The DUMBEST thing you have ever done?

[VermontDem2004]

So many options to pick from for me.

[JohnKleeb]

1. likewise!

[La_Serpiente]

2. Mines?

Well, when I was young, I touched a hot iron. However, I was five and didn't know better. Also, my older brother, who was 18 at the time, egged me on to do it. He told me it was cold. I look back on it now and say, "Gosh, that was fricking dumb" :silly:

[jbioocode]

3. thats easy for me!

The dumbest thing for me was the
last ford I bought ! |:-)

[xchrom]

4. summer camp

the group leader was pointing out poison oak said not to touch it, stay away and all that -- so i walked right up and damn near hugged it.
you can guess the rest.

[moof]

5. Not moving to Vancouver BC back in 91 after visiting.

moof coulda been free

[Rocinante]

6. Ok I got one

I jumped out of a barn loft after my brother threw a rock at a wasp nest that was dinner plate size. I ended up with a broken leg. He stayed up in the loft, wasn't stung, and laughed until he saw I was hurt.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. I watched Mary Poppins

therefore I tried to fly off of my roof with just an umbrella , you know what happened next . A day in the hospital and some scolding when I came home . I was 7 . How I got on the house , I don't know but I was determined .

[VermontDem2004]

8. rotflmao

Sorry, I just found that hilarious. You honestly believe you could fly off your house with just an umbrella?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. Believe me , I did a lot of dumb things as a kid ...

Really I did that . My mom asked the doctor's if I was really alright because she was going to make me hurt so bad when I got home . Usually when you are injured everyone worships your every need but not this time ( broken arm , the part I jumped off was not that high but had I gone higher ... )

[Exultant Democracy]

27. I did that too when I was a kid

I was 6 at the time and I jumped from the top of my house , but I didn't get hurt at all because it was after a good old fasioned up state New York blizzard so the deep snow saved me.

[izzie]

9. Not sticking to things I felt was best.

n/t

[FlashHarry]

11. Having my first cigarette at age 20.

I had gone through high school without a puff--in Europe, no less, which is no mean feat. Then, for some stupid reason, I had a cig at a party in college and have been a smoker ever since (fourteen years, now). If I could erase one thing from my life, that would be it.

[corarose]

12. Dumped my Ex boyfriend when I was younger

I was afraid of snakes and I didn't want to move to Australia.

[BiggJawn]

13. Getting married the second time...

And turning down sex. Boy, THAT was really dumb!

[trof]

15. My friend's short take on his marital history.

!. Married the right one.
2. Divorced the wrong one.
3. Married the wrong one.
4. Divorced the right one.

[trof]

14. Not getting out of the stock market

when I'd doubled the money in my retirement plan.
I wouldn't be counting pennies today.

[GOPisEvil]

16. Handling credit badly in my 20s.

Now I'm cleaning it up in my 30s.

I figure my 40s should be great! :D

Seriously kids, DON'T GET OVEREXTENDED WITH CREDIT CARDS. PLEASE. Thank you. </dad>

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

17. You should take your message to every college freshman

at the first week of college as they are attracted to sign up for credit cards that they don't need .

[GOPisEvil]

18. Yup...sigh...that's where they found me.

I had "sucker" written across my forehead. I still remember the first credit card purchase I ever made: gas for my car. :forehead slap:

I'm darn-near totally debt free now; by the summer's end, I will be without a debt period. Nice feeling. :-)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

20. You know they pay the colleges money to be able to sit out there ...

I swear I go to those tables and wrangle every freshman away that I can - its not worth it to be in debt at such a young age . If you don't have a job , hold no plastic ( credit card ) .

[GOPisEvil]

21. Good for you!

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

23. Wish someone would have stopped me

All I wanted was the free shirt ...

[GOPisEvil]

24. Sigh...I've been there.

Now I just shred all the credit card offers. Bzzzzzzt! :-)

[grannylib]

19. First marriage and starting smoking...marriage lasted a year, smoking

for 30-something now, yikes, really need to quit...

[VelmaD]

22. It's always the boys...

I repeat the same dumb mistake over and over. I let myself get involved with men who don't live in the same city I do.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

26. So do I ...

either on the other side of the world or on the other side of the country ... sigh

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Me too...But I'll pick one from recently. We just repainted our living

room this year and went to go get new switchplates and light switches. As we are standing there looking at switches, my husband couldn't figure out why one switch was twice as expensive as the other when they were basically the same switch. I looked at the tag on one and said," well this one connects to lights and turns them on and the other one doesn't say that it does" And this in front of my kids who usually think I'm pretty smart. No one lets me forget this moment. Really, I am not that stupid, I just had one of those brain dead moments after spending hours in a hardware store. ;)

[Ishoutandscream]

28. I voted for Bush in 88. If I were Catholic, I'd go to confession

Forgive me, for I have sinned.