Oops: Thread for sharing stupid things you did

[linsybird]

This one happened recently actually,
So, we were having french toast for breakfast (my favorite), and I went to get the powdered sugar out of the pantry. I grabbed a small container of some white powdery stuff that I assumed was powdered sugar. And, being the sugar craving creature that I am, I opened it, stuck my finger in and licked it. I can still taste it! It was not the delicious sugar I was expecting, but baking powder instead! It was horrible! I'm glad I didn't dump it all over the french toast though.

My cousin did something similar. She liked to mix cinnamon and sugar and put it in toast. One day she was making it and grabbed an unlabeled container of what she thought was sugar, but turned out to be salt. The look on her face when she took the first bite was hilarious!

 

[reddogmaster2]

One thing I learned from this thread is that my definition of STUPID is much different than most of yours!

 

[drinkoj]

Was showing one of my co-workers my coop and run build and a supervisor walked up and was admiring it too. Supervisor asked a question and I rambled on with all this information about why and what I was doing with the coop to help raise the chicks for eggs. And the conversation went something like this:

Supervisor: "Wow you sure have learned a lot in a short amount of time since you started this."

ME: "With all this down time from COVID-19, I had to find a way to occupy my time at work."

Supervisor: "LOL"
Co-worker: <insert about to bust out laughing face>

ME: "Don't worry, ya'll know you will get a lot of free eggs in a few months."

Supervisor: "Sounds fair."

 

[drinkoj]

One thing I learned from this thread is that my definition of STUPID is much different than most of yours!

Here, hold my beer.

 

[reddogmaster2]

OK, one more stupid thing I did...and lived! Here goes...

I was a senior in high school and our rival high school had a cheerleader that wanted to date me. Her ex-boyfriend was some star basketball player and he heard that I wanted to take out his former gal and I saw him one afternoon and he confronted me. I got the best of him on that occassion, it was one on one.

BUT, my stupid self told him, not only did I whip your sorry ass one on one, I plan on coming to your next basketball game and after the game I will take out your ex girl friend right there in front of you and all your people!

So I make a date with this cheerleader, show up at the game and all game long me and the cheerleader and waving at each other and flirting etc.

Un beknownst to me the ex boyfriend has alerted the rest of his teammates of my stupid plan and after the game they beat the crap out of me right there in the auditorium. Thank God some of the parents and teachers dragged them off of me or they would have killed me for sure!

The cheerleader actually got mad at the team and ex boyfriend and took pity on me and we ended up having a great date, bloody nose, torn shirt and all.

But dang, that was stupid!

 

[oldhen2345]

OK, when I was little, my mother told me i could not keep the cat I found. When I asked why, she said it was dirty and smelly. So I put it in the washer. Luckily she heard it and got it out before anything bad happened- hey- she said it was dirty, I was just trying to clean it up,
OK as an adult, a few years ago, I came home from work really tired. I went to do the supper dishes and had when I turned the sink faucet on, the water was cold. I called the plumber- late night overtime- and he checked my gas water heater- it was fine. He turned the faucet handle to the left (I only have one handle) and wha laaa, hot water. I have never been so embarrassed.

 

[oldhen2345]

As an older sister, hehe. The things I did..

I made dirt worm pies.. yep told my younger brother not to eat them when I went in the house.. well he ate them... bad thing is he love worms (yuck) one day at the grandparents house grandma caught him with a night crawler above his mouth head bad crawler hanging above it ready to drop it in.... wahahahahaha

We are Italian and had only one little brother. We made mud spaghetti and meatballs and made him eat them. There was also a weed in the yard my mother called pee weed. She said if you ate the little green bead like leaves, you would pee the bed. We made him eat some to see if it did- it did, but he did that sometimes anyway.

 

[featherhead007]

Y'all are all so sweet!

45+ years ago me and my buddy hatched a plan to steal a large and expensive Caterpillar High Capacity Bulldozer Track Loader. I'm pretty sure the Gross vehicle weight was in the 20 or 30 thousand lbs.

So we steal it off the jobsite and take it off road through the woods, ripping a hole through the whatever got in our way in hopes of hitting a back road so that we could continue to the area that we had arranged for a buyer to fence the behemoth of an Earth Mover.

I suspect today that same equipment would run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Anyway, we get to a ridge and damn if there isn't a drop off 30 or 40 feet below us. Being 2 stupid teenagers we attempt to manuever the earth mover off the cliff and damn if we didn't flip the sumbitch over.

The Lord was looking after us and we escaped, shaken but not broken and left the Caterpillar upside down in a huge ravine.

The owner recovered the machine, we knew this because the jobsite was near our homes and for weeks my buddy and I were scared to death that we might get caught.

We never did get caught. I ended up working one summer for this company as a laborer and tried my dangest to give the owner as much of my time as possible, knowing that I damaged a huge investment of his.

Stupidest thing I ever did.

Carma's a bitch!

 

[Kenders827]

This one happened recently actually,
So, we were having french toast for breakfast (my favorite), and I went to get the powdered sugar out of the pantry. I grabbed a small container of some white powdery stuff that I assumed was powdered sugar. And, being the sugar craving creature that I am, I opened it, stuck my finger in and licked it. I can still taste it! It was not the delicious sugar I was expecting, but baking powder instead! It was horrible! I'm glad I didn't dump it all over the french toast though.

I had a sorta similar experience. I mistook a bag of shredded hash browns for shredded mozzarella. I spread the hash brown over hot dogs in buns (I used to cook them in the oven this way) as if it was mozzarella cheese. I just could not understand why it would not melt, so I kept prolonging how long the hot dogs were baking. Needless to say, the 'cheese' never melted and started to burn instead. I have never lived this down; my kids still bring it up from time to time.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

I was old enough to know better to check my pockets, but I once let my iPod go through the washer and dryer as a teenager and ruined it. Check your pockets all the time before washing!

I also can't count the times I myself had the trapping/skinning gambrel hanging up and forgot to slide it over, and ran face first into it not paying attention where I was walking. Watch where you're going!

Once left a bag of chicken feed out and not in a closed container, only to come into the building and see an absolutely GIANT roof rat scrambling to pull itself out from inside the bag. Good thing there wasn't much left in the bag... Keep your feed contained from pests!

One morning I got up and somehow managed to do everything backwards about making coffee as I was half asleep. I turned the pot on and stepped back, wondering why it smelled so weird, only to realize I never even put the water in. Pay attention!

My absolute biggest, stupidest thing was almost losing a finger because I was being irresponsible years ago. I had an absolutely massive bowie knife I used to carry to the river and use for multi-purpose things. Once I had it at a bonfire and was cutting up limbs to add to stoke the fire. I don't know what or why, all I know is that I cut towards myself and cut my left index finger down to the bone. To spare more details, let's just say I'm thankful to God I didn't lose my finger, and I've got a scar to remind myself and others about knife safety for the rest of my life. Cut away from yourself - pay attention - be responsible - be safe - use caution. There's so many lessons to be learned from this!