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

[whatsnewpussycat777]

Me

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

I often smile at threads on here but this is the only one that has ever made me literally laugh out loud. Dd has just come onto the room to check whether I was laughing or crying.

Ran out of dishwasher liquid in the busy kitchen I worked at, so tried using washing up liquid instead.

Went on a girls trip to New York City when I was 21 at Christmas, we got to hotel about 7pm and ordered room service, the girls fell asleep early and I was bored so went for a walk on my own. Ended up in a very dodgy part on my own, think blatant drug addicts and prostitutes hanging around on corners, run down shops etc. Stood on the edge of the pavement and a man turned up in a car said he was a taxi, I was so desperate to get back to hotel I got in. Luckily for me, he didn't rape or murder me, I did have to wait in his locked car outside a phone repair shop for 40 minutes whilst he got his mobile fixed. Got back to the hotel then realised how stupid I'd been and was awake all night with adrenaline rush. Girls nearly killed me when they woke up and I told them.

In Jamaica I tried to catch a glass bottle that had fell out the mini bar but it smashed and a piece came flying up and sliced through my finger (still have no feeling in it as went through my nerve), had to have stitches with no anaesthetic.

Tried to catch a pan of boiling water with spaghetti in it, spaghetti stuck to hands and still have scars now.

When I was 15 I got drunk on absinthe and walked 2 hours home down country lanes, no street lights, open fields, don't remember actually walking home just the odd flashback, but I do remember I was ill for 3 days after.

Might we make classics ladies 😂?

SmidgenofaPigeon oh 😬, it could have been your face and teeth.

@Rainbowandscarlett Same! :-( I was in such a daze post birth and keen to get clean and back to baby that I just had a whole handful of the stuff and went straight in for a wash. Not sure what was worse really.. the intense stinging or the shock of what id been left with down there!!

Going upstairs I decided not to do so empty handed (I can't recall what I was going to take) so I changed direction, thinking I was only a step above the wide bottom step, not further up the narrower ones, putting my foot confidently ahead. As I'd taken my hand off the banisters to turn I went forward and put my foot into thin air.

Down I tumbled, putting a hand out to break my fall. What the hell - I broke two bones each in my hand and arm, broke my nose and knocked my front teeth out. Seven hours in A&E who were still mopping up the Saturday night drunks. In plaster overnight with strapping on fingers and stitches in nose and mouth, dental splint to try and save teeth. The breaks were 'simple' and healed but dental work is another matter - have a temporary denture. I'm halfway through getting implants with metalwork in my gums. It takes time to heal between each process and then Covid came along. This April it'll be three years since the fall. But - I could have broken my neck. Hey ho - I'm alive. I approach stairs with great caution now.

I was taking out a bin bag of rubbish at 3am - I had been working a combination of nights and days and my sleep pattern was thoroughly disrupted.

It was raining, there were 5 steps down to the bin, I was wearing flipflops. I slipped on step 1, and fell forward, still clutching the bin bag, and bumped onto step 2, 3, 4 and 5 and landed in a heap at the bottom.

Somehow I managed to crawl back into the house and yelled for help. DH was on a night shift but I had 4 sleeping children. Eventually my youngest DD heard and came to find me. She was 9. She called 999 and then her dad.

I had broken my pelvis in several places and torn my femoral artery. She came with me to A&E and stayed with me, until DH arrived.

I was in hospital for 17 weeks after that little episode and even now, I can't understand why putting the rubbish out was so important!!

@Eruss

I have found my people!

Too many to remember but yes to draining food and then throwing in bin, locking myself out, taking tray out of oven with glove and then taking the other tray out with bare hand.

Was in a rush once and ironed clothes to be worn whilst I was wearing just my underwear, stood too close to ironing board and burnt my stomach.

Wanted to see how sharp my new knife was.....so I ran it along my finger

I have done exactly the same thing! Long line across my stomach.

Derailing a bit but how does one actually defrost the freezer,
Totally don’t defrost using a spoon to chip away and definitely not now panicking that I’ll break the freezer next time

Same as up thread. Got a lift to a party abroad. Police pulled us over and wanted a bribe from us English for not taking us to Police station as the driver was smoking marijuana. Convinced it was a set up.

Running from school canteen to sixth form block in the rain, veered round a corner and smacked into a boy walking just ahead of us. I went flying and bruised my coccyx Luckily my lunch was rescued and for some reason people blamed the boy I'd smacked into...??

@Eruss

Derailing a bit but how does one actually defrost the freezer, Totally don’t defrost using a spoon to chip away and definitely not now panicking that I’ll break the freezer next time

I use a steamer. Takes minutes.

Where shall I start

Slipped down one step. Grade 3 sprain on ankle. 2 screws

Broke finger with spooky horse. 2 screws

Dislocated shoulder waving a seagull away

Dislocated other shoulder slipping on a bank when doing up fencing

Broke another knuckle whilst shouting and gesturing at a cat.... Hit it on kitchen door

And my best one ever. Helping a teacher light a thermite practical. Magnesium ribbon is the wick. She couldn't get the lighter to work (yes my ciggy lighter) so I took over.... Yep straight to A&E with a rather crispy thumb. Later thanks to a somewhat traumatised teacher and some. Agog year 11 students that practical is now out of our curriculum.

When I lived alone, one day my dog suddenly got sick. The vet said that I should bring him straight in. Trying to gather everything, leave the house and get him to have a wee. I locked myself in the back garden. I thought I know, I'll squeeze back through the DOG FLAP!! Well I obvs got stuck and the way the garden was, noone could see. Eventually, I calmed down and managed to push myself back out. Had to run to the neighbour barefoot to call my Dad to bring keys. Wouldn't have been too bad but locked myself in my first week there and I didn't have much on and had to go over there...

FoxtrotOscarPoppet I have done exactly the same thing when really sick with flu but had to cook for my daughter. I have a lovely scar and couldn't wear boots or trainers for months.

Twice, I have bitten my finger when it snuck inside a baguette. grin it hurts a lot.

I think I actually love you @Velvian 🤣🤣

@Sideorderofchips

Where shall I start

Slipped down one step. Grade 3 sprain on ankle. 2 screws

Broke finger with spooky horse. 2 screws

Dislocated shoulder waving a seagull away

Dislocated other shoulder slipping on a bank when doing up fencing

Broke another knuckle whilst shouting and gesturing at a cat.... Hit it on kitchen door

And my best one ever. Helping a teacher light a thermite practical. Magnesium ribbon is the wick. She couldn't get the lighter to work (yes my ciggy lighter) so I took over.... Yep straight to A&E with a rather crispy thumb. Later thanks to a somewhat traumatised teacher and some. Agog year 11 students that practical is now out of our curriculum.

Science Technician by any chance ???

For the future apparently feathering the Mg works better.

Yep that's me! And it was feathered but unfortunstly when the teacher tried although she heated it up it didn't catch fire. So of course when I tried it didn't take as long as I thought.

Whst they couldn't believe was I casually walked over to the tap whilst kids were watching the reaction and then thought 'hmmm best look as t this in the light' so went into the corridor. Then though that perhaps my rsther blackened thumb could do with a visit to hospital.

So strolled downstairs to see my HoD and suggested thst I perhaps needed to go to hospital...

He agreed rsther quickly and then also told me I was not going to drive myself. Looking back I think I was in shock but at the time my poor rather new senior technician was rsther panicked as I'm stood there going 'it's just a bit crispy that's all...'

Here is crispy thumb

When I was a kid I wanted to show my friends what an electric fence was and way you shouldn't touch it - by touching it...

God knows what I was thinking with that one??

Best part is 18 monthd later had to take my son to a&e

Yep the nurse recognised me.

Ahhhh ok! That sounds dramatic

Think "just a bit crispy " has been said a few times in our prep room too

Just seen the picture bloody hell!!!

Yes it was impressively crispy. My senior technician now gets very twitchy if I'm demo-ING anything to do with fire.. Or magnesium... Or group one metals. She is a biologist though. I just happen to like fire... And metals. Even the kids now ask if the technician who likes fire will be coming in