I knew this would happen SOMEday, I just didn’t think tonight would be the night.
I was sitting here, getting the night’s medicines ready. Two Benedryls for my dog Cyrus for his hot spot; a pain pill and an anti-gas pill for my old dog, Kharma; and for me, my Zoloft and bladder control pills (it’s hell getting old).
I popped my pills first, and went to tuck Kharma;s into a bit of chicken… and they were gone.
I TOOK MY DOG’S MEDICINE. :smack:
Top that, if you can…
Repeatedly tried to remove my left contact lens,which was already in the sterilization case. Didn’t stifle a sneeze when inserting said contact another time and sneezed it across the room somewhere. I’ve taken a garbage bag out and forgotten to dump it and put it in my car trunk,
I sat down with a girl, a bottle of Bacardi, a 2 liter diet coke and a pack of cigs one night and all were gone by the time I woke up in the hospital.
I’ve managed to screw up several DIY projects lately at the very last step. Most recently, I’m repairing some rotted wood with epoxy and filler and have it mostly done. Filled in a couple of remaining gaps and get the hardener/resin mixture wrong. The epoxy turns into essentially sticky taffy that can’t be sanded and smears all over the project.
I was making a fancy seafood dish for a dinner party which involved making a fish stock. First you shell several dozen shrimp and saute the shells until a deep fond develops on the bottom of the pot. Then you add water, several pounds of vegetables, some tomato sauce, scrape up the fond and boil the whole thing for an hour before you pour the broth through a cheesecloth lined strainer into a bowl that you were supposed to put in the sink to catch the broth. Supposed to.
I recently, for the first time in my life, accidently copied a customer on an email that was absolutely meant to be internal. There wasn’t anything too terribly damaging, thank goodness, although I did give away a small point of negotiation leverage. I didn’t even know I did it until the customer replied. And he was very cool about it, responding to the email like it was no big deal at all that he would have been included. Still, I felt like the biggest horse’s ass for about a week.
A couple of weeks ago, during Snowpocolypse, I went downstairs and started up the truck, then got out to brush the snow off and scrape ice. When I went to get back in, I found out that I had locked myself out. Of a running vehicle. At 6:30 in the morning. With my phone and house keys inside. :smack:
Fortunately, my retired downstairs neighbor was up and, because management is off site, had the key folder for the bug man that day.
I ended up buying two airplane tickets on a travel website when I only needed one. Both cost over a thousand dollars apiece. I was very fortunate to be able to cancel and refund one of them.
I was feeling ambitious so I managed to do two really stupid things yesterday.
I was backing out of a parking spot and I had my head twisted around so I could see how far I was from the cars parked across the lane. But I was positioned so I didn’t see the telephone pole that was in the middle of the lane until I had backed out and turned my head around to drive forward. It was about a foot from my car and I had zoomed right past it as I was backing up.
Then after I got home, I was cooking up my supper. I fried up a couple of salmon patties and made sandwiches. I then sat down and ate them. About thirty minutes later I walked through my kitchen and saw that I hadn’t turned off the burner.
Diet Coke is some dangerous shit.
Became a Mod. Have you seen some of the people around here??
At least you won’t be creating any ‘Dutch Ovens’.
Did you still have both your kidneys?
This thread made me realize that I haven’t done anything stupid lately…so I must be due 
Last week at the grocery store, I spent some time sitting in my parking space and wondering why the car wasn’t backing out when I pressed the gas before realizing that I hadn’t yet turned the engine on.
Not me but my bro … really.
He’s got one of those cars with pushbutton start where the “keys” stay in your pocket. He drove to the airport and left the car for 4 days. When he got back it wouldn’t start. Turned over just fine, but wouldn’t fire. Eventually he noticed the gas gauge was below E when he thought it ought to be about 1/3 tank.
Yup.
He’d gotten out, gotten his luggage, and locked the car with it running. 4 days later it had long since run out of gas.
:smack:
Look up a couple of posts
My wife’s car has that setup. I picked it up from the valet at the airport about a year ago, and it was already running with my luggage loaded when I got to it from the counter. Drove home and realized the valet still had the key. Would have been an annoyance but ok had I not turned the car off before I realized this.
Mentioned this somewhere else recently. It’s important in woodworking that when you number the joints, etc., on a project, that you also remember that those have to remain consistent throughout the entire process or things aren’t going to work out at all well for you. The coffee table I was making is now going to be an end table; unless I fuck it up again, in which case it will be some expensive firewood.
Pre-loaded the coffee maker at night for the morning.
Then turned it on.