What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?

[beebella]

Hard to say, I've done a lot of dumb things

I don't do dumb things

That waitress in Tampa

Something else/Results

[WhiteSteve]

Lmfao…so….

Freshman year of college I was taking Biology 101. Three one-hour lectures and one three-hour lab session every week. A thing to know about ya boy WhiteSteve: I don’t do three-hour sessions of anything academic, lmao. So on the first try, I went to most (or enough of) the lectures, fared ok on the exams, but I just couldn’t do the labs, it was too much time in a row to do school stuff, so I just didn’t go. Turns out it was 50% of the grade, so I failed. Whoops, lmao.

So I re-took it in the spring, and I was just dreading taking these labs every week. The only solution I had was to get high as a giraffe’s ass right beforehand, and hopefully just be wicked stoned and the time would pass quicker. So before I went, I would smoke a blunt (of that super Bobby Brown dirt weed we were getting in the late 90s🤦‍♂️😂), and then I would smoke a blunt while I walked to class. Reckless lmao.

The lab had these two-person lab benches, and I sat with a girl named Shanice or Shareece or something like that. She was very pleasant and laughed very easily at my antics, so I would go into class clown mode because I knew at very least she’d crack up even if no one else did, or I’d just make jokes to her and try to get those cheap laughs.

One day, I show up and found dissection kits at each of our seats, so I was pretty stoked for that. I always enjoyed dissecting dead frogs in middle school and freaking out the girls with organs and body parts, lmao. Classic “dudes being dudes” stuff😂 But of course, we ended up doing that at the very end, so time was starting to drag for me after not too long.

I started messing around with the kit because that was more fun than paying attention. I found the tweezers and was goofing around with them, and then I noticed our electric socket boxes that were at the back side of lab bench, so you could plug in microscopes and whatnot.

Alright, so…in my defense😂😂😂…I KNOW you can’t stick metal things into electric sockets. I’m fully aware. But I also knew a guy as a kid with some electrical knowledge, and he taught me about how you had to form a circuit to get electrocuted. Like you could walk on the third rail on the subway tracks like a balance beam and be fine, but the second you lose your balance and put one of your feet on the ground to form a circuit, you go from Original Recipe™️ to Extra Crispy™️.

With all that in mind, I wondered “what if?” What if I stuck these tweezers into the socket, what happens. I know what happens if I’m holding the tweezers…. but what if I DIDN’T hold the tweezers?🤔 It was sort of an “If a tree falls in the forest with no one around…” kind of thing.

So, I made a very thick barrier with the sleeve of a sweatshirt, grabbed tweezers with that, and put the tip of the tweezers in jussssttttt enough so that the points caught the tops of the socket holes to suspend the tweezers for a second or two. Once in place, I wadded up a ball of sweatshirt sleeve and used it to jam the tweezers in without any risk of my hand touching them.

Well, as it turns out, this thing starts going off like Chinese New Year, lmfao, popping and sparking and all that, for what seemed like hours but it was just a second or two. Shanice/Shareece starts laughing, and I just lost it, one of those laughs were you have your head down and your face buried in your arms and you’re actually worried you might suffocate if you can’t get it together enough to draw a breath. The whole class was turned around like “wtf?” The teacher, who I’m still only medium-sure was a woman and not a man with a ponytail and high-pitched voice (and exclusively wore nature t-shirts, like the howling wolf, or a Siberian tiger, or bottlenose dolphins…something that looks like it came free with a subscription to a zoological magazine or donation to the World Wildlife Federation lmfao), just due to her/his overall dumpiness and frumpiness, they looked up from whatever they were doing and was just like “uhhh…. everything ok back there?” I tried to say yes but was just struggling to breathe😂

[WhiteSteve]

Then, a little later, she (I’m going with “she”) has everybody come over to a counter area on my side of the room and was going to show us a centrifuge, which I guess just spins test tubes dumb fast to mix the contents or agitate them, or something. She gets everything loaded up and gave this long preamble, and then she hits the switch and…. nothing. She flicks it back and forth a few times, still nothing. She looks DEAD AT ME, and goes, “ok, well, APPARENTLY the power has shorted out for some reason…”, and we had to abandon the whole ordeal, lmfao.

So, that’s gotta be the dumbest thing I’ve done, just because although I knew it was dangerous and took personal precautions, it was still dumb as fuck to do, plus I clearly didn’t think everything through, like what else might happen besides whether or not I got shocked. But I’d say that was the most memorable lesson I took from that class, either attempt at it😂😂😂

[MCheetah]

I don't do dumb things.

I think the dumbest thing I did in my life was in eighth grade. I was letting a pseudo-friend from school borrow my Game Boy to try out Pokemon Yellow and see why everyone was into Pokemon. I told him to NOT SAVE THE GAME! Pokemon only gives you one save slot. What do you think he did after recess?

All my Pokemon gone, so his stupid f*cking ass can catch a Caterpie. I still don't know whether he did that on purpose to be an asshole, or accident, although they give you an "overwrite data" message if you try to save over an existing save file. And he wasn't changing PC boxes either; his character was outside of Cerulean City. So I'm sure this dipsh*t did it intentionally after I TOLD HIM NOT TO SAVE! He overwrote all my data and I lost everything I had on that game. It's been over twenty years and I'd still punch that asshole today if I saw him. Only reason I didn't do it then is because he went on vacation early before the Summer break, so after he gave me back my Game Boy, it was the last time I saw him.

So yeah. Letting someone borrow my copy of Pokemon Yellow, just for him to overwrite/erase all save data and Pokemon on it, was the dumbest thing I ever did in my life.

[Sour-rose]

Welllll there was that one time I thought I should run away from a drug hive nest in an empty parking lot because there was cops coming down the way and that made myself suspicious.

[Lyndsielee666]

Bringing brass knuckles to school then get arrested for it is pretty high on my list of dumb.

[exitseven]

What did they charge you with? Possession of a door knocker?

[Lyndsielee666]

@exitseven prohibited weapons charge.

[exitseven]

@Lyndsielee666 Never bring brass knuckles to a gun fight.

[Lyndsielee666]

@exitseven wasn’t a gun fight it was a grown ass man trying to fight me during a fight Lmfao

[Bob92220]

About 10-years ago I was highly depressed and seeing a therapist. I went into Target to buy a TV-DVD collection. While I was waiting in line a certain minority family cut in front of me and I got pissed. I went to the magazine collection to cool off.

I went back in line and the same thing happened! I couldn't believe it!. I stormed out of Target to my car. I forgot I had the DVD set in my hand. A security guard ran after me. He called the police. The police came and arrested me. I was charged with a felony which was reduced to a misdemeanor at trial.

[ChrisMaster69]

Quite a few, from getting drunk and then going to school

picking a fight when 16 with two men who kicked the shit out of me and put me in hospital, that was fairly crazy.

Upsetting someone I love and losing them, that’s like top of the list.

[TadCurious]

Bella, it was probably the very first time I had sex when I was 16. It was an unplanned kind of thing and I told the girl I was with that I didn't have a condom. She said that it was okay because she had just finished her period.
Fortunately, there weren't any consequences. But that was really dumb on my part because I came inside her.

[DryGermanGuy]

I am not really in the habit of doing dumb things... the closest would probably be driving related, as in racing into radar-traps, parking in forbidden areas or scratching the paint in tight spots. Cost me a pretty penny over the years, but never my license.

[Anonymous]

Threatened to kill my ex girlfriend's mom for giving her faulty medication then stealing her phone so she couldn't message me.

I had quite a few reasons to be angry but saying I'd kill her if she poisoned her intentionally was stupid and illegal.

It also showed how I wasn't mature enough and lacked proper self control. This was 2.5 years ago though, I like to think I've developed myself a bit in that time and with my new girlfriend I connected with shortly after my breakup with my ex

[Bmories99]

Before I met my wife. I dated only one other women (I know shocker). We dated for 18 months. I started talking to her about more serious things such as where she wanted to settledown. What her dream wedding looked like, Number of kids, and other things. Apparently this was way to serious for her. Oh well her loss. In retrospect it was probably dumb of me to even start talking about those things.

[Andres77]

I was the new kid in school.

a girl that lived near me had a crush on me. I was walking my dog by her house. She called out the window and said hi.
me: hi Jamie.

jamie: how’d you know it was me?

Me: I can see the mole on your face.

jamie: oh. (Slams window).

she hated my guts ever since.

[Googlemyahoo]

I was at the YMCA kids playroom with my son. He was playing with another boy who was with his grandma. The Italian lady looked familiar to me.

I remembered what it was & said “You had a son who played soccer right we were on the same team hows he doing?”

Her face went straight and responded in thick italian accent, “Hes a dead!”

[humanearth]

Dumbest thing I think I have done

I think it was when I married a woman that was 15 years older then me, I was barly 18 at the time.

She paid me $15,000 to marrying her, so she could get her kids back from CPS Custody. We stayed together on paper for a few yes.

When everything seemed normal to CPS we divorced. She got her kids back and I got the money

[NathanDavis]

touched a live wire... for science

and yes, it bites... how shocking

[dustybiker]

Not really as “shocking” since it’s harder for you to die.

[NathanDavis]

@dustybiker yeah, but it was such a little wire... how could it pack that much punch, lmao

live it to believe it

[dustybiker]

Ouch. It reminds me of all the hair raising blips I’ve had. lol

[NathanDavis]

@dustybiker lmao... not good

[dustybiker]

No. Finding out a socket isn’t grounded is nasty.

[NathanDavis]

@dustybiker lmfao... that reminded me of this time a younger friend of mine and coworker at the time, said to me, let's go change this blown fuse and I said sure... and once there he says "I've never done this before..." and as I turn around he was already sticking a screwdriver to take them out lmfao... talking about a nasty blast, and he just laughed for an entire hour about it

[DaveJord]

I the dumbest think I ever did was not hit it and quit it with my ex wife after we had sex for the first time. I should of hit and quit and go out on high note... but instead I married her.

[DaveJord]

Seriously I just had this conversation a day or so ago with a buddy. So years later my ex-wife confessed that she only want to hook up for sex with me, so when I stayed in contact with her she wasn't sure what to do about it because she didn't want to get hurt but thought I was too good for her.

I only stayed in contact to be polite with her, and maybe do it again with her. But I was 20 so some how we ended up married... so it was all pretty stupid at the time and proved to be the stupidest thing I ever did. Tragic story honestly, I was pretty handsome young buck I could of landed a serious women of high quality.

[dustybiker]

Uh uh. There would be people here who would have ammunition against me if I started listing them off. 🤐😁

[sirderpsalot123]

Can confirm. I'd be the first to take advantage.

[dustybiker]

@sirderpsalot123 Yup.

[humanearth]

Nothing could be as dumb as mine

[abc3643]

I voted Republican in 1984. It was my first time ever voting and I obviously had no idea what I was doing. I haven't voted Republican since.

[exitseven]

how is that working out for you?

[abc3643]

@exitseven Excellently, in fact.

[tweety487]

Send me a Dm if you’ll like to be friends.

[abc3643]

@tweety487 I can't; you have to follow me... or you DM me.

[hyperben]

taking a register and called out my own name, i didn't answer so I called out my own name a second time...

[Anno2]

Went (drove) to work when drunk. Nothing happened after they found out so still at the company as a thank you.

[hypojoe]

Making meth while driving and car turned into a fireball was able to escape with just a few burns, and no that did not teach me a lesson , clean now have been clean for awhile

[Bob92220]

I've read on the internet that people are making Meth with the "Shake-N-Bake" method.

[hypojoe]

That would be it was getting it done start to finish in 13 min. And it was real good too good too cheap to do but that shit is behind me now

[hypojoe]

I took the 1 hour power and doubled the ingredience and doubled the water added which is what sets it off and water is not compatable with any of the chemicals involved you literally shake it to keep it from exploding

[Bob92220]

I never did any drugs but I've heard women will sleep with you for Meth. I always wondered about that. Buy Meth and give it to women for sex. I always wondered what type of women they are. Are there plenty of women who will do it? I never did it but always wondered about it.

[hypojoe]

Yeah the thing is when your on it you can go all nite i had a girl over once and we were having sex and neighbor called the cops because they thought we were fighting lol

[Bob92220]

Can you have a meaningful relationship with such a woman?

[hypojoe]

I did for quite a long time we were addicts

[Lionman95]

Walking drunk into a glassdoor until I nearly broke my nose and destroyed my glasses.

[TallAnon]

Lol, I remember as a kid I was told by my mom that I wasn't allow to swim, because my clothes would get wet. Simple solution; Take the clothes off, swim, put them back on while wet. 😂😂

[Blackcosmo]

Lmao she really didn't want you to swim!

[TallAnon]

It was dirty water, haha, it was a stupid idea regardless

[Blackcosmo]

Lolll

[Stoner710]

Liberals is the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. Lol

out off all seriousness I was 14 years old and I tried opening at a Mexican Coke bottle on a rock and a shattered in my had

[Bug99]

I convinced my friend to sit on the baggage trolley at the airport while I push it with him on it all over the parking lot. a lot of people that day just couldn't stop laughing at seeing two grown men giving each other rides on the baggage trolley..