HAH!!! If I decide to walk, I'll do a dumb thing. I live alone and have to wait until my sons or oldest grandson comes to move heavy stuff. Well, I decided I didn't want to wait earlier this week. I have a heavy mirror over my fireplace that I wanted to put some where else. (I always seem to move stuff right before Christmas. LOL). Anyway, I carefully climb on my 3 step ladder and get the mirror in my hands. Whoa, that thing is heavy. I couldn't go up or down the ladder and I couldn't hold on to that mirror. Thoughts ran thru my head of me falling, breaking the mirror, cutting myself or breaking bones. It seemed like a lifetime while I teetered on that ladder with that heavy mirror in my hands. Finally I slowly lowered the mirror and leaned it against the ladder. I had to just stand on the ladder until I quit shaking!!!!!

these are some great stories! thanks!!! i needed a good laugh, and I needed to know that dumb things happen and its ok

I will start this saying I was a teenager when I did this. I was using gold spray paint on a Christmas ornament for the tree. The can nozzle kept getting clogged up. I thought it would be a good idea to unplug it with a needle. It worked! Because I had to look really closely at the tiny hole to see where to poke the needle......I sprayed my contact lens gold. Wow did that sting!

Don't ever use your teeth to pull off the cap of a tube of super glue..........

I think that beats anything I have ever done! wow!!!!

My stupid thing that happens to me is I use one of those mandolin vegetable slicers. I know you need to use the special pusher to keep your fingers safe. I do it most times, but every so often, I get impatient and trust that I will be careful. Am I careful? NOOOOOOOO. Do I cut my finger(s)? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Do I learn, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Insanity is keep doing the same thing under the same conditions and expecting a different outcome.

Staying upright is difficult enough.

I always call myself out on dumb things. Its funny. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves every once in awhile. It makes others laugh too. and we sure do need all the laughs we can get nowdays.I can't remember anything off the bat right now but I do know I crack up my brother on a regular basis.

When I was first married, I was making "homemade"maple syrup. As I was stirring, & trying to read the recipie at the same time, I noticed that it was beginning to come to a rolling boil. Of course, I had no candy thermometer, and stuck my index finger in the syrup to see if it was hot.....wow, it really burned, so to cool off my finger.....yep, I stuck it in my mouth! Fortunately, I have survived those early mishaps, but have dozens of more stories. :eek:
My Dad's comment when he heard what I had done: "Doggone it! You had more sense when you were 4 yrs old!" (said lovingly). :rolleyes:

We were visiting my mother for a couple of days, and one morning she asked me to go to the store for her. Still half asleep, I got dressed and combed my hair into submission. Grabbed a can and proceeded to spray my hair to keep it in place. I thought it didn't smell like my hairspray usually did, so I looked at the can...I had plastered my hair in place with my husband's deodorant.