Oops: Thread for sharing stupid things you did

Oh, here's another one; once when i was younger my brother and i used to watch these nature shows, and we once saw them making maple syrup, deciding it was a great idea we ran outside exited to try that on one of our crab-apple trees, we had grabbed a butter-knife on the way, and preceded to carve into the tree trying to get the "maple syrup". We were eventually told by my poor mother that this was the wrong kind of tree, so we started crying, unsure what to do now, we ended up covering the poor tree in band-aids, and performing some kind of ritual, in which we apologized to the tree. I've never forgotten that...
LOL, i have a million more stories like that...
 
Okay, I've got one, triggered by the tree story. I bought corn meal in bulk in a plastic bag at the health food store. Took it home and put it in the freezer. Some time later I went to make corn bread. Got the batter ready and got the corn meal out and added a third of a cup into the flour, milk, salt, baking powder and egg mixture. As I was stirring I thought, man, what's that smell? Something sure smells like garlic around here! The more I stirred, the stronger the smell. Finally it hit me: a few weeks earlier I had also bought garlic powder at the health food store and had stored it, you guessed it, in a baggie in the freezer. It looked just like the corn meal! All was not lost, though. From Organic Gardening I knew aphids or ants hate garlic, so I took it out and smeared it on my apple and peach tree trunks. Surprisingly it hardened into concrete and kept the bugs off all season! 🤣
 
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I got one for you all, when I was 15 I was sitting on a railing outside when the phone rang so I scooted back to try to reach the phone, which was still attached to the wall back in those days, and I got a giant splinter in my cheek. And embarrassing enough my mother couldn’t get it out so we had to go to the emergency room on base and the really hot doctor had to surgically remove it. It was in the summer and I walked around with a bandage covering my stitches it was embarrassing and I sounded like I was wearing a diaper.
 
When I was very young, I stuck my right little finger in a door hinge...someone closed the door, and they found that they had just cut off my finger, where it lay on the floor. They rushed me to the hospital, where they stitched it back on, but to this day, my right little finger has no feeling and doesn't work. The moral: DON'T PLAY WITH DOORS!
 
I got one for you all, when I was 15 I was sitting on a railing outside when the phone rang so I scooted back to try to reach the phone, which was still attached to the wall back in those days, and I got a giant splinter in my cheek. And embarrassing enough my mother couldn’t get it out so we had to go to the emergency room on base and the really hot doctor had to surgically remove it. It was in the summer and I walked around with a bandage covering my stitches it was embarrassing and I sounded like I was wearing a diaper.
LOL, when i was much younger i used to carve things out of soap, i would use my mother's kitchen knife, till eventually she got tired of that and got me my own, problem was this one was really sharp, while the one i was used to using was dull, as you probably guessed i cut part of my finger off and ended up having to get stitches, but the embarrassing thing was, the doctor who stitched my finger looked a lot like Tony Stark a.k.a. Ironman, it was so embarrassing :lau
 
Used the spray painter and started to clean out the hose and spray gun with some warm soapy water. Captain Brilliant decided to switch it to prime to start cleaning the intake hose.... without making sure the hose was secure to the pump; knew there was an issue.

POP! goes the hose with my face about 12 inches away. Thank goodness I had my glasses on. So needless to say I had a face and nose full of soapy warm diluted paint water, that my daughter was in shock and finally in hysterical laughter about.
 
Well, i say, please tell!! Looking back at yours, and all the others, i marvel that i actually haven't made as many stupid mistakes as one would think, it was mostly my brothers who made them (i have 5)...i am still pretty young though...
I do remember though when i was younger, one of my brothers insisted on having more cinnamon on his applesauce :)confused:), we told him no, it would taste disgusting. Fast forward a little bit and i was upstairs reading, my mom was playing the piano, and who knows what the others were doing, i than heard him crying, my first thought was; oh what has (brothers name) done!! I decided my mom would take care of it, and left alone, she apparently thought the same thing, so eventually i ended up going downstairs only to see that my brother had dumped the whole bottle of cinnamon (it was a big bottle!!) in his mouth :thAt the moment i thought it was actually pretty funny :oops:. We still talk about that sometimes...
I think that can be fatal because it's fine powder!
 

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