To ask what the stupidest thing you've ever done is?

Omg MNers are LEGENDS.

Took my first car (Mk2 Escort) into a garage when I was 18 because it was making an alarming hissing noise.

After much investigation the mechanic pissed himself laughing and pulled a can of fizzy drink off the parcel shelf that had expanded in the heat and was about to blow

I put swimming armbands round my ankles and jumped into the pool

Off on holiday, with our toddler DDs. I had carefully packed a suitcase for me and DH, and another one for DDs. Left them both in our bedroom.

As I was busy strapping DDs into their car seats, DH was dispatched to bring the suitcases down and load them in the boot.

4 hours drive later, we arrive at holiday cottage. Only one suitcase in the boot...'Where is the DDs' suitcase?' I yell ask.

DH replies that, as he didn't recognise the DDs' suitcase (admittedly, it was brand new) he had left it in our bedroom.

'Whose f*cking suitcase did you think it was...???

We went to bed, not speaking..

Actual tears of laughter!!

When I was younger we use to have a Birdseye level grill & for some reason I always use to look into the grill when lighting it with a match. I a!ways smelt a burning smell & presumed it was the hairs on my arm catching fire. Only realised much later my eyebrows were getting a little singed.

Decided to clear up pores on my nose by being "enthusiastic" with an exfoliating sponge. Had to hode my stupidity by claiming I had hit my nose and grazed it.

Set fire to heat proof glove/mitt I was wearing during a practical lesson at school using Busen burner.

Managed to put it out after -

a. Vigorously shaking hand to extinguish flame. Resulted in terrifying my experiment partner with my flaming gauntlet of doom.

b. Slapping hand on to desk in another attempt to put out fire.

c. Using the sink.

Recovered from the trauma of nearly dying (over dramatic teen) and then promptly did it again. Twit.

Got changed into my swimming costume in one of those beach huts and then out my clothes on over my costume. Walked most of the way down a busy sea front with my bra attached to my clothes, hanging down somewhere near my bum.

As a young teen, I put swimming armbands round my ankles and jumped into the pool.

Do NOT do this.

I put my uggs in the washing machine. Twice.

When I was 7 I walked face first into an iron that had been propped up and gave myself 2nd degree burns all down one side of my face.

The other morning I filled my electric kettle with water, put it on top of my electric hob and turned the hob on. Thankfully I realised before the kettle melted!

A friend visited one night and as she had a drink, left her car and got taxi home. Next day car parked in front of driveway and couldn't get out. Knocking on neighbours door to see whose car it is, one neighbour said I thought I saw the person who parked it go into your house. Turns out it was my friend's car and I had forgotten I had agreed to her parking there!

Looked at the draining board and decided it needed a quick clean before we sat down to eat dinner. Took the bleach cleaner spray and proceeded to spray the draining board, including both plates of dinner that were on it just about to be served.

I have just managed to leave all my DP's clothes in the drawers at our holiday home in Norfolk along with some toys that are used for extra curricular activity (!) if you catch my drift. We are both women - we didn't realise until we were having lunch in a pub when we got home - she thought I had been packing them while she cleared the kitchen and I thought she was packing them while I sorted the kids' rooms. We had actually met the cleaners .. they arrived as we were leaving - they were lovely and we are so embarrassed. The ironic thing is that with four teenagers and an 82 yr old graNdfather in tow we barely got a moment to look at each other never mind anything extra curricular... said toys remained in the drawer for the entire week ...

This week alone ive......

Slept with my ex 10 months after promising myself I'd never do it again

Lost 2 purses in 24 hrs

Sprayed on way too much deodorant and managed to flick most of it in my eye when trying to get rid of the excess. That was fun trying to explain to the pharmacist

This reminded - I put dog's Arse Cream DIRECTLY into my eye thinking it was was my prescribed eye cream.

I also then had to go to the pharmacist with an eyeball like a tomato . . .

My dp burnt a hole in the mattress using the hair dryer too!
Ds2 aged 2 'lost' his fork at dinner tonight....I said 'where's your fork ds?' He said 'don't know' I said 'look down'... he was holding it!!

Tom - I didn't something similar. I googled how to work a certain piece of software that I needed for work and found an answer to my exact problem. I then realised that I was reading the answer that I had written several years earlier. Not only had I forgotten that I had written the answer on the forum, I had no memory of being able to use the software.

I've gone back to roll on - obviously

Sprayed on way too much deodorant and managed to flick most of it in my eye when trying to get rid of the excess. That was fun trying to explain to the pharmacist

CheshireChat your dessert in a drawer has reminded me of the time my aunt and uncle brought us back some posh chocolates from a holiday they'd been on, and my uncle decided to open them as we'd just sat down to a roast dinner, tried to pass one across the table to my dad and dropped it in the hot gravy jug.

BowieFan you've reminded me that on my honeymoon I got a hairbrush stuck in my hair. I can't even remember what I was trying to do, but I ended up having to visit the hotel salon and have them sort it out for me. My hair is quite fine and not particularly curly, it shouldn't even have been possible in the first place.

More often I have the same thing as some PPs and do something alarmingly stupid whilst thinking "this isn't going to end well". Most recently I had my parents coming over for my dad's birthday and had spent £15ish on a fancy bottle of red wine, some of which was going to go in a shepherd's pie and the rest of which was going to go with dinner, and I opened the kitchen cupboard, saw the Worcester sauce at the back, reached in for it while thinking "I should really take out the things in front of it first", knocked a bottle of vinegar off the shelf and on to the open bottle of wine, shattering both and covering my kitchen in wine, vinegar and tiny pieces of broken glass. We ended up eating about an hour late because it took me that long to clear up, and my poor dear ma - never a night owl even in her younger days - was about ready for bed by the time pudding came out.

Oh, and first time we bought one of those apple pies you cook in the oven. It's really late but DP really fancies it so I bang it in. Only when I dish it out I manage to drop it in the utensil drawer- I've now been banned from dishing out desserts as it never ends well.

Also, cut a cheesecake in half but one side gets stuck to the blade and then falls off.

Not me this time, but when I was a 6th former there was a girl in my English group who used to absent-mindedly chew the end of her pen. I turned round one day and saw she had a mouthful of blue ballpen ink thanks to chewing right through her Bic. She said it tasted as disgusting as it looked.

Blender accidents are scarily common BTW. The hand surgery clinic I went to said they got at least 3 a week. Maybe some more safety features are called for, though I've since made friends with mine.

I have this on another thread, but I decided to get out the last few bits of popcorn out of the bag. Only this was the sweet variety and I managed to get caramelised sugar on my fingers. Then stood stupidly wondering what burned me and then trying to remember if it's okay to put cold water on it. I still have the blister.

I routinely burn myself on the oven when taking stuff out or not making sure my hands are covered when grabbing hot stuff.