Raise your hand if you did something DUMB today.

[Luke122]

Today, I opened all the new hardware I ordered for my new Exchange server. Motherboard fits in the case, that's good news. Next, pulled the board out to seat the CPU and cooler.

Wait a sec.. 771 cpu/cooler, 775 board. !@(*#&!*&@%!*&$$!@#%@!

Oh, and all the boxes are opened now! Yay! No returns!!!

:mad: :mad:

So I order another CPU (and have to wait to use this quad core one now.. dammit) and submit the order. Get the order confirmation, "Socket 771". DAMMIT!!!!!! I clicked on the CPU above the one I needed. *face slap*

Call Memory Express, explained the issue, Jay caught the order before it went to shipping and corrected it. Correct CPU on the way, $469. E5310 CPU sitting here in the box NOT being used, $249. Proper motherboard for the E5310 = $489 + new case, as it wont fit in my Antec Atlas case.

*sigh* :(

Let this be a lesson to all.. read it 3 times, then click submit. When it arrives, read it 3 times, then open boxes.

[xRyokenx]

I accidentally ordered an OEM SATA HDD (whoa, lots of acronyms...) without a cable, and I can't get ahold of a friend of mine who forgot one homework assignment and has to wait a week or two to get it all back (PC, Xbox, phone, etc.)... lame. I do NOT want to spend $7.50 on a cable, damn shipping. Oh well.

[Dilphat]

I by some lame mistake I ordered a 754 socket motherboard, and a sempron socket 754 (yea this was ages ago) and i forgot to read the info about it not having a cpu heatsink and fan. So i waited a good week to get it, opened it up. KEEP IN MIND i only visit him and the parental units once a month and he starts school the next day. And i was like, putting it all in my little brothers computer. as soon as i got to opening up the package with the cpu and started putting the arctic silver on it. i was like "Wait... :? ...it feels as if im forgetting something" so i thought long and hard looking at it. then it hit me after 5 minutes. "F**k S**t...where is the cpu fan and heatsink??? :dead: " so i had to place an order while i was there. and told my brother to wait a month until his computer can run and told him to go use teh school library for a good month while i was gone.

[Scotty]

I missed my stop on the bus so had to get off at the next meaning i had an extra 10min walk.... damn music....

[computergeek19]

well, this happens just yesterday, I have a brand new Dremel xpr 400 with 4 accessories and like 70 accessories, I get my new CM cosmos case and what happens... my parents don't want me to mod the case saying it looks fine the way it is and that I am going to mess up the case, so I feel bad about modding the case now even though I just want to paint the side panels and do a basic window mod, so maybe after doing that I may have to sell the dremmel :(

[Airbozo]

I accidentally ordered an OEM SATA HDD (whoa, lots of acronyms...) without a cable, and I can't get ahold of a friend of mine who forgot one homework assignment and has to wait a week or two to get it all back (PC, Xbox, phone, etc.)... lame. I do NOT want to spend $7.50 on a cable, damn shipping. Oh well.

PM me and I can send you half a dozen for the cost of postage...

[xRyokenx]

How much might it be for postage across the country?

[jdbnsn]

*hand in the air*

I was helping deliver a baby today, there was lots of commotion in the room, the attending clammered towards me to "glove up and get my ass over here". This means sterile procedure must be used and the gloves are put on in a difficult and time consuming way. In a panicked rush I ripped open the sterile container, squeezed my hands into the gloves marked clearly "LEFT & RIGHT" but of course those weren't the hands they went on, but too late to pull them off and try again. I ran over to the bedside and took my assigned position (imagine a baseball catcher squatting over home plate waiting for a curve ball followed by a tidal wave) with my hands in the air, fingers twisted and contorted without a single digit fit snug within it's chamber. I essentially had two rubber bags on my hands with 10 empty ballons hanging off them. "Scream!", another contraction, closer together, stronger, we're almost there. The the attending physician turns to give me instructions and is frozen in place with bewilderment at what I had done with my hands. His eyes gazed over his mask, down at my disgrace of latex situation as if seeing strange lights hovering over the night sky with unknown intentions. Finally, his eyes rose and met mine for the silent but ever-so clear conveyance of his level of impression toward my performance and compitence. I stood like an idiot, not knowing what to say, feeling like Moe without Larry or Curley, my eyes engaging his in a manner of apology and plea for forgiveness. He then shook his head slightly from left to right and spoke "get your dangly stumps over here and brace the perineum" I then caught a 7.8lb baby girl who came kicking and screaming into this world, held by the two worst gloved hands in the history of medicine.

Jon

[Zephik]

well, this happens just yesterday, I have a brand new Dremel xpr 400 with 4 accessories and like 70 accessories, I get my new CM cosmos case and what happens... my parents don't want me to mod the case saying it looks fine the way it is and that I am going to mess up the case, so I feel bad about modding the case now even though I just want to paint the side panels and do a basic window mod, so maybe after doing that I may have to sell the dremmel :(

Do what you want to do to the case, but on a piece of scrap metal or something. If you can do it to your satisfaction, as well as theirs apparently, then I don't see how they could argue. But if you do it and mess it up, then parents really do know best. lol

Wish I had some dough, I'd buy that dremel off of ya. But I'm flat out broke now. Spent $50 on a new pc case (even though I don't have any hardware to put in it) and some snazzy case fans, then I gave the rest to my mother to buy groceries.

*sigh*

I thought parents were supposed to give there kids money, not the other way around. lol ah well.

@JD: That was a great story! lol Hilarious, but great. ^_^

[b4i7]

*hand in the air*

I was helping deliver a baby today, there was lots of commotion in the room, the attending clammered towards me to "glove up and get my ass over here". This means sterile procedure must be used and the gloves are put on in a difficult and time consuming way. In a panicked rush I ripped open the sterile container, squeezed my hands into the gloves marked clearly "LEFT & RIGHT" but of course those weren't the hands they went on, but too late to pull them off and try again. I ran over to the bedside and took my assigned position (imagine a baseball catcher squatting over home plate waiting for a curve ball followed by a tidal wave) with my hands in the air, fingers twisted and contorted without a single digit fit snug within it's chamber. I essentially had two rubber bags on my hands with 10 empty ballons hanging off them. "Scream!", another contraction, closer together, stronger, we're almost there. The the attending physician turns to give me instructions and is frozen in place with bewilderment at what I had done with my hands. His eyes gazed over his mask, down at my disgrace of latex situation as if seeing strange lights hovering over the night sky with unknown intentions. Finally, his eyes rose and met mine for the silent but ever-so clear conveyance of his level of impression toward my performance and compitence. I stood like an idiot, not knowing what to say, feeling like Moe without Larry or Curley, my eyes engaging his in a manner of apology and plea for forgiveness. He then shook his head slightly from left to right and spoke "get your dangly stumps over here and brace the perineum" I then caught a 7.8lb baby girl who came kicking and screaming into this world, held by the two worst gloved hands in the history of medicine.

Jon


something about this reminds me of rosetta stoned.... maybe the way of your story telling?

[computergeek19]

Thanks for the encouraging words Zephik, I'll just experiment first on metal like you said and if its possible Ill just do the mod and sell the dremel for like $100-$110. since it cost me $140. But ill let everyone know here in case someone is interested.

[Omega]

Computergeek might as well raise his hand now, I'm pretty sure that was meant for another thread ;)

also

/me keeps hand down

[jdbnsn]

something about this reminds me of rosetta stoned.... maybe the way of your story telling?


Lol, I hadn't thought about that but is does sorta have that rambling stoned feel to it. hahaha

[Omega]

So wait, Jon's a doctor?

[Airbozo]

Jon, that was so funny I am crying...

[Luke122]

Hehehe... yup, that was a great story.

I actually did another dumb thing today too.. but it was more of an accident. While loading my stuff into the Escape this morning, the strap on my laptop case snapped on me, and fell on my foot, effectively smashing my toe. Hurt like a SOB, and I was dancing and swearing for a few minutes. 6:10am - destroy foot.

It's funny looking back at it now, because it inspired me to write a bit about the pelican case that saved my laptop from certain doom. Try that with a regular canvas case!

Did I mention it was raining too?

[Airbozo]

How much might it be for postage across the country?

Under $2.

The cables are red btw, 24".

I can get the exact amount and you can send me a self addressed envelope, OR...
But I know it is under $2.
This goes for anyone...

[jdbnsn]

Jon, that was so funny I am crying...

I'm glad to hear that my misfortune has brought joy to someone's day. :)

[SgtM]

*hand in the air*

I was helping deliver a baby today, there was lots of commotion in the room, the attending clammered towards me to "glove up and get my ass over here". This means sterile procedure must be used and the gloves are put on in a difficult and time consuming way. In a panicked rush I ripped open the sterile container, squeezed my hands into the gloves marked clearly "LEFT & RIGHT" but of course those weren't the hands they went on, but too late to pull them off and try again. I ran over to the bedside and took my assigned position (imagine a baseball catcher squatting over home plate waiting for a curve ball followed by a tidal wave) with my hands in the air, fingers twisted and contorted without a single digit fit snug within it's chamber. I essentially had two rubber bags on my hands with 10 empty ballons hanging off them. "Scream!", another contraction, closer together, stronger, we're almost there. The the attending physician turns to give me instructions and is frozen in place with bewilderment at what I had done with my hands. His eyes gazed over his mask, down at my disgrace of latex situation as if seeing strange lights hovering over the night sky with unknown intentions. Finally, his eyes rose and met mine for the silent but ever-so clear conveyance of his level of impression toward my performance and compitence. I stood like an idiot, not knowing what to say, feeling like Moe without Larry or Curley, my eyes engaging his in a manner of apology and plea for forgiveness. He then shook his head slightly from left to right and spoke "get your dangly stumps over here and brace the perineum" I then caught a 7.8lb baby girl who came kicking and screaming into this world, held by the two worst gloved hands in the history of medicine.

Jon

What a story! Watching a baby being born is actually quite spectacular. +rep for having one of the coolest jobs out there.

[.Maleficus.]

What a story! Watching a baby being born is actually quite spectacular. +rep for having one of the coolest jobs out there.
Not when you're 15, watching it in school, and from the "catcher at home plate" view.

*raises hand*

Today was doomed from the start for me. Woke up, hit the snooze button, 5 minutes later, came down and got some coffee. This was around 5 in the morning, so I have plenty of time to get ready for school. I sat on my computer, vegging like I do every morning, and got interested in A+ certification (thanks a lot Greco... ;)). Did some reading, and "holy ****! It's 6:50! I need to eat breakfast, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and leave in 10 minutes!" So I ran up here, go some food, and got distracted again, because I wanted to print some practice tests. I had to turn on my moms computer (it was on 2 minutes before I got to it, but my mom is too speedy at turning it off), let the bloated POS MSN load, only for it to Not Respond. Fired up Opera, got the tests, printed, and "Holy ****, it's 7:15! I was supposed to be gone 15 minutes ago!" Ran outside to the car, got in, sister drove to school, and half way there I realize, "NOO, I forgot my schedule!" (We have flex-mod scheduling, so it's different every day). I had a different version of it, but "NOOO, I forgot all of my pencils!" I keep them in my pants pocket, and forgot to pull them out last night. I get to school, and remember today is the only day to buy a class shirt. I forgot my $6. No biggie right, I'll just find my sister and borrow some from her. Crap, I don't know where her homeroom is. Frantically searching, I find it. Only to see she's at the Senior Class meeting. Crap, I just wasted 10 minutes of my 15 minute homeroom, when I still had homework to do. Homework that was due in the first class of the day. NOOOO! Ran up to homeroom, read the skimmed the story, all was good. Class started, and the teacher says, "You guys ready for the quiz?" Quiz, what quiz? Oh, the quiz on the story I skimmed in 3 minutes that I didn't know about, because the last time I had the class I missed half of it due to a different class. Yeah, that quiz. Took it, wasn't too bad I guess, but...

So yeah, the first few hours were suck, but after that it was pretty smooth sailing.

[elbarto241]

sounds like you had a horrible day :( my day at school sucked, no working air conditioners. try being a room with 35 workstation HP computers with 35 breathing bodies with no windows. hard stuff

[xRyokenx]

Lol, I hadn't thought about that but is does sorta have that rambling stoned feel to it. hahaha

Too much Tool, eh? :p

[jdbnsn]

heehee, maybe so. It's a true story though and it didn't involve aliens or acid. How ever, one of the characters looked like an alien and acid would have likely made it even more interesting, but probably less funny.

[xRyokenx]

Heh heh... with the imagination I've found I have, I don't need drugs. I was driving home and it was dark out and kinda wet and rainy and here's what I visualized myself: Driving down the highway, I mentally saw some Scrin battling with GDI and just some battle going along... and I was kind of in a NOD Buggy, lol. The more I think about the whole scene, the more developed it gets... I need to go into the gaming industry, heh heh.

[Dilphat]

*hand in the air*

I was helping deliver a baby today, there was lots of commotion in the room, the attending clammered towards me to "glove up and get my ass over here". This means sterile procedure must be used and the gloves are put on in a difficult and time consuming way. In a panicked rush I ripped open the sterile container, squeezed my hands into the gloves marked clearly "LEFT & RIGHT" but of course those weren't the hands they went on, but too late to pull them off and try again. I ran over to the bedside and took my assigned position (imagine a baseball catcher squatting over home plate waiting for a curve ball followed by a tidal wave) with my hands in the air, fingers twisted and contorted without a single digit fit snug within it's chamber. I essentially had two rubber bags on my hands with 10 empty ballons hanging off them. "Scream!", another contraction, closer together, stronger, we're almost there. The the attending physician turns to give me instructions and is frozen in place with bewilderment at what I had done with my hands. His eyes gazed over his mask, down at my disgrace of latex situation as if seeing strange lights hovering over the night sky with unknown intentions. Finally, his eyes rose and met mine for the silent but ever-so clear conveyance of his level of impression toward my performance and compitence. I stood like an idiot, not knowing what to say, feeling like Moe without Larry or Curley, my eyes engaging his in a manner of apology and plea for forgiveness. He then shook his head slightly from left to right and spoke "get your dangly stumps over here and brace the perineum" I then caught a 7.8lb baby girl who came kicking and screaming into this world, held by the two worst gloved hands in the history of medicine.

Jon

dang that's hecka touching. +rep for trying to put the gloves on correctly even in your situation. i would have probably have the pinky piece of teh glove on my thumb or something.

[Bopher]

Here's a short one for you. I was looking around the store today and said I wonder if they ordered Hot Chocolate and Hot Tea for the next truck on Friday. Half way back to the office I think I should check the last order and see if its somewhere in the store that I'm not seeing. So I pull the order out of the drawer and proceed to dial FSA (our delivery service) then the one time I get our rep on the phone without having to leave a message I say, "Can you tell me if we ordered Hot Chocolate and Hot Tea on the truck?" After a second the lady at the other end of the line goes, "On the last truck or the next one?" Here I am asking about the last truck with the stupid order in front of me. There's my dumb for the day.

[xRyokenx]

Here's a quick sketch of what I visualized and a link to my dA page if you want an explanation.

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/7690/scrinattack1vw0.th.jpg (http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scrinattack1vw0.jpg)

LAHNK DOODZ! (http://ryoken-ryagnaroth.deviantart.com/art/Scrin-Attack-1-64763112)

[Elenril]

Ok, this one is kind of long, sorry.

This didn't happen to me today, because I've only been awake for 2 hours so far, but this was a pretty dumb/eventful situation that I got myself into a few weeks ago.

Just a brief background on my transport situation: I live in a suburb that is THE HOLE of public transport, and my school is a 1.5 hour bus trip away. To get to school, I have to catch a bus for 45 minutes from home, get off at another bus stop and catch another bus for half an hour, then walk for 15 minutes. The bus at my first bus stop only comes every half hour, and so does the bus at the second bus stop, so if I miss my first bus or if it's late, I will miss my second bus.

It was a Thursday morning, which is usually a good thing. I love Thursdays, I don't have the first 2 classes, so I only have to get to school at 11am. That day I was going to get ice cream and cookie dough with a friend during second period at 10, and we would sit in the quad and pig out. To get to school at 10, I have to catch a bus from home at 8:45, which isn't too bad. But of course I slept in. No biggie, I ccould just get my mum to drive me to another bus stop where I could catch a bus just in time for my second bus. So I rushed out the door and broke speed records to get to that bus stop, arriving just in time for when the bus was supposed to come. It was 10 minutes late, so my speed record was a waste of time, and I got to my second bus stop at 9:25, and the bus left at 9:22. I was kind of angry at this stage, because I was carrying two bags and a heavy folder and I hate carrying heaps of stuff and trying to juggle everything, so I grumpily got out my phone and messaged my friend to tell her I'd be late. What a coincidence, the bus was late, and drove past me while I was looking down at my phone. But it was okay, it stopped at the red light about 3 meters from my bus stop, so I knocked on the door, they usually let me on. BUT NO, this time it was a female bus driver!! Female bus drivers are always the bitchiest, strictest bus drivers, who always check your bus pass and yell at you for walking past them too fast when swiping your pass. So she wouldn't let me on.

Okay, this is where I start doing really really dumb stupid things. I'd had a fight with my mum the night before, school was building up and threatening to overwhelm me, and I'd barely handed in any of my assignments, so missing my bus was the last straw. I threw all my bags at the bus stop wall, and ran around like a headless chicken screaming my head off. But that wasn't enough. I needed to destroy more things, so naturally, I destroyed the first thing that came to my hand - my mp3 player. I chucked it at the ground as hard as I possibly could. It shattered into small pieces. Then I sat down on the ground and started bawling my eyes out.

I think that was the low point of my day. But as the famous saying goes (as far as I can remember), when one door closes, another opens. This guy sat down on the bench near where I was sitting on the ground, and kept giving me strange looks, until eventually asked me if I was okay, and kept talking to me even though I told him I was fine. He noticed I was holding my broken earphones, and offered to give me his earphones if I was upset about breaking my own. We started talking, and he made me feel a lot better. He's a youth worker, so I guess this is the sort of thing he's trained to do, but now we're good friends. The day improved exponentially, and at the end of the day I asked this guy to my semiformal and he said yes, so I suppose the day wasn't that bad after all.

Except now I have no mp3 player, but I'll survive.

[xRyokenx]

Now you know one of my fatal flaws: breaking stuff. I've been doing this all my life and have been trying to stop. Lately, it's not been expensive stuff, just stuff like light bulbs, and less frequent too, I'm getting better, lol... except I still need to get my PPC fixed... ugh. Too much money to break ****, lol.

[Helix666]

/me raises hand

I got up today...




:p

[Greco101]

well, this happens just yesterday, I have a brand new Dremel xpr 400 with 4 accessories and like 70 accessories, I get my new CM cosmos case and what happens... my parents don't want me to mod the case saying it looks fine the way it is and that I am going to mess up the case, so I feel bad about modding the case now even though I just want to paint the side panels and do a basic window mod, so maybe after doing that I may have to sell the dremmel :(



Date of Birth:
October 11, 1986
Age:
20

:?

[xRyokenx]

Date of Birth:
October 11, 1986
Age:
20

:?

Lol, I'm 18 and am working towards being more independant. I've relied on my parents for too long now, I need to "fly" on my own now.

But yeah, if you still live at home (not unlike me), you're in their home and have to abide by their rules while you live there. Kudos for listening to your parents, lol.

[Mysteriphys]

I tried to get a loan today so I can get a job and pay the loan off... unfortunately I've been informed by a very rude banker that I need to have a job for 3 months, therefore I'm dumb! hmm, anywho...

I'll 2nd the getting up today... was going good, now it's just not my day..

[Dilphat]

ok lets start the story with some background info on me. I studied spanish in hs for 3 years. And I'm filipino.

Here's my story:
I decide to go to church and then go to a mexican restaurant(im tired of filipino food) and order menudo(some type of soup). so im placing my order with this mexican chick who hardly speaks english. so at the end of my order she says "hominy" (dried corn kernels i believe), and with her accent all i heard was "How many?" haha...dam! so i kept saying "i want 2" and she kept saying the same thing...i was like "dang i want 2!" in my head. but i kept my cool and kept saying. i just want 2. Then she called some other chick and she explained that she was asking if i wanted "hominy" the white corn in the menudo. i'm like "oh i am so stupid!" so i got my order went home and ate it. but throughout that day i felt like an idiot.

[xRyokenx]

Now you know one of my fatal flaws: breaking stuff. I've been doing this all my life and have been trying to stop. Lately, it's not been expensive stuff, just stuff like light bulbs, and less frequent too, I'm getting better, lol... except I still need to get my PPC fixed... ugh. Too much money to break ****, lol.

...and just so everyone knows, I'm not a violent person, just at real low points I get self destructive. I'm not proud of it, and I am doing the best I can to change it and turn away from that type of expression of anger. That post was just bothering me a little.

[Airbozo]

Menudo- Cow stomach soup

Hominy - dried corn kernels soaked in lye water...

Sounds delicious to me.... :down:

[crenn]

It's proberly better than haggis!

[Greco101]

Menudo- Cow stomach soup

Hominy - dried corn kernels soaked in lye water...

Sounds delicious to me.... :down:

haha, duuuude! "Gringo" menudo is actually really good :D

[Helix666]

In all seriousness this time. It wasn't something I did today, but a few days back.

I backed up, then FFR'd my box. Only then to find out that my backup had failed. :dead:
Stupid, stupid me. I should have checked the backup and repeated if it didn't work.

So I've lost all my documents (From the past 2 weeks. When I last had a backup. Dear $deity, I hope that one works.).
Que sera sera.

Oh well. Life goes on. 8)

[Omega]

/raises hand

Almost milled my finger off

[Airbozo]

Just did something real bright...

They are closing the main route out of my area for me to get to work. They are replacing a bridge and the shortest way around is about one and a half hours out of the way due mainly to traffic and the next shortest is about the same time due to the fact it is a one lane mountain road for 15 miles through Big Basin State Park (http://www.bigbasin.org/) (California's oldest state park). So I drive the FJ40 in today to drop of some donations and pick up a system to put together so I can work from home. I am most of the way home and realize I left the motherboard on my desk.


:redface:


I now have to get up _real_ early tomorrow and ride the bike in to grab the mobo and get home. Hope it fits in my backpack.

[Dilphat]

haha, duuuude! "Gringo" menudo is actually really good :D

haha, wow. What is gringo menudo? there's a white washed version of it? haha

[Wasabisam]

It wasn't today but a few weeks ago. When i catch the school bus we gotta show our school bus passes. Now me being me, i was day dreaming when i was getting my pass out to show the driver. But instead of pulling my pass out, i pulled my keys out and showed him them. When i realized "i'm like opps wait a sec while i get my pass". Blocking everybody behind me. Was abit embarrassing. Since then I have pulled out my keys as the bus pulled up but realized what i done and got my pass out.:D:up:

Sam

[si-skyline]

It wasn't today but a few weeks ago. When i catch the school bus we gotta show our school bus passes. Now me being me, i was day dreaming when i was getting my pass out to show the driver. But instead of pulling my pass out, i pulled my keys out and showed him them. When i realized "i'm like opps wait a sec while i get my pass". Blocking everybody behind me. Was abit embarrassing. Since then I have pulled out my keys as the bus pulled up but realized what i done and got my pass out.:D:up:

Sam

haha love it... i could see the driver thinking, yeah son wtf do you want me to do with them?

[xRyokenx]

^^I've done that during class... I"ll be half asleep and taking notes and actually fall asleep while dreaming everything's going on around me, and I won't be taking notes... I'll be like "hey, I'm asleep... oh ****!" and wake up, lol. Thank god I'm out of high school.

[computergeek19]

Date of Birth:
October 11, 1986
Age:
20

:?

Yes, I am still living with my parents, but at the same time I am working and going to online college, main reason? Well for once Denver was to expensive for me having to pay more than 400 dollars a month for a room with 3 other people with no workplace near there, plus when I saw my first roommate at the campus he sort of freak me out like he was high or something and after the college visit he was calling me basically everyday to check on me :? weird

[Omega]

I just snapped a mousetrap on my finger

[dgrmkrp]

Well, I took the wrong bus today.. 2nd time this year.. but in another city, in a part I'm not at all familiar with.. just don't laugh too much.. long story:

First time: It was Friday, just like today. Hot summer day, school ended (I kinda asked the lab teacher to let me go and take a test another time, cause I would miss the train..). I ran to my dorm room, quickly stuffed all my stuff in my bag.. ran like hell to catch the bus (traffic can get really baaaad on a Friday after noon).. So, I was all sweaty, gasping for air, with one hell of a heavy back pack.. waiting for the bus.. waiting and waiting. Finally, an old bus came along and I looked to see what number it was. Several buses share the same root but only one goes to the railway station, of course. I was supposed to get the number 35.. And I thought I did. But because buses usually change their route and number between them to avoid people reusing tickets, this bus had a two-faced tag: one side was 35, the one I've seen, and the other was 50... 50.. errm.. This bus, as I learned the hard way, did a right turn at one point and went around the city, for a nice one hour trip.. I ended up alone in the bus, near some kind of factory.. in a never before seen part of the city.. and no way of getting back. I was a bit lucky, because even if usually a bus is emptied at the end station, the driver allowed me to tag along with him, back from where I started.. but at that time the train left, I was feeling stupid like hell, my parents called me and asked me if I was doing it on purpose.. bla bla.. Funniest bit was when I got back in my room and I was asked "wtf?" The thing is I spent my last money on that bus ticket and now had no way of getting home.. Of course, I borrowed some money.. and got home.. 4 hours later than usual.. and didn't tell my parents anything about it for a while.. Basically, the part with the spending my last money on a bus ticket couldn't be muttered so easily.. I should have plenty of money to get home right? :D

Today: Slept for 2 hours, woke up with a nice head-ache and some gut-rot.. Ate some lunch, said good-bye to some friends... packed my stuff and here the story begins. Each time I go with the bus, I check to see it is the number I need.. Learned my lesson.. So, in order to get where I needed today (a hitchhikers spot.. tried to make some savings), I needed to change 2 buses.. The first one I was sure about.. Number 35.. The second: I asked an elderly person (usually best thing to do when in a foreign place) which number I should get.. I was told that all numbers go that way.. So, I waited for a less crowded bus, cause again I had a big backpack, and got on it. The trip was going to be long.. 5 km or so.. The traffic was horrible.. I wasted an hour or so to get to the first bus stop.. So I happily found an empty chair and sat my big backpack and myself there.. Watching the scenery go by.. A really nice looking girl gets up on a stop and sits herself in front of me.. She then looks at me.. cool.. and asks me if this bus goes to a specific university on its route.. I pondered for 2 seconds and replied: no, I don't think so.. I'm not sure.. and smiled back, trying to think of some way to continue the conversation.. hihi :) Then an old lay says that the bus stops there, no worries :| :| Oh crap.. the bus then took a turn in the opposite direction I was going and happily strayed from my route for a couple of kilometers.. Then it stopped and (this time I didn't wanna go all around the city again of course) I got off... And walked for an hour or so with the big friggin back pack on my back till I got back on track and on my way to the hitchhiking spot :) I then waited for another hour or so, rain glooming.. the trip took 3 more hours.. and now I'm home :)

I've had my share of stupid things so I can laugh at myself with no problems now:) But it takes lots of practice to have a bad day and laugh about it :) Hopefully, I made someone laugh.. I can be one big idiot when it comes to spatial orientation.. in real life..

[Crazy Buddhist]

I failed to snap a picture of Lindsay the gorgeous occupational therapist today.

[Dilphat]

I failed to snap a picture of Lindsay the gorgeous occupational therapist today.

haha, drats!

But i have to raise my hand for yesterday. i forgot to post my bads. but i was in Sunday School(before church service). And we were talking about like reputation and how it is good or bad. and someone gave this really excellent answer. And i was like "that is so true +REP to you!" and expecting a high five. everyone had the facial expression of "Dex...WTF are you doing?"

[crenn]

*snorts* Did they get another green bar? :D

@dgrmkrp, I'd recommend getting a bike ^-^;

[Crazy Buddhist]

About midnight I was hungry ... so threw a jacket on over my pyjamas ... took the lift downstairs ... bumped into a friend coming in from smoking a cigarette.

"where you going?" she asked.

"Maconalds", said I, "wanna come? .. my treat".

"sure" she said.

So we walked out into a cold and windy London night and three hundred yards down the road. Ran the gauntlet of London buses and taxis and crossed the road to MaccyD's.

As we stood there, me in green pyjamas, her in a pink nightgown and matching dressing gown, perusing the menu I realised I had forgotten my wallet.

:dead:

[Crazy Buddhist]

I just snapped a mousetrap on my finger

On purpose or accidentally?

[Omega]

On purpose or accidentally?

It was an accident. I was trying to set it to see if I could bounce a marble and set it off. (Admittedly, I'm not the brightest person in the world).

Today I almost cut my hand on a drill bit. Remember kids, always look where you're working.

[Wasabisam]

Oh yep i did something stupid Monday.

First off i'm in year 9 so it aint that serious.
Also i have a really strict Math teacher.

Well we had math and we were having a test. Easy, i kill math so it didnt bother me. The rules were no talking, but u know most of the class was lol. Anyway, i was nearly finished the test, when my friend next to me gave me a note. It was something about the movie 23 and he saw the number 23 on his bus.

I was like lol idiot and kept writing stuff on the paper, it went back a forth until he drops it then picks it up, the teacher goes bring it here. She is like who wrote the other half, he points at me lol. She goes alright after the test you go to time out ( Time out is 6 periods ( A whole day ) in a box basically, about a meter by a meter). Then he sat back down and i finished the test.

Then he starts talking to me and im like shutup. But the teacher busts me talking and warns me. After the test the grade went out for a break. She asked us up to her and was like, What were you thinking? Errr the number 23.

She gets into a convo with my friend asking him why he did it when his been told a number of times not to. And his like err i forgot. her face was priceless and she started talking again. I was laughting, trying to hide it but couldn't.

Then she gets onto a convo with me, asking what my parents would say and stuff and what would happen if we were in year 12 . Well In the end we didn't have to go to time out. she goes ill go talk to the princeable about this and see what he has to say, she never came back :P. But we got warned if our tests are the same, we both fail. Funny thing is, my friend didn't write anything on the sheet, because he didn't know what to do.

So It was stupid because we would of got in loads of trouble, but she took it to seriously.

Sam

[AJ@PR]

This morning, I was leaving my house... so I went to the bathroom... washed up.
As I was grabbing the bottle of mouth wash, I looked in the mirror, and realized I should put some gel/hair stuff on.

I don't know which threads inside my processors crossed or what memory leaked and crashed... but I poured a nice serving of Cool Mint Listerine in my hand...
:? wtf? :?

[Wasabisam]

haha bad luck, iv done the same sorta thing, get distracted while doing something. Like making a chocolate milk, then putting water in it, thinking i was making a cordial. smart ey.

[xRyokenx]

I woke up thinking it was about eight in the morning due to the clouds and it turned out to be about 9:30.

[Luke122]

930 am? Must be nice!

I'm up at 5 everyday... it sucks, but I just wake up, and cant go back to sleep. On the upside.. getting to work before 7am is kinda nice.. it's quiet, and I can reboot servers or whatever as needed. :)

Ok, something dumb today.. uhh.. I didnt have breakfast, so I go to A&W to grab a sandwich. Now I have an upset stomach. ...just wait, I'll do something dumb today.. I know it.

[xRyokenx]

Well, all throughout high school I was half asleep the whole day and when I got home too, I was never energetic at all. I swallowed the Vitamin Water I had wrong and was gagging trying to get up the stairs to take a test and almost tripped and fell down the stairs, lol.

But as I was heading to the car to head home, I stopped and talked to this old guy that was watching the construction going on and we talked for a while, he was in construction for like 42 years or something and we talked about my classes for a bit and about his grandkids that are in college... and then I met a friend of his that teaches electronics at the school. Nice place, that college is. (/yoda)

But yeah, community college is sooooo nice.

[dgrmkrp]

I've done something utterly stupid :) Right now: I was getting settled to watch a nice anime when all of a sudden PC turns off... I start swearing and stuff.. turn it on.. restart all of my apps, get comfy again.. restart.. what the hell?


My foot was standing on the reset/power/led wires coming from my case, as it is a work in progress... jeez, ain't I an idiot? :) :dead:

[xRyokenx]

I totally freaked out when my computer would shut down after 15 seconds and it turned out my heatsink wasn't connecting with the CPU, so I had to buy a new one, lol. Thank god it works and I didn't bork anything.

[Wasabisam]

Well i have one here.

I woke up at like 12:00 PM today ( its holidays ) and the back door was open, i look around, the dog got inside. So i try for about 10mins before getting him outside. Then he wants to play, so i grab his toy and play fora bit closing the door behind me so he can't get back in. When i was finished because i wanted to have a shower, i go to the door.... It wont open, I look threw the glass, its locked.

When the dog got inside, he only put the latch a tiny bit up so when i closed it, it locked. Well i sit there with a screw driver trying to bust in, that failed after about 2 mins. Go to the shed, cant find any coathangers or wire. The reason i was trying to break in and not just knock is, mum worked night shift last night and is working tonight, so she was asleep, dad was working day, not at home, and my brother was working night. So i go to the front door, But its locked, i was out there for like 40mins now and it was starting to rain. Stuff this i rang the door bell. Nobody got up, so i walked to the back sat with my dog and waited. I had my mobile so i was about to ring my mum and tell her to open the door, but she just got up because she heard the door bell 5mins ago...

I felt stupid when she opened it and asked me what happen lol.

Sam

[Omega]

I impaled my big toe with a thumbtack.

I said an inside joke to somebody who was on the outside and ALL kinds of stuff happened because of it. Nothing bad, just a dumb slip-up that ended with me saying "No, it's an inside joke between me and two other people" a whole hell of a lot.

I called my Principal a douchenozzle and didn't realize he was standing right behind me. Luckily he didn't hear, nor was it during school hours so his jurisdiction over me and authority were null.

I'm sure I'll do something else today too.

[.Maleficus.]

Omega, the principle story reminds me of something I did last year.

I was doing some history homework with my friends. We like to say stuff that really shouldn't be an answer to a question (bad words, unrelated things, etc), and as a joke I occasionally write it down and pretend like I'll turn it in that way.

So we answered the question, and at the end I decided it would be funny to write down "Biotch, word." Laughed a bit, went to English class. FORGOT it was there.

Turned in the homework when I got to History. Next class a few days later, I got it back, 10/13. Looked at the back, found the problem I got wrong, read my answer, and OMG IT STILL SAID BIOTCH. That was the problem I got wrong. I was all nervous that my teacher read it, so later I apologized for it.

TURNS OUT SHE DIDN'T EVEN READ IT. I didn't have enough sentences in my paragraph so she didn't bother. :dead:

[xRyokenx]

God, I knew your day was bad, just not that bad... damn. Makes me not having any clothes because the idiot family ****ing piled them with all sorts of **** on top of the dryer look really... lame... now. But yeah, I don't want to spend six hours digging through miscellaneous **** for my clothes, four day old pants and t-shirt that I forgot to wash, here I come.

Oh, and me in my mood where I don't feel up to doing anything forgot to do eight pages of algebra, guess what class I'm probably gonna have to drop?

[XcOM]

mine wasn't really today, was more of two days,

Got up yesterday @ 0730, went to work at 1300, got home at 0500 next day, fall asleet at 0530, get woken up at 0600, and i've been to work today, and still away now, feel like ****, bt just can't sleep.

[Luke122]

Minty, sorry to hear about your grandfather! I'm sending out some prayers for him.

On the USB drive note, was it making any noise at all? I've had good luck reviving dead drives by chilling them.. if you havent sent it in yet, it might be worth a try. Static bag it, and try to make it as airtight as possible, then drop it in the freezer for a good couple hours. Sounds crazy, but might work.. has worked for me.

Hopefully the professional recovery place can save it all. :)


Yeah, this makes my week seem pretty tame.. got sick, missed some work, didnt sleep well, got grumpy. Took a bunch of meds, finally slept, back at work now.

[Omega]

Cut my hand, got several types of gearbox grease in the cuts, put on bearing plates wrong, realized that our robot has both metric and standard bolt,s, stripped some wires from their connectors, crimped the wires wrong, etc

read: Robotics

[xRyokenx]

Oh god. You really are going through hell right now. ****. Is everyone I know and like going through this crap too? God damn... Seriously. Everything my friends are going through makes my crap seem trivial. Almost. But yeah, good luck dude, and isn't there anything else you could do to keep your dog? Damn. Why is it that people don't consider animals anything but a burden? They may not be humans but they're still freakin' living beings that have experiences through their own perspective, not the same as humans, but still. Stupid fat bitch. Probably uses a fork lift to get around, eh?

[Luke122]

Keep trying to stay positive in light of all these events, "thoughts become things" is something I've heard a million times, and I didnt really believe in it until recently. If you keep focusing on negative things, negative things will keep manifesting in your life.

I'm not trying to be preachy, and I'm certainly not belittling the things that you are going through, I know I wouldn't wish these things on anyone.

All I'm saying is to keep hoping for the best, and believing that things will work out, and they will. As always, you have my positive thoughts and prayers. :D

[Luke122]

Oh whoops, guess I should post my morning too...

I've been sick for over a week, and for the last few nights I've been sleeping on the couch, as my coughing/sneezing/snoring is waking up the wife and baby.

Last night, the cat jumps up and sleeps on my feet. No big deal, keeps my feet warm. This morning at 4am, he's whining cause he's hungry. Nope, you get fed at 7 cat.. you know that.

7am rolls around, I get up, feed the cat, throw my work clothes in the dryer, and go to shower.

Get out of the shower, grab clothes from dryer, and set them on the couch.. wife and baby are still asleep, so I'm getting dressed in the living room. I pick up my jeans, and they are COVERED IN CAT VOMIT.

&^%$#@@#$%^ ensues.

Apparently he ate so fast that he got sick, and threw up on the couch. I didnt see it, and dropped my nice warm clean clothes right in the puddle. Didnt even notice it until I picked up my jeans, and saw this.. smear... on them. *gag*

So, I'm wearing dirty jeans and a nearly too small shirt today. GRRR... I hate being uncomfortable at work. At least today is server upgrade day, so I get to hide in the back most of the day. I'll just pull the shirt off, and just wear a T-shirt for most of the day.

Damn cat.

[xRyokenx]

Jeremy, you should call up the BBB or something. Don't surrender, fight back. You love your dog, right? Don't lose her because some fat bitch with PMS and eating problems doesn't like you. Do something about it, lol. I'll be (and have been) on your side the whole time and hope you win against this hell that's been unleashed on you.

[Omega]

Keep trying to stay positive in light of all these events, "thoughts become things" is something I've heard a million times, and I didnt really believe in it until recently. If you keep focusing on negative things, negative things will keep manifesting in your life.

This couldn't be truer. I actually cracked today because of this. I've been extremely stressed with life and my mom pulled the final straw over something that I think is complete bull**** -- and when we went for a drive (a very quiet drive, sans music) I actually cried a little bit. I kept thinking of all the things I needed to get done today, all of which accounted for hours and hours of work. Because I was too busy focusing on the stressful things I didn't stop to think about the good things I had -- a place to live, clothes on my back, a good education, a loving family and pets, and friends. It was all a matter of perception -- as everything is -- that made me spiral downwards. What sucks the most is that it happens to everybody in my family -- luckily a lot less me than others, and when I do, nobody notices. As far as they know, I'm a brick wall.

Anywho, things are getting a little personal for the forums. I might make a blog post sometime later tonight.



To keep the thread on track, I don't think I've done anything stupid today.

Edit: Ah, Karma. I almost just choked on a biscuit and I'm still coughing and iced tea is coming out of my nose. Not even a minute after I posted. Curses.

[xRyokenx]

Well... at least we're here for each other. /movie-esque?

But yeah, I installed Star Wars: Empire at War and it ****ed up my sound in Oblivion. Now I get to reinstall Oblivion and muck around with it for a while.

I try to help out people. A friend of mine is going through hell with his family, always making him feel like **** and all. I won't go into it more as it's sensitive stuff and I don't want to make him feel worse by blabbing about it. I'm not a "desperate housewife" after all. I really feel sorry for him, in the truest sense. I really want to get him out of the house and just do something fun one day to help him out... my life seems to be getting better, it's still rough, but I feel like I'm out of the fog I've been in for so long and into some clear air, it's about time! lol So yeah, sorry you've had a rough day Omega... apparently I'm not the only one that has **** to put up with. What a slap to the face, lol, but in a good way.

[calumc]

Yesterday was my stupid day.
Me and a busload of my friends went to the National Ploughing Championships (http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0925/plough.html?rss) yesterday. And before anyone makes any dirty comments or calls it lame its basically a HUGE 3 day long farmer-fest and is great craic.
Anyways, the ploughing, nowadays, is not all that significant as it has just turned into a giant tradeshow kinda thing with every kinda thing you could ever want.
So one of my friends said that his cousin was on the stand for Cashel Engineering who make farm machinery. With around a thousand stands with farm machinery it was gonna be like looking for a needle in a haystack but we looks anyways. after walking around the 500 acre site for about 3 hours we gave up. then as we were sitting down for some food my friend got a call, it was his cousin, his company didnt even have a stand. So that was a fun kinda day!

[Crazy Buddhist]

Yesterday was my stupid day.
Me and a busload of my friends went to the National Ploughing Championships (http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0925/plough.html?rss) yesterday. And before anyone makes any dirty comments or calls it lame its basically a HUGE 3 day long farmer-fest and is great craic.

...


Translation craic (pron. "crack") means enjoyment, fun, fun time, whale of a time etc. as in "the craic was good in cricklewood". ;)

And dang he's right .. used to go to these and go for rides on the sit-on mowers when I was a kid. And there's lots of beer. Everywhere. Drunk sit-on mower rides were the highlight of my teenage years.

:)