Really, Really Stupid Crap You've Done Recently

I recently had a doggy pill tangle myself. I mistakenly gave Hula Boy the trilostane meant for his sister. I had to have a barf party to celebrate the malpractice. :smack:

Years ago I inadvertently crumbled up the dog’s vitamin into my cereal and milk. I ate it anyway and used it as an excuse to bark occasionally during the course of the day, so that was fun.

That’s adorable. :slight_smile:

While wearing fancy shoes with very little tread, I decided to try to go to the bottom of our icy driveway and get the garbage can.

Result: dislocated shoulder, three fractures, a massive wrench in the works of me trying to finish my degree, and I’m typing this one-handed.

Smeg: hope you mend up well. I know shoulder-area fx’s are a bitch to deal with, having been in Ortho for many years :slight_smile:

My stupid story happened a few months ago. I was stil in ‘physical recovery’ from alcohol withdrawal, and had little sleep for a week (or two or three?). I had gone to pharmacy in evening, feeling alert enough to drive safely, etc. When I came back out from getting Rx’s, car would not start. Its one of those Toyotas that has automatic ‘warining horn-honks’ that something is wrong, and just the previous week I had replaced old/failed battery. Each key turn to start engine got multiple series of honking patterns that were not in car’s manual of diagnostic codes. Believe me, I checked quite a few times before I called for help. I presumed it was battery issue and called legally-blind wife that I needed ‘rescue’, and she got a friend of hers to come and get her/me home until morning when I could address issue properly.

As I was hooking up jumper cables to friend’s truck at pharmacy to verify possible battery-issue, wife noticed car move a tiny bit backwards as I leaned on front of car to hook negative to ground point and she got in passenger seat and put automatic tranny shifter into ‘Park’ and car started right up. Her look I will NEVER forget - it was “You dumbass!!!”. Her Dad was a long-haul truck driver for many years and she knows a bit more than average how automobiles work. She’ll never let me forget such, I am sure, LOL.

I had parked and just turned engine off without putting it in ‘park’. Of course, car won’t start in gear, and to this day, she kids me about it. “A Blind woman fixed your problem” is what I hear every few days, it seems :slight_smile: I take my lumps and learn from ‘em, LOL. I kinda pride myself on diagnostic logic, but it was totally absent that day. Friggin’ idiotic move on my part not to even check that all controls were where they were supposed to be for operation of a motor vehicle.

The worst part is while I was waiting for wife/friend, I was sitting in car with hand on tranny shifter, obviously not in ‘Park’ (in hindsight) while listening to radio (killing time). I knew it was wrong, but so tired and simply wanting to be back home that it did not register as being an issue. Dumb ass move (or lack of anyways) on my part, for sure.

Attempted to give the Maine Coon her semi annual bath without wearing body armor and a helmet.

Oh no. I am really sorry to hear that.
Ionizer, your story reminds me of last mud season-- I’m so used to screwing up and putting a wheel somewhere where it can’t grip and having no wheels work that I totally panicked and was spinning and spinning trying to get out of my spot on the side of a dirt road. My friend: “Did you mean to leave the emergency brake on?” :smack: Yeah, released that and no issues at all.