You Idiot!

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

I've done some pretty stupid things with fire..but you all know about that...

The thing that comes to mind right now is that one night where i had about 12 Ecstacy pills. I feel very lucky to be alive actually.

Having just had another car run into the back of my car, I was trying to get out my car once it stopped spinning. I couldn't get the doors open even though I was not injured. I could hear someone scream fire soooo, I was getting out of the car come hell or high water! With ALL of my might I pressed both feet onto the floor while I hit the door with my shoulder. I ended up driving into a tree. That's what I get for panicking.

Whilst removing a spotlight from my kitchen wall a loose wire was sticking out. I didn't know if it was live or not but just thought nah, it'll be ok, so I touched it to find out. It was live and as you can probably guess I'm no electrician.

Welcome to the site by the way Chameleon.

Telling a member of a biker gang that he was a wanker!

i cant think of anything dumb that ive done off the top of my head.But this one winter, I dared my friend to sled down this verrrrrrrrrrrrry steep hill, and he did. When he go to the bottom of the hill he went off this jump that we hadnt seen from the top, and he then became airborn. He crash landed into a tree and was unconcious for 10 minutes. It was freaking hilarious...

Brain damage often is.

I tried skateboarding down a looooong steeeep hill. I fell, sprained my wrist, got lots of cuts and bruises.

In my English class, I was reading an essay out loud. I pronounced epitome as eh-pie-toe-mm. EVERYONE started laughing.

Good idea for a thread. Now we get to find out what idiots we all are...

I think one of the dumbest things I did was bet my friend that I could out last him while wearing shorts and tee shirts during the winter. We saw each other each day (at school), so it was easy enough to make sure they were keeping it straight. Technically, we weren't supposed to wear pants at all even on the weekends, but I did, because I knew he'd never know. So one day, on the weekend, I was walking downtown, with pants on. We ran into each other...and we were both wearing pants. So it didn't end. Nobody ended up winning (we set up a date that it would be over, in spring, if no one lost). Talk about an idiotic way to freeze your bum off...for nothing!

edit: To add some detail, we live up in the Rockies of Colorado at over 7000 feet. It's not exactly the warmest place on earth...

Four words

FELL OFF A CAR

Incinerating myself as described in Joey's fire thread.

More recently, I was rebuilding a Pontiac 455 V8 for my son's TransAm, and while installing the new pistons, noticed what I thought was a small hairline crack in one of the cylinder walls. Since I had already invested a few hundred dollars into hottanking, new cam bearings, reboring, align boring the mains, trueing the decks, etc. I talked myself out of thinking it was a problem. Needless to say, about a week after it was back on the street, my son was dragracing and blew the one piston right through the side of the engine, tearing the whole engine all to hell. There was hardly anything salvageable.

About $1000 right down the ol' crapper.

When I was really little I wanted to play with a little chick, you know the cute little fluffy ones, cept the one I wanted to play with had almost grown to a full chicken. Anyhow, my grandma let me play with it, after trying to talk me out of it. There I was holding this chicken and it started scratching me, and these were big vicious scratches too. It was horrible, but I wouldn't let go of it, instead I squeezed tighter and swore at it a lot (my grandma made the point of teaching all her grandkids to swear, you know what they say about grandparents "why do grandkids and grandparents get along so well?" "Because they have a common enemy") anyway, I was throwing out all sorts of obsceneties at it and my grandma found all this very amusing and was actually laughing so hard she couldn't actually tell me to let go. Finally my mum ran outside and yelled "let go of it you idiot!"

some 14 yrs later (I was 4 or so at the time), or more accurately last night, I almost drove through a red light, pedestrians and all.

cheers

i have probably ran into more doors, tripped over more things, and slipped up on some words.....more than anyone else.

even to this day i still pronouce organism as welll....you know
and even to this day everyone seems its the funniest thing


but i willl raise my hand and claim that i am probably the most uncordinated person....in the world

i wear this crown of shame with pride

the dumbest thing that i have done....lets see...........i know. one time in history i was soo tired. i hadnt slept the night before so i was runnin on empty and well.....i layed my head down for a sec and the next thing i know i was out.....but when the teacher tried to walk me up well i was dreamin and i yelled out FOR GIVE ME SIRE and well.....that was the joke of the week at my school.