Idiot for a Day

[Tovor]

Whenever I'm on the computer at night, I always have the Tonight Show playing on the tv behind me. *Inspired by one of Leno's segments where he has people from the audience relay their stupid mistake or day of major embarrassment, I was inspired to start a thread where you can reveal a major or just plain dumb mistake, and maybe be famous for making an ass of yourself. *Believe me, I've had a lot of opportunities to be an idiot for a day. *Many days, in fact!

On Friday, May 10, I was an idiot for a day. *I love lizards, I think they're cute and harmless. *Here in south Florida there are lizards everywhere, and quite often one will get lost in your home. *No big deal. *I used to have two lizard guests who lived in my screened bathroom window which I left open a crack for them to come and go as they please. *They haven't been around for a long time, so either they got eaten or they found a more luxurious window to call home. *But that's neither here nor there. *Here is how I was idiot for a day:

On Friday afternoon my female employee let out a yelp and told me, "There's a lizard in the (photo) lab! Over there on the back counter!" *She hates lizards I realized, but I think they're cute and gentle, so I caught it in my hands to help him get outside. *He was about 2 inches long including the tail. *I held his tail lightly so he wouldn't jump off my finger and get lost in the store, and I looked him over. *He did not look like any little lizard I'd ever seen. *His body had stripes, his tail had tiny spikes I could feel in my skin, his nose was more angled and pointed than Florida lizards I am used to seeing, and his eyes were really unusual. *Black orbs seperated by a yellowish vertical line, like an alligator's eyes. *I wondered if it could be a tiny recently hatched baby alligator, and the tail spikes, body stripes, and pointed snout and verticle eyes all made such an idea more possible. *My employee, not wanting to come near me while I held the creature in my hand, didn't understand how it could be a baby alligator, but sometimes in south Florida alligators turn up in the strangest places. *Backyards, swimming pools, storm drains, man-made lakes like the one close to the store I work in, ect. *So I thought, regardless of how wild an idea it is, its always possible that a nest of eggs in the lake nearbye had sprung a crop of tiny baby gators. *

Okay, so I decided to find the store manager to ask him if he knew the number of Wildlife Control to ask them what I should do if I thought I'd found a baby gator. *When the assistant manager turned around and saw me with the lizard in my hand she screamed (in front of customers) and nearly jumped out of her skin and up onto the counter! *All the women were making such a big deal that I had a lizard in my hand. *I mean, its not like I had my pants open, you know, it wasn't that kind of lizard! =)

I got Wildlife Control on the phone to ask them if I should let it go or hold it for someone to come get it, if it were a baby gator which could grow into a big gator, but they put me on hold and I had to wait, with the lizard still in my hand. *His tail was between two fingers, but he wasn't trying to get away. *Well, a customer came up to me and said, "Boy, that ain't no alligator, thats a gekko!"

My employee then laughed at me and said in a mock British accent, "I'm a gekko, not Geiko! *I can't save you money on car insurance!" (if you haven't seen the commercial for Gieko with the CG animated gekko spokesman, you won't get it.)

So with the alligator-impersonating gekko in hand, I went out to let him loose on the grass, but when I put my hand on the ground and let his tail go, he looked right at me and stayed put. *I held my hand next to a bushy branch and urged him to go on his way, but he stood his ground. *I wondered then if we had bonded, man and gekko, and if he had decided to call my hand home. *My final attempt was going to be to cross the street and let him go near the lake, but before I crossed the road I held his tail again to make sure he didn't fall off in the road. *I don't know why, but he suddenly snapped open his wee little mouth and bit me on the finger tip! *His teech barely broke the skin if at all, but the surprise of it was what stung me. *I mean, I was only after his safety and best interest, and the little sucker bit me! * That time I put him down to the grass again and made him get off my hand. And that was the last time we saw each other.

And that ignorant assumption that he might be a tiny baby alligator, scaring the women, and getting bit (thought it didn't hurt but a pinch), was how I was idiot for a day.

Has anybody else been idiot for a day?

[Darth Sithster]

Not to YOUR extent, sorry.
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i did have to wrestle an 8 year-old kid at Toys R Us for Tark... she wanted one fo those free posters and the kid was holding the last one... but that doesn't make me an idiot as much as a sith... but i'll go with it anyhow.

[Darth Sithster]

.. ok, fine i just got one... i couldn't open the salt re-filler so in my genius i decided holding the canister upsidedown would make the top pop off because of the pressure of all the salt inside.

It worked. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hmmm.gif

[Tarkheki- Jedi Dug]

Don't feel bad Tov... we all have days like that... me more than others... funny how darth sis hasn't posted those in glory...

don't listen to her either tov... she's a regular dip-stick too sometimes... hmm... i'm remembering a certain story with a couch right about now.... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sly.gif

[Darth Sithster]

... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hmmm.gif ...

well, i remeber a certain star-wars nickname you had.. something having to do with a wookie, wasn't it?....

[Tovor]

Was her nickname, nookie?

I can't believe there are two of you. From whence did you come? Where once there was one, now there are two, one who appeared, and one we never knew.

"Always two there are, no more, no less, a sister and an apprentice."
"But which was first, the sister or the apprentice?"

[Tarkheki- Jedi Dug]

Tov- first there was her... she's older 9 minutes.... but i brought her here so i was first in that sence...

oh yah? i remember a certain sith with her first sithy misdeeds and something to do with setting me up with a snow-suit...

[Darth Sithster]

Do you want the snow-suit? Do you? because you can have the snow-suit... after all, you're "*giggly* your biggest fan"...

[Tarkheki- Jedi Dug]

at least i am not giving my own fish concussions everytime i wash his bowl!... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/butbut.gif

[Tovor]

Hello????
This is Idiot for a Day, not trade barbs on the dumb things each other did that neither one of you are explaining! If the snow suit made you idiot for a day, or her giving her fish a concussion made her an idiot for a day, or each day she cleaned her fish tank, tell us about it!!!!!!

I know that you two twins are very introverted and hesitant to open up and share with others, but tell us how you were idiot for a day! *Please! This thread is desperate for idiots to reveal themselves!

Man, some idiots never shut up, while others never contribute their source of embarrassment! *style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif

[Darth Sithster]

Tov - your right, sorry.

Tark - you are a Blessing.

[Seanakin]

<span style="color:2679ef">As one who's been blessed (if one could use that word) with a pair of sisters, Tovor, my advice is just to ignore them. *Granted, with my experience, it's quite easy for me to just shut out their mindless banter, but it's still worth a try.

So far, though, the only use I've had for them is the excuse to say such sentences as "Søstrene mine bor i Colorado og Frankrike." style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

Who knows, though, you might be looking for some source of literary inspiration. *Not that I know your modus operandi, of course... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/eh.gif </span>

[Jedi_Zachaa]

<span style="color:cc00ff">Ok well this isn't tooo bad but it still made me feel, well, like an idiot. i opened the door today to some girls who were looking for my roomie, and I'm so used to her not being there when I am and not knowing where she was, I told them that she wasn't there. Then one of the girls pokes her head in and goes, "Is that you?" and I turn around, and my roomie is just sitting up on her bed. She was sleeping and I didn't even know she was there!!! I felt sooooooooooo stupid!!</span>

[Kafer]

I've got a couple of idiot stories.

Both when I was younger and stupid actions were tolerated.

We had a cute black lab when I was in my early teens. I decided to teach him to fetch one day. I had heard my much older and wiser brother tell me to tie a rope to teach him to fetch. Well, my dog loved to run after the stick, then run off with it, never back to you. So, in my idiot early teen brain, I thought, "Yah, tie a rope to the stick." I tied the rope to the stick, (and by rope I mean a water skiing rope I found in the garage) and did a few tosses. It was working pretty good. I'd let go of the rope, throw the stick, let the dog get it in his mouth, pick up the rope and gently pull the stick with the dog in tow, back to me. Well, one time, I forgot to let go of the rope when I threw the stick. The dog picked up the stick and ran. I ended up with severe rope burns on my right hand. (yes, I am right handed.) I remember having to go to school with my hand all bandaged up feeling like an idiot.

And here's another stupid story. I don't remember what I was making, but was using a cast iron skillet in the oven. And in my mind I thought, "It's a skillet, the handle won't be hot." I pick it up out of the oven and severely burn my, yep you guessed it, right hand. Again, several days of my hand being bandaged and feeling like an idiot.

Maybe that's why I can write fairly legibly with my left hand.

[Jedi_Zachaa]

<span style="color:cc00ff">Oh dear, Kafer... I pulled a similar stunt. I usually hold my school books in the crook of my arm, and I took a cake in a glass pan out of the oven. Wasn't quite thinking. Yeah, got major blisters on my arm. Dork...</span>

[padmehlc]

Ouch - totally understand the Burn thing - though mine was on a metal Angel food cake pan trying to turn it onto a bottle that was way to high for me I slipped burned my arm dropped the cake in pain - it stayed on the counter somehow - and in the pan - and my dad had to put it where it belonged - upside down like it belonged as I gently washed the nice 2nd degree burn...

[Tovor]

2nd degree burn. *Ouch. *Here is my burn story...
Several years ago I worked in a Taco Bell for a short time, and one of the jobs was to cook the taco meat on the stove and then spoon the cooked meat into a long pan about 3 inches high and (roughly) 2 feet wide, and then transfer the cooked meat to another section to await being tong fed into the tacos. *There was a large pot of boiling water on the stove, and because of my nervousness around boiling water (in the 1970s film Earthquake, during the quake, a chef lost his footing and fell backwards against the stove and landed sitting on the floor, and a huge pot of boiling water tipped over and spilled over his head and torso.) I was sure to stay clear of that large pot. *So anyhow, I've got the long pan sitting on the unheated part of the stove between the burners and I'm stirring the meat in the other pan while it cooks. *Then when the meat was done and I spooned it into the unheated pan between the burners, I grabbed the pan about halfway up with my left hand to pull it toward me and grab it with both hands. *I had made sure to put the pan between the burners to prevent it from getting hot, but I did not realize that the far end of it was touching the pot of boiling water, and that the heat from the pot was spreading across the pan. *When I grabbed what was supposed to be a cold pan, I burned (1st or 2nd degree I don't know, but there is no scar) the area of my finger tips and the curved area between my thumb and forefinger, and I let out a yelp (padmehlc and Zachaa, you know that yelp) and rushed my hand under the running cold water. *I held it there for about 20 minutes and the pain was incredible, but even more so as soon as I pulled the hand from under the running water, prompting me to return it to the water without delay. *Then the manager walked by and said, "Why ain't you stirring the meat?" and I shouted, "Cause I burned my damn hand, does it look like I'm having fun here?"

Yelling at the manager left me with no repurcussions, but grabbing the pan without looking at what it was touching, that was how I was idiot for a day.

Somehow, this *style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devil.gif reminds me of that taco meat pan. *Man, that was just a small area of my hand and it hurt like bloody hell. *It's frightening to consider the pain of those who get burned over their entire bodies.

[padmehlc]

[colr=pink]Yeah I know what you mean - I do have a little scar but I couldn't imagine if it had been more than that little area - it was just horrible... And i did manage to burn my hand in a fire (camp cooking fire) when hte wind turned on me just as I was adding wood to it - not nearly as badly - no marks or anything but it still hurt so much worse with just that much more affected... any greater area would be unbearable esp when you see those 3rd degree bunr victims absolutely covered with burns...

[Darth Sithster]

.. for 13 days now, no one has been an idiot.. which disapoints me slightly since i want to be entertained at everyone else's expense.
:dontgetit:

i'll give a hrtdoughnut to the next person to tell a story...

[Vyndim]

Well...You know you have a problem when you manage to give yourself a nice bloody gash on your hand...with a butter knife! ??? They need warning labels or something... :D

[Luthien]

YIKES...

Well, I was an idiot the day before yesterday...I was working on a school networking project, and accidentally broke the server. Not only did I lock the administrator account out of doing ANYTHING on the computer, I made the domain server stop functioning as well. Ugh...I was SUCH an idiot.

[Vyndim]

Well you know, networks are prone to problems, all in all their pretty delicate. One mess up with just one setting and the whole thing stops working. Annoying really, but nice job on crashing the domain server as well style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Luthien]

Yeah, I know now that networks are quite delicate...we had to format the whole harddrive of the server and reinstall, because I screwed up...now, that takes real idiocy.

[Vyndim]

Well just think, You managed to accomplish something no else did. I bet they will use you as an example now for the Do's and Don'ts. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

[Darth Sithster]

Vyndim - *thwapp* Hurt, don't it? :sigh: while that does contend you for twice the fool in one day, i hope you do feel better.. but you can look on the bright side... you are lethal with any tool you desire.

Luthien - i don't think that contends you to idiot as much as vandill, but either way, good job my friend.

[Darth Sithster]

Vyndim - *thwapp* Hurt, don't it? :sigh: while that does contend you for twice the fool in one day, i hope you do feel better.. but you can look on the bright side... you are lethal with any tool you desire.

Luthien - i don't think that contends you to idiot as much as vandill, but either way, good job my friend.

[Luthien]

Well, I doubt they'll be using me as an example for the dos and dont's...I talked to a friend of mine who's a system administrator, and he's done the same mistake as me before...apparently it's a common one. Oh, well.

What really makes me twice the idiot is that I panicked totally. Sean's been around one of my fits of crying, and he can tell you, that is not good.

[Jedi_Zachaa]

<span style="color:cc00ff">Congratulate me. I am the idiot for today. I just did the stupidest thing on the planet.

NEVER

EVER

TRY (key word is try)

to open a Capri Sun while you're sitting on your bed.</span>

[Shoma Barad]

I went to stay with my parents over the weekend, with the aim to be back in town this afternoon to hand Uni assignments in.

Got a phone call last night, telling me that the assignments had to be n by 9am this morning. None of them were finished, and a friend went alllllllllll the way down to my parents place to pick me up, then drove me alllllllllllllll the way back again.

Then we were up till 2am writing assignments.

We got to Uni and printed everything out.

Where is the idiocy??

I left my new star wars book (aaron allston) down at my parents place.

~~Shoma

[threeP0]

Well, I haven't done anything EXTREMELY idiotic in awhile, but it is granted I do something sort of dumb every day. Well, anyway, my friends did something really dumb today while I elected to stay at home and read because sometimes I am nerdy like that :rolleyes:.

Anyway, I have three friends that like to burn stuff. One of them actually reads this board. Anyway, they were burning shoe polish (of all things, SHOE POLISH) on the street. Now, since they live in a neighborhood full of old people who think you'll be codemmed to hell for saying darnit, someone called the cops on them. So, as the cops were on the intersection that my friends were burning stuff at, one of my friends spilled his Coke on the flame in suprise, sending a huge flame. Somehow, no one got hurt. They all got off with warnings, just like when they were at the SAME intersection mooning people. :doze:

[Tovor]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>I have three friends that like to burn stuff.[/b][/quote]

Reminds me of when I was an idiot for a day. *When I was young (10, 11, 12...) I always played with my spaceship models and futuristic toy soldiers, and I so liked the way in movies and tv sci-fi energy beams whizzed from guns and cannons and impacted on their targets. *I wasn't a pyromaniac, but I found that if I lit plastic on fire and held up the burning plastic over toy starships and toy buildings, small bits of melted and burning plastic would fall free and whizz down leaving thin trails of smoke behind. *The tiny bits of burning plastic (imagined as energy beams) emitted a searing sound as they fell, and hit their targets causing tiny splatters of plastic sparks and a melting hole in the afflicted target starship. *Even though the air in my bedroom (door closed and towel along the bottom edge) would get smoky until I opened the windows and let my room air out, I loved sending the flaming energy balls into my toy ships as I played out wicked battle scenes. *

Well, one day my battle got a little out of hand and my laser fire was not aimed as precisely as it should have been (maybe the fumes affected my judgement, it was an idiotic game to play after all.), and stray energy blasts were accidently fired into a paper bag full of papers and such that had been next to my bedroom desk. *Need I say more? *My attention to the starships under attack was captured by the horrible realization that the contents of the paper bag were on fire. *In a panic, I grabbed the bag and threw it out my second story-bedroom window to the snow covered bushes under my window. *I was relieved at that point, because as everybody knows, snow cannot catch fire from a burning paper bag...right? *That's what I thought too, much to my surprise. *You see, not all of the bushes under my window were covered by the snow, and apparently the uncovered bushes were somewhat dry and caught fire. *So there I was in my smoky bedroom with my mother downstairs oblivious to the mayhem I was perpetrating, and the bushes under my window ablaze! *And although I was frantic to run outside and throw snow on the bushes, I couldn't open my door or my mother would catch the scent of smoke and ask me what the hell I was doing, and any second I thought a neighbor or a driver passing by (I lived on a busy main road) would bang on the front door and tell my mother there was a burning bush at the side of the house. And since I was not Moses there was no way for me to justify a burning bush, even if I tried to speak to it. *So I climbed out my front bedroom window onto the sloping first story roof (my room was on the second story) and climbed down the side of that part and threw snow on the fire. *But although I had often climbed down that way during the night to hang out outside, in the winter time it was difficult to climb back up again due to ice on the shingles. *So I had to knock on the door and convince my mother that I had gone out earlier and forgot my key. *

So, burning plastic, an ignited bag, and a burning bush. And that's how I was idiot for a day on that day. *Burning pastic makes cool whizzing fire balls, but don't try that at home, kids, or you too will be idiot for a day. *Or a lot longer if you screw up worse than me and burn your house down.

[Tovor]

Aw c'mon, no one thought that was funny?

[Vyndim]

<span style="color:000070">I think no one responded because they would end up making some sort of remark about it, while poking fun at you... Sort of like this: I can only imagine what you would have done if you tried to recreate the Death Star and it's weapon effects. :p</span>

[JediBendu]

style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif *is there any video footage?

I was selling some of my sw stuff once and earned the post of idiot for a day. *I was showing this guy my double album original SW soundtrack, complete with music description inlay and original concept art poster showing the DS battle with 5 millenium falcon's involved. *Suffice to say it was in the top 5 items of my collection. *I was proudly opening up the album (to boast over the quality of the pics on the inside cover) when the side 2 record slipped out. *In my attempt to save it I let go of the other side so the side 1 record also slipped out. *I could only watch as both records shattered on my tile floor.
I don't think I've ever recovered... :withstupid:

[Tovor]

Vyndim,
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>I can only imagine what you would have done if you tried to recreate the Death Star and it's weapon effects. *[/b][/quote]
Seriously...I grew up in a 2 story house and from the second floor balcony at the top of the stairs I so desperately wanted to take the glass lighting fixture, which was round and about the size of a bowling ball, and drop it to the tiled floor to see it shatter like Alderaan. *I never tried it, though. *My fatta woulda killed me bad. *But it would have been worth it. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devil.gif

JediBendu, why, you've gone to digital!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>In my attempt to save it I let go of the other side so the side 1 record also slipped out. *I could only watch as both records shattered on my tile floor.[/b][/quote]
Oh man, double jeapardy.

[JediBendu]

you have no idea :(

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[Tovor]

Bumped up for the sake of idiocy. Anybody do anything ridiculously dumb one day?

[JediKeri.]

Well I can give you a list of what I've done to make me idiot of the day several days over.

For instance, I burned my hand my sophmore year of high school. I was working in consessions at the pop corn machine. I was scooping pop corn into bags and my hand went to high and bumped the pan that popcorn was poping in. There was hot greese on the bottom of the pan and I got a nice second degree burn. So what did I do? I ran my hand under cold water and then got back to work. That evening my mom yelled at me for not going to the ambulance to get it treated. It left a scar that you can only see when I have a good tan.

OR

Try slaming the safe door on your finger at work. (yeah it hurt like hell) I had just gotten a pay check out for one of the employee's I supervise when I did it. I was in too big of a hurry and I found my finger between two peices of steel. Once I got my hand out and after ALOT of swearing, I called my boss to come in because I couldn't use my hand at all. He came in (he wanted to tease me but didn't thank goodness) and told me to go get my finger checked out. I got to the Doc's they did x-rays and they were very surprised. I didn't break my finger. But boy did I ever bruise the heck out of it. They had me tape it and told me not to use my hand for like the next three days.

Or

Try Cutting your hand on a serrated dull knife while opening a bag, or cutting onions. Those hurt too...

Now There's my IDIOT OF THE DAY....

[JediBendu]

Do you still have any hands left?! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif

[JediKeri.]

Yes JB I do, albiet somewhat scared(sp?)

[Darth Drew]

<font style='width=80%; filter:glow(color=black)'><span style="color:white">was all of that on the same hand? oww</span></font>

[JediBendu]

Originally posted by JediKeri@Sep 28 2002, 05:44 PM
Yes JB I do, albiet somewhat scared(sp?)
I know my hands would be scared as well, especially scarred like that. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hehe.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

[JediKeri.]

Originally posted by Darth Drew@Sep 28 2002, 10:43 PM
<font style='width=80%; filter:glow(color=black)'><span style="color:white">was all of that on the same hand? oww</span></font>
Hehe, now that I t hink back about it...yeah style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif

[JediKeri.]

Heh, embarassing as it it, I have another idiot of the day story...I sliced my finger on a pizza cutter. I got a little to enthuisatic and I didn't move my finger in time. It's still intact, but it's got a little hangin skin....

[Javen]

When I was 10 I tried Parachuting off our house with some trash bags...guess what? gravity won and I broke my left foot.

No wonder I am now afraid of heights.. lol

[Recon_Jerry]

I am 13 years old, and I am in 7th Grade middle school.
Need I say more?

[Javen]

Well I'm not the idiot for a day, but this guy at work was,he had failed a drug test before and was not fired a few months later which was Tuesday he dropped a Tote=2,000 lbs of glue and spilled 500 lbs of it.

The company made him take a drug test and he failed again, but this time he was fired.

[Tovor]

I have obsessive insomnia and can't force myself to go to sleep, and keep logging on from time to time when I should be doing other things. Now I will be fatigued al day at work, starting five hours from now, because I stayed up this late. And that is how I will be idiot for a day, by being tired all day from staying up this later.

[Lara]

That doesn't make you an idiot, not for even a day or a second style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Tovor]

But I know better than to stay up so late.
I'm a manager. I know I'm better than this.

[Lara]

I know you are a manager style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Tovor]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>I know you are a manager [/b][/quote]
You missed it. I was paraphrasing Anakin in the Lars garage. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Lara]

Oh, mesa see style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[JediBendu]

:yinyang:

[Lara]

On thursdays I have an evening class at 5:30 pm and since I know I get lost in my own bathroom I decided to leave my home early so as not to be late. I arrived like around 5:15 pm and some students were there, so I sat down. I was getting kinda thirsty, this was around 5:20 pm, so I left the building to get something to drink --there are no vending machines inside. Getting he drink took me about 10 minute and I'm very anal about arriving late, so I ran back to the building and to my surprise the professor was not there yet. As I sat down the professor came in, looked at me and said, "What's your name," I told him. He said: "When I got to the building I realised I had forgotten the room number, and when I saw her in the elevator I was relieved because I could follow her but when I got off the elevator she was gone." I didn't see him on the elevator, and I ran to class because I thought I was late.

[Tovor]

Heh heh, You thought you were late and were an idiot for the day, but it was your professor who was the bigger idiot, not knowing what class to go to and relying on following you when he didn't know you were his student. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Lara]

Actually he recognized me on the elevator, but I didn't see him. I don't know why he didn't say: "Hi, I don't remember in which room our cass is in." I think he thought I could read his mind.

[Tovor]

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[Jamielee]

Well, I was an idiot for the day when, after my latest vacation I brought home a bag of assorted fireworks. (Fireworks are just a tad bit illegal in my state) well, I decided that Kit, being a little bit of a pyro would enjoy some fireworks, so I brought a few to his house. Then, the two of us walked over to one of his pyro friend's house to have a bit of fun. why did I agree to this, I don't know? Well, from that friend's house we walked to an "empty" area between his house and our old middle school. We set off the first firework, and that made a lot more noise than we thought it would. So we ran into the woods. Where we set off another, in the woods, smart, right? miraculously none of the trees burned, but the fireworks were so loud that we had to run to a new spot every time we sent one off. Well, by the time I got home I had multiple scrapes and bruises on my legs by running through the trees, but, surprisingly, no burns. It was another story for our friend who set off most of the fireworks, but I think Kit escaped pretty much unscathed. Well, then I worked more idiocy by letting Kit and his friend keep the leftover fireworks. A few days later they were both at my house with a small, home-made firework with an extremely long fuse. They ended up setting that one off in my backyard, and nearly burning my dog, who was a bit too curious about the firework . . .

[Kit]

^ by the way, I love you, hon! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wub.gif

[Jamielee]

yeah, yeah, I love you too style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif

[bodhisattva yoda]

awww...

is the sound that i make prior to vomiting.

[JediKeri.]

You like this one. I was cutting a box prepareing it as a display to put on the shelf when the box cutter slipped, and guess what it hit...

My FINGER! Yeah the cut is deep and it bled for a whole five minutes. Then I realzed that there was no med tape to keep guaze on my finger so I ended up using black electrical tape. Now my mom is thinking stitches, and I'm saying no way it's not THAT bad. But boy is it hard to type. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif

[Greedo Boy]

When I was five (or something) I lived in England, and we had this fish pond in the backyard, right? Well, one day, there was this bird (I think it might have been a crow, or a raven, I don't know) but Leia and I were both trying to get good look at it (it was in a big pine tree) and I started walking backward, so I could see more of it, y'know? Anyway, I was walking backward, and the next thing I know, I'm falling into the fishpond. Before I've fully grasped the meaning of my situation, Leia is sreaming at the top of her lungs for our mom to come out and save me because I'm drowning and all that. So eventually the fact that I'm 2 feet under water gets through my head, and I start to claw my way out through the water. By then, my mom has come out, they drag me out, and I'm stuck with the memory of nearly drowning in my backyard. Great, ain't it? style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Tarkheki JD]

why am i laughing at this story? why? style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

awwwe, poor greedo... you ever realised that, in fact, liea pushed you in there to begin with! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[Greedo Boy]

Nah, she wasn't close enough to do that.

[Tarkheki JD]

poor poor, naieve little greedo... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[Miasmo]

Wow Greedo, so much trauma in your life, and not a hint of brain damage. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[Josie Danger]

Have any of you ever done something so very dumb that makes you go "my god, what the heck was I THINKING!?" or done something on purpose to make people look at you weird, or had something done to you that you wish to forever forget? Some examples might be getting a bad hair cut, having your pants fall down during your high school prom, etc. etc. Be creative, it doesn't always have to be you either. It can be someone close to you. If you have pictures, all the more better! This thread is for entertainment values, and is intended to make people cringe or laugh. Have fun!

[Tovor]

Check this thread out, it's the same subject pretty much. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Idiot For A Day (http://www.galacticsenate.com/index.php?showtopic=34)

[Col. Vefalu]

(Oops, just saw the redirection. Sorry about this.)

Earlier tonight I was riding my bicycle. I ride my bike for at least an hour each day, usually at 3:00 PM and again at 8:00 PM. For some reason, though, I was feeling unusually tired and after about 30 minutes, I began to feel woozy. Driving on a sidewalk back to my house, I decided to go into the street. As soon as I went over the curb of someone's driveway, I took a dive, headfirst. A woman who happened to be driving by in her car stopped and asked me if I was okay. I said "yes" and proceeded trying to get up, but the bike was tangled around my foot which complicated things a bit. She then asked me if I had hit something and I said, "Nope. Just went over the curb over there." My foot free, I got up, brushed my self off, sustaining no serious injuries, gave my thanks for concern, and walked the bike to my house.

This was embarrassing to me because I've been riding my bicycle for quite some time, and it was completely unexpected. The woman even had a look on her face like "Is this some kind of joke?"

[Greedo Boy]

It's almost amazing the number of times I've hit my head on things and yet I'm still sane... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/scratchchin.gif

[brookie]

i put a box of cereal in the fridge

[Seanakin]

Hmmmm...depending on the climate, that's actually a smart move, methinks.

[Greedo Boy]

I was trimming hedges for my grampa with electric trimmers one day and I accidentally set the trimmers down on my hand while they were still going.

[Seanakin]

I woke up the other morning in my recliner in my new apartment, obnoxiously scratching myself when I realized I was doing so right in front of the patio door, in semi-plain view. Oops. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thud.gif

[brookie]

Originally posted by Seanakin@Aug 5 2004, 05:44 PM
I woke up the other morning in my recliner in my new apartment, obnoxiously scratching myself when I realized I was doing so right in front of the patio door, in semi-plain view. Oops. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thud.gif
LMFAO!!!! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/chortle.gif

[Seanakin]

Seriously, I was like Chris Klein in American Pie 2. Without the perfect hair, of course. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banghead.gif

[Josie Danger]

Originally posted by Tovor@Aug 4 2004, 11:47 PM
Check this thread out, it's the same subject pretty much. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Idiot For A Day (http://www.galacticsenate.com/index.php?showtopic=34)
Sorry, just looked at the link. Yes it is almost exactly the same thing. I wouldn't have started the thread if I'd have known about it, but it does look like the last post before it recently got active again was last year, almost to date. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to hunt down threads that sound similar but haven't been active for a year. I hunt for active threads within the last month or two, sorry. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif

[Obidobi]

Merged

[bluemilk]

Okay. Two days ago this old guy phones and he just keeps talking for almost 2 hours! About half way through the call I couldn't stand it anymore and I admonished "Sir, can I put you on hold, I reallllly have to go to the bathroom"

erm.. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif

[Tovor]

Originally posted by Josie Danger+Aug 6 2004, 01:36 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Josie Danger @ Aug 6 2004, 01:36 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-Tovor@Aug 4 2004, 11:47 PM
Check this thread out, it's the same subject pretty much. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Idiot For A Day (http://www.galacticsenate.com/index.php?showtopic=34)
Sorry, just looked at the link. Yes it is almost exactly the same thing. I wouldn't have started the thread if I'd have known about it, but it does look like the last post before it recently got active again was last year, almost to date. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to hunt down threads that sound similar but haven't been active for a year. I hunt for active threads within the last month or two, sorry. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif [/b][/quote]
Sorry Josie, I shouldn't have made a deal out of it, I kinda feel bad now. But I'm just a sorry old man who fears loss and I don't want my old threads to be replaced. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif

No, I'm not really an old man, and I don't fear loss too much. But when I saw your thread I exclaimed "That's just like my old thread, where did that thing go?" No, I didn't really exclaim that, but I still uttered it to myself. But I'm sorry, I hope I didn't make you feel bad.

But on the bright side, this old thread was gathering dust and you have that broom in your avatar, so could ya sweep off this old dusty thread for me? I'd appreciate ya for it. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif And while you're at it, would ya dust off my old bald noggin for me too? Thanks, you da bomb! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wave.gif

[Obidobi]

^ style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

[Josie Danger]

No big deal, Obidobi merged the threads so your thread is active again! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif Sorry again. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banghead.gif I really didn't mean to start a topic so very similar to this one, but since they're merged there is no problem now! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

To stay on topic, I was at a convention last year in my Matrix twin costume, and I was doing really well for not tripping on my coat, but right when I got up from my seat from watching a panel, I tripped, got back up, tripped again, walked a few more steps tripped again. So much for trying to be in character. It was the only time during the three days that that particular incident happened...

[Tovor]

it would have been too cool if that event was being videotaped and it came out on a convention bloopers DVD, with you tripping. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif Then you'd be idiot for many more days when people relived it by watching it again and again. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/chortle.gif

[Tarkheki JD]

Ok, this one's kinda gross, but yesterday, as I'm laying topless on a medical bed, exposing my style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/censored.gif and having my heart scanned by an elderly doctor, my stomach acted up and I farted.
Not loudly, so he didn't hear it, but I started to giggle like an idiot so I think he figured it out (now there must be some little interferances on my scan becuase of it!) style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif

[Tovor]

Too bad the doctor wasn't in the room at the time, it would have been funnier then. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif
Nevertheless, congrats. You were an idiot for a day. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue2.gif

[Seanakin]

Coulda been worse, ya coulda been at the gynecologist. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

[Tovor]

Talk to Vibroblade, he has plenty of those type of accounts.

[Seanakin]

I'm aware of that already, but thanks. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/barf.gif

[Greedo Boy]

One day in fifth or fourth grade, I relinquished what tender hold on sanity I had, turned into a full fledged raptor, began running down my class mates and, after dragging them to the ground, mauling them.

I have lost almost all credibility since.

[stormtrooper9]

The most remberal time I sufferd from ID-10-D error was in my first day in high school I could not find my calsses because I was holding my map upsidedown.... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif V me that day....

[Tovor]

*Boobers*

[Queso]

everytime I make a thread...

[Sluggo]

Last year, I was driving around on Christmas getting 7-11 Big Gulps with my sister, and I was lamenting how there was nothing to do that afternoon, because we had opened all of our presents. Because I had noticed all the stores and theaters were closed, I uttered the profound, "Christmas. It's kind of like a holiday".

Still haven't heard the end of that one.

[Super_Milk_Chan]

I just ate six peices of pizza and prom is today... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/barf.gif

[leiaorgana]

Embarrased or idiot?
LAst night at my friend's wedding, sitting on table 1,w2ith a bunch of people I do not know, my ex-boyfriend on sitting next to me on my left side and his ex- girlfriend (another one, not just me) sitting next to me on myy right side...

[Zachaa]

Oh this was a good one. So I'm standing in the physics lounge, right before class, talking to a friend.

ME: "Yeah, I'm gonna be bad. I'm not gonna go to class"
FRIEND: "Which class?"
ME: "E&M"
FRIEND: "Why so?--- Hi"
Yes, it is about this time that my professor of that class walks by....
ME (oblivious): "Grocery shopping and homework"
NOW I glance to see who she said hi to... oh boy was I embarrassed.