Dumbest thing you've ever done while pre-occupied...

[retrospective66]

About 2 months ago, I had alot on my mind when I drove away with the gas nozzle in my car. It was so bad that all the rubber part was either gone or in shreds on the wire and gas was spewing everywhere. :blush:

What had happened was, I put the nozzle in only to discover I had to pre-pay. I knew this place doesn't accept checks so I went to their ATM. My ATM card is old and cracked but it usually works. This time it didn't, so I left with where I needed to go on my mind. (my bank) I forgot that gas nozzle was there and just drove off. In addition to embarrasment, my "senior moment" cost me $485 bucks (to Irving) and left a dent in my car :-(

Am I the only one who does stuff like this? And though I wouldn't wish this kind of thing on anyone, please don't ALL say yes!

[datasuspect]

1. i was drunk and high on pills

and backed into a parked lexus.

[The Great Escape]

2. I Fueled Up My Car at a C-Store Right Next to Where I Work...

typically I did not fuel up there. I had let my car get low on fuel so I went ahead and fueled up during my lunch. I knew there was nothing open on that end of town when I get off from work. I usually walked over there at least once a day and bought a soda. I left my car parked at the gas pump and walked back to work...four hours later I went to go home and could not find my car. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what I had done. It was one in the morning so the C-Store was closed. Fortunately there was no one left at work to razz me over my brain fart. I wondered why the C-Store clerk did not call me at work, wondering why I left my car parked in her gas pump. I found out the next day, she thought I had broken down. I let her keep thinking that!

[retrospective66]

7. Wow.

I don't blame you for letting the clerk think that. I'm glad she didn't have you towed. :hi:

[bigwillq]

3. Wow, that's quite a story.

Anyway, Welcome to DU. :hi:

[retrospective66]

8. Thanks

:hi:

[qwertyMike]

4. May not be the dumbest thing

I was walking to work one morning eating an apple and had a letter to mail. I mailed the apple instead. No I didn't eat the letter.

I often put on non matching shoes. (I store my shoes in a dark area of my hallway closet). Surprisingly few people notice.

In my hippie days I was (of course) driving a '61 VW Van around Central America. In Mexico I was going from sea level to Mexico City (7,500 feet). This involved climbing first to 10 or 11K feet then dropping down to the city. Others I met told me to adjust my carburettor to alter the gas/air mixture to compensate for the altitude. I did this and adjusted the notorious valves at the same time. It made the trip OK - at a crawl - on THREE cylinders. I later discovered that I had left one the spark plug leads unattached. Duh.

Many more examples I'm sure.
I'm 60 now and such things are routine.

Peace. Love.

[retrospective66]

13. Sounds like you know how

to have fun even if your shoes don't match. :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. That'd probably be the time

I was ridin' my motorcycle down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playin' my guitar.

On one side of the mountain road, there was a mountain. On the other side, there was nothin'; it was a cliff in the air.

Now, when you're goin' down a mountain road at 150 miles per hour, you have to be very careful — especially if you're playin' a guitar. And especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar. Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater on the box side than on the neck side, because there's more guitar on the box side.

I wasn't payin' attention.

Luckily, I didn't go into the mountain. I went over the cliff.

I was goin' 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down. I looked down; I said, "Wow. Some trip."

And... well, I knew it was my last trip... but in my last few remainin' seconds in the world I decided to write one last farewell song to the world.

I put a new ink cartridge in my pen. I took out a piece of paper. I sat back, and... I thought awhile.

Then I started writin'.

"I don't want a pickle. I just wanna ride my motorcycle. And I don't wanna tickle, I wanna ride my motorcycle. And I don't wanna die! I'd rather ride my motorcy... cle."

Well... I knew it wasn't the best song I ever wrote... but I didn't have time to change it. I was comin' down awful fast.

But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die!

I landed on top of a police car. And he died.

I drove into town at a screamin' 175 miles per hour, playin' the Motorcycle Song. I jumped off the bike; the bike went around a tree by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned itself off.

I walked over to my friend; he was standin' there, eatin' pickles.

I said, "Hey. What's happenin'?"

He looked at me and he said, "Nothin'."

You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm.

Like you just squashed a cop.

[LeftyMom]

6. I almost rear-ended a Lexus on the freeway the other day

the moral of the story: don't think about sex while driving in heavy traffic.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. !

:spray: That's supposed to be men's territory. You go girl. :yourock:

[retrospective66]

11. I guess men are much better at that kind of thing

then we are. Sex-think and (whatever)at the same time. TeeHee :evilgrin: JUST KIDDING!

[Random_Australian]

10. Walking out into busy traffic. If my mind did not have the sound info

processing power in levels that make me a freak, I would be dead. As it is, I'm sitting here listening to two songs simultaneously and typing, so my general awareness of surroundings is enough to pull me back from some of the lovely daydreams that mean I walk into the path of cars.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. I hit a policeman who was walking across the parking lot, backing

out of a space in front of a convenience store. I was 8 and half months pregnant. I ran into the store for some milk, jumped into my husband's truck and started to back out...*Thud*. I hit the brakes and looked behind me, just in time to see the badge on his shirt as he stood up. CRAP!!! He came up to the window, I threw my fat, water retained self upon his mercy... and he told me it WAS HIS FAULT!!! Can you believe it? I think he took pity on the poor, adled pregnant woman. To make matters worse, I NEVER TOLD MY HUSBAND...It was an oversight our pregnancy induced insanity. A few weeks after my son was born my parents were visiting. We were sitting in the living room and my dad brought up the day I hit the policeman... MrG looked at me like, "What the Hel-?" and I said, rather innocently,"Don't you remember? I had to have told you...". :hi:

[retrospective66]

14. LOL!

I'm glad all involved are ok and still have their wits about them. :hi: backatcha. (I love these smilie things)

[kwassa]

15. I poured bleach instead of detergent into the washer on top of clothes

I caught myself almost immediately, but not soon enough to stop destroying a half dozen shirts and some pants.

[retrospective66]

18. How awful

If some of my favorite things were in there, I'd be bumming. Sorry. :-(

[seaglass]

16. I ordered an iced coffee through a trash can at the drive through

last week. I know people do this all the time - but I never did it.

The person in front of me had moved up and I didn't notice, I was chatting with my daughter and I heard the Dunkin Donut person's voice through the speaker and just ordered without pulling up.

And yes, the driver behind me saw me do it.:shrug:

[retrospective66]

17. OMG

That's just too funny!

[nutsnberries]

19. i wet myself.

i'm sure it's not the dumbest thing i've done, but it's the dumbest thing i do fairly often.

i'll be holding a drink and bend over or do something and forget i have that drink until i feel wet. :)

and usually it's just water (thankfully)- i can't blame this on too many margaritas or anything...