Stupid is as stupid does.

[Dags90]

The other day I was driving my new-ish car back from a friends house and the following light to the right comes on. I don't know what the hell that symbol stands for, so I pull over and give my car a quick visual check. I drive the rest of the way home paranoid about any potential irregularities in the drive and what damage I could be doing to my car by continuing to drive it.

The next morning I check to see if the same light, which I've now dubbed the "vase light" is still on. Unsurprisingly, it is. So I call up the dealership and explain the problem and they schedule an appointment for next week, because the car is driving fine.

So I'm tooling along the highway, glancing at this light wondering what it could be. I notice the little teeth marks on the bottom could be tire treads. Pretty much as soon as I notice this I also notice that there is a very light wobble in the car. So I pull over to the nearest gas station and cancel my dealership appointment, and call AAA for what looks to be a partially flat front tire. Tire guy shows up, gets me enough air to get to his tire shop and checks for leaks. He was pretty confident it was a slow leak, but after checking they all appeared to be fine. Turned out it just got particularly cold the night before, and that was enough to deflate the tire until it looked flat.

Needless to say I felt pretty stupid about the whole thing. Maintaining tire pressure is pretty basic car maintenance stuff, and is especially important as the weather changes. On my old car this wasn't as much of a problem...because it didn't have the light.

So when was the last time you all did something that stupid?

 

[Quaxar]

You know there should be a manual sonewhere in your car/house/internet that explains the meaning of every single warning symbol specific to the car, yes?

OT: Parked the car in a private handicapped spot and as a result got towed but to be fair it was dark, badly signed and the guy for whose car it is litterally NEVER parks there. Also, second month of driver's licence.

 

[Fappy]

Last month that light was constantly turning on and off for me. The weather has a real impact on tire pressure and in my case it was just making the car give me false readings.

 

[Rawne1980]

Not me but it's to amusing to pass up.

My niece was going to Leeds to view a few flats as she's starting University there after Christmas.

So, she goes on google and drew out a map to get to where she wanted to go.

Then googled the reverse journey and drew a map to get her home.

I found it quite amusing.

 

[Lionsfan]

As long as you don't drive when the Oil Pressure light comes on, you'll be fine for most Car Warning lights.

The last time I did something that stupid, was asking where the lockerrooms where, and they were right behind me the whole time

 

[username sucks]

I spun myself around on an office chair then tried to stand, then promply broke through the door with my head as I stumbled across the room.

It didn't hurt, so I thought is was pretty funny. My friend who owned the house, however, did not.

The hole is still there.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I stapled my own finger once. That'll teach my not to try closing it from the bottom...

 

[saintdane05]

I watched Honey Boo Boo.

Unironically.

 

[Gregg Lonsdale]

Drove from work to the petrol station (about 6kms) with the handbrake still on. It's a good thing I needed petrol because it's another 20km to get home from there which probably wouldn't have worked out well for my brake linings (in my defence it was midnight).

 

[lunavixen]

i've never seen the tiire warning light before in a car, but then again the newest car i have owned is my current one and it's a 1995.

So a light came on in the car and the first thing you thought to do WASN'T to check the owner's manual for what the symbol means...

Dags may not have kept the manual in the car or may not have the manual at all, i didn't have the manual for my fist two cars.

Stupidist thing i've done recently was when i was trying to unblock the pepper shaker at home, i squeezed it too hard and it exploded in my face, cloud of pepper everywhere.

 

[Jfswift]

I dont check my tire pressure that often really.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Well I have been driving on the same set of winter tires for 2 years now.
And I just clicked the Spinning Button badge on Jfswift's bar. It's still going...

 

[Yopaz]

Well, this is pretty old, but it happened at the time when the DSI was released. I had been using the classic DS up until that point, but it was old and worn so I decided it was time for an upgrade.

Anyway I also bought Harvest Moon Island of Happiness with it. You control the direction you look with the touch screen and run with the R button if I remember correctly. Anyway for some reason there was a bug with my touch screen that made me suddenly turn left and keep going that way on occasions. Each time this happened I decided to recalibrate the screen. Now I must have done this dozens of times and I was about to send it back in when I realized something. The touch screen on the DSI takes up more of the total space of the console than on the original and when I held it the same way as the original my left thumb was touching the bottom left part of the touch screen causing me to turn left.

Yeah, I felt quite stupid at that point.

 

[DkLnBr]

Once I put a ladder at a 45 degree angle and climbed up it. When it inevitably slipped I tore out a chunk of thumbnail (got lucky). Nothing teaches faster than pain

 

[Creator002]

I work in a call centre for Victoria, Australia's public transport system. First day on the job, I had a lot of calls that had to be transfered to the department that runs Victoria country services. What did I do? Transfered them to New South Wales transport. I didn't get yelled at or punished, but I learned quickly what stations are in Victoria and what aren't..

 

[gigastar]

As more proof that cats have the power to nullify rational thought in humans around them, i one tried feeding one cat from my hand, only she cant keep her voice down and in moments there were six cats all going for the same bit of chicken in my hand.

The cats got off fine, my hand did not.