Stupid Things Everyone Does

[EHKOS]

Finishing a webpage for the day, then looking at your tabs and opening the same one right afterwards.
I don't know if everyone has these "lock-ups" as I call them. But being in the middle of driving, talking, playing a game, and then having every bit of information you have stored and are using as RAM instantly disappear, then having to wait about three seconds while your brain has to regather and recompile it. So you're sitting there for like five seconds with your eyes wide and your mouth slightly open not doing anything and looking like a dolt.

When you're playing a video game and suddenly realize you've made the same mistake five times and that you should have learned by now to avoid that obstacle.

 

[Tiger King]

how about....
going out to socialise and just sit there 'socialising' on their phone instead?

is a strange thing to do if you ask me :S

 

[Kaisikudo]

Going to bed with the active intention of trying to have a lucid dream, and being so focused on remaining conscious, that you end up getting zero sleep whatsoever that night.

.... just me?

 

[sageoftruth]

Going to bed with the active intention of trying to have a lucid dream, and being so focused on remaining conscious, that you end up getting zero sleep whatsoever that night.

.... just me?

Nope. I do that too.

 

[sageoftruth]

Expecting people around you to do or not do a certain thing, only to later find out that you do that thing as well (even when you REALLY try not to).

 

[Something Amyss]

reacting to emotion where reason and intellect is the better tool. And do I do this in droves....

Rationalising the stupid things we do.

Choking on air

Okay, how does that happen?

I know this is a little different but I as wasting time on Buzzfeed and I found a piece on 38 [mostly stupid] questions women ask themselves.

Spoiler

1. Should I wax my vagina?
2. Am I supposed to shave my butt hair?
3. Why is there hair growing on my boobs?
4. Why am I being so emotional?
5. Are my boobs normal-looking?
6. Why is my period stopping and starting?
7. Could I be pregnant?
8. Are these god-awful cramps normal? Should I see a gynecologist about this?
9. AM I DEVELOPING TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME?!
10. How long can I go without shaving my legs before anyone notices?
11. Is my vagina "normal?"
12. Does my vagina feel loose?
13. Do Kegels really work?
14. Am I doing them correctly?
15. IS THAT A GRAY HAIR?
16. Can people tell that one of my boobs is bigger than the other one?
17. Should I be plucking my nose hairs?
18. Can people see my stray eyebrow hairs?
19. Why am I breaking out right now? NOT EVEN STRESSED.
20. Am I the only one with upper lip hair?
21. Should I shave my upper lip?
22. Will anyone notice if I don't wear makeup today?
23. Why did I even start wearing makeup?
24. Can you get a tampon stuck inside of you?
25. Do pieces of your tampon come off INSIDE OF YOU and float around forever?!
26. What is a yeast infection?
27. Does that mean I have actual yeast in my vagina? Like bread?
28. Should I wash my hair today?
29. Do other women fart as much as I do?
30. Do all women queef?
31. Does my vagina smell weird?
32. Has my tampon been in too long?
33. If I cough while on my period, will more blood come out?
34. Should I be losing this much blood?
35. Why can men readjust/scratch themselves but I can?t readjust my boobs and scratch my damn vagina?
36. Do people really bleach their assholes?
37. Why is only one of my nipples hard?
38. Am I the only one thinking all this shit?

I don't know, maybe I'm particularly gross but I've thought about most of these at some point in my life.
I got a bit of a laugh out of it anyway. XD

In my experience, those are pretty normal. And it sorta worries me that I know more about lady bits than my girlfriends have. Because I knew most of these answers in middle school. Well, except for things like "Could I be pregnant?" Because I'm not a mind reader.

Opening car doors into your eye.

...just me then?

Grand.

I'm 6'5". Best I can do is open a car door into my belly button. On the flip side, even ducking doesn't guarantee I won't hit my head. I've whacked my head so often I'm surprised I haven't brained my damageamageamageamage....

What was I saying?

 

[Blow_Pop]

Choking on air

Okay, how does that happen?

-shrugs- the best I can explain is I breathe in and then start choking. No irritants in the air, no allergies, just winds up making me choke. I honestly don't know how it happens, just that it does.

 

[Jadwick]

Casual stuff (aka I'm an idiot):

Going to bed with the active intention of trying to have a lucid dream, and being so focused on remaining conscious, that you end up getting zero sleep whatsoever that night.

How about: trying to fall asleep and being unable to - but trying to stay awake and always falling asleep.

Spacing something off that you've just done is mentioned a lot, for me it's the gas cap on my car. After filling up I screw down the cap, get in my car, start it up and pull away, then have to stop and make sure the cap is indeed on, and the flap is closed. Why brain why!?

Carrying multiple things to put away and transposing their locations. IE bread in the bathroom, toothpaste in the kitchen. It's even better when you don't realize it when you are putting them away and later you come across the misplaced item and wonder what the hell you were doing with a loaf of bread on your bathroom counter.

Probably every guy does this but, patting your pockets to make sure you have everything before leaving your front door.
Left pocket - phone, right pocket - keys & knife, lanyard - work keys, back pocket - wallet.

But then there are those days, especially when you have to get up extra early or something, and you go through the whole list and have everything, but still feel like you are missing something.

Work related (aka spiteful):

1. Small talk

So much useless words about nothing interesting, and in the worst cases annoyingly repetitive.

"It's a nice day today" or "Don't you wish you we're outside today?" x 1,000.

Yes, yes I do. Stop making me want to commit suicide right here in front of everyone.

2. Asking the question "Do you work here?" to someone in uniform.

This is just really a preface to your actual question, so just ask me that instead.
What would you do if I said 'no'?
I've actually done this and usually people just take it as a joke, but it makes my day happier.

3.Bringing your wallet/purse but forgetting your credit card/cash

What is the point of having a device to organize these methods of payment, if you are not going to use it?

Double points to women who have to dig through their entire bag that is the size of Asia because they put their cash in 40 different pockets of the damn thing. You know who you are.

Triple points for doing that, and still not finding anything.

/rant

 

[Something Amyss]

-shrugs- the best I can explain is I breathe in and then start choking. No irritants in the air, no allergies, just winds up making me choke. I honestly don't know how it happens, just that it does.

Huh. Weird. I've never heard of this before.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Lets see...
Today i walked outside in my longjohns with a hedge clipper to cut and toss some bushes, when i came back i expected mom to open our autolocking garage door instantly
She had gone to sleep, and is somewhat deaf

Going to the store and forgetting the one thing you went to the store to buy?

Going outside without glasses and wondering why i can not see anything clearly

Obsessively playing a game just to get better at playing the game, for example, Skyrim smithing


OH, and i quite often say the exact opposite of what i was thinking, like left instead of right

 

[Queen Michael]

Picking something okay to read. Reading a book takes time. Our time on this earth is limited. And still people struggle to finish a book that's just okay. I'm talking about when people read the latest best-seller to see what all the hype is about, and after 50 pages they'll conclude that "it's okay," and keep reading anyway. Why not find something really really good to read instead? Sure, it's not always possible to find a masterpiece just like that, but why read a book that's just okay? Do't you know that reading is meant to be fun?

If a book isn't entertaining you after 50 pages, drop it like it's hot.

I'm curious as to why you only use books in your example? The same thing gets done with TV shows and games and those can take just as long to get through.

I didn't think of that, actually, but that's a good point. People should drop games and TV shows that bore them too. THere's no medal for people who watch and play stuff they don't enjoy.

 

[Stasisesque]

-shrugs- the best I can explain is I breathe in and then start choking. No irritants in the air, no allergies, just winds up making me choke. I honestly don't know how it happens, just that it does.

Huh. Weird. I've never heard of this before.

Laryngospasm.

Connected to GERD, but not always caused by. It's fairly rare, non-fatal (unless you have one under anaesthesia) and annoying as hell.

 

[FPLOON]

Picking something okay to read. Reading a book takes time. Our time on this earth is limited. And still people struggle to finish a book that's just okay. I'm talking about when people read the latest best-seller to see what all the hype is about, and after 50 pages they'll conclude that "it's okay," and keep reading anyway. Why not find something really really good to read instead? Sure, it's not always possible to find a masterpiece just like that, but why read a book that's just okay? Do't you know that reading is meant to be fun?

If a book isn't entertaining you after 50 pages, drop it like it's hot.

I'm curious as to why you only use books in your example? The same thing gets done with TV shows and games and those can take just as long to get through.

I didn't think of that, actually, but that's a good point. People should drop games and TV shows that bore them too. THere's no medal for people who watch and play stuff they don't enjoy.

"But, I have to keep watching this [boring] show and/or keep reading this [boring] book until the very end... Maybe it gets better over time or something..."

That could be the mindset to those that do continue to read or watch something they may not enjoy personally... There's that mindset that if you drop it now, you might be missing out on something that justified reading/watching it in the first place... I know I have that mindset right now as I'm watching the show Salem... Is the show boring? It kinda is, to me, but maybe the payoff would be worth it in the end...

(Also, there could be the mindset that if you quit something right in the "middle" of it, then you're just taking the "easy way" out and you should regret doing something like that, but even I don't fully understand that line of reasoning...)

 

[Queen Michael]

"But, I have to keep watching this [boring] show and/or keep reading this [boring] book until the very end... Maybe it gets better over time or something..."

That makes especially little sense with books. Do they think that the writer got good after half the book, but decided to let the first half remain crappy instead of rewriting it.

 

[FPLOON]

"But, I have to keep watching this [boring] show and/or keep reading this [boring] book until the very end... Maybe it gets better over time or something..."

That makes especially little sense with books. Do they think that the writer got good after half the book, but decided to let the first half remain crappy instead of rewriting it.

*shrugs* Maybe they just had an editor with poor choices? Or, to the reader in question, they feel like the second half was better than the first half, even though they were both written, edited, and even rewritten pretty well beforehand?

Or maybe the reader is waiting for that one moment in the book where they go "and that's the reason why I'm reading this book in the first place"? I know I had a moment like that as I was reading Remnants... (Too bad I forgot what that moment was exactly...)

 

[lechat]

massively over thinking and rehearsing what you are going to say only to fuck it up or forget the second you open your mouth

 

[Something Amyss]

Laryngospasm.

Connected to GERD, but not always caused by. It's fairly rare, non-fatal (unless you have one under anaesthesia) and annoying as hell.

I can imagine. Sounds....Uncomfortable to say the least. I'd just honestly never heard of it.