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Things you do occasionally that make you feel like a right idiot.

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  • #62
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    I have walked into my office with the back of my suit jacket tucked in to my trousers before:o At one stage you could see my underwear.


  • #63
    thenakedanddead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭thenakedanddead


    I recall being so absent-minded as to piss on the toilet lid once.


  • #64
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    I talk to the automated checkout at the supermarket, as in: ''Yes, I've swiped my stupid card and I AM taking my bloody items. Now get off my back and leave me alone!''


  • #65
    Kimono-Girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    when in a confrontation i freeze because i can never think of good responses quick enough,:o and i always feel like the biggest idiot afterward when loads of great responses come into my mind but the person i want to say them to is gone :mad:


  • #66
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,388 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Greyfox wrote: »
    Going into the womens jacks rather then the mens...done it a good bit lately!
    ha me too and i always have the same thought for a second...."wow they've really cleaned this place up...." the ladies are "always" sound about it though, probably once you look embarrassed.


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  • #67
    Pretty_Pistol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Pretty_Pistol


    Throwing cutlery into the bin after eating.

    Putting the milk in the cupboard and not realising what I've done until I'm trying to squeeze the box of cereal into the fridge.

    I've noticed in the last year or so when I'm thinking something through in my head I actually say something out loud on public transport. During the Summer I was on the DART and did it and the guy beside me turned and looked at me. :o I get so creeped out when other people do this and now I'm one of them. :(


  • #68
    hamstercrusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭hamstercrusher


    Giselle wrote: »
    I talk to the automated checkout at the supermarket, as in: ''Yes, I've swiped my stupid card and I AM taking my bloody items. Now get off my back and leave me alone!''

    I do this regularly,stupid bint! shut up! Im doing it! :mad: (walks away muttering about the rude machine)


  • #69
    SoulTrader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭SoulTrader


    JaxxYChicK wrote: »
    Also, on the phone in work a few times I've asked someone how they are today? They'll respond with "fine" and I'll follow up with a "not too bad" even though they haven't asked me how I am in return.
    This, and I also have the following conversations too often:

    Me: Hello, how are you?
    Client: Good thanks, how are you?
    Me: I'm alright thanks, how are you?

    I hate the awkward silence that follows then...


  • #70
    skinsseries3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭skinsseries3


    waking up after a night out desperate for water, stumbling downstairs very disorientated and grabbing the first thing that resembles water.... but is actually vodka.

    Cue projectile....


  • #71
    Legen_Dary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭Legen_Dary


    dclane wrote: »
    Trying to jam a 20 cent coin into the slot where a euro coin goes for my shopping trolley even though i know it doesn't work.


    This does work for me???


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  • #72
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Reading after hours when I have a ton of work to do. eg. right now...


  • #73
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Lots of glasses-related ones...
    poking myself in the eye when I forget I have my contacts in and I go to push my glass up on my nose...
    Only realising I have my glasses on in the shower when I notice I can read the shower gel bottle...


  • #74
    WacoKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭WacoKid


    Walk into McDonalds and order a Whopper Meal.

    Chuck Norris once did it and he got one :D


  • #75
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,388 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    SoulTrader wrote: »
    This, and I also have the following conversations too often:

    Me: Hello, how are you?
    Client: Good thanks, how are you?
    Me: I'm alright thanks, how are you?

    I hate the awkward silence that follows then...
    I always to that!!

    How are you?
    I'm grand and yourself?
    grand and yourself? (doh)


  • #76
    _feedback_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    "Oh thanks so much, enjoy your meal.."

    And I said:

    "Same too you.."

    :o

    Usually he just says something like, 'Have a good night' - that bastard confused me I tell ya :p

    Ha my Dad done something similar recently when I said "Happy Birthday" he responded with "the same to you"

    My most recent stupid thing to do: Was in M&S looking at shirts. Noticed a guy that I half know to see. Kept browsing for a few minutes, as did he. Half caught his eye and then heard "How's it goin". "Ah How'ya, how are things" I said, as I turned around.

    Just as I caught eye contact again, I see a phone up to his ear :o


  • #77
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    In the pool, I always think ive left my goggles down somewhere, theyre usually on my head.....

    I get into my own little world when im on the treadmill or bike and end up singing along to my ipod.little bursts now and then, you wouldnt think it was a song, just a weirdo shouting random things.


  • #78
    Ormus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,916 ✭✭✭Ormus


    ok so this wasn't me, but a friend of mine checked into the same hotel twice on the same night, when drunk

    only realised the following week when they refunded half the money on his credit card


  • #79
    Smokin_Aces
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭Smokin_Aces


    Giving stupid random answers in class when really I should be answering it properly, e.g yesterday we were discussing different genres in movies and the lecturer asked what is the purpose of Wall-E. I said, he saves the world and gets the girl. Awkward moment after that. I tend to do that, alot. Ugh.


  • #80
    ncmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭ncmc


    When I come into the kitchen in the morning, first thing I do is put porridge in the microwave for myself and dog food in the dogs bowl...

    .... cue porridge in the dog bowl and dog food in the microwave.

    Dog was delighted, me, not so much :(


  • #81
    dougal-maguire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭dougal-maguire


    putting things in the wrong place.teatime at work,i do something stupid every week.if its not putting milk in the coffee jar,its putting coffee in the sugar bowl.so awkward when there's 3 or 4 people after me waiting for coffee and ive just ruined the whole lot.

    people waving in your direction and you wave back only to realise it isnt you they're waving at.not so bad if it's a random person,but if it's someone you kinda know,makes it very awkward.

    the worst for me is when im drunk,i'll be talking to one of my friends,then when i go and talk to someone else ill call them by the same name as the last person i was talking to.


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  • #82
    liquoriceall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭liquoriceall


    I seem to have a major problem when Im at work and need to walk around a corner I tend to walk into it even though I know its there


  • #83
    YumDeiseMum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭YumDeiseMum


    J. Marston wrote: »
    Sometimes I think I lose the remote for the TV, I look around for it for about 2 or 3 seconds and then I realise its in my hand.
    I can't be the only one? Please say I'm not the only one? :(

    You're definitely not the only one!
    liah wrote: »
    The most common for me is getting up and walking to another room, absolutely determined to do something.. and then completely, totally forgetting what it was.

    So I go and sit back down til I figure it out again, figure it out, get up, walk there.. and forget again.

    Same here although with me its the stairs, by the time i get to the top I've forgotten, so walk back down to try and remember. I'm spending an awful lot of time up and down that stairs lately.

    Opening a sweet and throwing the sweet in the bin instead of the wrapper, I'm forever doing this!


  • #84
    rednik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,264 ✭✭✭rednik


    Switching on liveline.


  • #85
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,388 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I was changing a cd-rom drive on a new server in work, i opened the lid and observed that the cd rom unit was under the mother-board. I got my tools and removed the screws and realised i had to go deep!!!

    anyway the phone rang and i turned my back, and one of the lads walked up and pressed a button on the side of the server and the cd unit popped out, he had a quick look at it, and then put it back and walked off......

    i just said nothing had a look around to see if anyone saw that, and replaced it the proper way!!
    doh


  • #86
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    When you say 'Hi' to someone and they don't see you and you feel like an @ss hole


  • #87
    flamboosh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭flamboosh


    I'm a big fan of the classic "paying-for-cinema-tickets-then-taking-my-change-and-walking-off-without-them", myself. Which is always made so much worse when there's a massive queue of laughing people behind me. :pac:

    Also, I am forever almost pouring orange juice into my cereal in the morning, usually manage to stop myself with a split second to spare, though. :p


  • #88
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    When you're texting in bed and the phone falls on your face and you're all akhfilashdf...what was that?!


  • #89
    MazG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭MazG


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    ha me too and i always have the same thought for a second...."wow they've really cleaned this place up...." the ladies are "always" sound about it though, probably once you look embarrassed.


    I've done the opposite of this. I was in an airport once and rushed into the toilets and it was only after I came out of a cubicle that I noticed that there were urinals across the way! What's worse, my first thought wasn't 'Silly me, I've come into the gents bathroom by mistake', it was 'bloody hell, since when have they started putting urinals in the ladies?!'

    Not my finest moment :o


  • #90
    MazG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭MazG


    crayolastereo wrote: »
    When you're texting in bed and the phone falls on your face and you're all akhfilashdf...what was that?!

    We've all been there...


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  • #91
    Lab_Mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Lab_Mouse


    try and sell stuff on adverts.ie...more hassle than its worth


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