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The Dumbest Thing...
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MonkeyCatcher
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My brother did something like that once..
My sister, my brother and I were swimming at the local pool one day, when my brother decided that he would come along and throw me into the air and then dunk me. So he comes up behind a girl he believes to be me and does just that. Needless to say, the girl was a complete stranger and just gave him a terrified look. He swam away pretty quick
. The look on her face really was priceless 
Oh, and my Dad did a pretty dumb thing once also.
He was standing outside the local newspaper outlet, reading the copy of the newspaper that they stick up on the window. A guy came up behind him as he was reading the part with the pictures of the mother and her new baby, and began to read as well. My dear father pointed at a picture of one of the proud new mothers and tactfully said, "God.. isn't that the ugliest woman you've seen in your life. I feel sorry for that kid," to which the other guy replied, "Ah.. that's my daughter..". Dad never really was good at breaking the ice...
My sister, my brother and I were swimming at the local pool one day, when my brother decided that he would come along and throw me into the air and then dunk me. So he comes up behind a girl he believes to be me and does just that. Needless to say, the girl was a complete stranger and just gave him a terrified look. He swam away pretty quick
. The look on her face really was priceless Oh, and my Dad did a pretty dumb thing once also.
He was standing outside the local newspaper outlet, reading the copy of the newspaper that they stick up on the window. A guy came up behind him as he was reading the part with the pictures of the mother and her new baby, and began to read as well. My dear father pointed at a picture of one of the proud new mothers and tactfully said, "God.. isn't that the ugliest woman you've seen in your life. I feel sorry for that kid," to which the other guy replied, "Ah.. that's my daughter..". Dad never really was good at breaking the ice...
Kookamoor
New Member
Off the top of my head, this one comes to mind.
I was in Grade 8 Home Economics (cooking class), which was a subject I invariably performed terribly in. We were forced to eat the food we cooked at the end of every class, and I was a very picky eater. Consequently I would frequently omit ingredients that I didn't like, and then be reprimanded for it later on. But that's another tale...
It was the end of class I was doing the dishes. A cart containing all the ingredients, oils, spices and washing up materials was located in the middle of our cooking station. I picked up the dishwashing liquid and squirted it liberally into the sink so that I could begin to wash the dishes. I put all the plates, pans and cutlery into the large sink and left the water going while I went to clean the bench. When I came back, I noticed that there was no foam. Puzzled, I squirted some more dish liquid in and began to wash the dishes.
It struck me as I pulled out the second plate and put it on the drying rack that they were very slippery... so were my hands. I looked again at the unlabelled 'dish washing liquid' bottle, and compared it to the ones left on the cart. I had picked up the olive oil by mistake! My sink was now filled with an oily mess, which covered every dish as well as my hands! Have you ever tried to wash oil off your hands? Try doing it to your hands, the sink basin and every dish used in cooking a complex meal without your on-the-warpath teacher realising your stupidity!
I was in Grade 8 Home Economics (cooking class), which was a subject I invariably performed terribly in. We were forced to eat the food we cooked at the end of every class, and I was a very picky eater. Consequently I would frequently omit ingredients that I didn't like, and then be reprimanded for it later on. But that's another tale...
It was the end of class I was doing the dishes. A cart containing all the ingredients, oils, spices and washing up materials was located in the middle of our cooking station. I picked up the dishwashing liquid and squirted it liberally into the sink so that I could begin to wash the dishes. I put all the plates, pans and cutlery into the large sink and left the water going while I went to clean the bench. When I came back, I noticed that there was no foam. Puzzled, I squirted some more dish liquid in and began to wash the dishes.
It struck me as I pulled out the second plate and put it on the drying rack that they were very slippery... so were my hands. I looked again at the unlabelled 'dish washing liquid' bottle, and compared it to the ones left on the cart. I had picked up the olive oil by mistake! My sink was now filled with an oily mess, which covered every dish as well as my hands! Have you ever tried to wash oil off your hands? Try doing it to your hands, the sink basin and every dish used in cooking a complex meal without your on-the-warpath teacher realising your stupidity!
Gem
kickbox
My first wax....
the first time i waxed underams I did it myself - and i used too much wax 'glue' plus it was supposed to be a cold wax but i heated it up and i couldn't get the darn strips off, was stuck in the bathroom for ages trying to pull it off, finally found the courage to call my sister for help, there we were in the bathroom trying to pull it off and my brother in law walked in, went bright red and walked back out. We finally maged to get it off and I believe that my entire street heard my scream. My 'date' was waiting downstairs for me as it was our school leaving dance. I always watch the bathroom scene in Theres Something About Mary with my eyes covered - just reminds me too much of that night.
the first time i waxed underams I did it myself - and i used too much wax 'glue' plus it was supposed to be a cold wax but i heated it up
and i couldn't get the darn strips off, was stuck in the bathroom for ages trying to pull it off, finally found the courage to call my sister for help, there we were in the bathroom trying to pull it off and my brother in law walked in, went bright red and walked back out. We finally maged to get it off and I believe that my entire street heard my scream. My 'date' was waiting downstairs for me as it was our school leaving dance. I always watch the bathroom scene in Theres Something About Mary with my eyes covered - just reminds me too much of that night.
Gem
kickbox
my date and i were both in 'love' with other people and spent most of the actual dance looking forlornly at our respective loves, I was of course also making frequent trips to the bathroom to put cold water on my sore armpits. The good thing was that on the way home he caught me trying to secretly look at my armpit and he started laughing which got me laughing, and we ended up spending the night parked right outside my house just talking. We're still great friends.
Jemima Aslana
New Member
So something good did come of the disaster.
I feel so... lucky. I have no stories that can rival these wonderfully hilarious tales... well, maybe one.
So here goes:
It was some years back - while I was still practicing Kung Fu. I also functioned as instructor for some of the younger members in the club. There's this thing about Kung Fu - everyone trains in uniform. The same black suit for everyone.
So on a normal day I was walking down the street and this kid said 'hi' to me, and I had absolutely no recollection of who he might be - he looked to be 9 years old or so but I couldn't for the life of me remember him - could he be one of my mother's pupils? Nah... doesn't look the type for music... finally it dawns on me that he's one of the kids from the Kung Fu club. And in my elation that I finally remembered I say to him.
"Man, I couldn't recognize you - I'm not used to seeing you with your clothes on!"
The moment I'd said it I realised that was probably not the best wording I'd ever come up with.
Soooooo embarrassed. Watch me crawl away in shame
I feel so... lucky. I have no stories that can rival these wonderfully hilarious tales... well, maybe one.
So here goes:
It was some years back - while I was still practicing Kung Fu. I also functioned as instructor for some of the younger members in the club. There's this thing about Kung Fu - everyone trains in uniform. The same black suit for everyone.
So on a normal day I was walking down the street and this kid said 'hi' to me, and I had absolutely no recollection of who he might be - he looked to be 9 years old or so but I couldn't for the life of me remember him - could he be one of my mother's pupils? Nah... doesn't look the type for music... finally it dawns on me that he's one of the kids from the Kung Fu club. And in my elation that I finally remembered I say to him.
"Man, I couldn't recognize you - I'm not used to seeing you with your clothes on!"
The moment I'd said it I realised that was probably not the best wording I'd ever come up with.
Soooooo embarrassed. Watch me crawl away in shame
MonkeyCatcher
New Member
LOL That's the funniest one of the bunch
That's the funniest one of the bunch 
mr_michel
kickbox
cant think of many, i remember this time, i got a call from a friend, telling me that she was back in town, her voice sound kinda strange on the phone, she must pick up the accent of the city where she is studying i though, we agree to go out, so i show up at her place, she wasnt dress to go out, and was happy to see me, and told me she was about to call me (strange i though, probably she was to call me to tell me she wouldnt be ready on time), so we went for a coffe, the we went to visit a couple of friends from high school, went to dinner, and dance, we had a great time.
next day my best friend calls me and tells me this other girl just came back from canada earlier that week, so i pick her up and drive to this other girl place, just to find her very angry at me for not showing up the day before... oops...
of couse she came from angry mood to confusion state when she saw me practically ROTFLOL at the moment i realized what happened
next day my best friend calls me and tells me this other girl just came back from canada earlier that week, so i pick her up and drive to this other girl place, just to find her very angry at me for not showing up the day before... oops...
of couse she came from angry mood to confusion state when she saw me practically ROTFLOL at the moment i realized what happened
Jemima Aslana
New Member
Did they have the same first names? Or were they so far back in your past you mixed their names up? Or how the devil did you manage that confusion?
Kookamoor
New Member
Yeah, how'd you manage that? Was she one of those people who, when you answer the phone, say, "Hi, it's me" and expect you to know. I have friends like that who just say 'hi' and get offended if you don't know who it is from a one syllable word. For the love of... !!!Jemima Aslana said:
Sergo
New Member
Errr... It had happened when I was working as a helper on a construction site...
My task was to find some water - to clean some washbasins, or something like that in a new, just erected building. I was told that on the roof they had a valve I could use. So I got there, found a small compartment with a valve, and started to open it... It was dark in the compartment, and the valve was slightly broken - it wasn't possible to understand which position was "OPEN" and which - "CLOSED", and as there were no water in either position, I forgot in what position I found it. So, after 10 minutes or so of my turning to and fro the waterless walve I gave up and left... That was Friday, by the way.
On Monday we had a big problem on our site: hot water from a valve on the roof flooded several floors, damaged wallpaper etc...
The valve was a special one, to let out air out of the center heating system: when I opened it, air started to come out, and, after all of it went - water started to pour out too...
Another dumb thing to do was to leave my workers uattended. That was when I worked as a supervisor on another construction site. All of my workers were a very good people, they liked me, and I liked them. Several times they told me I could leave my work earlier, if I needed it. So one day I decided that I may try it... Really, I decided to come to my work in the morning and just check the results, and spend the night with my girlfriend, who had her birthday then. I asked my workers if they could manage it - the night shift is the smallest one, BTW, and they said - of course, Master, surely we will manage without you...
And when I came in the morning - all of them were stone drunk. They have done nothing save for damaging the winch and breaking some of the materials. Some of the workers were spread on the floor in my office, and at first sight I thought they were dead... Nobody could speak, so drunk they were. They were so happy they had a chance to get drunk - they never even changed in their working clothes: they brought vodka with them, and drunk it in the first half-hour of the night shift...
I was never absent from my work since then...
My task was to find some water - to clean some washbasins, or something like that in a new, just erected building. I was told that on the roof they had a valve I could use. So I got there, found a small compartment with a valve, and started to open it... It was dark in the compartment, and the valve was slightly broken - it wasn't possible to understand which position was "OPEN" and which - "CLOSED", and as there were no water in either position, I forgot in what position I found it. So, after 10 minutes or so of my turning to and fro the waterless walve I gave up and left... That was Friday, by the way.
On Monday we had a big problem on our site: hot water from a valve on the roof flooded several floors, damaged wallpaper etc...
The valve was a special one, to let out air out of the center heating system: when I opened it, air started to come out, and, after all of it went - water started to pour out too...
Another dumb thing to do was to leave my workers uattended. That was when I worked as a supervisor on another construction site. All of my workers were a very good people, they liked me, and I liked them. Several times they told me I could leave my work earlier, if I needed it. So one day I decided that I may try it... Really, I decided to come to my work in the morning and just check the results, and spend the night with my girlfriend, who had her birthday then. I asked my workers if they could manage it - the night shift is the smallest one, BTW, and they said - of course, Master, surely we will manage without you...
And when I came in the morning - all of them were stone drunk. They have done nothing save for damaging the winch and breaking some of the materials. Some of the workers were spread on the floor in my office, and at first sight I thought they were dead... Nobody could speak, so drunk they were. They were so happy they had a chance to get drunk - they never even changed in their working clothes: they brought vodka with them, and drunk it in the first half-hour of the night shift...
I was never absent from my work since then...
Kookamoor
New Member
Sergo - did you confess to having turned the valve? Or shake your head in disbelief at 'someone's' stupidity?
That reminds me of another dumb thing I did in high school (I appear to have grown out of my stupidity). I was in Chemistry class, Grade 10 or 11, and had to fill a test tube with water. The water taps were a little sketchy, though, and didn't come on until you'd turned them a fair way. So I spun the tap around as usual and the water pressure came on hard, so hard in fact that the test tube didn't fill, but just caused the water to spurt out onto the floor. It gave me a bit of a shock, and in an attempt to turn the water off, I inadvertently turned the tap the wrong way making the water pressure higher and the water spurted further, reaching the desks where all the student books and papers were. I kept turning the tap one way and the other, but I couldn't work out which way was off because the water pressure wouldn't change. I was covered in water, shrieking while the class was yelling and racing to protect their books.
My kindly chem teacher seemed to take forever to arrive and properly turn the tap the right way. He looked at me in disbelief as I tried to quell the laughter and look bashful. Note that this was about 2 weeks after I knocked a crucible filled with a flammable substance off my bunsen burner and proceeded to attempt to light the then solidified substance on the bench in order to remove it.
That reminds me of another dumb thing I did in high school (I appear to have grown out of my stupidity). I was in Chemistry class, Grade 10 or 11, and had to fill a test tube with water. The water taps were a little sketchy, though, and didn't come on until you'd turned them a fair way. So I spun the tap around as usual and the water pressure came on hard, so hard in fact that the test tube didn't fill, but just caused the water to spurt out onto the floor. It gave me a bit of a shock, and in an attempt to turn the water off, I inadvertently turned the tap the wrong way making the water pressure higher and the water spurted further, reaching the desks where all the student books and papers were. I kept turning the tap one way and the other, but I couldn't work out which way was off because the water pressure wouldn't change. I was covered in water, shrieking while the class was yelling and racing to protect their books.
My kindly chem teacher seemed to take forever to arrive and properly turn the tap the right way. He looked at me in disbelief as I tried to quell the laughter and look bashful. Note that this was about 2 weeks after I knocked a crucible filled with a flammable substance off my bunsen burner and proceeded to attempt to light the then solidified substance on the bench in order to remove it.
Ronny
Well-Known Member
My hubby reminded me of one, when we were house hunting he had got us a really nice suite at the marina with a jacuzzi tub. I decided to take a bath, I love bubble baths so I poured a bottle of bubbles in, climbed in, closed my eyes, covered my face and switched the jets on. My hubby started shouting a few minutes later there were bubbles all over the room. They had grown and left the tub, we had to call down and get help to clean it all up
Sergo
New Member
I did neither - nobody tried to find out what has been the cause of that flood, and really - I wanted to believe it needn't really be me who left "on" that same valve... There were several of them there...Kookamoor said:
Kookamoor said:That reminds me of another dumb thing I did in high school (I appear to have grown out of my stupidity). I was in Chemistry class, Grade 10 or 11, and had to fill a test tube with water. The water taps were a little sketchy, though, and didn't come on until you'd turned them a fair way. So I spun the tap around as usual and the water pressure came on hard, so hard in fact that the test tube didn't fill, but just caused the water to spurt out onto the floor. It gave me a bit of a shock, and in an attempt to turn the water off, I inadvertently turned the tap the wrong way making the water pressure higher and the water spurted further, reaching the desks where all the student books and papers were. I kept turning the tap one way and the other, but I couldn't work out which way was off because the water pressure wouldn't change. I was covered in water, shrieking while the class was yelling and racing to protect their books.
My kindly chem teacher seemed to take forever to arrive and properly turn the tap the right way. He looked at me in disbelief as I tried to quell the laughter and look bashful. Note that this was about 2 weeks after I knocked a crucible filled with a flammable substance off my bunsen burner and proceeded to attempt to light the then solidified substance on the bench in order to remove it.
Oh. And that reminds me of a joke someone did at our chemistry class... That somebody stole some big chunk of... Lithium? I do not remember, but that was a metal which explodes in water. Lithium was placed in the classroom sink under some cloth used to wipe the blackboard with. At the beginning of a lesson a teacher come to soak the cloth with water in order to clean the blackboard... Immediately after she opened the tap Lithium exploded, with smallest fragments of the cloth all over the ceiling, and pieces of iron sink making holes in the door and the first table... Amazingly, nobody was seriously hurt - that first table has been unoccupied on that lesson... By the way, I had my English lesson then, in the next classroom. And on chemistry I usually sat at that same first desk...