Ever done anything really stupid?

Bummer1234 · 14-10-2015 09:15PM

bottlebrush wrote: »

Had a friend over visiting and we were having a great chat. I needed to go get a glass of water from the kitchen and what did I do only pick up the tv remote control, pointed it at her and pressed 'pause'!
I am so used to doing that with the tv.
Don't think she noticed.!

Did it pause??:p

MilesMorales1 · 14-10-2015 09:18PM

One time I was ordering from dominoes, put in my address into the automatic address selector, didn't pay it much attention, ordered, an hour later I'm sitting there starving, the delivery chap calls me to say he can't find the house, I'm like what the ****, turns out I put in an address in goddamn Mayo instead of dublin and this delivery chap had been looking for me for like half an hour.

bottlebrush · 14-10-2015 09:19PM

Bummer1234 wrote: »

Did it pause??:p

No. And she was in the middle of telling a great yarn and I missed some of it:P:P

FortySeven · 14-10-2015 09:21PM

Was flying down a hill on my bike when I got a puncture in my front tyre. It had been a long climb up the hill and I was looking forward to the other side. Was so annoyed I stood up and kicked the front wheel. Foot went through spokes, jammed in forks and I summersaulted with the bike. Broke my toe, scraped my face badly and had to walk miles home.

djflawless · 14-10-2015 09:24PM

Oh numerous stupid things! 1 from work. Forgot my protective gloves were full of holes..stuck my arms, up to my elbows, in a vat of 85 celsius water with a 60% concentration of caustic soda...nice set of scaley blistered hands for 2 weeks after it

guylikeme · 14-10-2015 09:25PM

Used a screwdriver as a chisel in woodwork. In fairness the joint was thinner than any of the chisels I had at my disposal

ChippingSodbury · 14-10-2015 09:28PM

con___manx1 wrote: »

I once rang a takeaway to make an order for collection. There are two takeaways with similar names in the area. I obviously went into the wrong one ; )

I did something similar: there are two chinese rest. in Swords, one at each end of the main street. I went into (the other) one to pick up my order only for there to be nothing there. Quick as a flash, the girl rang the other chinese and told me my order was down there!

Felt like some dufus!!!

ArnoldJRimmer · 14-10-2015 09:29PM

Was on my way in to a restaurant for a job interview and managed to get both myself and the interviewer stuck in the revolving door on the way in. My bag was the culprit, but it took an abnormally long amount of time to free both of us. Needless to say, my Frank Spencer impression meant that I did not get the job

Yester · 14-10-2015 09:31PM

I gave my phone number on some online deal to win a free holiday. They have rang me loads of times to say I have won a holiday in Florida and all they need is my credit card details to arrange car rental. Funny thing is, no matter how many times I give them my details I never get the holiday. I still get charged for the car rental though.

Birneybau · 14-10-2015 09:33PM

No, never.

Loanshark Blues · 14-10-2015 09:45PM

con___manx1 wrote: »

I once rang a takeaway to make an order for collection. There are two takeaways with similar names in the area. I obviously went into the wrong one ; )

I did the same thing with the dentist once

Notavirus.exe · 14-10-2015 09:47PM

It was a dry day and I decided to go into my field and light some grass on fire to see if it would burn. It ****ing did.

I had to extinguish it when it got out of hand and turned a patch of grass into what looked like a big black crop circle.

fermanagh_man · 14-10-2015 09:49PM

Broke a great girls heart
Was young and stupid
But always regretted it

Whitewinged · 14-10-2015 09:51PM

Not my stupid thing but my mam used to make both my brother (who was about 18 at the time) and my dads lunch for work.

She went through a phase of putting these eh love notes wrapped up with my dads lunch.

She mixed up the lunches and gave my brother the one with the note. He was mortified. Even though i wound him up about it, he was kind enough to spare me the details contained in the note.

Duff · 14-10-2015 09:54PM

Strapped two fireworks to my skateboard to propel myself down the street when I was 11. Two grazed knees and a burst eardrum later I learned I'd never work for NASA. The Skateboard was last seen over Roswell, New Mexico.

Severard · 14-10-2015 09:55PM

Woke up in my bed late at night after a heavy drinking session a few hours previous to what I taught at first was someone pushing me but after a while I came to and realized I was being punched fairly hard. When I finally managed to adjust my sight I saw that it was my brother repeatedly hitting me.

In my confused state I had no idea what was going on, I asked him why was he doing it and he came back a minute later and threw the duvet from his bed at me and said that the next time I want to take a piss I should do it in the toilet instead of on him when he is sleeping.

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On another occasion, it was Christmas day and I was ten years old, the family had all gone to bed except myself. I seen my parents and other older relatives drinking brandy and other drinks earlier in the evening and I taught I'd have a taste of the brandy to see what all the fuss was about.

I drank it raw and didn't like the taste of it but I said I'd try it again as I might get use to it. I kept on drinking it in the hope that the bad taste would go away and before I knew it I had drank quite a bit out of it. When I had stopped there was only about 20% left, while before I had started it was well over three quarters full.

I went to bed and got up the next morning to an unexpected scene. The back door was left open all night, most of the downstairs windows were open, the Christmas tree was on the floor with a hole in it, the turkey and ham that was left over was on the counter with teeth marks in each of the meat, there was sick over most parts of the kitchen and the television was still on with the channel on BabeStation.

The hole in the tree most likely came from me sticking my head in it because there was bits of tree stuck in my hair and on my pillow. Best of all I was not the first one to be blamed for all the mess.

Great Christmas indeed.

Notavirus.exe · 14-10-2015 10:07PM

Well I've just realised why I had that pain in my stomach all day.

There's vomit in my bathroom and I won't be cleaning it. :mad:

sonyvision · 14-10-2015 10:08PM

So living in Dublin most would cycle to work.

Woke up a few months back during the summer (thank god) weather was great, ones again late for work.

Got my shirt, shoes, pants, packed in the back pretty tired got my cycling gear on. Outside the door (there is a primary school) half way to work total of 4k through busy traffic only to realise it was colder then normal. Look down here I am with no shorts, just a pair of boxers.. loose 1s at that..

Must have been the fastest cycle to work I have ever done. Didnt know what was going through my head totally forgot about the pants in my bag :O

Now its always the phone, keys, wallet pants check leaving the house

petrolcan · 14-10-2015 10:54PM

Pac1Man wrote: »

You seem to be a petrol themed person in general.

Homemade flaming arrows don't work too well.

Another lesson I learned is that if you are throwing a molitov cocktail, make sure the rag is stuffed in really tight before launch.

Datallus · 14-10-2015 11:26PM

petrolcan wrote: »

stuffed in really tight before launch.

Giggidy.

Andrewf20 · 15-10-2015 02:57AM

Gael23 wrote: »

This morning I went to college with two different shoes on me.
Anyone else ever done anything else ridiculously stupid?

Did the same myself a few weeks back going into work. That's what I got for dressing in the dark.

NachoBusiness · 15-10-2015 03:23AM

Went to school in my school uniform on a non-uniform day once.
Everyone was so understanding as you can imagine.

Most recently I booked a film online in Cineworld and went down to see it, bag full of munchies and when I got to the screen another film was on. Turns out I was a whole week early.

Came home one day and as soon as I walked into my road, I noticed my car was stolen. Sick to my stomach and then I remembered, I had driven into town and got the Luas home.

I may need to change my name to Frank Spencer.

Ruu · 15-10-2015 03:29AM

One school tour, the teachers said you have to bring a packed lunch with you and no crisps, sweets were allowed. I believed them.

ardinn · 15-10-2015 03:41AM

Myself and a mate missed a flight home from the canaries by 3 days - In our defence the hotel should have kicked us out after the first night but nope - at least we got a free 3 nights.

I went to work with 2 odd shoes.

I have a habbit of ending up in bed with all sorts of problems - I once tried to take home a junkie off o'connell street coz I didnt pull only to be miraculously found by a coworker and dragged into a car!

I told a priest in confession when I was about 12 I mastrubated, the door was slightly open and 30 odd people including my granny heard me.

fuzzypickle · 15-10-2015 05:10AM

Years ago waiting near a bus stop in icy weather. There was a little brick slope thing nearby that I tried to step up on so I could sit at the top.
My feckin' hands were in my pockets. I slipped and went boing off the ground, face first.

There was a guy nearby who saw the whole thing and couldn't hold it together.

Luckily I wasn't injured though. I still cringe when I think about it.

Liam McPoyle · 15-10-2015 07:54AM

A guy I know (no, really) get so drunk one night when he was a fresher that he went home and fell asleep with his leg pressed against the radiator in his room.

The radiator was on and was rather hot.

He woke up god knows how many hours later with a 4 to 5 inch burn on his thigh that was so severe that it got a horrendous infection in it and he required multiple skin grafts afterwards.

AdamB · 15-10-2015 08:57AM

Yes, lots! These 2 come to mind.

In 1992 I went to my first teenage disco. The ticket said spot prizes for best fancy dress so I put a good bit of effort into making my costume. My mum dropped me at the door and in I went in my full Frankenstein get up with my dad's big steel toe capped boots, rubber mask and all.
Nobody had bothered to tell me that fancy dress wasn't cool in 1992 and I stood in the doorway in shock looking at all my friends in their x-works and "cool" clothes. I didn't stick around to collect my spot prize and I remember a long wait in the phone box across the road waiting to get collected.

Years later, not long into my first real job, I woke up very late one Friday morning and very hungover. After a mad panic and dash I arrived at work an hour late. I met my boss in the office and as I was lying to him about having car trouble I removed my jacket to reveal to the whole office staff that I'd forgotten to put anything on my top half.

razorblunt · 15-10-2015 09:26AM

Back in Primary school one lad was notorious for being late, it got to the stage the teachers would let him away with being 10 minutes lad as he was genuine enough but just not a morning person. One morning he was an hour late and came bursting in the door, made his apologies and sat down, the guy next to him piped up with "why are you wearing 2 different shoes"? Whole class laughs, teacher laughs but eventually the teacher rang home for him to ask for the proper pair.
His Mam arrives down quick as the wind and hands over the pair, only for one of the lads up the front to say, "they're two different shoes entirely". His Mum refused to go back again and said they'll do. At least he had a left and a right.

One thing I find I used to do regularly is if I was reading a paper and would get down the end of the column, I used to try and scroll up to get the bottom paragraph into focus.

MilesMorales1 · 15-10-2015 09:27AM

Ruu wrote: »

One school tour, the teachers said you have to bring a packed lunch with you and no crisps, sweets were allowed. I believed them.

I remember those feels, along with the teacher saying 'nobody is to bring any spending money'

What a fool I must have looked, the only child to not have £2 to get a plate of chips

aaronjumper · 15-10-2015 09:43AM

I got drunk one night and upon needing the bathroom somehow confused the bathroom door with the front door to the flat.
It clicked with me around the same time the door clicked closed behind me leaving me trapped in the hallway in my underwear.

Flatmate was too drunk to hear me banging on the door.
A neighbour came barging down to see what the racket was but all anger left his face when he saw me standing there in my jocks.
He let me use his phone to ring my flatmate.

"Let me in!"
"Who's this?"
"'Aaron, open the door!"

I thanked the neighbour and finally got back in to use the bathroom. It was bloody cold that night too.

That one still gets me, most of my friends have forgotten about it now thankfully.

Ever done anything really stupid?

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