What's the weirdest thing you've done that you look back and think 'WTF did I do that for?'

[BarbaraVineFan]

I'll start - when I was in my first long term relationship at the fairly advanced age of 24, my partner and I used to regularly cook our dinner, then take it up to bed on a tray and sit there watching TV eating our dinner like Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! No discernible reason, there was a perfectly good telly and sofa downstairs 😐 I have no idea why we did it! Anyone else got something similarly weird to share?

Damn it, BigLicks !

I've read all the way through the thread to write an almost identical piece of idiocy!

I was ten and my second eldest sister came into the living room, in floods of tears and when I asked what was wrong, she told me to follow her.

She had a wall mounted angle poise lamp, she pointed at it and said, "I put my finger in there..."

Even though I knew what an electric shock was, I did the same. It made me jitter and it seemed like forever, before I got my finger out. I had two little burns, from the contact stubs.

We swore each other to secrecy.

@catscalledbeanz literally crying 😂

@SinnerBoy 🤣🤣

Oh my word I just squealed laughjingbat that!!!

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Some of the things I did when backpacking 15 years ago. Many of them were "just" getting pissed and hooking up, but one night I got absolutely shit faced with two Canadian girls. The following day I could hardly remember anything, apart from sitting on the edge of a cliff with my legs dangling over the edge and feeling absolutely certain I wouldn't fall, and also that I couldn't fall because it was such a stupid way to die and what would my parents think? Looking back it was so unbelievably stupid and I am so lucky it ended well, rather than as a sad article in a newspaper.

A long, long time ago when I was very young, back when there were no mobile phones & not everyone had a landline either, I had moved to London & was applying for jobs while living with my fiancé.

After many rounds of interviews & tests, I was offered a position which included full accountancy training to become a chartered accountant including all membership, course & exam costs covered, study time during work time, a really decent for the time salary, plus a couple of other things - it was basically a magical job for me.

At the time it was a small established firm with one old accountant who was looking to retire once his replacement was trained to take over the department & fully qualified (that was supposed to be me).
They were looking for a 'bright young thing' to take them from paper to computer based accounting as computers in offices were pretty new back then & a lot of companies hadn't even got one computer, never mind someone who knew how to use one.
They are much bigger now.

A couple of days before I was due to start, I found out I was pregnant.
Being a completely naïve idiot, not only did I decide it would be dishonourable of me to take the job when I'd be on maternity leave within the first year, but when I told my illiterate, but seemed fairly laid back neighbour, (I had not realised at the time that she was a Heroin addict & anyone with half an ounce of sense would have known that) she asked if I'd put in a good word for her.

I sent her to tell the company I wouldn't be taking the job as I was pregnant & that I thought she might be a good replacement.

I deeply regretted both ideas before she'd even got back from what should have been my first day & to this day I don't know what I was thinking.

I'm sure they thought they'd had a lucky escape - she didn't get the job, but apparently they were very polite & gave her a cup of tea before she left.

On nights out in my early 20s, if the bar closed but I still wanted to have fun, I'd invite half the bar back to my flat for a party 🤦‍♀️ literally didn't know these people and twice was so drunk that I apparently unlocked the door, went straight to bed and let random people party in my flat while I was unconscious.
I look back and think what the actual f was I thinking?!?

I remember when you first posted this. I read it doing the commute and was laughing so hard I was crying. Had a few strange looks. This is one of the best I've ever read about.

Cringe stories for me...God I have so many...I was about 14 and I went to the corner store my mom asked me to pick her up $10 worth of mints think it was 5 or 6 packs (She and my dad were smokers and always had mints, like everywhere.) Anyway, the lady in the store who we knew and I spent the summer baby sitting for and would have babysat for on the weekend during school was asking if I was sure I wanted that many, so I replied "yes my mom and dad have this really weird fetish for them' the lady turned bright red. Cashed me out and I was so confused told my parents when I got in what I said. My dad was mortified and left the room, my mom then went on the explain what a fetish was as i clearly didnt have a clue. I was never asked over to babysit for them again. I also never went back to that store again. I would an extra 2 miles to the next one.

A post up thread has just reminded me of one! 😂
In my late teens, my friend would drive us around and we'd pull over to random people and ask for directions in really stupid accents and then pretend to not understand English when they told us! 🙈 we would even pretend to discuss the situation in a fake language.
God knows why we thought this was funny but it had us howling!

Same , and all much more off the wall than eating in bed together ❤️

Ah, we had that Dairy book too. Wonder where it is now

Cloudsandrainnotsunandsand · Yesterday 18:40
Had 11 dc
What!!

Kudos to you, I could never manage that!

Had a one night stand I didn't want. I tried to say no but he kept wearing me down. I thought maybe he would leave if I did enough to keep him happy for a while. I hated every minute of it and was shaking.

I wouldn't allow that now. I have more self respect.

Still got mine, well the Dairy Book of Family Cookery. Anyone want the recipe for Kidneys a la Creme?

Me three! I love looking through it.

I flew out to San Diego in 2002, on my own, when I was 21. To meet and stay with a guy I met off an online chat group! After a couple of nights we hired a car and drove up to Sacramento, stayed at a dodgy motel and then caught a greyhound over to San Francisco where we stayed with my cousin and his girlfriend for a week.

I look back now and think what on earth!

When I was 14 my friend was obsessed with this boy and on Saturdays we used to walk literally 4 miles each way just to walk past his house a few times on the off chance he came out and she could speak to him. He went to our school. Wtf couldn’t she just speak to him there??? 🤣🤣

I used to do this at around that age. It was another girl not a boy. I did it alone though . Was way too embarrassed to tell my friends. I went a bit barmy in my teens. Hormones probably!

Ha- yeah. I kind of get it. She would’ve been way too shy to speak to him in front of his mates so we figured separating him from the herd was the way forward. I quite enjoyed the drama of it tbh.

we also used to try the maternity clothes on in Dorothy Perkins. I guess that’s also quite weird.

Loved DP. I miss that place.

I'm reminded of another thing. I knew I wouldn't marry, wasn't that into guys, but I loved wedding dresses. I wanted to be able to try them on. So I went into a bridal emporium but they were asking me when my special day was! I freaked and mumbled something and left! I was about 18 then but a very young 18.

As a side note. I used to suffer hyperhydrosis and know all those awkward situations.
I had a bilateral sympathectomy 16 years ago and changed my life like you wouldn't believe.

This may well have been me throwing them in. Esp if they were white pink or yellow. I do this on my parents birthdays to rember them in whichever water is closest. I dont mind if it was. Id be glad they gave you pleasure too.