What's the dumbest thing you've ever done,

[Xipe Totec]

that had minor consequences?

As opposed to dumbest thing you've ever done, with brutal tragic consequences...


For me, it has to be floating a bottle cap on a glass of soda pop, and then drinking from it.

I accidentally swallowed the cap and nearly choked to death.

Fortunately, my dad was there when I did it.

He took me to the bathroom, open-palm slapped me on the back, and the cap came out, along with pieces of my tonsils...

He just looked at me and shook his head...

I'm sure he was thinking, I can't believe I sired this idiot...


:blush:

[Orrex]

1. I've admitted to this before, but

In high school my friend and I used to like to shoot arrows straight up in the air to see how close to ourselves we could land them.

Four-blade bear tips, too. Not those candy-ass target arrows.

[Xipe Totec]

2. So, how close didja get?

:scared:

[Orrex]

3. Close to 100% stupid, if that's what you mean

One time I ran of the way just in time to avoid what would very possibly have been a fatal hit.

Soon (but not immediately) after that we abandoned the game as being maybe a little bit unsafe...

[RandomThoughts]

11. One of my recent rants

in another thread felt like that. Sorta over did the tangent thoughts into a complexity that gives a different meaning then I meant, and had to jump away.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

20. You did that, too?

I used to go out with the Cicioni twins, Ronnie and Donnie, and we'd shoot steel-tipped arrows straight up into the air. In a residential area.

I don't recall being concerned about their coming down.

Ronnie and Donnie are both dead now. Neither died of an arrow in the head..........................................

[sniffa]

4. Way too many but here's a story I recently shared with Bi-Baby

My first year out of high school I was even more stupid than usual. I used to gather every Saturday night with people I used to go to school with to drink booze, do drugs and play poker. I was regularly stealing about $500 a week so these nights were usually epic. One night my buddy had to leave to go sell some drugs and I went with him (we were planning on coming back). So we leave the garage we were partying in in his stolen car with stolen plates and proceed to ride through a blizzard to the other side of Somerville. At some point near our destination he got the road rage and tried passing some car on the right where cars would normally be parked. The other car kept pace to stop us and my buddy refused to give up until we slammed into a parked car. The front of the hot car was pushed in but he managed to get the car started again and we fled to his house where he parked the car in the back yard of his house to hide it.

[Xipe Totec]

5. I would call that an edge case...

:yoiks:

[PJPhreak]

6. Using an Espresso Maker...

To make Mushroom Tea at a Oakland Dead Show. Needless to say it was a "Colorful" evening!

[Inchworm]

7. Is there a list of silly questions to pose to open audiences?

hehe

My -est one would be hard to pinpoint.

I've done sooooooo many dumb things :)

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Replying to certain DUers who feel it is their duty to share their

opinion on every little thing.

[Orrex]

9. Let me tell you what I think about that...

:hug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. well then...I will have you know One Thing -

:hug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. I'm sorry, I'm a busy person and I don't have the time to list them all

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

19. I wont' tell you about the day I cooked a 22 caliber round then...

:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. I opted to save time instead of filling up...

I was on my way to a gig about 2 hours away, figuring I'd gas up when I got about halfway there. But I hit a horrible traffic jam, and I was afraid I'd be late, so I kept driving. This was in January, and it was snowing off and on, temps in the low 20s. I ran out of gas on I81, north of Hagerstown. There was nothing but farmland around me, and I didn't have a cellphone account.

Fortunately, I did have an old plug-in-the-cigarette-lighter carphone that still worked, so I was able to call the State Police (though at that time, it cost me $15), who sent out a tow truck with enough fuel to get me to the nearest service station. I waited for over an hour, though, increasingly aware that I really could freeze to death.

Two important lessons I learned...
1) Always keep your tank fueled.
2) Get a freakin' cellphone.

[SilverFallsNY]

14. Filled the teki torches up with gasoline instead of kerosene

The FD got there after the wet bar burned down.

[sammythecat]

16. Hey, no offense, but that is really, really, stupid

I learned that the first time I burned trash in a barrel. I figured a little gasoline would get it started easier, leaned over with a lighter and FOOOMP! instant Wiley Coyote. x(

I bet neither one of us will ever come close to that mistake again.

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[texanwitch]

17. I used gas to start a bbq fire, big mistake.

I was standing to close and my favorite pair of bluejeans shorts caught fire.


I was a teenager, really stupid at the time.


I had a minor burn on one of my legs, thats all.


That scared me, never again.

[Xipe Totec]

21. And here I was, ready to tell you about the time I filled my mouth with butane and...

never mind...

:hi:

[SoxFan]

15. Zoo. Fence. Compression fracture.

No animals were harmed in the making of this stupid incident.

[Xipe Totec]

18. Well, you survived, so I guess it qualifies as no catastrophic ending n/t

[Believing Is Art]

22. There's a couple . . .

I was in a playful mood at the pharmacy in Wal-Mart when I bought sudafed about a year ago. After I paid for it, I asked the pharmacist down which aisle I could find matches and lighter fluid. I managed to convince her I just had poor taste in humor, but she still won't sell me sudafed. Teaching me a lesson I think.

When I was in middle school - so not very young - I was kind of addicted to pop tarts. They always burned my hands when I took them out of the toaster oven though, so I decided to wrap them in a paper towel before putting them in. I squelched more than one fire before it hit me how dumb that was.

[Xipe Totec]

23. You might enjoy these stories then...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5108911

[Believing Is Art]

24. Thanks, I'll have to read through it

Sadly my stupidity doesn't hold a candle to that of my first babysitter or my parents in general. I've been living off borrowed time before I hit one year.

[LibraLiz1973]

25. Hot guy- insane crush on him. He asked me out, I had plans

on the night in question, but we made plans for the next night.

So, I'm in Hollywood, drunk as shit, (like, insanely drunk) and decide, I should go to his house. So I get someone to drive me. I CLIMB A SIX FOOT FENCE and then straddle myself on it, knocking on his bedroom window. (Have I mentioned yet that i am 16 at the time of this incident???) It's 2am. He wakes up, is trying to talk to me, I'm slurring, all of a sudden his DAD busts out on the back lawn with a shotgun, thought it was an intruder. In my effort to roll out, I slumped back and ended up hanging UPSIDE DOWN on the fence- I was wearing heels that laced up to mid calf, and the material got stuck on the tree next to his bedroom window. My drunk as hell friend (not the driver) had to pull me down, all while the guy is going, "Dad, dad, it's ok, it's Liz"

Needless to say, I went home and puked- making it one of the 5 times I ever puked while drunk.

[Xipe Totec]

26. Now THAT is a story!

Not only is it fucking hilarious, your narrative skills are excellent!

:rofl:

Thanks for sharing!

:hi:

[rrneck]

27. In my farming days

we had a big ass tractor with a bad ignition switch. Since it was diesel we could short the leads on the starter to crank it. All we had to do is stand next to the tractor in front of the six foot tall drive wheel and fire it up. Of course it is important to make sure it's out of gear first. For once the damn thing started right up and I had to jump out of the way to avoid getting flattened. Then I had to chase it down before it took out the house.

[Pierre.Suave]

28. I used to enjoy blowing stuff up...

that right there should explain everything...:P

[Xipe Totec]

29. A kindred spirit!...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5917191&mesg_id=5919560

[Pierre.Suave]

30. Holy old thread...

:rofl:

This was my favorite line:

""They are all good kids. But if you're going to have a bottle rocket war it would be a lot better to do it outside. It would still be illegal but at least you wouldn't burn up a house.""

[crim son]

31. There have been a lot of dumb mistakes, but

I was sober and sane when I accepted my ex' proposal. Dumb, dumb, dumb, though I have lovely children as a result.

[old mark]

32. I guess a first marriage doesn't count, too close to tragic....

I have a pretty long list of minor stupidities having had a long time to assemble it...

Once bought an old Gretsch guitar for aroud $200, and sold it later for about $50 more. It's now selling for around $2500. Also had a Fender Telecaster and a Mosrite.....you get the idea....
:shrug:

mark

[PassingFair]

33. Dropping out of college....and deciding not to go back! n/t

[JohnnyLib2]

34. The old cat in the burn barrel goof--

shouldn't have ignored that rustling under stuff.

It was quite a sight, though.

Note to feline defenders: Singee survived for years.

[cherish44]

35. I used to blog a lot about my ex while we were going through our divorce

Some of them got very personal and very nasty. At the time it was cathartic but looking back it was pretty immature of me. I should have just kept it private.

[bif]

36. Gotten married

Just kidding.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

37. I'm not proud of it, but.....

....several times in my younger years I drove home when I was well over the legal limit. But for the grace of God somehow I managed not to get into an accident or pulled over by the cops. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Thankfully I'm a bit smarter now when it comes to that.