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10-29-2020, 05:19 PM | #1 |
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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 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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10-29-2020, 06:04 PM | #2 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
I did the exact same thing when I bought my mobile home,pretty embarrassing
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10-29-2020, 06:36 PM | #3 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
every day unfortunately!
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10-29-2020, 07:01 PM | #4 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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
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10-29-2020, 07:47 PM | #5 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
Yes , all the time .
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10-29-2020, 07:48 PM | #6 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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10-29-2020, 08:13 PM | #7 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
Yeah, I could write a book titled Dumb Things I Have Done
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10-29-2020, 09:09 PM | #8 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
Nope, never.
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10-29-2020, 09:26 PM | #9 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
Which time, LOL ? In my nearly 72 years I know there have been several times!
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10-29-2020, 09:28 PM | #10 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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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10-29-2020, 09:42 PM | #11 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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10-29-2020, 09:54 PM | #12 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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10-29-2020, 10:01 PM | #13 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
Ran over my leg with my own truck. That was pretty dumb...and painful lol.
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10-29-2020, 10:24 PM | #14 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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10-29-2020, 10:58 PM | #15 | |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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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10-30-2020, 08:59 AM | #16 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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10-30-2020, 09:27 AM | #17 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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. |
10-30-2020, 11:22 AM | #18 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
Do you really want me to answer this? If I did the site would be overloaded and break......
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10-30-2020, 11:36 AM | #19 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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10-30-2020, 12:20 PM | #20 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
Glad I'm not the only one, I do this every time.
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10-30-2020, 07:39 PM | #21 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
Having an ex wife confirms that yes, I've done REALLY DUMB things before.
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10-30-2020, 09:37 PM | #22 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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10-30-2020, 10:42 PM | #23 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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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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10-30-2020, 11:19 PM | #24 |
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Re: Have you ever done something really dumb?
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. |
10-30-2020, 11:50 PM | #25 | |
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