Dumb things you have done

[TurquoiseDuck]

I would like us all to tell about the dumb things we have done. I will tell what I did today, and after reading this one, no one shall feel more stupid than I felt.

We are moving to a new apartment. This afternoon we took a load of boxes to our new home, unloaded them and were about to leave and go make one more trip. We both went out on the lanai to see what the rain was going to do... and I shut the sliding door behind us. It is automatic for me to do this, we have cats and live on a high floor, with only a railing on the lanai. The new place has no sliding screen door, so I shut the heavy one. We looked around, enjoying the view. When we got ready to go back into the apartment, the sliding door was locked. Both our sets of keys were inside the apartment and I had locked the entry door too. The place is gated and the elevator takes a key too. Luckily my man had his cell phone hanging on his jeans so I said we need to call our landlord. He did not want to do that. I said that I did it and I will call. I called and he came and rescued us in about fifteen minutes ! Needless to say I felt like a huge ass ! He is a wonderful person. We offered money and he refused it. Not too many land lords that would drop what they are doing on a Saturday late afternoon and come and let out two brand new tenants locked out on a lanai and refuse to take any money for it.

I have plenty more stories like this one, of dumb things I have done. Hope you all write some thing on here. Have the first laugh on me. I want to laugh at you too !

[zztype]

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Man, it's hard to follow that, but I will try.

Once upon a time, I pulled in to the gas station, filled up gas, then pulled away from the pump and over to the side of the gas station to check my air and water. It was drizzling so I put on the wipers.

I pulled up and jumped out, leaving the motor running so the air con would stay cool. I ran to the front, put air in the tires, then did the back.

Then I went back to the driver's door and grabbed the handle.

Locked.

Car on, radio blasting, windshield wipers going. Locked.

Again, saved by the cell phone. Wife came down about 20 minutes later. It had stopped raining and the wipers were flapping back and forth on a dry windshield. I was sitting on the tailgate trying to look inconspicuous.

A major "duh" moment.

Blaine

[TurquoiseDuck]

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Blaine that is hilarious ! Especially the wind shield wipers going on the dry wind shield.

Wonder if Lurkah will post. Heh heh heh.

[pzarquon]

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Man, I've locked myself and my family out of the car and the house more times than I can count. Just two nights ago, ladies and gentlemen, I locked my wife and I out of our van at the gym. Our excercise was walking back home, in the rain, to get another car. And when we drove back to the gym? Yep, forgot the spare key to the van. It was a long night.

I do all kinds of dumb things. I walk out of stores after paying without a single bag of my merchandise. I walk all the way to coworkers offices then forget, only after interrupting them, that I forgot what I wanted. I forget the code to a door I go through six times a day, for no apparent reason, and stand there like an idiot for several minutes until someone else goes in or comes out.

Once in City Mill, I was admiring a nice bathroom display with a giant mirror with all these round holes around the frame. My method of determining what the holes were for? Sticking my finger in one. Yep, they were light sockets, and powered up. Zzzap!

Oh, and once, I was at the car rental counter in Hilo, and the employee was busy writing up my paperwork. I became strangely obsessed with this little white button on the back of her computer. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I pressed it... and determined that it was, in fact, the power switch. She had to use another terminal to finish my booking.

It would be funny if these things happened when I was ten. Or maybe a teenager. But they both happened within the last few years, which makes them scary, really.

[Ailina]

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I became strangely obsessed with this little white button on the back of her computer...

Whoa. Woulda sucked to be you. J/k.

Actually, no one saw my most recent act of stupidity. At least I hope no one saw it.

I was traveling alone in the middle of the night, and I had to stop off at a gas station to air up my tire.

I hooked the hose up and started airing away, and then I thought, "Hmm...Why is water coming out of the hub cap?"

Duh.

I was trying to air up my tire with the water hose.

[Miulang]

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The most costly stupid thing I have ever done in my life I did a couple of weeks ago...we were on our way to Vegas for a reunion/luau with some internet friends. I thought I had booked a vacation package that would have departed Seattle Thursday morning. I also reserved a room at the Strat, which is the closest hotel on the Strip to Downtown, where the luau was to be held (at the California, of course! )

Wednesday night, I went online and tried to get boarding passes in advance (you can do that up to 24 hours prior to departure) but was told there was a problem with my reservation. So then I FINALLY went and checked the itinerary Alaska sent me weeks ago, and discovered, much to my horror, that we were booked to fly to Vegas on WEDNESDAY not Thursday, which is what I had intended!

So I tried to rebook the whole itinerary for the next day, but the vacation desk was closed for the evening (they closed at 7 and I called at 7:30) and wouldn't open until 7 a.m. the next day. I got the flight rebooked the next morning but couldn't get the room at the Strat because it had been sold to some other scum (they were having a huge custom bike show Downtown, plus it was the weekend of the LV Hoolaulea). So we ended up staying at the Monte Carlo. I also booked a guided tour of Vegas because my hubby had never been there before, so when we finally got to Vegas, I tried to reschedule the tour for Friday. The agent was confused because she said Alaska hadn't told her when we wanted to reschedule the tour so she had us booked for Saturday. When I told her what happened, she started laughing and said it's a good thing you called us! We went on the tour on Friday as I had originally planned.

I had also brought along with me 3 loaves of this Vietnamese raisin bread (really tastes like local pao duce) for my friends because everytime they come up to Seattle, they empty the store shelves of this stuff. So I know I had the plastic bag of bread on the plane with me, on the shuttle to the hotel in Vegas and I'm positive I left it in the hotel room. Friday I was going to take the bread to the luau with me, but it was gone! Hmmm...

The upshot of the whole thing is because we changed hotels and moved uptown to pricier digs, the trip cost about 3x more than I had originally planned. The added insult to injury was "losing" the bread and having to send replacement bread via the Postal Service to my friends when we got back, and losing more bread when hubby won about $100 on money I handed to him, where I only ended up depositing more funds into my savings account at the casinos.

Overall, though, the trip was priceless.

Miulang

[cezanne]

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I got my wife really mad once.

[EastCoastTropics]

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I've locked my keys in the car a couple of times. Once (and only once!) I locked my keys in the car with my 1 year old daughter sitting in her carseat....on a hot summer day in Kansas! Fortunately, the locksmith came right away. Definately dumb on my part!

The dumbest-funniest thing I've done....

One morning, about a year ago I came out of bathroom and kept feeling drops of water on the back of my legs. But only thing my legs weren't wet! Every step I took I felt the water drops on the back of my legs. I was so afraid and so sure there was Obake around me so I started screaming. At that moment I turned around to look in back of me....afraid of what I would find. There was a long piece of toilet paper hanging out of the back of my pajama pants! The tip of it was wet and that's why I felt water drops. At that moment my husband came down the stairs and asked me what was wrong. I felt so stupid with the toilet paper in one hand trying to explain my screaming!

[tiptoetulip]

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In Tokyo, years back, I was trying to find a coffee shop to get some change for the vending machines...some friends and I were making a 'beer run.' Well, I found a coffee shop, headed towards it and BOOOM! I walked right into the door---you know, those doors that are supposed to open up automatically (and quickly)? I was so stunned, I wobbled back and ran off. It was way too embarassing!

Like others, I also have a keys-locked-in-the-car story. Once, when going out for job interviews, I stopped somewhere in Kakaako to ask for directions. I headed back for my car and found the doors locked and...keys in the car.

[Menehune Man]

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Back in May of '86 I was working as First Mate aboard a 36' Cheoy Lee "Lion". A very beautiful wooden sailboat named "Athena". It was a slow delivery. We left Oahu for the Big Island, stopping at Lanai and Maui along the way. One night while anchored off Lahaina. I had met up with a friend who was anchored about 100 yards away. The Owner/Captain I was working for went back to Athena in our tender after dinner. I stayed and drank a few more beers. Then at about two am. I decided to swim back rather than sleep in the cockpit. Get the picture! It's pitch black,in the middle of the night, way offshore in deep water, I swam. Looking back I think that was the dumbest thing I've ever done. It may not be normal feeding time for large Tiger Sharks but then again they might like late night snacks too!

[Peshkwe]

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Does catching copperheads by hand count?

[adrian]

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I actually punched my keyboard because my computer was acting up (I didn't want to hit the tower or monitor because I know that I'd replace it). After that, my numpad keys wouldn't work, but it was great excuse to get a wireless keyboard setup

[TurquoiseDuck]

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I actually punched my keyboard because my computer was acting up (I didn't want to hit the tower or monitor because I know that I'd replace it). After that, my numpad keys wouldn't work, but it was great excuse to get a wireless keyboard setup

Hm...you going punch mine if I call you over to my new house to fix my computer ?

[kimo55]

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Hm...you going punch mine if I call you over to my new house to fix my computer ?

and he will jump up and down on yer printer and say as he walks out da door;

"There! now ya have a good excuse to upgrade. Oh and no charge, as I promised before!"

[Miulang]

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This really happened in Honolulu in August...the guy who got caught must really have felt DUMB. And this will teach prostitutes never to accept checks!

Miulang