Have you ever done something really dumb?
 

I just spent the last two hours on the phone.

I have two checking accounts and wrote a fairly large check and used the wrong checkbook. And it bounced like a basketball.

The account I used was just my "spending money" account. And I don't keep too much in it :eek::dohh: Wrong account dummy.

It's all straightened out now. The bank was actually very nice after I called and explained my stupidity. But what a mess.

I need to get checks that don't look so much alike.

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I did the exact same thing when I bought my mobile home,pretty embarrassing

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every day unfortunately!

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What kind of dumb? Laugh at yourself dumb, trust the wrong women dumb, woulda been cheaper to pay someone dumb, career choice dumb, 65 in a 25 dumb, or..... Aw heck, why do I ask? The answer is still yes :lol:

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Yes , all the time .

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I have done some dumb things too.. glad you got it figured out in 2 hours rather than in person all day..

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Yeah, I could write a book titled Dumb Things I Have Done :lol:

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Nope, never.

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Which time, LOL ? In my nearly 72 years I know there have been several times!

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I have. Seems you have too. Sometimes it is embarrassing. Sometimes it is fatal. I'm real happy to be here still able to talk and laugh about some of the most embarrassing dumb@ss thins I've done.


-klb

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It would be easier for me to answer if you would narrow the timeline some.

Last hour, today, week, month, year, decade or century.

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I got married at 19 (61 now) for no other reason than I thought I might as well. I didn't drink or do drugs or party or go to college. I just wanted to work, and figured the girl I liked at the time would be a fine choice. I was wrong. Even though I have been with a wonderful woman for 35 years, the choice of getting married to the first woman has made a whole lot of my life very difficult.

And one time I got my hair permed. I thought it would look cool. It didn't ... it was dumb.

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Ran over my leg with my own truck. That was pretty dumb...and painful lol.

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Top this one : In the early 80s a friend of mine asked if I would be be interested in an investment opportunity. For 600 bucks I could get in as a low level participant in a company that was pushing something called cellular communications technology. They said that a network of repeater towers would allow individuals to carry portable phones everywhere they went and make wireless phone calls on the go.
I could not for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to carry a phone around.

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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." Warren Buffett

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Show me a man that has never done something dumb or wrong and I'll show you a man that hasn't even tried to do anything.

Just the other day I cut the head off a bolt and immediately bent down and picked it up. Put a blister on my index finger. That is so dumb because I've done it before - and will do it again.

All the other stuff would require a set of books similar to an old encyclopedia set so we could organize them by the first letter of the dumb act or decision.

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Plenty guilty of dumb things in my lifetime but here's one related to our trucks not by me but my buddy's dad.

In 1972 when I was a senior in High School my buddy's dad bought a brand new Chevy SWB 4X4 Ochre and White, I thought that was the purtyist thing I ever laid eyes on.

Fast forward a year or so and some guy with a 73 SWB 4X4 also Ochre and White offers him a straight across trade. They swap trucks and years later he said....."That had to be the dumbest thing I ever did"

I had to agree with him.

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Do you really want me to answer this? If I did the site would be overloaded and break......:lol::lol::lol:

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I used to run over my leg with my 3-wheeler (only 2-3 times and then I learned to keep my feet on the pegs!) Never tried it with a truck...

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Glad I'm not the only one, I do this every time.

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Having an ex wife confirms that yes, I've done REALLY DUMB things before.

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Back in the summer of 1976 after going to the drive in with a couple of buddies we were cruising main street in my buddies 68 GTO. Another friend pulls up in his dad's 67 440 New Yorker and says you want to race? So my buddy says where and when? The guy says how about to a local town 6 miles away? So it's on. 1 AM in the morning 120 mph plus on a narrow two lane black top road. That New Yorker took us by about a car length. So we turned around and did the same thing back to town. We took the New Yorker by about 100 yards. Really dumb but we are all alive yet today.

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A long time ago, back during our college years, my young wife and I were broke living on the cheap so I was always fixing $hit rather than replacing.

BTW, I got married at 19, she was 18 ( BING BING BING: DUMB, DUMB DUMB ).

So the clothes dryer heating element stops working...with new part in hand I've got the thing on the floor, rear panel removed accessing the area to replace the element.

After installing the new element I decided to plug the 220 source into the wall and flick it on as a test just to see/make sure it's working!!!! It doesn't work. I can see that it isn't heating up. So I start this cycle of unplugging from wall, jacking with the new element, plugging into wall and test. Then repeat as necessary.

Shortly thereafter, probably distracted, I went into that dryer with my tools/screwdriver to R&R the element ( and other components ) having not unplugged it from the wall. The resulting arc vaporized a large chunk off the tip of the screwdriver.

Oh yeah...that qualifies.

-klb

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Hardly the dumbest thing I've done but...
I sent >$3k to the city on my >$30 water bill instead of a credit card. The city sent an email or called to tell me and sent a check. Not a big issue since there was money in the account, but no sense sending ~7 years of water bill payments.
The accounts are next to each other in the bank bill pay system.

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That brings up a memory. Newly wedded, I replaced the dryer cord and got two wires crossed. It dried clothes but you could not touch it as long as it was running. ;)

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Ok, here is one specific and recent dumb thing I did. Actually, more like a connected series. I'm not one to throw away and replace so quickly, especially when it comes to a well made in USA thing compared to the inferior foreign junk available these days for a replacement. So this is about my Maytag washing machine.
I know nothing about appliance repair. Years ago (like 20 or more) the machine started overfilling if you set it on medium load. No problem, just do large loads. Makes more sense and pretty much how I do it anyway. Well, one day in early summer I had some wash to soak in bleach and really didn't need the washer filled with hot water. For some fool reason I hit the medium button. Yep, overflowed. From that point on it would overflow in all settings... DUMB ME!
I asked around and learned what part needed replaced. Did some searching and no longer available. I've also been short on funds this year. I spent most of the summer filling the machine (while watching), turn off to hand wash (even had a washboard for the tough stuff/utility next to washer), set on spin so it would drain, spin, and fill with rinse water (while watching), swash it around, then set on spin to drain and final spin. Pretty convenient way to wash if it was 1850 :lol:.
So finally I search for the part used and find one on Ebay, only $25!! I get the part, put it in, and everything is great. I do all the laundry I can come up with. Then I realized when I'd pull the dial out the bottom of the control panel would pull out. I didn't get the tabs behind the flange before putting screws in on top. No problem, right?
I got dumb again. The whole time I messed with this machine I would unplug it. Every stinking time. Did I unplug it for this? NO! Sure enough... BZZT! I short something out on the body. I reset the breaker but now I get nothing from the machine... nada... dead. There are connectors to the selector at the bottom that would have been the likely point of the short. I see no burntness (I know, not a word) but figured I must have fried the control. So I find one on Ebay... $80. And I have to wait to finish a job to order it. So back to halfass handwashing.
I finally order the part, get the panel off, and start to do a sketch for all the connections before disconnecting. "Hey, why is this wire just hanging loose? That one, the one down low on the panel". And, "Well looky there. There is a female connector connected but no wire attached?". Well, I'm no appliance technician but I'd wager that loose wire is supposed to be attached to that connector. And that wire is one that comes off the power cord from the wall. Dumb again!. I now have a spare used $80 control in case I ever need it, about 1/2" less wire from the power cord, and one less female push-on connector in my electrical parts drawer. The ole Maytag is back to it's reliable self after spending $105 on a $25 repair. If I had fixed the problem 20 years ago when the level valve started acting up I could have gotten the part at the local appliance parts shop and had it fixed the same week. Oh well, that one might have gone up by now, I still didn't have to buy a new POS, and I spent less than a repairman would have cost. Oh... And I also got to experience life without modern and convenient clothes washing equipment for free!

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GMT400 6-hole 16" wheels will NOT fit on a 73-91 squarebody 4x4 even if you get somebody to very neatly plasma cut out the center holes to fit over the hubs, because the backspace is wrong.

Try it yourself if you don't believe me, but you might want to just cut out the center of ONE wheel instead of All Five! :lol:

At least I didn't go buy five new tires before I test fit it ;)

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I lit my face on fire carrying a birthday cake.

A word of advice. If you have a long beard. Be careful around lit candles or you'll catch your face on fire and have a short beard.

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I've 'Lernt' so much over my 56 yrs its hard to answer the question, .:) at about 10 I taped a shotgun load to the end of my BB gun, and stuck it in a gopher hole and pulled the trigger. walking to the the house cryin with my eyes full of dirt, I fully understood backpressure. :lol: ... later in life I learned how to borrow money. that is the dumbest adult thing I did. I just about got that out of my system. It has been and interesting 56 yrs to say the least. this month marks 15 yrs for me around this site. thanks Josh and Liz and All. life is good.

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Yeah! beginning to think this 39 Chevy was a bad mistake ..

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I put a key in a wall outlet when I was 2-3 years old... I still haven’t forgotten how that felt. And I haven’t stopped doing dumb things 30+ years later!

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I absolutely love caramel. When I was many decades younger, my mom was cooking some pudding on the stove. I figured I get myself a little taste by sucking some up through a straw, figuring it would cool a bit on the way up. Nope. :devil:

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My parents wanted to pay for me to go to college. They were not educated. I'm not either.

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Steve ,,this what you did brought up a memory of what I did with my mothers cooking when I was 13 years old ..

Some one back then told me ,,if you put a bunch of baking soda in a pot of Chili ,,,it would give every one lots of gas

So , I did it one day when she was cooking a big pot of chili and she left the kitchen for a bit..

I poured it in ,,how much I forget and got the heck out of the kitchen ...she told others later that she could not for the life of her figure out,,, that when she came back into the kitchen the chili was boiling over with foam all over the top of the stove and down unto the floor ...I never told her ,,and wished I had of... Something Really Dumb comes to mind

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:lol: Good thing you didn't tell her. You still probably wouldn't be able to sit down!

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Anyone ever not pay attention and put foil in a microwave?

I have.

In my defense some drinking may have been involved at the time. :o

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Gee, I'd have to make a list.

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I bought a nice black coffee mug when I worked at the Lockheed Skunk Works. It had a gold leaf skunk logo on it. I went to reheat some coffee without thinking about the gold leaf. Put it in the microwave and fired it up, then immediately shut it off when I got blue ionization and crackling noises. The skunk is still there but it has lines through it where the gold leaf fried off. :(

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I did something just like that with a business checking account. The bill was $5,xxx and I was using auto pay and typed $50,xxx and didn't realize it until I got the email notification. No problem I thought, so I called the bank and they were like "sorry, call the vendor". Of course I had to pick a global huge vendor to make this mistake (British Petroleum). They were easy to talk to but they said, sorry we can't stop it but we'll send you a refund check for the difference. I argued and argued but that's what it came down to. So I had to wait for the check to clear, then wait for a refund. It was a nail biter and I type much slower now when paying bills!

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I made a $100 math error one time and was so busy working that I didn't reconcile my checkbook for several months. It was fine as long as there was plenty in the account but one month got a little low - lower than I realized, of course!

So I accidently wrote a NSF check. The good and bad part about it was that I was having dinner with some friends while he opened some mail and then he says "oh, I know who this guy is" and hands me the check: embarrassing!