# Owww... that was stupid. Stupid. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748 "2006-01-06T16:15:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748/21 "2006-01-08T04:59:32Z")
It’s the informal motto of the students at my school. “Seemed like a good idea at the time” ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748/22 "2006-01-08T05:37:25Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Up in the appalachians some years ago, we got a thick layer of ice over snow. So when I have to head down a steep slope, I didn’t stick to the stairs. I just did my normal thing and took a straight line towards my destination. Diagonally across and down the slope. > > For less than one step. > > It was so obviously too slippery to walk on that I felt like a complete dumbass. To make things worse, It happened in front of the big windows on the student union so there was probably a big crowd to see it. At least I was unhurt. This reminds me of the time I discovered black ice. I had the radio on that morning, and they said there was black ice out, so be careful. It was my first winter in the Midwest, and I idly wondered what black ice was. Fortunately, there was no crowd to see what happened next. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748/23 "2006-01-08T07:57:15Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > I pulled a boner the other night. Since I have bad knees, Wow. I got a hand cramp once, but never a knee problem from it. That might be a sign to ease off a bit. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748/24 "2006-01-08T08:07:23Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > You’ve brought back a memory that I would have preferred remain forgotten. > > While travelling, I stopped at a roadside place for a break. The place had a really cool playground with an amazing tall twisty slide. I decided that I was not too old to take a ride on the slide. I climbed the ladder and started down the slippery slope. Immediately I realized a very important fact: slides are made for children, not adults. Between the end of the slide and the ground is a gap of maybe a foot. A little kid with short legs can easily hit the ground running. I, as a long-legged adult, had about two seconds to decide whether I was going to land hard on my butt or hit the ground with my feet and try to run through the fall. I elected to land on my feet. My feet touched down and remained firmly grounded as the rest of my 5’8” body plunged onward and landed face-down in the gravel. > > As I slowly, painfully, gracelessly rose from the gravel, I saw a playground full of children staring at me with stunned expressions. I hobbled back to my car in shame. Slides are in fact made for children, and sometimes, an adult’s ass gets, er… _stuck_, resulting in said adult being forced to sort of \*shimmy \* down the slide, whilst pulling with her heels. ‘My friend’ was very embarrassed, and swore off childish things like playgrounds. And ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748/25 "2006-01-08T15:59:55Z")
What is this “ice” and “snow” you people speak of? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748/26 "2006-01-08T16:16:44Z")
Major hijack following: How the heck do you pronounce your name? I think of it differently each time I see you here. So, it is Man-Get-Out or Man-je-to or Man-ja-tout?? This in itself will help to eradicate the ignorance of myself! thx! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748/27 "2006-01-08T16:24:24Z")
So you experienced a sudden arboreal stop… That hahaOuch just killed me, btw. All the other jokes in this thread, and that’s the one that made me laugh right out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748/28 "2006-01-08T17:09:04Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > What is this “ice” and “snow” you people speak of? 😕 I think it’s an anti-motorcycle device set up by the State of Washington. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owww-that-was-stupid-stupid/338748.md?page=1)