What is the stupidest thing you've ever done?

Luvntzus

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Believed in love outside of family and animals.

 There is such a thing as that. Sometimes it just takes awhile and unfortunately you'll probably get hurt a lot before you find it.

 Most of my stupid things involve my very short job as a bank teller.

Let's see- I accidentally didn't get my cash drawer into the vault on time. The vault closes at a set time and the money had to be left out overnight. That alone was grounds for being fired.

I accidentally set off the silent alarm by pulling the bait money from my drawer. I knew it was there and don't know why I decided to pick up that stack. As soon as I saw the wires underneath it was a huge "uh oh" moment.

I accidentally had the police show up when the manager accidentally set off the atm alarm. The police called and asked a secret question- I had been told the code, but for some reason didn't know what the heck they were talking about. Sooo, the police were there in a few minutes and I felt so stupid!

Another time a customer's check accidentally flew out the drivethrough window because it was a windy day and I forgot to secure it under a clip. The customer and an employee went searching through an open field nearby and never did find the check. I was terrified that the customer was going to come back in and yell at me. Thank goodness it didn't happen.

My drawer almost never balanced...

After about a month of working in there the branch manager and other higher up managers called me in and asked me how I thought I was doing at banking. I said that I thought I was getting the hang of things and they said they didn't think banking was for me. So I was let go. Ouch. I think I was probably one of the more memorable people that ever worked there though!

Sans the bait money blooper, this sure sounds like my teller experience!  Banking was most definitely not for me.

I do stupid things quite often so they're not really all that memorable any more.  One that haunts me from time to time happened when I was but a wee child.  My family and my mom's best friend's family had gone to a nice steak house for Mother's Day when I was about six or so.  The waitress comes over to take our drink order and I had been racking my brain, searching the menu for that drink that dad always orders for my sister and I.  It was fancy and I wanted one but I couldn't remember the name.  The waitress gets to me and I blurt out "frozen margarita!"  I think the tables around us even heard because everyone (except for the four of us kids) thought that was riot.  I can't live it down; once in a while my family will ask if I want a frozen margarita with my meal.  Let it die people, that was 27 or so years ago!!!  The drink I wanted?  A Shirley Temple.  Woo hoo fancy!

Scrubsfiend- I always ordered a Shirely Temple when I was little too! Are we somehow related? lol

Luvntzus

Scrubsfiend- I always ordered a Shirely Temple when I was little too! Are we somehow related? lol

Me too 

~snicker~ Luvntzus, anything is possible.  Have you ever quit a job just months shy of your fifth anniversary (and the perks that go along with that) for a job that was suppose to be wonderful, only to go back to your old job six months later AND lose all your tenure?  Now that really would be a crazy coincidence!

Because of my little joke, I always catch when someone orders a Shirley Temple.  It appears they are the quintessential "grown up" drink for kids as I notice them being ordered all the time.  I don't know about you but I sure thought I was something special to drink one!

 What is a Shirley Temple?  (OK I look stupid now.... ok, STUPID-ER)

Chuffy

 What is a Shirley Temple?  (OK I look stupid now.... ok, STUPID-ER)

It's just Sprite or 7-up with grenadine and a cherry.  Like I said, SO fancy!

 Does grenadine make it green?  Or red?  

 oh gosh, you just want one stupid thing? I have MANY.

How about this one: at 16, I went out with some friends to go to a corn field party. We just got a 5th of southern comfort and mixed our drinks in the car (I was not driving). The driver was going 40, then drove in to a 25 mph zone. I said to my friend "you better slow down. with our luck (the car pulling out behind us) that will be a cop". Sure enough, it was. Being young and really stupid, we dumped our drinks under the floor mats (DUH!!!!!). The car smelled like a southern comfort factory. The cop says "Have you all been drinking?" "No, sir". He says "Let me ask this again, have you all been drinking" "No sir". (actually we hadn't had anything to drink yet)

He made us all get out of the car, found the booze bottle, checked our IDs (we were all under 21) and called dispatch. He then had dispatch call my parents to meet us at the police station. My friend had to drive her car to the station. Once my mom got there, he made my mom smell the inside of the car and then handed mewhat was left of the 5th of southern Comfort and told me to dump it down the drain while my mom was watching (what a move, eh? haha).

 Then he gave my friends minor in possession tickets, made us all take breatherlizers (none of us registered because we hadn't even taken sips yet when he pulled us over!) and sent me home with my mom. Meanwhile, all of our high school pals were driving by us on the way to the party and honking because we were busted.

I escaped without the MIP - but was the only one whose parents were called. The officer explained that he had a daughter my age and he would want to know if his daughter was out doing the same thing. I was the youngest of the group so apparently he thought there was hope for me yet.

Little did he know.....

Gawd, my uncle IS the 5-0. for real. LOL!

If I get in trouble in town, most of the policemen know to call my uncle and not to worry about the legal mess - Officer Phillips can handle that just fine. LOL! Seriously, I was pulled with friends(I wasnt drving) and they look at me and say "Make your little friends behave or I'm calling you uncle"

 I thought of one.

When I was about 17 we snuck into the skihill one night after closing to go sliding.  There was about 12 of us and  we had to park out on the road cause the skihill baricades its driveway at night.  We had big tubes and GT's, crazy carpets and other things to slide on.  We even found an old recycling box to try out.  Little did we know how much of a workout climbing the skihill really was.  None of us had ever WALKED up it before!  Anyway, we might have slid down twice before we had enough.  We were all boozed up too, though not too bad.  We were just about to leave when we hear the WOOOOOOP and the flashing lights come down the driveway.  Uh Oh 5-oh!  So we all dash off into the bush on the sides of the road and proceed to try to walk out.  Through snow 3 feet deep.  I happened to be wearing my BIL's steel toed boots over my tennis shoes cause I hadn't brought my winter boots and my sister's is on the way to the skihill.  The boots were so packed with snow I could barely lift them.  I wasn't much worse off than anyone else either.  Eventually we all caved and staggered back onto the road to face the music.  Except my friend Regan who's dad was one of the coppers, lol.  He followed the pipeline all the way back up the road where we picked him up on our way home.  The cops just laughed at us and told us we really shouldn't be there(they didn't know we were all drinking).  We went back to my sister's after that, my sister was out of town for the weekend, but we all went in and lit a fire in the stove to melt ourselves.  It took me an hour to get those stupid boots off!  And my friend Pat lit his socks on fire trying to warm his feet IN the stove...ya that was a fun night...

Lol Scrubsfiend, I agree that Shirley Temples were a special drink. I know I felt like a little fancy pants whenever I ordered one. Cakana, come on over and join the Shirley Temple club. :) Actually, I don't know why I ever stopped drinking those because they're awesome!

I didn't have the same experience as you with your 5 year job. That is awful! Besides my bank experience, I've screwed up in lots ways at work, fairly standard things like being late, but unfortunately all adding up to a terrible job history. I guess most of my stupid mistakes are career and relationship related. Only two huge things in life! lol

 Driving mishaps.  I have had so many bonehead misdirects.  The last couple of years I'd get brain fog in the evening and if I weren't careful I'd end up in the wrong city, or wrong state, driving home.  One night I made three different mistakes and had to backtrack - 40 minutes in the wrong direction one time, 25 minutes another time, and 15 minutes another time - a ninety minute drive turned into a four hour trek all over northern NC and southern VA.

But my best ever was when a friend and I got lost in Durham on a trip that should have only taken two hours (going to an agility trial).  We wandered around for THREE HOURS, and then got lost one more time closer to where the trial was, heading out towards the NC coast about thirty miles past our turnoff.  Total time on the road:  seven hours. 

Sing it with me folks:  "Now sit right down and I'll tell a tale, a tale of a fateful trip . . .blah blah, on a THREE HOUR TOUR (a three hour tour)."

I have a really good sense of direction but for some reason every now and then I'll get really off somewhere familiar, and make up for all the other times that I avoid getting lost in totally new places. 

This wasn't quite a stupid thing that I did because is wasn't really my fault.  I didn't want to USE the Garmin.  I made the classic mistake, taking the Garmin too literally.  A friend and I were acting as chauffeur for a guest clinic instructor from Scotland.  We were in a rural area in Eastern MD.  We were supposed to be looking for this crab place where the clinic attendees were all meeting.  We had directions from the locals - I didnt understand why I had to use the Garmin.  But my friend had provided the thing and apparently didn't trust maps or locals anymore.

Well, the Garmin didn't have accurate data on the area. I had my paper in hand and wanted to turn back to the last turn and look for a landmark described in my directions.  My friend kept telling me that it was my interpretation of the Garmin that was wrong.

So the poor guy from Scotland was treated to both of us yelling at each other (good naturedly, teasing each other, but still it was intense).  I was yelling, "We need to go back and look for the GIANT HOT DOG!" and my friend kept saying, "JUST GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS MENU!"

Then the Garmin said, "TURN RIGHT!"  I turned, and yup, you guessed it, it was someone's front yard.  Apparently it was a low end model where you have to look at the screen to get the little graphic that shows the street name and the distance.

Our guest looked more than a little rattled.  Clearly he thought we were stark raving.  We'd already met him in the bar of his hotel and my friend had spotted a roach crawling across the bar, took off her shoe, and smashed it several times, loudly, right in front of everyone (including several employess).  We offered to let Jack finish his drink but for some reason he didn't want to stay after that. 

So then we had to get out of the yard onto the highway with the 60 MPH speed limit (after dark).  By the time we actually got to the restaurant he was looking a bit peaked.  I noticed that he didn't sit at the table with us.   

 I have one similar to Julie's.

When I was 16 me and a friend went out with a guy friend and his friend. Wow what a sentence huh? Anyways our guy friend bought alcohol and we all went to the lake. Well my friend and I were supposed to get the guys drunk and see how they acted since we had never seen them drunk before but um we got drunk instead. The guys got tired of us whiny drunk girls and decided it was time for us to go home. 

Well on the way home my lense fell out of my glasses and I told the guy friend to pull over so I could find them. He pulls over and my girl friend starts barfing her guts out everywhere. The police see her puking and comes over. He smells the alcohol and makes me and my girl friend get in his car but send the guy friend home!! Ok no he hadnt drank anything but um he was a minor also driving around to other minors who happened to be drunk off their butts.

At the police station the police ask us our info. They call my girl friend's mom and she comes and gets her. They ask me for my number and I tell not to even bother that once they told my grandma why I was there she would tell them to keep me. Sure enough that's what happened. The poor police guys were stunned. They didnt know what to do. 

I happened to mention my uncle's FIL was the sheriff. They called him and he came and got me. Now I was scared. I didnt know this man. Yes he was my uncle's FIL but that didnt mean I knew that part of the family. Well he takes me to my uncle's who is out in the yard at 3am waiting for me. Oh gosh. I thought for sure I was gonna get it. Luckily for me my uncle was a bad teenager and was actually very understanding and didnt fuss at me for being stupid. I stayed the night there and he talked my grandma into letting me come home which lets just say I would have rather stayed with my uncle!!!