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What's a stupid thing you've done that you still think WTF did I do that for?

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whatsnewpussycat777 · 12/02/2021 19:12

Me Blush

I wanted to kill the weeds between the slabs up to the front door.

No fucker one told me that they were going to crumble and dissolve if I used neat bleach.

What an idiot. 😢

Have you anything stupid to make me laugh on this cold evening 😃?!

Ps. Don't use bleach on certain slabs. certainly not neat

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AIMD · 12/02/2021 19:15

Stood on a stool to lift Christmas presets (freshly wrapped) onto the top of my wardrobe. As I stood on it the stool wobbled so I stepped off. Despite that, and knowing it is a really wobbly stool, I again stood on it and then flipped of it and broke my wrist.

Why didn’t I just use another stool. I literally stepped off and back on again because it had wobbled!

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whatsnewpussycat777 · 12/02/2021 19:16

Arghhh! No way!

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SmidgenofaPigeon · 12/02/2021 19:22

I tripped on a high concrete curb, and I actually told myself NOT TO PUT MY HANDS OUT as I fell because once I broke my wrist and it was painful. So I just went down like a sack of spuds.

I broke two ribs. I can tell you that is HUGELY more painful than a broken wrist, and I probably wouldn’t have broken my wrist anyway I’d have just broken my fall Blush

The first thing the person who helped me said was ‘why the hell didn’t you put your hands out?!’

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whatsnewpussycat777 · 12/02/2021 19:23

Ouchy 😱😢

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CabernetSoWhat · 12/02/2021 19:25

I once got on an escalator, got a third of the way up and realised what I wanted was on the floor I was leaving, so I turned around and jumped off.

It was a bizarre impulse. Fortunately, I landed on my feet on the foot plate (though I was wearing heels) and there was no one behind me. I couldn't quite believe I'd done it. Was very embarrassed 😳

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whatsnewpussycat777 · 12/02/2021 19:26

Lol that's actually pretty funny.

Shall I call you tigger 😃

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AudTheDeepAndCrispAndEven · 12/02/2021 19:29

I was making a fancy curry from scratch and was grinding all the spices, including chilli, mustard seeds etc, in a pestle and mortar. I tipped the contents into the pan and noticed there was a fair bit of residue left in the pot. So I BLEW into it, the remaining spice dust thus ended up in my eyes. Probably top of my list of stupid things to have done, thought I'd blinded myself, it was agony and my entire face swelled up.

icelollycraving · 12/02/2021 19:31

👀 I’m sat next to him tbh.

ChonkyChook · 12/02/2021 19:33

@whatsnewpussycat777

Lol that's actually pretty funny.

Shall I call you tigger 😃

I can't breathe.
IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 12/02/2021 19:42

Stapled my finger to see if it hurt.

Mysillystory · 12/02/2021 19:45

This was a few years ago and I still think WTAF

I was on a site, a forum type place with occasional meet ups in my area.

I had seen this man there and we had talked anyway he messaged me and we started chatting. I made it very clear I was only after friendship, I knew he was "older" but not how old.

He asked to meet up, I was free and thought yeah ok why not? (WHY?! Oh why did I think that)

Any way we met up, and he said let's go back to his for a drink as it was a bit cold out.

So we walk to his (much further than he said- I was wearing heels)

He proceeds to take me to his flat, which is in some kind of OAPs complex, he makes me a hot chocolate with squirty cream and marshmallows and is treating me a bit like a child. He then said he wanted to show me something in his bedroom. It's a four poster bed with fairy lights all on the top. He says lay down, it looks better. So I did (see, this is really a WTF was I thinking story) and as I'm laying there, feeling very uncomfortable I notice a load of bandage equipment on the back of his door Shock

I very quickly made my excuses and left.

On my way home I was just wondering WTF had happened and how the fuck did I get myself into such a strange (and dangerous) situation.

Oh and it turned out he was in his late 70s

Oh and he had legally changed his name to a well known character, thing along the lines of 'Dumbledore'

Confused
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whatsnewpussycat777 · 12/02/2021 19:48

😂😱😂

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icelollycraving · 12/02/2021 19:49

Bandage or bondage? Grin

Mysillystory · 12/02/2021 19:50

*bondage

WeeMadArthur · 12/02/2021 19:50

I broke my glasses once and in a panic I superglued them myself totally wonky. Cue a trip to the opticians to find out that they could have fixed them if I hadn’t glued them solid.

PrettyLittleStars · 12/02/2021 19:50

@CabernetSoWhat

I once got on an escalator, got a third of the way up and realised what I wanted was on the floor I was leaving, so I turned around and jumped off.

It was a bizarre impulse. Fortunately, I landed on my feet on the foot plate (though I was wearing heels) and there was no one behind me. I couldn't quite believe I'd done it. Was very embarrassed 😳

This gave me a proper belly laugh hahaha 😂😂😂
FightingFiles · 12/02/2021 19:52

Defrosted a freezer with a knife.
Suddenly it sort of fizzed and apparently that killed it.
£600 for a new freezer 👍

Motnight · 12/02/2021 19:53

Drunk. Got in a car outside the train station. Told the driver to take me home, about 7 miles away. Driver insisted that he wasn't a taxi driver. I insisted that he was. He drove me home. It was many years ago and he had to rely on an A - Z. He had literally just dropped his parents off at the station when I got in the car.

RevolutionRadio · 12/02/2021 19:57

I once threw an envelope in the bin without looking inside. A few days later I went to find some train tickets I needed for the weekend to put with my luggage. I realised quickly they were in the envelope I'd thrown out. The train company fortunately reissued them for me.

Poppins2016 · 12/02/2021 20:04

@Motnight

Drunk. Got in a car outside the train station. Told the driver to take me home, about 7 miles away. Driver insisted that he wasn't a taxi driver. I insisted that he was. He drove me home. It was many years ago and he had to rely on an A - Z. He had literally just dropped his parents off at the station when I got in the car.
That made me chuckle, how awkward. What a decent man!
Moonflower12 · 12/02/2021 20:08

I was trying to get stuck flapjack out of a Pyrex dish, with a very sharp paring knife, with the Mound of Venus part of my hand in front of the point of the knife.
Literally as I thought,' This is really stupid' the knife slipped and plunged deep in my hand, with the point right through to the other side.

Bunnybigears · 12/02/2021 20:09

Got home from the pub I wondered if it was possible to climb up the drain pipe and in my bedroom window to avoid having to open the front door as I couldn't find my key in my bag as I was drunk. I got quite far up bit then couldn't work out how to actually get in the window, then couldn't get down. My elderly neighbour bought his ladders over to rescue me!

PainterInPeril · 12/02/2021 20:09

When I was younger (actually it was only a few years ago!Grin), I was bored and thought dyeing my hair with paprika would be fun! Sadly, my hair didn't change colour at all... And I had a very itchy scalp for a while!Blush
To be honest, my whole life is made up of these sorts of incidents....HmmGrin

MsTSwift · 12/02/2021 20:11

So so many 🙄😁 my nine lives are well and truly used up!

While travelling in India with female friend getting a lift to a beach party with some men we met in a bar. Turns out they were drug dealers and the police even stopped them on the way to the party in a dark lane. What was I thinking?! They were waved through and friend and I managed to lose them in the crowd at the party

icelollycraving · 12/02/2021 20:15

After a very boozey night, my friend and I got in a cab to go home to my flat. I gave the address of a flat I hadn’t lived in for about 10 years. Only when I got there did I think hmm why don’t my keys fit?
My friend had stayed at my flat loads of times and didn’t question it either.