What stupid/silly/daft thing have you done?

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Bit random, I just remember the time I found a Hot Wheel (toy car) in the toilet...instead of taking it out I thought "It's no bigger or heavier than a poop surely" so flushed it. Obviously it got stuck.

Can't think of any more off the top of my head. Come on I can't be the only one. What silly or "stupid" thing have you done that afterwards you thought What was I thinking?!

God i have done so many that i can't even think but they all pop up in my head at random times to make me think god why did i do that lol.

The only one i can think of today is several times smelling that unmistakable stench of a dirty nappy and sticking my finger in to check even though i know whats going to happen... why?????

God i have done so many that i can't even think but they all pop up in my head at random times to make me think god why did i do that lol.

The only one i can think of today is several times smelling that unmistakable stench of a dirty nappy and sticking my finger in to check even though i know whats going to happen... why?????

God i have done so many that i can't even think but they all pop up in my head at random times to make me think god why did i do that lol.

The only one i can think of today is several times smelling that unmistakable stench of a dirty nappy and sticking my finger in to check even though i know whats going to happen... why?????

First job, office junior...
18

Passed my driving test and proudly drove the 'new' old battered mini (1988) to work the morning after I bought it.

Pressed accelerator instead of the break when parking up next to the office.
Crashed into the office wall, knocked the radiator off the wall on the inside which then sprayed water onto and ruined computers on a desk next to it.

It was a haulage firm...

Imagine my humiliation and the delight of the many lorry drivers

😳

First job, office junior...
18

Passed my driving test and proudly drove the 'new' old battered mini (1988) to work the morning after I bought it.

Pressed accelerator instead of the break when parking up next to the office.
Crashed into the office wall, knocked the radiator off the wall on the inside which then sprayed water onto and ruined computers on a desk next to it.

It was a haulage firm...

Imagine my humiliation and the delight of the many lorry drivers

😳

First job, office junior...
18

Passed my driving test and proudly drove the 'new' old battered mini (1988) to work the morning after I bought it.

Pressed accelerator instead of the break when parking up next to the office.
Crashed into the office wall, knocked the radiator off the wall on the inside which then sprayed water onto and ruined computers on a desk next to it.

It was a haulage firm...

Imagine my humiliation and the delight of the many lorry drivers

😳

Sorry posted three times... another example of my fuckwittery.

I had a holiday job at a factory when I was a student. I usually did admin stuff but one day they asked me to do some welding - not the kind where you use a mask and there's loads of sparks, just melting little bits of soft metal using a thing like a very hot pen.

I put the pen thing back in its holder and couldn't remember if I'd turned it off, so I tested it, using my finger. It hurt horribly for the rest of the day. I probably shouldn't be let out on my own.

Said thank you to a cash machine. With a queue of people behind me

I had a holiday job at a factory when I was a student. I usually did admin stuff but one day they asked me to do some welding - not the kind where you use a mask and there's loads of sparks, just melting little bits of soft metal using a thing like a very hot pen.

I put the pen thing back in its holder and couldn't remember if I'd turned it off, so I tested it, using my finger. It hurt horribly for the rest of the day. I probably shouldn't be let out on my own.

I had a holiday job at a factory when I was a student. I usually did admin stuff but one day they asked me to do some welding - not the kind where you use a mask and there's loads of sparks, just melting little bits of soft metal using a thing like a very hot pen.

I put the pen thing back in its holder and couldn't remember if I'd turned it off, so I tested it, using my finger. It hurt horribly for the rest of the day. I probably shouldn't be let out on my own.

My grandmother told me not to touch the plate of the iron because it was very hot. When she left the room I decided to see if that was true. It was. I had a blister on the tip of my finger for a week or more. But I was about 5.

Back in the day of the 11 plus I finished my paper and sat back quite smug whilst others hadn't finished. I was usually in the top 3-4 of the class and thought that was why. I then decided to read through for something to do/kill time...and found 2 pages stuck together. I'd missed 2 pages of questions, this was about 5 minutes before the exam ended. I rushed through them in a panic. I passed...by a miracle.

Driving along in the countryside listening to a Christina Aguilera album (I know...) and really going for it with the singing along, tossing my hair around, generally acting as if I was in a music video. Didn't notice the row of kids on the back seat of the school bus in front of me who were laughing and pointing at me for a good few minutes. Immediately stopped singing, felt absolutely mortified. It felt like a long journey after that until the school bus and I went our separate ways on a roundabout. I am a much more subdued car singer now!

In my old job I really hated a secretary called Moira (the feeling was mutual tbh) When I was carrying a load of stuff downstairs I realised I had her hole punch as it had her name on the bottom.

I threw it in the bin 😂😂

Put my coffee cup in my bag and my phone in the public bin :) great. Had to root around in the gross pile to pull it out and got leftover coffee all over my bag.

Submitted my physical thesis, thought job done and jollied on to the pub. Realised I hadn't submitted it digitally two sips into my pint. Legged it to the public library. Got it in precisely one minute before the deadline and was so so grateful I'd finished earlier in the morning.

On a bus once and the bell/button to signal you wanted to get off at the next stop wasn't working. The bus driver was telling people when they got on this news and suggesting people shout out 'DING' when they need to get off. So a bus full of people, including myself, were all shouting DING as the bus approached our stops.

Every day that I drop my son off at preschool I get in my car to drive home on the passenger side. I then have to sit for a few minutes acting like I meant to do it as all other school parents are walking by and getting into their own cars to go!

I don’t know why I do it? It’s my car! I’ve driven there! Why do I keep getting in the passenger side! They must all wonder and talk about me!

Wearing fake nails and straightening my hair, thought I wonder if I'd feel the heat on my actual nail if I touched the straightener to the fake nail
... yes i did and the fake nail melted.

Every day that I drop my son off at preschool I get in my car to drive home on the passenger side. I then have to sit for a few minutes acting like I meant to do it as all other school parents are walking by and getting into their own cars to go!

I don’t know why I do it? It’s my car! I’ve driven there! Why do I keep getting in the passenger side! They must all wonder and talk about me!

I think MN has a problem at the moment - slow loading, and veeeery slow posting on threads - and lots of duplicate posts too.

Dad test thing I did as a kid - went to play in the coal cellar under the church, with some friends. We had a candle, for some light, and put it on a ledge on the wall - and I then leant on it and melted my anorak. I had to explain the damage to my mum who was Not Impressed.

Plugging in my hairdryer and the top half of the plug was loose and came off. So I just pushed the metal pins into the socket with my finger.
How I'm still here is anyones guess and absolutely no idea as to why I thought that was a good idea!

Plugging in my hairdryer and the top half of the plug was loose and came off. So I just pushed the metal pins into the socket with my finger.
How I'm still here is anyones guess and absolutely no idea as to why I thought that was a good idea!

Plugging in my hairdryer and the top half of the plug was loose and came off. So I just pushed the metal pins into the socket with my finger.
How I'm still here is anyones guess and absolutely no idea as to why I thought that was a good idea!

Got a criminal record for bouncing a cheque! (I'd just turned 18).

Trying to take a sip of my takeaway coffee and forgetting my mask was still on. Done it more than once...