoxyx

I've left home with the tv remote control in my hand instead of my laptop. Mistaking a remote for a phone is one thing, but a laptop? It slowly dawned on me later that day when I remembered that my laptop bag had been way too light on the race to work.

Also ran all the way downstairs one morning and then had to run back up because I'd forgotten to put on my shoes.

I never get up on time. Mornings are stressful for me...

rusty_racer94

Once, It was snowing so much that I couldn't get out of the house.
The door was like stuck. So, I got a strange idea...
I opened the window and jumped out in the snow.
It was from 2nd floor but it didn't hurt
That was like a rush feeling, and I had to like plough the door so I could get in again.
But, I didn't take with me any "digging tools" so I couldn't get inside...
At least a neighbor came helped me

Merrick

Azureus wrote: »

I was waiting on a lift from a mate outside a shopping centre awhile ago, someone pulled up and i blindly hopped into the car and started chatting away... til I looked up and realised it wasnt my mate. It was a 40-something year old mother with a kid in the back looking at me as if I was stark raving mad! Felt a wee bit silly after that one..

I've done this.
I was waiting for a lift at a Luas stop and accidentally got into a car with a stranger. We shared a moment of complete and utter shock before the apologies started. I've never jumped out of a car so quickly in my life.

TanG411

I turned a corner and nearly bumped into a dog. While walking around him, I apologised by saying 'sorry'.

rusty_racer94

Merrick wrote: »

I've done this.
I was waiting for a lift at a Luas stop and accidentally got into a car with a stranger. We shared a moment of complete and utter shock before the apologies started. I've never jumped out of a car so quickly in my life.

Similar thing happened to me back in 2007.
My dad was driving and I was in the passenger seat, we were in a parking along the road. there was an exact same car as our's ahead of us...a guy came running and thinking it was his car, he opened the door and he literally sat on my lap!!!!
He was so shocked that he wouldn't stop begging for pardon.