What is the stupidest thing you have ever done?

[crazy_egyptian]

Well, even though I am fairly sure that there has been a thread like this before (I did use the search bar, last thread of the sort was 2009, and I figure that people have done more stupid stuff since then) but Anywho...

Back on topic.

I went to the beach today with a few friends, and took down my bodyboard. After having some lunch, we walked down to a bus stop, and caught a bus. And forgot the $300 bodyboard, along with about $100 worth of bodyboarding gear. I realised I forgot this AFTER we got off the bus, and it had driven away. We went back to the bus stop ASAP to see if it was still there, and I think that you can guess what happened.

Sure, it might not be the stupidest thing ever done, but I know I haven't done anything so pants-on-head retarded in my life so far.

So fellow Escapists, what is the stupidest thing you have ever done?

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

I've done some stupid things, but maybe the top of my list...

When I was 12, I stole a load of alcohol from home. Me and 3 other mates went to the cinema with it all...and drank it.
Only they didn't actually have any. I drank it all.

Almost died of alcohol poisoning, had to have my stomach pumped and got put on a drip.

I also got slight brain damage that affected my memory. So mmh xD.

...just to repeat: I was 12.

Aaaah, good'ol binge drinking.

...don't do it kids.

BUT HEY, I didn't have a hangover the next day.
[sub]but I was drunk for a few days I think[/sub]

 

[Fooz]

well it may not be the stupidest but it was embarrasing

i was about 12 and was round a friends house, i wanted to scare him so i hid in a corner behind a chair in his living room. as i did it his whole family (mum, dad, sister, sisters boyfriend) all came in and sat down watching tv. my friend was upstairs playing Fifa and didnt realise i was gone, i sat there for about 20 mins hoping they would go away so i could leave......... they didnt. so i stood up making all of them require new underwear claiming i had lost my phone and has just found it and left immediately without looking backand went home.

im now 17 and they still give me funny looks

 

[b3nn3tt]

Well, I very often walk into things, that makes me feel pretty stupid. A few months ago I did some washing up and place one of our sharp knives on the draining rack, point up. About fifteen seconds later, I reached right across it and managed to slice open my forearm. That didn't make me feel too clever

 

[ReservoirAngel]

When I was 13 I willingly let my friends pick me up and throw me head-first through a glass door. They did it pretty damn hard too. I landed on the floor half-way across the room the door led to.

Then again I have a high tolerance for pain, so I can do crazy shit that would normally injure people but walk out okay. Well, okay-ish.

Such as jumping off my house's roof to land in the wheelie bin that had been arranged on the back garden patio. Actually I fucked that one up a bit. I caught my arm awkwardly on the edge of it and broke it (my arm I mean, i didn't break the bin).

 

[Biosophilogical]

I also got slight brain damage that affected my memory. So mmh xD.

That goes so well with the avatar, just BTW.

OT: I don't do stupid things, I'm perfect
...
....<.<

I honestly can't remember the stupid things I've done, they are either lots of small thins that don't stick out, or blocked from ym conscious memory.

 

[RevRaptor]

Once went on a datura bender. woke up 6 days later with little or no memory of just what the hell I had been getting up to. Definitely not my smartest moment. Although I do remember playing playstation for about 2 hours only to realise the tv wasn't on and I wasn't even holding the controller.

 

[New Troll]

Married my ex-wife.

Stupidest thing I've ever done in more ways than one.

 

[Rylot]

Back in my college days I took a trip down to South Carolina with my friend one summer. I was born in a firework banned state and was going to school in one at the time so it'd been awhile since I'd let off any decent fireworks. In South Carolina we went a little hog wild and one of the many fireworks that I purchased was a huge bottle rocket that had a 10' long stem. I tried standing it up in the usual beer bottle but I couldn't get it to stay up right. Being the genius that I am I figured that if I lightly set it in the ground it would have enough thrust to launch with no problems. I was wrong. It blew up on the ground sending streamers to either side of where I was standing (Naturally I didn't get nearly far enough away) To this day I still have no idea how I didn't get burned.

tldr: I'm a dumb ass when it comes to fireworks.

 

[Melian]

Being an absolute nerd and having the glasses to prove it, I once went into a bookstore (I think I was 16) and found the collected works of Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde on sale. I gleefully picked the huge tomes up and proceeded to walk straight into a glass door, falling backwards and landing rather awkwardly, still clutching the books to my chest. Thankfully, only a couple of old ladies and my boyfriend (now husband) saw this and he's still laughing about it...

 

[Aeshi]

When I was little I repeatedly stepped on a rake to see if it could fly up and hit you in the face like in cartoons.

FYI? They can.

 

[BENZOOKA]

These threads seem to pop up every now and then.

When I was 15-16, I broke up with an absolutely beautiful model-looking girl (so beautiful that a bunch of friends I only saw about twice a year, asked about where that girl was), who was probably the smartest, nicest, and in almost every way perfect girl. I had dated her a few months. And the reason for me to do that was that she wasn't too good at giving head. So instead of giving her some advice on that, in my youthful stupidity I dumped her. I suppose those were the best days in regards of getting nice attention from girls, so I didn't think too much of wasting a one-in-a-million chance there. Also, for an odd reason, I bunked with my ex/friend, who I still had some feelings for, for a couple weeks to be nearer a school-related workplace.

That has haunted me in a horrible manner. Still somewhat does.

And couple years later, if I weren't so depressed, I wouldn't have worsened my friendships. Which lead me to be more sad and having to break up (mutually, as I knew she had gotten bored of me, but still with a very bad taste in my mouth as I didn't actually want to break up) with a long-term girlfriend who I deeply loved.

She was quite probably the love of my life. In the meanwhile, most of my friendships had dulled down to being more of distant buddies and I had also, in my depressed state, failed to graduate from school. And in the end, I was left from graduation by about a week's worth of schoolwork, and through some bad luck I haven't been able to do that later either. In the midst of that, I also faced some financial issues. I've always been rather poor, but that did complicate some things a bit still.

So I pretty much ruined my life in few months, from a small spark as getting sad from not being too close to friends...

And now it did strike me: Why am I pouring my heart out in this thread?

 

[emion]

of course everyone have done something stupid in their lives... but Im afraid to tell you something of mine because I think the police is still watching me XP

 

[Scarim Coral]

The only one I can think of was back in my teen I once cross a road but a car was very close. The car even beep at me wen I cross it.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

When I was 15 a few mates of mine got a Bacardi bottle and some coke. After mixing it 50/50 I drank like 4-5 glasses and was wasted. Later I heard that besides those few glasses I also drank half a bottle of pure Bacardi. Needless to say I had a major hangover the next day on the trip home.

It gets even worse my friends taped it. Its not fun seeing yourself drunk but its even worse to see that video going through half the school.

 

[Valksy]

It was a binge drink. I was literally so drunk that I could not stand, I fell on the floor in my home and was dimly aware on blacking out that I could be in trouble.

Now that happens and I could have shrugged it off as learning experience. So the particularly stupid thing that I did was doing it a second time.

 

[TailstheHedgehog]

Once looked at a poster of a cricketer mid-bowl, emblazoned in big white letters 'Shane Warne', pointed and said 'That's Brett Lee!'
Thank god only my best mate was next to me or I would never have lived it down. She still smirks at me whenever the conversation swings to cricket.
Luckily, I've got her with a little 'spotlight' incident (whoever said blackmail was underhand?)... but that's not for your ears/eyes.

 

[Wapox]

Almost eating Manure, seriously I came like a few parts of a second away from eating it...

Granted I was 4 and stupid, but still...
that's the stupidest and most dangerous thing I've done... so far.
other than not making a move on some serious mutual feelings... but at least we're still friends who just happen to really like eachother... each with own girl/boyfriend... *sigh*

*going to hit my head often, hard and *ouch**

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

The one that springs to mind is.......

A few years ago I went on holiday to Heron Island. Lovely place, birds, beaches, cocktails, sharks, turtles, the works.

One night as we were destroying all the free seafood from the serve-yourself counter, they started bringing out the desserts. They were halfway through bringing everything out when I decided I wanted some ice cream and mousse, so I get up, get a dollop of ice cream and a big thick spoon of mousse.

I go back to the table, sit down, and dig in.

Upon my first bite, I reacted thusly........"Mmmm, this mousse tastes a bit wei--eugh......uuughhhh....arrrhh blargenflaeugghhblaaarrr!!"

It was patte. Spicy, mustard patte. I think it's something your supposed to spread thinly on seafood or something, but it looks exactly like chocolate mousse.

This happened twice.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Stuck wires that were charged on a battery on my tongue.

Shit hurt.