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

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RentANDBills · 26/10/2016 14:20

In very pathetic excited about the new whisk I got today and decided to make some pancakes.

In my enthusiasm I forgot the basic laws of physics and plunged said whisk into a full jug of milk and eggs, plastering myself and the kitchen in mix. Seriously, the place was covered.
Contemplating my choices, I cleared it all up.
This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that I then immediately did the exact same thing again. I'm now dripping with eggs, milk and shame wondering why people pay me to look after their children when I clearly need full time supervision myself Blush

please tell me your stupidest stories, I suspect I'm the worlds biggest plonker right now

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Tomhardysmistress · 27/10/2016 22:38

I once revisited a weight loss forum and was answering someone's question about being frustrated about the diet plan not working properly.

I wrote out a detailed reply providing lots of hints and advice all the while there was a little tiny niggle going off in my head that there may have been something vaguely familiar about the post... Hit send.

Then as I was reading the whole post back, I realised that I had actually replied to my own question that I had asked two years ago!!

ItShouldHaveBeenJess · 27/10/2016 22:46

Aaaah, Tom - your intentions were good! Still cracked me up, though!

BoinkAlongQuietly · 27/10/2016 22:50

Bwahahahha Tom

Think that happened on here with someone answering her own question about a pushchair.

Bumbleclat · 27/10/2016 23:09

These are funny!
I went on a health kick and had my juicer out, juicing tons of veggies.

I forgot to put the jug by the spout and inexplicably had the spout pointing directly into the semi open cutlery drawer so it ended up being filled with fucking expensive loads of vege juice.

I spent hours cleaning the juicer and the cutlery drawer!

Ezzie29 · 28/10/2016 08:11

Some of these are making me wince! I've done a lot of stupid things in my time but the first thing I thought of reading this thread was when I was about 7, so my sister would have been 9. I was struggling to get the hang of riding a bike and it annoyed my sister who wanted to ride with me. So she came up with the great idea of tying a rope to our bikes (with loads of slack!) so she could do all the peddling and I could just sit back and take in the sights - never occurred to us that i might need to peddle too. So she takes off and cycles for about 20 foot then turns back to see how I'm enjoying it and I'm there on the ground, being dragged along the concrete and scraping all the skin off my face - I'd fallen over pretty much as soon as she'd started moving. Not really sure how she didn't notice she was just dragging me along! Actually in hindsight it was probably only a couple of seconds of being dragged but it felt like 20 foot!

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RentANDBills · 28/10/2016 15:27

Oh god some of these make me wince.

silly I'm so sorry to hear that. How terrifying for you.

I'm astonished how many people have stuck their hands in blenders or the like!
I knew someone who lost 3 fingers doing similar but with a lawn strimmer...!

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Afo · 28/10/2016 15:36

This will totally out me to my family, not me, my dad. He was supposed to pit ointment in his eye....lifted the superglue instead and glued his eye shut. Ended up in a&e. I don't know how the staff contained themselves.

anaemicenglishtea · 28/10/2016 15:37

Someone once called our house phone asking for my mum. I told them she wasn't home and could she leave a message. She asked for her contact details , i.e. Mobile or the address of where she went. I replied back by saying I shall pass the details later because I was not home. Blush

CheshireChat · 28/10/2016 15:51

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.

RavenclawRemedials · 28/10/2016 16:50

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. Shock Maybe some more safety features are called for, though I've since made friends with mine.Smile

CheshireChat · 28/10/2016 17:36

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.

easterholidays · 28/10/2016 17:45

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. Blush

easterholidays · 28/10/2016 17:48

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.

TheWitchwithNoName · 28/10/2016 17:51

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 Blush

TheWitchwithNoName · 28/10/2016 17:53

I've gone back to roll on - obviously

allegretto · 28/10/2016 17:56

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. Confused

user1472334322 · 28/10/2016 18:04

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!!

2kids2dogsnosense · 28/10/2016 18:25

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 . . .

Cluesue · 28/10/2016 18:32

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

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 28/10/2016 18:39

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 ...

FeelingConfused85 · 28/10/2016 18:45

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.

M1ssunderstood · 28/10/2016 19:43

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!

ninnypoo · 28/10/2016 20:45

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!

slenderisthenight · 28/10/2016 20:46

I put my uggs in the washing machine. Twice.

SlipperyJack · 28/10/2016 20:52

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

Do NOT do this.

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