I truly am an Idiot!

[scottmorley]

If we're talking about doing idiotic things, I had a great moment of stupidity last week:


- Kitchen sink is a little slow to drain. It's starting to smell.
- I take off the U-bend to clear out the gunk. It's full of brown stinking water and other unidentified particulate.
- "Better not spill any of this... I don't want it going all over the kitchen"
- Very, very carefully carry the U-bend up to the sink. Very carefully pour it down the sink. Which is missing it's ****ing U-bend.
- Hear splashing. Realise I've just done. Swear at myself. Facepalm.
- Stinking brown drain-water all over the sink cupboard and its contents.

****ing pmsl !

 

[Curio]

If we're talking about doing idiotic things, I had a great moment of stupidity last week:


- Kitchen sink is a little slow to drain. It's starting to smell.
- I take off the U-bend to clear out the gunk. It's full of brown stinking water and other unidentified particulate.
- "Better not spill any of this... I don't want it going all over the kitchen"
- Very, very carefully carry the U-bend up to the sink. Very carefully pour it down the sink. Which is missing it's ****ing U-bend.
- Hear splashing. Realise I've just done. Swear at myself. Facepalm.
- Stinking brown drain-water all over the sink cupboard and its contents.

Man of Honor 2013 for that

 

[EdGey]

If we're talking about doing idiotic things, I had a great moment of stupidity last week:

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I had an epic day of fail a few weeks ago..

Arranged to pick my new car up from the dealer roughly 100 miles away. So I bought the 3 train tickets online a few days before and arranged with the dealer to meet at the train station at 10:30am.

Anyway, the journey involved getting on 3 trains, starting at 5:58am at Swansea. So, I arrive at the station at 5:40am and realise I don't have change for the car park where I planned to leave my old car for the day. I nip down the road to get £10 changed at a weird Asian supermarket and drive back to park up.

Fail #1 - there were 2 pay and displays and 1 took card, so I wasted 10 minutes for no reason.

I then proceed to collect my ticket from the ticket collection computer and I can see the train waiting at the platform, but as I notice the guy next to me is going on the same train I relax a little as we both grab our tickets and jog towards the platform.

Fail #2 - the train pulls away as we're 10ft away.

Looking at my tickets, they're only valid for 1 set time, so my options are 1) buy more tickets or drive to Cardiff (approx 50 miles) and get the connection. I drove there on the premise that I'd leave the car there, collect the new one and "make a day of it" the following day and take the wife shopping.

So, I get to Cardiff central with itinerary in hand.. Platform 4B, departing at 7:20am to Shrewsbury. Awesome. It was 7:00am, and I was looking good. How could I mess this up?

Fail #3 - I'd looked at the "departing from" and "arriving to" platforms on the itinerary and got them the wrong way round! Damn, ok, so I have 3 mins before it departs.. All I need to do is traverse the stairwell and get from platform 4 to platform 2... Yes! A train is waiting, "don't you leave you SOB" I think to myself.

I lunge at the conductor at the door of the train. "Is this the 7:20 to Shrewsbury?" I ask, smugly. "No". ... "Pardon !"... "Have you just got here? That train just left, about 1 minute ago".

In short, I travelled 100 miles, wasted 2.5hrs, got up at a ridiculous time and threw £25 down the drain on tickets because I'd forgotten to engage the brain.

Later that day I spent 4hrs travelling to and from the dealer with my father, to collect the car. Completely wasting the day altogether. What's worse, when I did get there, there'd been a problem at Barclays so I couldn't pay for the car for 45mins until "a computer glitch" was sorted out.

I truly believe i'll never top this as the worst day I've ever had

 

[Resident]

If we're talking about doing idiotic things, I had a great moment of stupidity last week:


- Kitchen sink is a little slow to drain. It's starting to smell.
- I take off the U-bend to clear out the gunk. It's full of brown stinking water and other unidentified particulate.
- "Better not spill any of this... I don't want it going all over the kitchen"
- Very, very carefully carry the U-bend up to the sink. Very carefully pour it down the sink. Which is missing it's ****ing U-bend.
- Hear splashing. Realise I've just done. Swear at myself. Facepalm.
- Stinking brown drain-water all over the sink cupboard and its contents.

I did something similar at the restaurant I used to work at. Sink wouldn't drain and there was 50 litres of dirty sink water in. So I decide best thing to do, close the plug valve and take the u-bend off. Took it off, cleared it out and rinsed it using the sink water. Then with the U-bend still in my hand I opened the plug valve.... *facepalm*

 

[HAz]

Lol these so called mates of yours are making a muggary out of you.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

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[TheVoice]

Stop being a push over, be more assertive and learn to say no/go back on what you said.

Agreed. Although not being dumb enough to give valuable stuff away in the first place would help.

And also, your friend sold a laptop you gave him? Get new friends. Sounds like they're taking you for a ride.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I truly am an idiot.

2 miles from my cycle home last night and I get a puncture in my back tyre and then realised it was actually the valve on my inner tube.
I gets my spare out only to realise it's for my winter bike with thicker tyres and I'd only taken the proper one out on Sunday to free a bit of space up
I then walked home because Mrs Dimple had told me she was going out and when I got home she was still in
And I had to walk 2 miles on cleated cycle shoes.

 

[Greebo]

I truly am an idiot.

2 miles from my cycle home last night and I get a puncture in my back tyre and then realised it was actually the valve on my inner tube.
I gets my spare out only to realise it's for my winter bike with thicker tyres and I'd only taken the proper one out on Sunday to free a bit of space up
I then walked home because Mrs Dimple had told me she was going out and when I got home she was still in
And I had to walk 2 miles on cleated cycle shoes.

HA HA

 

[Cosimo]

For the last few years I have not been 100% in the head.

You'll find that it's a lifelong problem....

 

[4737Joker]

I give too much stuff away as well, to mates who don't work.

Pretty much does make me feel an idiot because by giving them things it's giving them more reason not to work.

 

[MikeTheNative]

I give too much stuff away as well, to mates who don't work.

Pretty much does make me feel an idiot because by giving them things it's giving them more reason not to work.

I do the same, when drunk I usually buy too many drinks for people and then forget about it the next day.

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

I do the same, when drunk I usually buy too many drinks for people and then forget about it the next day.

classic

 

[LordSplodge]

For the last few years I have not been 100% in the head.

My life is a long line of prat and plonk

Indeed but at least you seemingly have money to burn.

I truly am an idiot.

And I had to walk 2 miles on cleated cycle shoes.

Yes. Cleated shoes. That's idiotic. Had you worn normal shoes walking home would have been easy!