What's The Dumbest Thing You've Done?

[Pappy]

The night after graduation, I came in about 5:30. Dad met me half way across the back yard, told me to go sleep it off, and not disturb Mom. Told him I was going to change and go to another party. He repeated his wishes and I informed him he couldn't stop me. When he reached for his belt, I said something about one or both of us being too old for that. Last thing I remember for the next 10 hours was taking a ham hock in the face from a 5' 10, 195 ex rancher, semi-pro catcher, & boxer!

[meika123]

See my thread titled "OUCH". Says it all.

Dave in NC

[Mrs. Wallnut]

Well the one thing that sticks in my mind was in my rebellious years I wore dark dark make-up and was in the "heavy metal" type faze, (those of us that went to school in the early to late 80's knows what I mean). My mom worked the graveyard shift and she was home when I was wanting to wear something that she didn't want me to and so got on the bus and was talking to my friends and said "I don't care what the B***H said I was going to do what I wanted".

Well needless to say Melissa forgot that her grandfather worked as a mechanic at the bus garage and the bus driver was a good friend of the family. So he called my dad at work and told him what I was wearing and what I had said. Well dad called mom and told her so when I walked into the house after school she was waiting for me. She slapped me and I ended up on the couch, all she said was "Don't ever call me that again". When I started to ask her why I looked at her and then I knew she had found out what I had said about her.

To this day I have never called her that in a serious tone...Always jokingly now.

[Ed62]

I don't know if it's the dumbest thing I ever did (I've done quite a few), but I had a splitting maul part way in a piece of firewood, then took a swing with a sledge hammer that glanced off the maul, and hit myself in the leg, but not straight on. This got me p......ed, so I immediately took a much harder swing at the maul. Same result, only this time it hurt more.

Ed

[Russianwolf]

I don't know if it's the dumbest thing I ever did (I've done quite a few), but I had a splitting maul part way in a piece of firewood, then took a swing with a sledge hammer that glanced off the maul, and hit myself in the leg, but not straight on. This got me p......ed, so I immediately took a much harder swing at the maul. Same result, only this time it hurt more.

Ed

I heard once that the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing and expecting a different result"