# Your "D'oh!" Moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387 "2024-12-09T08:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/21 "2024-12-12T14:28:06Z")
> [@Marine\_One](#): > > Another “D’oh” moment is sometimes I try to start my Nissan Sentra by pushing the heater ON-OFF button instead of the START button. Hey, they’re really close together! Been there, done that. The reverse, actually. Several times I’ve tried to shut off my Rogue by hitting the Heater button. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/22 "2024-12-12T14:35:05Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I once changed a tire (wheel) backwards. I realized my mistake (and corrected it) before I drove off, though. I once got a couple chainsaw chain blades back from a local shop that sharpened them for me, put one on the chainsaw and tried to start cutting up logs. What the…it was way more dull than it was before it got sharpened-- it wouldn’t cut at all! I was about to make an angry call to the place that sharpened the chains, but decided to take a closer look first. Yep, I had put the chain on backwards. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/23 "2024-12-12T15:25:54Z")
This was quite some time ago but I am reminded of it due to encountering the situation yesterday. I grew up using baking soda to clean up battery leaks in devices. It took a remarkable number of years to realize that I had needed to switch to vinegar to clean up alkaline battery leaks. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/24 "2024-12-12T15:36:14Z")
This was many years ago but I still use it as an example to remind myself that I will never win a Nobel prize. My car was in the shop so I had a rental. My youngest had left their backpack in the rear seat of the rental so I was tasked to get it to school. I drove there, parked, and flipped the front seat forward to retrieve the backpack. Space was pretty tight. I then slid the front seat as far forward as it would go to allow easier access. There was still not much room for my torso between the seat back and the car’s pillar. So, squeezing and contorting my body, I cursed and vowed I would never own this make of vehicle. Who in the hell designed it to be like this, anyway? After more curse words and some discomfort, I snagged the backpack and brought it to the school office. Walking back to the vehicle I happened to notice that the car was a four-door. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/25 "2024-12-12T22:21:21Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Last Sunday I made meatloaf for dinner. I covered the loaf pan with foil while it was baking. After it was done and had cooled enough to handle I removed the foil, balled it up, and tossed it in the recycling. > > Then after dinner I covered the loaf pan with the leftover meatloaf in it with more foil and put it in the fridge. D’oh! I should have just put the foil that was on there when I baked it back on instead of tossing it out. I know it’s a trivial amount in the grand scheme of things, but I feel like I was being wasteful by not reusing the first piece of foil. context: in large parts of the world there is Maggi or Knorr soup (think: dehydrated soup-powder in an “evelope”) generic pic: [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KZ7ZcRYvL.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KZ7ZcRYvL.jpg) The way I cook it: - put soup-powder in the pan - dispose of the empty envelope in the trash - turn on heater element of the kitchen-range - fish the crumbled up envelope out of the trash to read up how much water is to be added - put the indicated amount of water onto the s-powder… every.single.time. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/26 "2024-12-12T22:51:04Z")
Brother from another mother! Me, too. Every. Single. Time. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/27 "2024-12-13T19:39:50Z")
I did worse than that - I just about tore my earlobe off with a pry bar! It was July 4 and we’d had the city deliver a dumpster to our driveway that week so we could clean some junk out of the basement. We had a big old oak TV cabinet in the basement that I was taking apart because I wasn’t going to try to carry the thing upstairs in one piece. At one point I was trying to pry the front off the cabinet but had to stick my head under a cross piece to see what I was doing. The prybar slipped and bounced back and whacked me on the side of the head. It took me a minute to realize that it had put a huge gash in my right earlobe and it was bleeding profusely. I went upstairs to clean it out and try to get the bleeding to stop, then had my wife look at it and she said “Wow, that’s pretty deep.” She wound up driving me to the local urgent care so I could see if it needed stitches. The nurse said “It’s pretty deep, but not deep enough for stitches.” I joked “Oh, so I should have hit myself _harder_?” They gave me a tetanus shot, put a bandage on my ear, prescribed some antibiotics and sent me on my way. On the plus side, I was a trend-setter – a couple of weeks later a certain presidential candidate also started wearing a bandage on his ear! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/28 "2024-12-13T20:18:17Z")
My d’oh moment today was when I was making my oatmeal for breakfast. I usually put some raisins and nuts in about halfway through microwaving, but today I decided to do something different and put in blueberries instead. I learned the hard way that you put the blueberries in last, _after_ the microwaving is done. Yikes what a mess. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/29 "2024-12-13T20:23:40Z")
We bought a countertop ice maker (Samsung fridge, notorious for the built-in icemaker failing, ours has been repaired twice and still does not work). There’s a plug in the bottom to allow you to drain the water out for cleaning. The first time I filled it after cleaning, I forgot to put in the drain plug. Another household member did the same thing, later on. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/30 "2024-12-13T22:05:16Z")
At my first job after college, in 1993: my office had a drop ceiling, and there was a [24" X 48" fluorescent light fixture](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54202780679_ff1776a2e3.jpg) in it. One of the bulbs burned out. Instead of calling maintenance, I decided to change it myself. I got a ladder, climbed up, and proceeded to remove the 24" X 48" plastic bezel/diffuser. Was gently bending it, trying to get it out. It was _really_ difficult, because I didn’t want to break the diffuser. I finally got it out after about 15 minutes. It was then that I noticed two, small latches on the metal frame of the cover. I unlatched them and the entire cover swung down on hinges. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/31 "2024-12-13T23:27:35Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > after all the years I’d been getting up on a ladder to push the manual reset button on the opener, when I realized that I could have just turned the power switch in the garage off and on. Well guess what? Today when temperatures in Minneapolis are in the single digits, power cycling the garage did NOT reset the door opening unit. First I had to manually open and close the garage door (after having to get on a ladder because the cord to pull the manual release had broken off) to get to the supermarket until I could deal with the door later. Then I had to climb up to the unit to do the full reset procedure of pushing the keying button and then triggering the remote. I’m getting too old for this. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/32 "2024-12-14T00:55:13Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I learned the hard way that you put the blueberries in last, _after_ the microwaving is done. Yikes what a mess. This is why we put a paper plate on top of anything we microwave that could either splash or explode. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/33 "2024-12-14T11:38:06Z")
Let’s just say that boats float better if you put the drain plug in. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/34 "2024-12-14T13:25:22Z")
I did put a paper towel over the top, more just to keep it from splattering, but it just got soaked when the oatmeal bubbled over. From now on I’ll just stick with my raisins and nuts. I know exactly how long I can cook it without making a mess. The blueberries totally threw me off my oatmeal game. I’ll save the blueberries for muffins. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/35 "2024-12-14T14:03:44Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I did put a paper towel over the top, more just to keep it from splattering, but it just got soaked when the oatmeal bubbled over. I always use something like this. Keeps the microwave clean: [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hshRuomeL._AC_SL1500_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hshRuomeL._AC_SL1500_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/36 "2024-12-14T14:33:34Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Let’s just say that boats float better if you put the drain plug in. Hey, don’t feel too bad. When I owned an old runabout I joined a boating forum for maintenance and repair advice. The oft-repeated saying there was “there are two types of boat owners: those who’ve forgotten to put in the drain plug before launching, and those who say they’ve never forgotten to, but are lying”. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/37 "2024-12-14T14:37:25Z")
I once mistakenly ate 7 pats of butter at a hotel conference thinking they were cheese. To be fair they did not have the little bit of white cardboard identifying them as such and they were placed right beside the huge salad bowl. Why 7 you ask? I was mystified at the taste and was trying to figure out exactly what kind of cheese it was. I will never live this down as long as I am at work. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/38 "2024-12-14T14:49:18Z")
Again, I don’t find this all that embarrassing. Cheese and butter both come from the same source ingredient. “Hmmm, what is this- a very young Gouda, perhaps? I like the creamy, almost buttery mouthfeel; but the flavor, though strong in dairy notes, leaves a little to be desired. It could benefit from more of the sharpness that comes from proper aging”. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/39 "2024-12-14T14:51:40Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Again, I don’t find this all that embarrassing. Cheese and butter both come from the same source ingredient. > > “Hmmm, what is this- a very young Gouda, perhaps? I like the creamy, almost buttery mouthfeel; but the flavor, though strong in dairy notes, leaves a little to be desired. It could benefit from more of the sharpness that comes from proper aging”. Thank you! Exactly my thinking. I was pondering if it was some kind of mild farmer cheese but just couldn’t nail it down lol. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387/40 "2024-12-14T14:52:53Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > …finished the mileage notebook DH insists on… Mileage notebook? Whatever for? The one situation in which I do keep track of mileage is when I use my personal vehicle for work-related travel—not commuting to work, but when I go to an off-site meeting or project site. Anyway, I just take a picture of the odometer with my phone, which is location-, time-, and date-stamped. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387.md?page=3)