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

675 replies

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:
MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 14/02/2021 23:38

@RootyT00t in case I’m ever stupid enough to be tempted to try it. Like everyone else that’s done it. Grin

callistography · 14/02/2021 23:38

Get married.
Get a joint mortgage when I should have done tenants in common to protect myself.

RootyT00t · 14/02/2021 23:39

[quote MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig]@RootyT00t in case I’m ever stupid enough to be tempted to try it. Like everyone else that’s done it. Grin[/quote]
Ahhhh

RootyT00t · 14/02/2021 23:39

[quote Eruss]@MisiSam

I knew that brexit wasn’t a person......but for years I thought Sinn Fein was - 80s child who had family in Ireland so naturally there was lot of talks and I remember it being on the news a lot Confused[/quote]
So did I

Mamanyt · 14/02/2021 23:41

Married my first husband, having already had more than one hint about who he really was. I wasn't ignoring that, I just thought, "It can't be worse than my mother." It can.

SongbirdsandLullabies · 14/02/2021 23:54

I've managed to burn my hand on the cooker, pulled my hand away and punched myself square in the face.

7 months pregnant, very hot summer, I was ironing in just underwear and burnt a stripe across my bump.

DS1 has done the drunken shimmy up the drainpipe.
He also went to a summer festival and did not heed my advice on sunscreen. (Slightly ginger and burns in a couple of hours)
Apparently a bloke standing higher up, pointed to him and shouted in a broad cockney accent "Look how red his facking face is!"

I guess being a bit dumb runs in the genes Grin

Pliudev · 15/02/2021 00:55

I had a row with my DH when I was very pregnant and decided to clean the bins (as you do). The bleach I tried to squirt didn't come out so I looked into the end and managed to squirt it straight into my eye. I ran to the sink and tried to flush it out with loads of water but in the end had to get a taxi to A&E. It was late when we got back. The following morning I found a huge purple bruise on my belly. I rang the midwife but because it was the weekend got put through to the ambulance service. I explained to the dispatcher who turned out to be someone I knew and she said she would get the duty midwife to come round. I decided to have a bath before she came and the bruise washed off. It was dye from the skirt I'd been wearing the previous evening. I had to call the ambulance service to explain and they had a good laugh on me.

keffie12 · 15/02/2021 01:00

Stood on the kitchen diner table last summer to clean the top of the cupboards above it. Its a strong sturdy table so no problems with that.

What I didn't think about was how I was going to get down. The last time I had been up there was before my husband passed a while before.

He would always help me up and down. I got up without thinking and couldn't get down. I decided I better jump off.

In doing so I took 4he table over with me and broke the table legs. I was OK though shook up and yes I needed needed a new table

Oh well! I had had the other some years. I did donate the damaged one to someone I knew of who could repair it for a family member just setting up home

RootyT00t · 15/02/2021 01:01

@keffie12

Stood on the kitchen diner table last summer to clean the top of the cupboards above it. Its a strong sturdy table so no problems with that.

What I didn't think about was how I was going to get down. The last time I had been up there was before my husband passed a while before.

He would always help me up and down. I got up without thinking and couldn't get down. I decided I better jump off.

In doing so I took 4he table over with me and broke the table legs. I was OK though shook up and yes I needed needed a new table

Oh well! I had had the other some years. I did donate the damaged one to someone I knew of who could repair it for a family member just setting up home

Oh bless you OP. That I can understand.

I am so sorry to laugh but it just reminded me of the thread about the woman who got stuck on the kitchen worktop 🤣🤣

UnaLength · 15/02/2021 02:23

Went out for a few drinks one Saturday night, came home and nipped to the loo with my iPhone in the back pocket of my jeans. All was well until I pulled them back up and phone plopped out and landed in the lav. It was soaked and didn't come back from the dead,

I had insurance so claimed, collected new phone a few days later and went for drinks on the following Saturday. I did it again! This time we rescued it somehow but it never really worked properly after that.

MyGazeboisLeaking · 15/02/2021 05:22

[quote CabernetSoWhat]@MyGazeboisLeaking

I jumped back down to the bottom of the escalator, not off the side. This was in a shop, and the escalator just went up one floor. As I ascended, I was afforded a bird's eye view of the ground floor. I spied what I needed just as my head was coming level with the first floor beam, and I was seized by a sort of desperate panic because I was being taken away from it. I mentally shouted, 'Noooo!' and leapt free of that which sort to deprive me of my much coveted prize (might have been a box of tampax; I was in Boots).

As I became airborne, I realised my overreaction, and the horrendous clang of my stilettos on the metal pad at the bottom made sure to bring it to the attention of the other shoppers.

I can't remember if I bought the tampax.[/quote]
@CabernetSoWhat - brilliant!! You just have looked like a Superhero leaping into action!!

Frownette · 15/02/2021 05:46

Yeah? All the time?

I thought that was standard!

Classicbrunette · 15/02/2021 06:39

At an interview for a assistant secretary’s job. The boss and secretary interviewing me . I was asked by the boss where did I see myself in 5 years time.. I replied that “I didn’t want her job,” nodding towards the secretary “as she looked so stressed” Boss showed me out swiftly after that.

Happylivingonmyown · 15/02/2021 08:12

Had the worst case of thrush ever: itched and scratched for days. Swollen and raw hoo-ha. Nothing worked. Thought I'd try ibuprofen spray. Don't do that 🔥🔥

Yorkshiretolondon · 15/02/2021 08:26

@MsTSwift

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

Did something similar in Cuba....during this time it was against the rules to use ‘private cars’ to hire to get places.... we didn’t want to wait..... so we got in this car, couldn’t speak Spanish, didn’t know where we were going .... the guy driving even did a ‘detour’ to an isolated beach..... dear lord...... we finally got to our destination after ‘hiding’ from the police and having to be dropped off outside the city boundary check point.......shakes head in astonishment ..... our mums would kill us if they knew!!!
janj2301 · 15/02/2021 08:35

stitchmaker85 to warm plates quickly we lay them on top of the toaster and turn all the slots on. By the time the pop up happens they are fine

Mamanyt · 15/02/2021 08:50

OK...I did not do this, a co-worked from years ago did, however. She was using a tampon for the very first time. She very carefully read the instructions, which included, "For first time users, a bit of petroleum jelly will make insertion more comfortable." Not having petroleum jelly, she decided that Vicks' Vapor Rub (a mentholated chest rub) would work just fine. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

Greygreenblue · 15/02/2021 09:01

My latest stupid thing is reading this thread while sitting in the dark my daughters room waiting for them to go to sleep. I keep laughing and every time I laugh, no matter how much I try to suppress it, I have a massive coughing fit. So everyone is still awake.

But seriously though I could go on all night. I once drank a cocktail in Kathmandu without a second thought about the non alcoholic ingredients, including ice. Even though for weeks we had been studiously boiling our drinking water and adding chlorine tablets too before drinking it. I got giardia.

I recently tried to walk my 2 young border collies with my 2 young children and locked us all out the front door without the house key. Then I jumped the fence to see if I could break back into my own house and my knee went crack and out from under me. I was on 1 side of a 5 foot fence and the dogs and kids on the other in our front yard. Luckily it turns out I had forgotten to lock the back door. Unluckily I ended up on crutches for a week and my knee still isn’t right.

Eminybob · 15/02/2021 09:10

I stepped barefoot into a camp fire.

When I was 18 I did a fire walking course, it was a hippy dippy mind over matter thing which culminated in walking over hot coals.

Fast forward to when I was 21 travelling in India, it was New Year’s Eve and I was rather intoxicated, sitting around a campfire telling a group of people about the course. Decided to demonstrate.

My whole foot was one giant blister, it was agony and I couldn’t walk for days (probably should have gone to hospital) Although the beach in Goa isn’t the worst place to be laid up.

Justploddingon · 15/02/2021 10:45

Was changing the light bulb in a bedside lamp and saw a bit of lint in the middle. Took it out without unplugging the lamp and the shock blew me across the room!

AlwaysLatte · 15/02/2021 10:47

I took a large tray of ash from under our fire grate outside to put on the compost bin. I knew it was windy. Needless to say the compost bin didn't get any and I needed a shower and thorough hair wash.

DaisyStarburst · 15/02/2021 10:58

Too many, too outing but I once put both contact lenses in one eye and thought I'd lost one!

nottomgates · 15/02/2021 11:23

I bought a new pair of office pants that said wash before wearing. I didn’t wash them, just put them on and spent all day in them. I visited my friends house and used her toilet. When I looked at the white wooden toilet seat it had a huge arse stain in black dye. Looked down at my legs and noticed my legs were also stained!

A few years later I bought a bathing suit that said wash before wearing. Again I just put it on and went to a water park. An hour or so later while queuing for a ride someone pointed out to me I had black stains all around the arm straps, round my neck, and most embarrassingly around my knickerline.

Nicklebox · 15/02/2021 11:48

I always wash the rice after cooking with boiling water, and one time forgot to boil the kettle and rinsed it with cold water.

Also left the oven gloves on the hob while it was still alight and set fire to them, there was quite a blaze going by the time I noticed. That's happened more than once

Chewingle · 15/02/2021 11:55

@janj2301

stitchmaker85 to warm plates quickly we lay them on top of the toaster and turn all the slots on. By the time the pop up happens they are fine
Surely this only does the bottom plate? Or do you do it 3/4/5x for each plate?! And does one “round” really heat a plate?