Your OhNoSecond

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You know, that moment when you realise you've done something stupid.

My latest one is using the laptop and at some point I'd opened a remote desktop session to my home server. Came to switch off, and as soon as I'd clicked 'shutdown' realised that I'd shutdown the server by mistake. Not normally a problem, but I'm not at home to turn it back on again.

Make me feel better by sharing yours...
 
In a similar vein, I was using a headless server and was doing some testing with virtual network adapters. Went to disable one, and accidentally disabled the active network connection. Oops.
 
Short ride on my ebike before rain earlier, started spitting the odd raindrop, then saw I hadn't put the rubber charging port cap back on after charging... Oops!
 
Most recent was last weekend. I was cutting the hedge, and was being lazy - edging along the 7 foot tall brick wall next to it, rather than repeatedly re-siting the ladder.

My ohnosecond was when I was edging back along the wall towards the ladder, and caught my heel.

After a very brief fight with mavity I recognised that I was definitely going to fall backwards on to the top of the hedge, so allowed that to happen rather than fighting it and potentially plummeting 7 feet forwards onto the ground.

The hedge accepted me with grace - and for a split second I thought it might hold my weight! But it did give way, and lowered me surprisingly gently to the ground, straight on to my feet. Which was nice.

The only issue now was that in front of me was a 7 foot wall, and behind me was a rather thick bush. After a little thought and investigation, and rejecting the option to just make my new life within the bush to avoid embarrassment, I decided the most usable route out was into my neighbours front garden. I achieved that with minimal fuss (and, I think and hope, no witnesses), and made my way around the corner and back to my own house.

I presented myself and my story to Mrs Bazza, who was - I have to say - a little withering in her response. Very unnecessary! I could have happened to anyone who didn't consider standing on top of a 7 foot high, 9-inch wide wall while wielding a long reach hedge trimmer to be a safe and reasonable thing to do.

Her inspection revealed firstly that the entire seat of my shorts had been ripped asunder. So an extra reason to hope I wasn't observed. Some fairly meaty scratches to front, back, side, arm and leg. It did occur to me that sine the bit of hedge I feel through was the bit I had already trimmed, I had basically pre-sharpened all the branches before flinging myself at them.
 
My most recent was on Thursday. My wife and I dropped off the MIL to hospital to have a procedure. She needed to be there at 8AM, and we got there no problem. Having dropped her off, we planned to go into the town and get some breakfast whilst we waited.

The place we wanted to eat opened at 9, so we went to a small coffee shop first at 08:15 - I had a tea and a crossaint, a pre breakfast. We then killed some time and walked over to the main place but were 5 mins early. So we stood behind the cafe, which was surrounded by trendy conference centres, all filled with people attending a conference via which I could see because the building wall was glass.

I was talking to MrsHB about enjoying not being at work and not having to attend a conference as she sat on some massive stairs. Anyway, 5 mins later we decided to walk around to the now open restaurant for breakfast 2, I took a step, apparently failed to realise there was an empty bike rack behind me, and ended up falling a**e over head, cracking a rib.

1) Everyone at the conference centre saw it happen, indeed the FoH team came rushing out to see if I was ok, despite my wife laughing her a**e off
2) Because I had a crossaint slightly earlier, my hands were sort of oily from the butter, meaning as I tried to stop myself hitting the ground as I went down, I grabbed hold of the metal bike rack, but kinda ended up sliding in slow motion, like a scene from the Matrix where he doges the bullets
3) I still had the second breakfast (Fryup) despite being in pain
4) Ironically I ended up at the same hospital as the MIL
 
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HoneyBadger said:
My most recent was on Thursday. My wife and I dropped off the MIL to hospital to have a procedure. She needed to be there at 8AM, and we got there no problem. Having dropped her off, we planned to go into the town and get some breakfast whilst we waited.

The place we wanted to eat opened at 9, so we went to a small coffee shop first at 08:15 - I had a tea and a crossaint, a pre breakfast. We then killed some time and walked over to the main place but were 5 mins early. So we stood behind the cafe, which was surrounded by trendy conference centres, all filled with people attending a conference via which I could see because the building wall was glass.

I was talking to MrsHB about enjoying not being at work and not having to attend a conference as she sat on some massive stairs. Anyway, 5 mins later we decided to walk around to the now open restaurant for breakfast 2, I took a step, apparently failed to realise there was an empty bike rack behind me, and ended up falling a**e over head, cracking a rib.

1) Everyone at the conference centre saw it happen, indeed the FoH team came rushing out to see if I was ok, despite my wife laughing her a**e off
2) Because I had a crossaint slightly earlier, my hands were sort of oily from the butter, meaning as I tried to stop myself hitting the ground as I went down, I grabbed hold of the metal bike rack, but kinda ended up sliding in slow motion, like a scene from the Matrix where he doges the bullets
3) I still had the second breakfast (Fryup) despite being in pain
4) Ironically I ended up at the same hospital as the MIL
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