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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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Ddot · 16/02/2021 06:51

Had a terrible headache for three days, I dont take painkillers as a rule but couldn't sleep or eat so got out of bed, didnt put on my glasses (mistake). Drawer full of medications reached in and got paracetamol. Mine are soluble and wrapped in paper pulled it out put in small glass of water, waited for it to fizz with my poor head in my hands. Grabbed it gulped it down 🤢🤮🤮 wasn't paracetamol but milton tablet had found itself in wrong drawer. I ran to loo just in time and nature prevailed.
Phoned 111 but had a two hour wait as covid had just descended so googled then rang 999. After fits of laughter both ends she said she would have to send ambulance, that wasn't an option, I'm not dying! Decided to get friend out of bed, as driving would be dangerous (could pass out) Sitting in hospital car park with sick bag waiting for doctor. Too scared to go near anyone cos big nasty flu thing about,
( shit little did we know ) anyho lived to tell the tale, doctor had a good laugh too said it was a new one on him. His advice put your glasses on.

RandomGirl · 16/02/2021 08:09

When I was young I always had an overwhelming urge to bite hard into a glass when I drank out of it to see what it would be like. One day, in my late teens, I just decided, ‘fuck it’ and did it. What a twat. Shards of glass and glass fragments all in my mouth. Safe to say that I never had that urge ever again. Which is a plus point, I guess.

pickledcrumpet · 16/02/2021 12:06

@TheChip

Put my thumb on a car lighter to see if it cooled down as fast as it heated up. It didn't. The smoke and the sizzling sound. The smell! Then the embarrassing looking around to see if anyone noticed my stupidity. Then my dad got in the car and asked what that smell was. I showed him my thumb and he just sighed. Everytime I looked at my thumb and seen the lighter rings imprinted on it I asked myself why the fuck did I do that. Just because it's not glowing red doesn't mean it's not hot. I knew that, but for some reason I needed proof.
Oh this brings back a painful memory for me too. Just why? It was glowing when I decided to test it with my thumb.
Ddot · 16/02/2021 13:00

I'm not alone! My friends think I need to be supervised at all times

AlbusSeverusMalfoy · 16/02/2021 13:33

I was wearing fake nails and was straightening my hair for a night out, i wondering if I put the hot straightener on the nail would I feel the heat on my finger? Yes ... turns out i would.
Luckily it hadn't gone through or melted much but came off easy enough. I was in my 20s so not a daft teen.

Scubadivinginabox · 16/02/2021 13:38

In a rented house years ago the bulb had gone in the closet. Couldn't see a thing to determine if it was a screw or bayonet fitting. So I decided to feel the socket with my fingers instead (!) Hasten to add that I was thrown across the room with a massive electric shock and ended up in A&E with chest pains from the jolt. Just one of the many stupid things I've done in my life...

ItStartedWithAKiss241 · 16/02/2021 14:22

Ex’s Nan was going to die soon, I was taking him to the hospital after work.
Raced home, he says I’m too late as she died 15 minutes ago.
For some reason I think he’s JOKING and laugh and say “hahah get your coat silly” 😂😂

ItStartedWithAKiss241 · 16/02/2021 14:30

I fell down the stairs while carrying newborn DD..... now I imagine in this situation most people would cradle the baby for dear life.... not me! I let go of her and used my hands to save myself!!!! Why oh why!
Luckily she landed on my lap!

Ddot · 16/02/2021 15:19

I had an op were a part of my ribs were removed, rendering them rather delicate. Keep forgetting! I have leaned out of bedroom window looking for cat three times. Each time I crack a rib. The pain is excruciating for weeks but still keep doing it.

SunshineCake · 16/02/2021 16:02

@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
This sounds like an avoidable mess waiting to happen.
Tavimama · 16/02/2021 16:28

These are hysterical, another nomination for classics here. I am a major klutz:

In my first job I thought I was the bomb, wearing five inch stilletoes while going up and down the office spiral staircase - until I snagged a heel on the ratty carpet and propelled myself head first into the main reception. I could only lie there wheezing until the senior partner helped pick me up. Switched to kitten heels thereafter. Blush

Pregnant with twins, get out of the car and shut the door on my thumb nail. DH had to drill through the nail to release the pressure. Two weeks later I did the same thing with the other thumb, more drilling required. Lost both nails.

Doing the ironing with a huge baby bump, burned through my t-shirt and now have a massive scar just above my belly button which is still visible 16 years later.

Took the kids put on their scooters, thought it looked easy. No. The back wheel dug in the ground, throwing me off. Dislocated the shoulder I landed on and had to send small child to find DH to pick me up to go to A&E.

So very many more!

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whatsnewpussycat777 · 16/02/2021 18:50
Shock
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RootyT00t · 16/02/2021 18:56

@ItStartedWithAKiss241

Ex’s Nan was going to die soon, I was taking him to the hospital after work. Raced home, he says I’m too late as she died 15 minutes ago. For some reason I think he’s JOKING and laugh and say “hahah get your coat silly” 😂😂
Omg 😳😳😳
HeyDemonsItsYaGirl · 16/02/2021 19:05

ItStartedWithAKiss2418 I'm sure that was very horrible for you but I have a hilarious imagine of it. Grin

Before I was diagnosed and medicated, looking back I can see my anxiety disorder was completely out of control for a time. Probably the craziest thing I did was complain to a pharmacy that their assistants were gossiping about me, based on them looking at me once or twice as they spoke in low voices. Somehow I didn't reach the obvious conclusion that they were sorting out my prescription. Blush Thankfully I'm sure the head office filed me under the 'insane' category and fobbed me off by saying they would provide training.

I'm normal now, honest.

Galvantula · 16/02/2021 19:12

Really really quite a lot.

That's undiagnosed ADHD for you though. 🙈

I'm trying to think of a specific example and failing though. Blush

crazybunchofdolls · 16/02/2021 19:27

Working on my gap year abroad. I would walk home from the night club where I worked at 3/4am alone. It was so dark and along a stretch of highway.
Twice I was approached by a man in a car. One of the men followed me for a while too.
Looking back I was so naive. Still gives me the shivers.

AlbusSeverusMalfoy · 16/02/2021 21:19

@Whatisthisfuckery

Bought one of those home leg waxing kits. Put the jar of wax in the microwave to melt, took it out and promptly dropped it on the tiled floor. It smashed, shards of glass and hot wax cut and burnt my leg. What’s worse I didn’t have anything on my feet, so I had to tip toe out of the kitchen to get some slippers. Scraping glass shards encased in rapidly cooling wax off a tiled floor is not easy.

When I was about 14 I was chewing gum in the bath, as you do. For some reason I decided to see what would happen if I took the gum out of my mouth and put it on my pubic hair. It got stuck, that’s what happened, and it was very painful trying to cut it out.

You stuck gum on your pubes?? Omg that's hilarious 😆 sorry Grin
Eruss · 16/02/2021 22:07

Earlier today, pulled dressing gown off the hook in my bedroom, it’s one of those hooks that just sits on top of the door so can move,.....yes you guessed it, hook flew off and hit me in the face. Lovely black eye now!!

I am ALWAYS tripping over nothing, I once tripped over nothing, while wearing flat shoes, when I was carrying a sleeping DC, landed really awkwardly trying to save DC from getting hurt but in the meantime completely mashed up my ankle, luckily just a sprain but it still plays up now!

Backtobacktheyfacedeachother · 16/02/2021 22:11

@Devaki Flowers

@janj2301 Shock omg! You poor thing. Did it grow back okay?

Some of these sound shocking/painful but @MacDuffsMuff my tummy muscles hurt from laughing so hard!

RootyT00t · 16/02/2021 22:16

Went for a walk with a drug addict while alone and drunk.

I was walking home (stupid ) through the city at night (stupid) and he stopped me. We got chatting and I have him money and walked him to a hostel where he promptly disappeared into a toilet to snort coke. I suddenly had a fit of clarity and legged it.

Gives me shivers what would have happened if he wasn't harmless.

janj2301 · 16/02/2021 22:41

Mostly, hair very thin and fine anyway I have to wear a hat in th summer to stop my head getting sunburt

AlanThePig · 16/02/2021 22:46

@janj2301

Mostly, hair very thin and fine anyway I have to wear a hat in th summer to stop my head getting sunburt
Jesus. I got off light compared to you. I have very thick hair which probably saved me from worse hair loss.

I shout at the TV when I see Charlie Dimmock working in the garden with her hair all over her face.

Ddot · 16/02/2021 23:34

I was in AE having my collarbone xrayed to see if it had healed ok, swopping stories of how, where, which bit was broke with others waiting too. Mine fell down pothole jogging, looked up when dog barked just at wrong moment, flew in the air and plonk. Lots of drunken falls by most but one woman, bless! She came home from night shift, stood on step, which a poor slug just minding it's own business was happily slithering only to be squished underfoot. Womans leg twisted as it slipped on slime she fell snapping her leg in three places. We all laughed except her!

MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 16/02/2021 23:49

Well I’ve just done something really stupid.

Watched some of that film Hostel as I was flicking round the channels.

Why? I actually feel physically sick and am probably going to have nightmares forever.

How the fuck do people get funding to make such horrible crap?

LabCoatPocket · 17/02/2021 00:48

A really lovely guy told me he liked me and asked me out. A guy I would have loved to have gone out with. But I got so ridiculously awkward I ended up telling him no, because he didn't really like me. It was just human nature to be attracted to symmetry and I had a super symmetrical face, so it wasn't really him making a choice to that he liked me and wanted to go out with me, it was just a classic case of the subconscious part of his brain being attracted to symmetry.

Why? He looked so confused. Never killed anything so dead in my life.