Well, I feel stupid....

My husband came in to tell me one day last year that the lawnmower wouldn’t start. (My husband is a wonderful soul, but he is not good with mechanical things.)

“It’s got plenty of gas, right?” I ask.

“Yes, it’s got gas,” he said.

I’m not an expert on small engines by any means, but I can usually figure out what’s wrong with the lawnmower. I go and poke around and poke around and nothing I do is making any difference.

I finally realize that when I push rubber bulb on the side – the one that shoots the gas into the carburetor – that NO GAS is coming out. Yes, there was gas in the tank, but just a tiny coating on the bottom of the tank – too little to actually make the engine run. :smack:

We put gas in it, and it ran just fine.

one time I drove back to my car mechanic to complain that while he had successfully fixed the heater core in the dashboard, he’d killed my radio. Of course,… I had failed to turn it on, but in my defense, I don’t think I EVER turn it off, I just turn it down.

Another time, I was out of town at a strange mall, and my wife and I left the mall and couldn’t find our car !!! I was sure that was the entrance we came in at. I even PERSUADED A STRANGER TO DRIVE ME AROUND THE PARKING LOT !! Finally, I found another entrance that was identical to the one we had entered, even down to the dumpster off to the left. Nightmarish.

This reminds me of the night I was in Ruby Tuesday’s restaurant and the cops were there taking a report from some guy whose car was stolen out of the parking lot. Long story short… he forgot he was in a rented car. :smack:

Slightly different form of stupid than some of these . . .

Went to grocery store. Collected $60+ of food. Got in line at check-out.

Put all my food on the conveyor belt. Cashier starts to ring it up.

I look in my purse for my store loyalty card, and there is no wallet there.

Fortunately, and uncharacteristically, there was more than $60 in cash, although not quite as much as the amount of food I was trying to purchase.

Doubly fortunately, the wallet was at home, in the first place I looked for it.