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

@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.

😂😂 What a decent man 🥰

Just thought of one my daughter did, at the age of about 4 on Christmas eve she stuck a tiny piece of Lego up her nose to stop her brother's having it. Had to go to A&E to have it removed, we weren't there too long thankfully the triage nurse got it out, and we were back home quite quickly, they gave her a beautiful velvet pastel patchwork teddy bear and i remember thinking Oh no she'll be doing it on a regular basis to get more toys lol

Ran through wet concrete as a kid. The guy had clearly just finished it too. His face was a picture. I shouted "sorry mister" and ran for my life like something out of The Beano. My trainers were encased in cement.

I did this when i was about 9 thing is i have no idea what happened to my shoes. I think i just took them off at home without telling my mum and have no memory of what happened when she found them.

Had a termination on someone else’s say so. I completely regret it everyday 😪

A few summers ago I was trying to fix a trelis to a wall in the back garden. Dh was working in the front garden.

As I was drilling a gust of wind blew my long hair into the drill, wrapping it around it and yanking my head at speed into the wall. At this point I am attached to drill, pinned to wall and darent put the drill into reverse in case I press the wrong button and make things worse. I shout for dh who can't hear me so attempt to call him, he can't hear his phone and it takes about fifteen minutes to raise him.

When he finally rounds the corner he finds me half sprawled on the floor with my ear on the wall clinging to the drill. He reverses the drill and releases me.

I'm left with a bald patch (which is still thinner than the rest of my hair 2 years on), nasty bruising to my forehead and whiplash.

I now tie my hair up whilst doing diy.

Chewingle sorry only two of us so one plate at a time

AlanThePig, almost the same, I bent down to pick something up and got to close to hubby with drill

Put my husbands expensive camera on a wobbly shelf. It fell off some hours later as the walking past the shelf, the floorboards creaked and made the shelf shake the expensive camera fell down and broke. I then took it into the lounge to show my husband. He was so upset. We still have it now. Just sits there on a shelf in the bedroom not being used for years now.

💐

Decided to rent and drive a boat for a week when I didn’t know how to drive a boat, nearly crashed it several times.
Put fingers in a hand blender with it still on
Bleached my hair and was in a hurry so didn’t wash it out fully, lost a huge chunk of hair
The worst was only a couple of months ago, I was trimming my lady area and cut my fanny.... I cut actual flesh off

I’ve told this on my then-baby group, when dd was less than a week old, we went out for the morning, had a lovely morning pain free (CS) then I was upstairs having a rest when then-husband brought me a cup of tea, for some reason I put it down directly on the bed, it rolled and burnt my bare thigh so I leapt up and pulled my stitches and was no longer pain free. just WHY? 🤦🏽‍♀️

@icelollycraving

👀 I’m sat next to him tbh.

🤣🤣🤣

Used joss sticks on a beach to keep the wasps away, (scared of them)suddenly felt intense stinging,burning sensation on leg, too terrified to look down I screamed at friend to get the 'fucking wasp off my thigh' then did look down to see i was holding joss stick upside down and burning a nice hole in my leg...

@MoltenLasagne

Boiled up chicken carcass with veg to make stock. Put a colander into the sink to drain it and didn't put anything underneath it to catch the liquid. Drained the whole lot down the sink. Did it again about a month later too...

Oh my word!!! 😅

@RatherLostPenguins

I fried a laptop with a can of Irn-Bru. It was sitting beside the laptop as I was drinking it, but I'm so clumsy I knocked it with my arm, causing it to do a perfect 180° flip and land upside down on the keyboard.

I immediately turned the laptop off so I could clean up the liquid as much as I could before too much got inside.

Instead of taking care around the power button which I knew I should do, I wiped the cloth right over the top of it, which turned the laptop back on and it immediately "popped" and went black.

I had a lot of writing work and photos on there that I didn't have saved anywhere else, so I still have it in the hope I finally remember to find a pro who might be able to get everything off it for me.

Good work keeping it - yes, your stuff is quite likely to be salvageable. As long as the hard drive/ssd didn't get soaked it's usually possible to pull it out with just a couple of screws and connect it to another computer to read with a cheap USB adapter. Laptops really should be waterproof by now...

Oh, mine? Apart from marrying a man just because he was called Biggus Dickus, I can tick off a lot of the ones above - throwing the stock, pouring the gunky water down the sink I've taken the U-bend off, drinking my contact lenses, stapling myself, ironing myself, falling off wobbly things I know are wobbly but 'it's just for a moment', wrapping my hair round a drill...

I'll add "choosing to start plumbing tasks after 7pm when all the shops selling the part I don't have in order to put it back together successfully are closed, in winter", and "repeatedly stabbing/sawing my left hand that's holding the thing I'm cutting/sawing". Both annoyingly regular occurrances. I'm a disaster area.

I've done many stupid things.
The question I have from thread though is...does anyone else get a really weird shaky tingly feeling down the back of their calves when they read a painful story?

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

Stapled my finger to see if it would go through a nail

me too. what a fucking idiot

Me too.......just why.

When I was about 21 I lived in Paris for a year. Got on a very crowded metro train with my mobile phone in the outside pocket of my rucksack which was fully on my back. Found myself surrounded v closely by somewhat dodgy looking blokes. Thought to myself: probably shouldn't have my mobile phone there, would be quite easy to pickpocket it. Lo and behold, it got pickpocketed.

The fact that that thought went through my head, but I did nothing about it....

@thefirstmrsrochester

Saw an electric fence when out hillwalking and thought ‘I wonder what would happen if I touched it’. Then did. Placed my knuckles on the plate of the plugged in iron to see if it was hot. It was. Taken iron casserole (oven to table) dish out of oven using oven gloves, then took oven gloves off to move the casserole dish to table with my bare hands. It’s like my brain is shrieking ‘do not touch’ but I do it anyway.

I've often found myself thinking the same thing about electric fences......just so I know (and to hopefully prevent me from one day giving in to the stupid impulse...) how much does it hurt if you touch an electric fence?!

Visiting relatives in Germany. Stupidly decided to take all our cash nearly €1,000, passports, cards etc in my handbag on a tram ride into town, then left it on the tram and only noticed 15 min later when could not find my phone (also in handbag...). Why? WHY did I think it was a good idea when I needed almost none of it with me and it was perfectly safe at my relatives house?.!!

Unbelievably I got it ALL back! Someone handed in to the driver who handed it in having seen how much cash there was.

Pulled the cork out of a bottle of Prosecco with my teeth. It wasn't twisting with my hand. Nearly gave myself fucking whiplash.

Should have just shook it like an F1 driver and let science take over 🍾

I'm another that's pierced the gas tube in a freezer, seems there are a lot of us

😱😱😱😱😱

@SkittlesRainbow

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

Absolutely bloody HILARIOUS 👏

This thread is absolutely hilarious has kept me entertained for most of the day between wrestling with a toddler and keeping an eye on a 4 year old!

Funny but painful one I did recently was trying to tear the clingfilm along the jagged edge which I was doing with such force and had my head bent towards the roll. I managed to dislodge the roll from the box which swung round towards my face resulting in a split lip and bruised mouth!