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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

OP posts:
Smileyk · 14/02/2021 18:10

Bought a new bread knife, it's amazing and now wondering why the heck I didn't buy one sooner. Cooked some part baked baguettes and as they were hot I was holding them with the silicone oven glove as I cut them. Forgot it was a mega sharp new knife - it went straight through the bread, the glove, the lining of the glove and into my finger! Ouch.

DagenhamRoundhouse · 14/02/2021 18:23

Turned on my phone a few days ago find a voice message waiting. It told me to call 222 to listen to it. I felt panicked thinking it might be spam as I never get voicemails! Anyway, DH said it wouldn't hurt so I dialled it and heard my own voice saying "Testing testing.." It was me, well, testing! And the number shown was of course our own which I'd called from to test. Dohhh! What we do under stress, eh?

purplebagladylovesgin · 14/02/2021 18:24

I jumped onto a bouncy castle we had hired for my sons second birthday. He was happily bouncing and I jumped up really high and landed on my bottom.

The resulting propulsion catapulted him straight out of the front of the castle and only missed serious injury (a drop onto concrete) as my sister caught him as she was standing in front of the castle at the time.

I had no idea this would happen despite my huge size. He thought it was hilarious. Thank goodness for the quick reflexes of my sister.

DagenhamRoundhouse · 14/02/2021 18:26

@purplebagladylovesgin

I've drained my carefully made stock straight into a sieve and down the sink before. Carefully keeping the bones that were meant for the bin.

Yesterday I discovered the butter in the bread bin, the bread in the coffee cupboard and the coffee jar in the fridge.

We're all doing strange stuff at present. However, I do remember my grandmother (dead since 1999) one night putting out her hot water bottle on the front step and taking an empty milk bottle up to bed.
Boldlady · 14/02/2021 18:26

Drove several hundred miles to pick my parents up from a flight at Heathrow. They were coming back to UK after working abroad. Became increasingly alarmed when they didn't appear off the flight. I'd got the right flight and everything, just the wrong week

cassie0207 · 14/02/2021 18:39

I had to make a project group with two guys in college, and one of them was total Casanova. As i wasnt able to find anybody else i approached these two guys and asked them and they agreed. The other guy was a total nerd and gentleman but the casanova one took it as if i had some interest in him and thats why i asked. A year passed the project was finished and i heard he told this to few of his friends. I got to know about this and stopped speaking to him except when absolutely mandatory. In final year i couldnt contain my anger and wrote him an email, he totally denied it and gave me a word or two about how full of myself i was. I dont think i ever recovered from this whole thing and always imagined he went around and had a good laugh about my email. How silly i was at 16 to let these things define my self worth for years, and possibly even now.

bendmeoverbackwards · 14/02/2021 18:45

I had a Saturday job in a bakery when I was 15. Manageress took some hot trays of baked goods out of the oven and put them in the rack telling me not to touch them as they were very hot.

A short while later I had forgotten what she said and pulled a tray out with my hand. Ouch! I was so embarrassed I didn’t even say anything about my poor burnt hand!

QuornSausagesAreTheDevilsPenis · 14/02/2021 19:02

Only a month ago - put my finger into the bottom of the stick blender and pressed the on button with my other hand Shock 😬

Was trying to turn Quorn sausages into sausagemeat for a giant sausage plait thingy. They're not as malleable as 'proper' sausages so ended up using the blender. Some got stuck so I went to hoik it out with my finger.

Still no idea why. Literally never done it before, always turn it off and use a knife or a spatula.

It wasn't wasted btw. Dh finished making it, although obvs could no longer guarantee it was vegetarian 🤢

RatherLostPenguins · 14/02/2021 19:02

As a teenager, I had a shelf above my bed with a metal desk lamp on it as it was a better angle to see when I was sitting up reading in my bed.

One dark morning I went to turn it on while still lying down, the switch was one of the boxes partway along the cable so I felt along the cable with my hand until I found the box and instead of flipping the switch, I pulled the cable.

The whole lamp flew off the shelf and smashed into my face. It cut my lip and caused a huge nose bleed as well as a big scratch down the bridge of my nose, which when it healed enough to touch I realised was actually a dent. I can still feel the dent when I run my finger down my nose now, a good couple of decades later.

HesSpartacus · 14/02/2021 19:11

Brownie Camp: tried to dry out some wet seaweed - by hanging it on an electric fence.

Currently nursing a massive scrape in the roof of my mouth after holding a torch between my teeth while trying to get the children's bastard pony in from his field. Got headbutted in the torch for my troubles. Eating (and especially drinking alcohol) has been painful all weekend Angry

ThistleTits · 14/02/2021 19:15

This was the first of many incredibly idiotic things I've done over the years. Making jam tarts in school, teacher says "do not touch the jam, it is very hot". Of course I stuck my finger in the jam, burnt it and put said finger in mouth and burnt that too.

Madcatgirl · 14/02/2021 19:16

My sixth form was a train ride away and this was in the days of slam doors. Getting on the train during rush hour and the door slammed my foot and caught the heel of my shoe, tearing it clean off my foot.

And under the train.

The conductor had to be called over, the train backed up, conductor had to jump onto the track to retrieve my shoe and off we went.

Mortified.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 14/02/2021 19:20

Had a crochet needle in my hand and decided to scratch my eyelid...

Ended up at the opticians to find out I had scratched my cornea. It killed.

bobdylannumber1 · 14/02/2021 19:32

Many years ago my front porch light went into needed to see what kind if bulb went into it I couldn't se into it so I stuck my fingers into feel what sirt of bulb went into it amd I aas lifted out if it with an electric shock.

Amitskitshaw · 14/02/2021 19:33

OMG I think I know who you are talking about. Was this UK?

Yourcatisnotsorry · 14/02/2021 19:34

I buy French shampoo. My OH has bee. Shampooing with ‘apres shampoo’ for 4 years 😂

Angrywife · 14/02/2021 19:40

Haha OP.
I used neat bleach to kill a flying ant nest below our decking.
Bleach rots Wood!! Who knew!! 🙄🙈

Stumpie222 · 14/02/2021 19:40

Spy from Gransnet signing in. Haven’t laughed so much in ages, heartening to read that it’s not just us old timers who have lapses! Keep up the good work girls

redpencil77 · 14/02/2021 19:43

@Threadgood

I got so engrossed in reading a leaflet about a mindfulness group that I fell over a bollard.
The leaflet wasn't keeping you mindful enough then
Pliudev · 14/02/2021 19:47

Didn't notice the sign at the bottom of the escalators at Waterloo saying not to take luggage up. Got a third of the way and wheely suitcase shot towards me and I fell backwards causing a domino reaction. Thankfully, the only person hurt said she was fine and was extremely understanding even though I bet her knee was painful the next day. I will never forget the laughter from the down escalator. Or how kind the staff were

Namechangedididittoo · 14/02/2021 19:48

Years ago had a really grumpy neighbour anyway I some how got my thumb wedged in a Tupperware box and could release it with the other hand I had to sheepishly knock on his door and ask for his help😊

Oregano20 · 14/02/2021 19:49

Just googled mound of Venus and it's exactly what I thought Grin Grin

but I see Mount of Venus is the chubby thumb bit Wink

redpencil77 · 14/02/2021 20:00

@MisiSam

This isn't something I've done but it's something I've thought it's very embarrassing.

For a while I thought brexit was a man.

As in "I voted for/against Brexit"?

I suppose, when the interim NI minister was called Brokenshire. Like a massacre had happened in Lord of the Rings

SkittlesRainbow · 14/02/2021 20:08

I dont seem to do one stupid thing ever, its always a load of stupid things in a row.

One Sunday night I was in a beer garden and my friends wanted a photo taken so I drunkenly stood on a table to take it and then jumped off landing all my weight on my little toe and messing up my foot so much I couldn't walk.

We then decided to head into town, even though I had work the next day. I was so drunk that I didn't think to go home or to a&e, I let people carry me into a taxi and into the next bar. It was late. A friend got drunk and fell out with everyone, including me. I decided to leave although as I hopped outside I realised I couldn't walk home and had no money for a taxi (pre-uber days!). I saw a man getting into a taxi and asked if we could share which he keenly agreed to. Got in the taxi and we were chatting when he said - "this is my stop". Realising we were miles from my house still, I invited him to stay at mine, thinking at least this way he would pay the fare. He agreed.

We got back to mine. I couldn't find my keys. Realised I was locked out and the only was in was to break open a window. I lived in a first floor maisonette where the door was on the ground floor and then a flight of stairs to the apartment. I told him to break my bathroom window, he climbed on the roof and said "is this the right window?" And I insisted it was. He broke the window. It wasn't the bathroom window but the one above the stairs. He fell, what, 10-12 ft. He impaled his arm on some glass and cut up all his back. He let me in and I didnt realise what happened until I crawled upstairs and saw the bathroom window was still intact. It was then I looked back and saw that the stairs, walls and carpet were covered in blood and glass. I panicked. We tried to clean him up using a tea towel tied around his arm. He then suggested the only way to make it up to him was to have sex. So I agreed, thinking that it was only fair! It didn't last long, after a few minutes he said he had to stop as he'd lost too much blood. Then we both passed out. In the morning, we woke up, both in agony and saw the mess and thought... what the fuck?! My whole bed was covered in blood. It was like a horror movie. I called him a taxi to a&e. He was reluctant to go as he said he had Community service and would not be able to miss it! The last thing he said what that he hadn't realised I was lame when he came home with me last night.

I had to call in sick for work. Then I called my landlady and told her honestly what had happened and luckily she found it so funny that she was sympathetic. We got someone to repair the window and she helped me clean the blood from all over the place, it was like a murder scene. Then I headed over to a&e for my foot - thankfully he wasn't still there. I spent two weeks on crutches, had a steep bill for the window repair and felt humiliated. I did manage to track the guy down on Facebook, just to check he was okay. He told me he had permanent scarring on his arm, so he would never forget me. It looked on his profile like he had a girlfriend. I wondered what he must have told her... never saw him again thank god, although a week later a friend said she saw a man in town picking litter with a bandaged up arm!

SkittlesRainbow · 14/02/2021 20:10

PS I never had a one night stand again after that.

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