What's your Stupidest moment

[Andy Hamilton]

We have times when we do something a bit daft. I was thinking the other day of when, on a first date with an old girlfriend, I went to a beer festival. After a few beers dusk was upon us and as there was a massive queue for the toilet I decided to nip behind a tree. I mistook algae for grass and ended up up to my waist in the canal. I had to walk or rather squelch to a friends house and borrow a pair of trousers, he was a little shorter than me so they only reached above my ankles. I did manage to somehow stay with that girlfriend for another 3 months.

I know there are many more but that's the first that springs to mind.

[pumpy]

Walking into the public toilet, at Royston bus station, only to discover that i was in the ladies; (the lack of any urinals was a bit of a give-away),.......; oh s**t, now i have to return to the terminal,with my suit-case, as tho' nothing is out of the ordinary, then continue on my way to London. (by now the coach is full of people staring at me). I was only 15yrs-old,on my own & feeling really stupid. In reallity, i doubt that anyone noticed my mistake, but,boy, was my face red!!

[Rosendula]

My head's in the clouds most of the time, so I'm always doing stupid things like going to the shops with no money (and I never remember until after everything has been rung through the till), I never know what day or date it is and sometimes I can't remember what month it is. If people ask me my age, I have to ask them what year it is now and subtract 1971 from it to work it out. So stupid moments are a regular, normal occurrence for me. This one, however, I think is the best:

I received a new debit card from my bank, and in the letter that came with it I was told my PIN would stay the same and that I should destroy my old card immediately. As I cut up my old card I had a nagging feeling something wasn't right. Off I went to do some shopping at Nettos (saw something in their leaflet that I'd been after for ages). Now some of you will know that Nettos only takes debit cards or cash - no credit cards. There was a short queue behind me as I put my card in the machine and entered my PIN, then entered it again, then complained loudly that I'm not entering it incorrectly at all, then entered it again. The machine insisted that my PIN was incorrect and my card was locked and rejected. By this time there was a huge queue, plus onlookers as the check-out lady was shouting about it down the shop to her manager as she didn't know what to do. I had no cash with me and had to walk out with empty bags. That's not the end of it.

I went online and accessed my bank account where I requested a PIN reminder. Several days later it came through. It wasn't the one I had previously used, so I assumed they had changed it.

Off I went to my bank to use the cash machine (desperately needed cash out to repay everything I owed OH and kids, as I'd been borrowing from them all the time I couldn't access my account). My PIN was rejected - twice. I stormed into the bank and complained to the lady behind the desk about it. She couldn't understand it and put in a request for a new PIN for me. It continues ...

Several days later, I received the new PIN - exactly the same as the one that wouldn't work. Off I went, now in urgent need of cash to repay my debts to my kids. PIN rejected. At which point....

I realised the new card I received wasn't for the bank account I was trying to access. It was for Richard's account, which has my name on it but which I never use.

So now I had a card and PIN to access Richard's account, but had cut up the card I needed to access my own money. And I had to go into the bank and confess so that I could order a new card

OK, just told Richard the name of this thread and he said my stupidest moment had to be when I stood on the rake in the garden - a true Tom & Jerry moment.

[StripyPixieSocks]

First week I was in this flat (I've never lived in a flat before) my OH went out to the shop and I stayed here because we were expecting someone to come around and do something to the flat (I can't remember what) and our flat is the upper floor of a converted Victorian house so we go downstairs open our front door and then there's a small communal hall and the main front door.

Well, the bell rang and I rushed downstairs, opened the door then the front door and just as I opened the front door... SLAM our inner front door slammed shut and I had to wait on the doorstep with the builder guys until my OH came back from the shop.

To make things worse, he thought I was being really sweet and waiting on the doorstep for him... he's never let me live that down!!

One of the guys in really broken English asked me if I wanted to use his mobile phone to call my OH but I hadn't memorized his number so I couldn't LOL

There's lots of stupid things I've done some more stupid than others but that's a more recent one!

[Shabba]

This one happened to me quite recently. My partner and I were getting ready for bed, brushing our teeth in the bathroom and started having a discussion (whilst foaming at the mouth with toothpaste!) about the worsening mildew situation on our bathroom ceiling and upper walls. I decided to examine it more closely by standing up on the toilet lid, not realising that it was a cheap crappy plastic piece of tat that wouldn't bear my weight! There was a sudden terrible cracking sound and I fell right through the seat and ended up with both feet down the pan and several large cuts down my shins where they had grazed against the cracked plastic as I fell. Also, Lee had just been to the loo and hadn't flushed yet so I actually had my feet in his pee! If he hadn't been standing behind me and caught me I would have fallen right backwards and probably cracked my head on the bathroom floor aswell. Luckily I was so amused by the absurdity of the situation I was able to laugh my way through the pain!

[linzibean]

Oh dear, where to begin!

I think one of the stupidest was when on a field trip during the first year of my archaeology degree, to Dartmoor to look at some of the settlement remains there. I thought I could get a better photo if I climbed on top of some slippery, shiny rocks. See, looking back I realise how stupid this was, but I may have been mildly under the influence at the time . Of course, I fell off, and had the mother of all sprained ankles (good walking boots saved me from a break). One of my lecturers thought it most amazing, his most useful comment being "You should have seen how far your ankle bent!" Gee, thanks! A 5 hour trip to casualty later, and I was all kitted out with crutches. My ankle is still weak even now, and I have to have it strapped up at winter as it aches like crazy. Oh, the stupidity of youth!!

[MuddyWitch]

I was 6 months pregnant and addressing a class of 14-15 year olds as their "guest lecturer" on the invitation of their teacher.

I was in full flow; "...fertiliser run off into water-ways is highly polluting; it causes allgy blooms by over feeding these orgasms in the rivers..."

It had to be teenagers, didn't it?!!

MW

[Milims]

The kids were fighting outside the bathroom door one morning and having just put the toothpaste on my brush I flung it into the sink and stormed out to sort them out. Little did I know that as I turned from the sink the toothpaste had flown up and landed on the back of my head and I spent the day with it stuck in my hair!
There was also the day that I had the nagging feeling that I'd forgotten something and ended up wearing 3 pairs of knickers to work - but I didn't actually notice until I got home!

[mrsflibble]

oooooooo... I often forget words, and have a very bad short term memory. I recently found out it's due in part to minor brain damage. anyways, my stupidest moment recently was when i bought an xmas cake. i know! sorry! I should make it but I just can't be 4r$ed this year.
I bought the cake. put it in the larder to be iced etc this week. forgot I'd bought one. went back to asda. bought another. found my original one....


I've iced the second one as a surprise gift to my mum and told my dad not to let her buy one lol!

[Milims]

Mine was not just stupid but incredibly embrarassing... I went to visit one of the doctors at the clinic as I was having my pill prescription refilled... the doctor was muttering away to himself when he said 'all these men'...to which I got very indignant, told him actually I was engaged, not that it was any of his business, I took my prescription and left in a huff....it wasn't until I got to the chemist that I noticed what he had ACTUALLY said was 'Ovismen' - the name of the pill!!! Made sure I never saw that doctor again!

Ooohh I'm so glad it's not just me who completely mis-hears stuff!
I once thought that a friends husband was confessing to an affair when actually he was commenting on the weather! What he said was "Eehh you don't know what to do! It's hot one minute and cold the next" but I heard it as "Eehh I don't know what to do - there's a hot woman called Annette!"

[Millymollymandy]

I LOVE these - keep 'em coming! I'm afraid I'm just not as 'interesting' as you lot are!

However my husband did move a ladder once upon a time - only he'd forgotten that he'd hooked a claw hammer to one of the higher rungs until it fell and bashed him on the head, leaving him with a nice scabby dent in his fairly bald head! He got a lot of ribbing over that one - and he's normally a really sensible person!

[Helsbells]

I once threw my pants into the toilet instead of the laundry basket (they are in differant rooms!)

When I was at school I thought it would be funny to put an electric hand drill into this boys back thinking it would just poke him. It was not funny at all, the drill went through all his clothes, and his jumper swirled all round the drill.
I am amazed I didnt get into trouble!! I could have drilled a hole in the poor boys back! had to pay him £30 for a new jumper! oops.

[JulieSherris]

Hubby & eldest daughter used to have 'staple gun fights' with those cheap naff hand staple guns.......

I bought an electric one, for those tougher jobs..... hubby popped it onto his palm, & squeezed the trigger to see exactly how strong it really was.....

We spent a good fifteen minutes with the long nosed pliers......

[mrsflibble]

Xmas evening

James "Em, do you need the oven glove?"
me "no, I'll be fine with a towel, just got to fold it properly and it works, look... AH SH1T!" *clang clatter crash, brussels roll across floor as I drop hot stuffing tin on the pan 'cos I've not folded the towel properly*
James "you ok?"
me "F$%^...P*%$...B^&&*£$%...C&*%..."
James "that's a no then? ok... I'll find the oven glove. I think sophie had it last."
me "smart ar$e."
James "want me to serve?"
me *scathing look*
James "oooook. you go have a sit down...."