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What ridiculous or hilarious thing have you done...

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ScruffMuffin · 11/02/2024 17:04

....without really thinking it through? Or alternatively, knowing full well it wasn't going to work out, but doing it anyway?

I guess I should go first. There are probably loads, but these spring to mind:
1 - I was at a large country park or zoo with my DCs when they were little (I forget exactly where). I plucked up the courage to go on one of those vertical drop 'death' slides, but as I was about to start sliding, I changed my mind, tried to grab on to the bar at the top, but it was fractionally too late. Gravity was clearly working against me, and I ended up with a very sore shoulder. I was lucky not to wrench it out of its socket completely.

2 - Much more recently, I was explaining to someone else's DC about the Natural Law Party and yogic flying. The child had never heard of it, so I pulled my legs into the Lotus position to demonstrate. There was a VERY loud crack, followed by excruciating pain as my kneecap dislocated.

A couple of weeks later, when I had mostly recovered, somebody else asked me how I'd dislocated my knee. I showed them how I did it... dislocating it again in the process!

I'm a competent adult most of the time, I swear! But I'm also one of those people with various degrees and loads of other qualifications, and zero common sense. 😂

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bedsidetablewithtoast · 11/02/2024 17:55

My dad wanted my help filling in the paperwork to put some life insurance policies into a trust. I'm not a big fan of paperwork so have been procrastinating until yesterday when I read through all the guidance and then sat down with dad to do it. He's got a neurological condition which slows him down but after quite the labour of love we got it all done, signatures witnessed by a neighbour. Felt quite proud of myself and on my way home, merrily dropped the envelope off into a postbox. Got in the car and then realised I'd not actually put a stamp on the envelope. 😭

ScruffMuffin · 11/02/2024 18:12

Congratulations on getting it done, but oh shit! I've done similar before, intercepted the postman and sorted it out. I guess the alternative is that the recipient has to pay!

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Aparecium · 11/02/2024 18:15

I was helping my dm fill the first garden waste wheelie bin we ever had. It seemed full and there was more to put in, so I climbed in and trod it down. Dm added the rest and I trod that down, too.

Then I found I could not get out again. I could lift myself with a hand on either side, but the bin was too narrow for me to bend my knees.

Dm was running around all the neighbours asking them to do some gardening to fill our bin so that I could get out.

fussychica · 11/02/2024 18:20

Fallen out of a classroom window when standing on a chair. Leant on what I thought was a closed window but it wasnt! Fortunately on the ground floor but still a 6-10 ' fall. Don't ask me what I was doing on the chair, that's probably even more stupid.😁

Sidebeforeself · 11/02/2024 18:20

Me and ex DH were jointly stupid on this one. He asked me to post something important in time for the last collection. I needed to buy stamps first. I left work in time, dashed to shop for stamp, jumped back in car to nearest post box, leapt out , posted envelope just in time. Got back in car and realised I didn’t put the stamps on!

Came home , told exDH who was furious. He jumped in the car, drove to post box, and POSTED A STAMP in the hope that the postman would work it out!

ScruffMuffin · 11/02/2024 18:26

@Sidebeforeself I have to know if it arrived safely?!

The window one reminded me of something silly that happened at school. My friend and I were about 13 and both went to the loo in the first floor toilets at school. It was summer. We were in adjacent cubicles and there was no toilet roll in my friend's cubicle, so she asked me to pass her some. I merrily chucked a whole roll over the adjoining wall (which didn't go right up to the ceiling), except I threw it too hard and it flew out of an open window - one of those very narrow, high up ones. We couldn't stop laughing! Afterwards, we went outside and found the toilet roll on the school field. We spent most of the day giggling about what it must have looked like to any onlookers (we weren't very mature, LOL!).

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Sidebeforeself · 11/02/2024 18:31

It did but minus the stamp! And too late….

ScruffMuffin · 11/02/2024 18:33

Oh no!

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PossumintheHouse · 11/02/2024 18:36

When I was 18, me and a pissed friend decided to open an expensive bottle of wine so we could keep drinking. Got the cork stuck, so reasoned it would be fine to just bash the neck of the wine off using the kitchen counter.

It wasn’t. For either the bottle of wine or the counter.

ScruffMuffin · 11/02/2024 18:38

Haha, @PossumintheHouse - whoops!

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LindorDoubleChoc · 11/02/2024 18:40

Sidebeforeself · 11/02/2024 18:20

Me and ex DH were jointly stupid on this one. He asked me to post something important in time for the last collection. I needed to buy stamps first. I left work in time, dashed to shop for stamp, jumped back in car to nearest post box, leapt out , posted envelope just in time. Got back in car and realised I didn’t put the stamps on!

Came home , told exDH who was furious. He jumped in the car, drove to post box, and POSTED A STAMP in the hope that the postman would work it out!

Grin Grin Grin

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