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water_lilly 17-Oct-06, 05:17	The Dumbest Things Yeah, yeah, we're all a bunch of smarty-pants chess studs. Of course, we know what fallacies are. Obviously, we don't watch Nascar. And we all drink red wine in the bathtub while listening to Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and pondering the nature of Enlightenment philosophy. And yet often, we're complete morons. This is a thread for sharing about all the stupid, silly, or embarassing things we've done. It's funny, and it's good for us, like spinach. I'll start... today I spent nearly ten minutes (yes, ten, I'm not exagerrating) looking for my purse... which was on my arm. My roommates "helped" me look, and I was very bewildered by their constant snickering. Alright... YOUR TURN!
jaymar 17-Oct-06, 06:04	Ok.. ..don't know if this is such a good idea but here goes. Fairly late one night I fell asleep while watching tv in the living room (lounge). I slumped in such a way that my left hand was cupped over my left eye supporting my head. I wear specs and these were pushed up over my forehead. My wife woke me up and still half asleep we went to bed. The next morning when I woke I put my specs on (I am pretty short sighted). To my horror instead of the room coming into focus my vision was still very blurred through my left eye. I got out of bed and called to my wife who was in the shower. I was alarmed and convinced that I had damaged my eye whilst leaning on it asleep the night before. My wife popped her head round the door and looked at me while I stood there blinking and trying to clear my vision. She started laughing and at about the same time I reached up to the frame of my glasses and poked my left index finger through where the left lens should have been. It had fallen out the night before. I discovered it on the sofa. She hasn't let me forget that one since! Now whenever I do anything stupid (which is quite often) she just raises her hand and waggles her index finger!
leo_london 17-Oct-06, 07:04	Well there are loads from back in my drinking days... some I dont wish to share ! I used to frequently fall asleep on the last train and be woken up in Reading, about 30 miles further on from my stop at Richmond. One night I really topped that and rushed on to what I thought was my last train, fell asleep as usual and ended up in Bournemouth over 100 miles from home. It taught me a costly lesson, but it took several other " lessons " before I saw how stupid my behaviour was becoming... I still enjoy an occasional drink but never go over my self-imposed limit.
echo3 17-Oct-06, 07:07	I've never done anything half.... ... as stupid as you two........ never....... ..... well..... there was the time when I was 17, working through college, I had a painting & decorating job. We were doing a job at The Albert Arms in Kingston, South London (Leo will know it). The whole pub had just been nicely decorated but one wall to the side of the bar hadn't been painted. The foreman asked me to take care of it. There I was, painting away when the contracts manager came over to me. "Do you think it's wise to be stood on a wooden beer crate? Also, that's a small wall, you don't need a whole bucket full of paint do you?" Being 17 and knowing all there was to know I ignored him and just carried on. About thirty seconds later, the crate collapsed, I fell backwards and threw the whole bucket of paint over my head across the bar, it splashed all over the optics, the bottles and glasses, crisps, the open cash register, the wall tiles, the pumps and the floor. I'd like to say I learned from such idiocy but that would be a lie   The next day I gloss painted over the top of their beautifully french polished bannisters  (
water_lilly 17-Oct-06, 07:10	Echo Remind me never to hire you for home improvement. No really, remind me. I'm a masochist for DIY.
jaymar 17-Oct-06, 07:19	I was in Kingston.. ..at the weekend. A friend had a party in Surbiton. Lovely part of the world. I wish w_l had started this thread last week. I would have looked the pub up to see if it had recovered!
leo_london 17-Oct-06, 07:24	echo..I know the Albert, on the way in to Kingston... function room at the back with pool tables and a small stage ?
leo_london 17-Oct-06, 07:27	My missus was in Kingston on Saturday as well...not up to something are you jaymar.
jaymar 17-Oct-06, 07:30	Nah mate.. ..past all that sort of thing now. (Well thats what she told me to say if you asked)
leo_london 17-Oct-06, 07:33	And she told me that she just went to Bentalls...wait till I get home.
jaymar 17-Oct-06, 07:36	Small world.. ..my missus dragged me in there on sunday morning. I nearly had a seizure at the prices. M&S never looked so good.
leo_london 17-Oct-06, 07:44	Thats true, they are expensive...still cheaper ( and better ) than Dickins and Jones in Richmond. You cant beat M&S though, dont like something..they change it or refund, no questions asked..thats my sort of shop.
echo3 17-Oct-06, 08:24	Have Bentalls still got their.... .... restaurant Leo? I used to eat there every Wednesday lunchtime. (Then Harrods for cream tea on Friday afternoons). At the time I had THE most expensive sloane ranger girlfriend
leo_london 17-Oct-06, 08:47	I think so, echo..I will ask my wife. I'm more likely to go in a pub for lunch if I'm shopping with my wife...then get the urge to stay there for the rest of the day.
zorroloco 17-Oct-06, 10:41	one time at a university of oregon dept. celebration for several soon to be graduates, i was working on my 4th glass of port, and asked an ex-collegue of mine who i had not seen in well over a year, if she was pregnant again. i know, i know....it is one of those 'never ask' questions! her response? "no, i am just incredibly fat.' i slunk out the door shortly after and still get a blush of shame when i think about it 15 years later!
soulcrates 17-Oct-06, 18:49	Jeff, who hasn't done that? I have done it at least twice, and once on porpoise!   Well, I started working for a friend of mine who was a contractor, and we were installing carpet in the dorms at the university. The first day I was there, as I walked around the corner I stepped right into a pile of glue. Well, it's not sticky until it gets spread out, and it caused me to slip and land butt first into the glue. It was like a cannonball splash at the pool, got all over the walls, and a co-worker, and covered my arms, up my shirt and sleeves, and in my hair. I was so embarassed, and cleaned off as much as possible before leaving and taking a hot shower, which didn't get the glue off. It took like 3 or 4 days of pulling hair out of my arms before it was all gone. I went back into work right after the shower, because as a good friend of mine, and ex-US rugby player, says, "I'm too proud to be embarassed."

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