What is the STUPIDEST thing you've ever done in every day life?

[redsoxliberal]

I'll go first:

I was on vacation at a beach house on the mediterranian... and we had this gas stove that you needed to light a match for it to light (the gas was already there, however.) So my sisters friend makes some noodles, and then asks what to do with the stove, since both of ours was electric. I was, at the time, 15 years old... and not as idiotic as this story is about to make me sound...

I say... well why don't we just blow it out? She says okay... so I blow it out.

8 hours later, my mother wakes up to the smell of gas... traces it to the stove, and turns it off. Then opens all the windows and gets everyone to fan the windows and the stove.

My uncle is a smoker, and only 1 or 2 hours later lit up (he was sleeping next door) in our communal balcony.

Geez, that was close.

[skygazer]

1. That's a tough one to narrow down

So many stupid things, so little time.... Hitchhiking alone across the country at the age of 17 is right up there, though it turned out fine. All my stupid endeavors have turned out fine which is why I'm still here to think up still more stupid endeavors.

[DS1]

2. The stupidest thing I've ever done in public, that I can

talk about here, is when I was riding on one of those carnival rides, where you get flung around in all sorts of directions with a partner, in front of the rest of the carnival-going crowd. I was with my brother.

The ride came to a halt. I didn't know it, but this was part of the design, to let people off and others on. So I started to get out, then I realized that we were in the middle of the ride. I didn't get back in my chair. Instead, in panic mode, and full of adrenaline, I yanked my brother out of HIS chair and sprinted towards the gate with him in my arms.

It was one of those 'Holy fucking shit' moments where your perception of strength is overrided by will. It was the fastest I've ever ran, with my little brother in my arms.

[jane_pippin]

3. Lit a cig off the stove once and singed my bangs.

Worse: I did it at a party, so I also had the joy of about 10 other people seeing me do it.

[DS1]

4. nice avatar

I miss that man, dearly.

In fact, you could fast forward his commentary ten years and Bill would STILL be cutting edge.

[jane_pippin]

7. Thanks. I'm reading his book now and I'm SO tempted to post some quotes

of his about the Gulf War. The whole thing applies today, including of course, the names involved.

Media, corporatism, cronyism--he was all over it.

[lpbk2713]

5. You expect me to talk about it on the internets!?!?

It's one thing to do something ridiculously stupid but it's a whole nother thing to tell the whole world about it.


I'll have to pass on this one. It would take me a while to sort thru em all and arrive at a final decision anyway.

[redsoxliberal]

6. oh come on... you've all got better than that, surely!

[zigster]

8. I've done THOUSANDS of stupid things

But this one ranks as the MOST stupidest thing I've ever done.

When I was around ten or eleven years old. I had this so called friend (same age as me) who lived in an apartment building half way across the city from me. In order to visit him at his place, I had to take a bus (about a half hour ride). Which I did practically once a week. (It was an incredible rarity for him to take the trip to my apartment)

One day during one of my many visits this friend comes up with the "brilliant" idea that instead of me going home, I should hang out all night in the hallways of his apartment building. Not exactly the hallways, but on the flight of stairs that lead to the roof. That way I'd be out of sight of the other building tennants.

Out of peer pressure STUPID ME agreed to this arrangement. We called up my house, asked my mother if it was alright for me to spend the night there (not telling her that I was going to be spending the night on the stairwell and not in my friends apartment). My Mother said it was ok. We didnt tell my friends mother ANYTHING. Far as she knew, I went home that night.

The apartment building was six floors. My friend lived on the fifth floor, and the flight of stairs leading to the roof was naturally after the sixth floor of apartments.

My friend gave me only a few magazines and catalogs to read up there through the night, to keep myself occupied. He also warned me to keep quiet so that the tennanats on the sixth floor wouldnt know I was there and not to touch the door at the top of the stairs that lead to the roof because it had an alarm on it.

So, he left me there on the flight of stairs and went into his apartment. And I stayed up there, close to the door to the roof. Whenever I heard one of the sixth floor tennants enter or leave their apartments, I froze in place and was quiet as a church mouse.

The magazines my friend provided for me to read, didnt last me very long, and I grew bored very quickly. As my friend slept soundly in his bed throughout the night, I stayed up all night sitting on that stupid staircase, bored out of my skull, realizing what an idiot I was in agreeing to this. I had no watch on me, so I had no idea what time it was. I tried to keep myself occupied by talking to myself (mostly telling myself what an idiot I was), thinking about my favorite tv shows and movies just to keep my mind occupied as the hours SLOWLY dragged on.

Occasionally I tried to go to sleep in order to make the night go by faster. I tried sleeping sitting up, but that didnt work, so I tried going to sleep laying down on the small landing that was halfway down the stairs but I couldnt sleep because I wasnt sleepy and it was uncomfortable laying down on the hard floor.

Morning came, my friend came to fetch me around 8 or 9am. We hung out in his neighborhood that day. He suggested me doing the same again that very night but I said NO WAY!!!!! I went home on the bus that evening.

I was a mindless sheep for agreeing to his stupid idea. I was stupid to go through with it. What I did wasn't criminal or dangerous (the apartment building was pretty safe), which makes it even more stupid. If it was criminal and/or dangerous, it would have been a bit more exciting. Instead, it was just flat out STUPID.

I was STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.

[LaraMN]

9. I have to pick ONE?

Once, I was at the gas station getting gas and a car wash. As I was going through the car wash, I looked in the rear-view mirror and noticed the door to my gas tank was open. I couldn't see if the cap was off, but I was afraid it was and I would get water in my gas tank. I determined that if I was really fast and timed it right, I could get out, run back, and check quickly, without getting hit with water. Yeah-- I couldn't. The door swung shut behind me, and as I was trying to get back in, not water but WAX came back and sprayed me. I got home with wax all over one side of my head and upper body and inside my freaking ear. And there was a camera inside the car wash, so I'm sure the gas station employees had a great laugh. And my gas cap had been on, anyway. Dumbass.

[redsoxliberal]

11. wow... that was pretty damn stupid.

[castiron]

10. Forgot to put my motorcycle kickstand down at the gas station

resulting in me just pushing the thing over on its side. Couldn't pick it up either. Uh.... kin sumone hep me?

When I was about 7 and in a huge ass Lincoln type car with about 6 other family members going 80 down a Pennsylvania highway I opened the glove compartment and just pushed the button that I saw there. You know, the one that opens the trunk with all the suitcases in it. Nothing fell out, thank goodness.

There are hundreds of others. What about the time I playfully smacked what I thought was my friend's ass in a dark bar. Yeah, you guessed it: it wasn't my friend. I didn't know this person from Adam.