What's the stupidest thing you've done recently?

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So, we have a "what made you smile", but as I was contemplating my most recent brain fart moment, I realized it was much more stupid than funny. So, what's the stupidest thing you've done recently? Could be funny, could end up harmless, could just be a careless mistake that caused you endless headaches. . .

For example: I was making green beans last night, the kind with a ham hock and onions in them that simmer for hours and hours and are terrible for you but taste really good. It had come time to put in the onion, so I got out my extremely sharp Wüsthof Classic 8" chef's knife and prepared to chop. Problem was, I decided (stupidly) to cut down the middle from the wobbly side and hold the onion in place. Next thing I knew, I had a nice, deep slit arching gracefully around the side of my finger, bleeding like crazy. Shocked

And this morning I have a bandaid and a homemade splint constructed of two paper clips and scotch tape. My verdict? Such an Darwin-award thing to do. I've taken knife skills and safety classes- I know better! But idiot me will have an immoble finger for a few days.

So, anyone else? Fess up!

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Three weeks ago I turned off the lights to go to bed, turned around, and walked right into the chair I had been sitting in and broke my little toe. It still hurts.

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I do nothing stupid....ever.

Wink

Actually I do silly things so often that its normal and I really forget that they are dumb and ignore them as much as possible so...I just cant tell you..its all normal for me.

Smile

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I tried to cut an apple with the dull side of the knife this morning. Didn't work very well.

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My MRS wrote a check "Bank of Cash" LMAO - and they cashed it.

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I was bidding on eBay and forgot my decimal point. Instead of 66.56, it was $6,656.00. That took forever to clear up since the live chat person didn't mention that all I had to do was retype the correct bid within the first hour. Hmmmmmm.

At least I'll remember that lesson now.

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I poured milk into a glass of white wine. I was thinking that it was a cup of coffee. I wasn't even drunk.

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This is actually going back a bit, but I still feel like an ass every time I see it...

This summer I came out of a store and found egg caked on the driver's door my my and the gf's car. I was pissed off, tired, and hungover. Got in, drove home, when to the kitchen, grabbed a wet sponge, and went back outside and started scrubbing. With the abrasive side of the sponge.

Oops.

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My stupidest thing!!
I once tried to fix a pair of dog clippers, that had clogged up. I did everything just right...until I twisted the wrong thing and figured out that I hadn't unplugged them! To my SHOCK.....they got throwed down, and I went to squealing. I still laugh about that now, and haven't forgotten to unplug them since. Laughing

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There is seriously not enough space here to get it all in, at least according to Mrs. cav. Wink

Seriously though, I'm with quinn here, it's a daily thing, I don't take it too seriously. Now, did you see how stupid that last sentence was, with the two seriouslys?

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Whoa....three seriouslys in the whole post....

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Ok, I have to keep adding humiliation to my injury (in a perversion of that particular maxim or axiom or whatever it is)

I went to fix my splint over my finger this morning and fastened it tightly in place. . .

. . . and in doing so, pressed it so tight against my cut that it opened up again and bled like crazy. Will I never learn? :-)

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Good grief, how deep is that cut?

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ehh. . . three or four millimeters, I've decided. . . not stitches-needing, but still nasty. . .

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There's always that moment right afterwards when you think "can't I just turn back time a second?" <shudder> Somebody told me once that every new knife wants to taste blood. (Is that morbid or what?)

Two words: butterfly closures...

http://www.trainerschoice.on.ca/images/first_aid_images/Adhesive%20Bandages%20and%20Wound%20Dressings/pg%2027%20butterfly%20closures.jpg

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http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4979

Okay... the story goes back to March 1 of this year, but the middle of the story was indeed, pretty stupid. P'ash... I think you'd like this.

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Young Lady! You get yourself over the Duane-Reade and get a butterfly closure on that slash this instant!!

Seriously..... Joe

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The irony surrounding the butterfly closures is that, as I was running around saying "ohmigod, gonna die. . . gonna die of blood loss right here in this godforsaken tiny kitchen. . . have no bandaids. . . no antiseptic. . . should call the paramedics. . . ohmigod. . . I can feel the bloodloss setting in", I forgot ALL about the first aid kit my mother sent me after discovering I'd been living for, like, three years now on a tube of neosporin and a box of bandaids.

Very nice kit. Wipes, lotion, full assortment of bandaids, gauze, and, lo and behold, butterfly closures.

Oops.

And, Seal, I don't know whether to (hehe) or do one of those Shocked

smilies. . . quite an adventure indeed. . . and, you're right, up my alley these days. . . did the paté at least make up in part for the injury? :-)

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I did, I did! I fished the kit out of the closet this very afternoon (upon discovering my further injury) and butterfly'd the whole thing shut! Really!

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