Looking back (at mistakes)

Llama

Llama

Now this thread isn't about life changing mistakes, nothing serious, just stupid mistakes you might make in your daily life. Some of the more interesting, and when looking back at them, funny mistakes you've made.

I'll start with one of mine.


I think it was around 2 weeks ago, I wake up on a generic sunday morning, walk around the house, eat breakfast, play some video games. Then I realize I need to go get something from the pharmacy, and since it is near the video store, I might as well return the movies I rented a few nights back. I grab my keys and shuffle off to my car. I decide to go to the movie store first, its closed, as most stores are on sunday, but it still has that little slot in which you can return movies. I get out of my car and walk towards the store with movie and keys in hand.

I get up to the slot, still feeling particularly tired, and without really thinking throw the contents of my hand into the slot, of a movie store, which is closed on sundays. Realizing what I had done, I stare down at my hand, then at the slot, almost not being able to comprehend the situation.

I had thrown my car keys into the movie slot.

I then proceeded to yell very loudly for about a minute, not attracting that much attention seeing as the surrounding stores weren't open either. So my current situation, car keys in locked store, car locked, phone in car, surrounding stores not open either so no asking for help that is close, and spare keys at home at least 10 miles away. So I decided there must be a telephone somewhere nearer than my house. So I start walking towards where I know the pharmacy I was heading to is. It was only around 2 miles away, not bad, I get in ask for a phone call my brother tell him to go get my spare keys, he gets them for me and brings them, and drives me to my car. I write a note and throw it into the slot, hopefully they will read it, if not I planned on calling them the next day anyways.

In then end it worked out and I will always remember the feeling of having my stomach hit rock bottom upon my realization of what I had done. Looking back though I think it seemed much worse at the time, and I think it is hilarious.


Anyways lets hear your story if you've got one.
 
I don't have a story right now (might edit post with one) but I can say that I too have done the whole -buy chocolate bar - open chocolate bar - throw out chocolate bar - look at rapper - "oh shit" -- thing before so it's cool
 
diinbong said:
I don't have a story right now (might edit post with one) but I can say that I too have done the whole -buy chocolate bar - open chocolate bar - throw out chocolate bar - look at rapper - "oh shit" -- thing before so it's cool
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I do something similar to this. I unwrap the candy bar then put the wrapper in my mouth then start eating it.

I don't think I've done a really big mistake.
 
I went sledding once with 3 friends and I decided to put my car keys in my pocket, and these weren't tight pants or anything with like a zipper, so with all the sitting down and wiping out and whatnot they were bound to fall out. And they did. And I didn't realize it till it was dark and we were ready to leave. So we probably spent about 20-30 minutes trying to look for them until giving up, and I called my parents reluctantly, reluctantly because it was my dad's car keys I had just lost...also we were about 30 minutes away and there wasn't really anywhere to chill for the time being in close proximity. It wasn't horrible but I mad at myself, but my parents weren't too mad or anything thankfully. Then 5 months later the keys were found and returned to my dad :P
 
The stupidest mistake I've ever made...? That's a tough one, since I don't remember doing anything too absent-minded, but there was one time I forgot to close my computer case and my laptop fell out.
 
In my old parents house, both the sugar and salt where in the same type on container just in different cupboards and had labels on them. But one night I was making late night kool-aid (you all know where this is going). Either way mixed up the sugar for salt, stirred it all in, and took a giant swig. Then it was like time froze, I knew the taste was wrong (and awful) but I kinda froze there with the koolaid-salt mixture in my mouth trying to figure out why it tasted so bad. I'm sure it was only like 1 second or two, but it felt like forever til I spit it out.

The End :P
 
there was this one time I was at a pilots game, and i had eaten a burger and grabbed a few ketchup packets, hastily shoving them into my back pocket, along with my ipod. then I sat down on a aluminum bench.



(does this really need explaining???)
 
Often times I find myself scraping my food into the sink and throwing away my fork. I also do this thing where when I'm looking for something like a broom, I'll take a peak in the fridge, then realiz how stuid that was moments later.

My Grandma liked to make lemon pie (ugh) and the family got together and she wanted to make some dessert after she had done the dishes. So she made the pie... only when she had put the ingredients in she put in the Joy dishwashing soap (with lemons on the label) in there instead of the lemon juice.
 
Senior year of wrestling i decided to be a badass and do every single one of our 126 jump squats at one time. Being dehydrated and starved, plus our workouts being as intense as they are, it was not good. I made weight losing five pounds and went home feeling great. I woke up and couldnt move my legs and was hospitalized for a week. I missed finals, post season and am only now coming to full recovery.
 
I remember that there was this one time I joined a chess club in order to improve my game and have a lot of fun.

It was a tight nit group, and in order to feel welcome you either had to be really funny, good at chess, or do something really spectacular that they really liked.

I was discouraged at first, just playing a few games here and their on this free live chess server client, losing most of my games. I however signed up for a tutoring program and began to get a little better, and had a tournament with lower rated players who were in my bracket of experience and knowledge.

I came in 4th place since it was round robin tournament, with 4 wins, 5 losses, and 6 draws. Id say I was pretty good for my first go around, as I had only read 2 chess books to improve my game. The reason I lost was mainly because I didnt prepare, and wasn't paying attention to the game at the most critical moments.

So at the same time while I was doing that I was cracking some jokes; and it actually was going really well and the people liked them.

This was a relief because I saw how they would treat people if they didn't take to kindly to those jokes. They were intelligent and liked witty things.

Eventually I got bored of chess altogether and started to just make jokes.

I was confident and ready to make people laugh- something I really liked to do.

I managed to get a few laughs, got a few bad ones in the fray as well, but I thought it was ok since I was evening things out.

After awhile I noticed the good jokes to bad jokes ratio wasnt really in my favor, but I persevered and I made friends because of my style but more people were annoyed more than anything else.

It got so bad that people that originally liked me started to lose faith in me and my capabilities, and random people would come up to me in meetings and call me names like idiot and such.

The organizers who ran the club decided to crack down on it more than usual, and began threatening me to not come back or improve my behavior.

I layed low for awhile and came out later and started doing my old routine again but more sporadically than usual.
One day though I may have pushed the envelope and annoyed a respected member too much to the point where he blew up on me a bit. I apologized to him and he understood, but it was too late.

The tournament director and committee already had made their decision to prohibit me from coming to the meetings for 6 months.



All in all this experience taught me to persevere, never give up, and study your opponent. They were a tad immature in their ways of telling me, but it inadvertently gave me insight on how to improve my game and other things in life.



TO this day nothing like this situation happened and I am really relieved that I didnt have to relive that experience again, and to know that the real problem was just natural and that I wasnt stupid afterall and perhaps even the chess directors were the ones at fault.
 
Tangerine said:
The only experiences I regret are experiences from which i didn't learn anything from
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College?

My biggest mistake, Syberia. Not really, I love him.

Biggest mistake I did was trying to do a wheelie on my Razor back when I was about 13 or 14. To make a long story short, I snapped my ankle, had to have surgery on it, spent 4 months in a cast and 2 more after that in a splint for a grand total of 6 months on crutches. Then after the crutches my doctor took them away and said, "Ok, go and walk". Lets just say that after 6 months of not walking, you kinda loose all function in the leg for a while.

Then because I was in a cast for so long my leg had no pigment at all pretty much and my leg got a 2nd degree burn and stayed purple for about 6 months.

I regret doing that wheelie. :(
 
Tangerine said:
The only experiences I regret are experiences from which i didn't learn anything from
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This. But I can't think of any experiences where I didn't learn from at this time because I've been putting everything in perspective to see how it relates to something else. That way I learn even more! :D

But I can truly say I have no regrets.
 
OGsloane said:
Senior year of wrestling i decided to be a badass and do every single one of our 126 jump squats at one time. Being dehydrated and starved, plus our workouts being as intense as they are, it was not good. I made weight losing five pounds and went home feeling great. I woke up and couldnt move my legs and was hospitalized for a week. I missed finals, post season and am only now coming to full recovery.
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I did something similar. When I was in the 7th grade I used to do 2000 calf raises a night. One night I did all 2000 in a single session. For the next two weeks I could only walk backwards (and I had stairs to go up and down on the way to my classes). It was hell, but it seems to have paid off. I'm now highjumping 6'2 and improving.
 
OGsloane said:
Senior year of wrestling i decided to be a badass and do every single one of our 126 jump squats at one time. Being dehydrated and starved, plus our workouts being as intense as they are, it was not good. I made weight losing five pounds and went home feeling great. I woke up and couldnt move my legs and was hospitalized for a week. I missed finals, post season and am only now coming to full recovery.
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haha wrestling sucks, I only do it because being the beast that I am I'm kind of obligated to, plus my brother was a nasty wrestler so it was kind of expected of me to follow in his footsteps.

probably my main mistake this year was partnering with a kid who had a cold which I got which then turned into bronchitis. I had to wrestle at states with the feeling of having an elephant on my chest. Yippee
 
The most stupidest thing I've done in my life was pretty sad actually. It was about when I was 10 or 11, I was really into Yu-Gi-Oh. I've always begged my mom to buy me booster packs and such. One day my mom gave me a 50 dollar bill and told me to save it and not spend it. It was the biggest amount of money I've ever had.

After a couple of weeks, my friend (also plays Yi-Gi-Oh) knocks on my door and he asks me if I wanted to buy any Yu-Gi-Oh booster packs, but couldn't go because my mom wouldn't let me go to the store with just a friend. But I really wanted a booster pack (here comes the stupid part) so I went upstairs, took out my wallet, grabbed the 50 dollar bill, rushed back downstairs and gave the 50 bucks to my friend and told me to use the whole thing and buy me the booster packs.

I couldn't believe I actually did that. I was so stupid back then. =\
 
Baseball..

I don't know how I managed to do this, but in Phys Ed, we were playing baseball, and I accidentally hit the ball backwards, straight into my eye. The whole class died in laughter.
 
My biggest little mistake was probably the fact that I didn't start reading for fun until this past summer.

Also, the car wreck was a pretty bad time.
 
I am the most absent minded motherfucker I've ever met. I'm always forgetting where I put shit, loosing the car, forgetting to set my alarm, sleeping through my alarm, forgetting to go to work, forgetting to eat, etc.

I even forget what I'm saying in the middle of my sentences at least once or twice a day.

I forget where I'm going, both in the house, at work, school, and while driving (however when I'm driving and forget where I'm going I usually auto-pilot to Wendys. Go figure).

Psychadelic drugs probably don't help, but I gotta say, having the capacity to never remember anything is pretty exciting. It also gets me out of tight spots a lot, as I can never make plans to do something with anyone, therefore have no obligations to keep them, lol.

One particularly 'lolwut' experience was a few years back. I needed to do a bunch of crap at once, and kinda got it all mixed up. I put the remote in the freezer, dropped some bread on the floor, and pissed in the trash can. Good times.
 
(on the way to the airport, in an obscenely good mood because of it)
(Soulja Boy comes on radio)
me: Oh god, not this song...
Dad: Hey, Casey?
me: Yeah?
Dad: What does 'Superman that ho' mean?
me: ...Um...
dad: Hey, and you're wearing a Superman t-shirt, too.
me: Um... do you really want to know?
dad: Yeah, I'm curious.
me: I claim no responsibility for your revulsion.
Dad: Oh, it can't be that bad.
me: It's when a guy ejaculates on a girl's back and puts a blanket over her while she's sleeping, and then when she wakes up she has a cape.
Dad: ...
me: Hence, Superman. Because of the cape.
Dad: I see.
me: Yep.
(song is still playing on radio)

Dad couldn't look me in the eye for two hours after that.
I'd like to add that my father still thinks of me as a 7 year-old, despite being 18 now.
 
My most recent "mistake" was a great <fun> adventure.

Keep in mind that I lost my phone a couple weeks ago and I am a slacker about ordering things since it's been semi-nice without it. My bosses gave me an emergency cell phone in case they need to get in touch with me; but I don't have any friends/family phone numbers on there...

So, I was supposed to take off to CO on Friday night, I checked all the fluid levels on my car. My sister and I dropped by my office (it was around 9pm) to pick up a CD I accidentally left there; then we were headed to starbucks and planning on hitting the road. A few miles away from the office, all the sudden I notice there's massive amounts of smoke coming from behind my car, and then it started pooling up from under the hood. Me and my sister pull over in a parking lot and I was like: omfg... <.<

I don't think I screwed on the radiator cap right. (I had just gotten my nails done earlier that night and I was having some issues with it, BUT I had thought I got it right)...

So, me and my sister looked; and sure enough, my radiator cap is missing. We couldn't find it. I didn't have phone numbers to my friends. Fuck. So, we call a cab and go to Walmart as that's the only place I could think of that was open that sold auto parts. We have a crazy cab driver who (I swear to god) was imagining playing the Speed videogame (ie, weaving in and out of traffic, dodging red lights, etc). We get to Walmart, buy all the radiator caps they have stocked (who knew there were different sizes?!), got other random supplies (like more antifreeze and water) and called another cab to take us back. We get back to the car and feel freaking amazing. Holy shit! We solved the problem without having to call anyone for help! Yeah. We were feeling great.

The radiator caps didn't fit.

We spend the night in the car.

It was cold, but amusing. Thank god we had clothes in the trunk; we layered our clothes, turned on the stereo, then crashed out for a few hours.

With the light of day it was discovered that the stupid radiator cap was in the engine (we just hadn't seen it the previous night)

So yeah, I know. tldr, but it was amusing! And a silly little mistake (not tightening the radiator cap) turned into a fantastic adventure.

Or, it could be that I'm just that cool.
 
I was playing someone using a hail team, and they brought in a level one clefable.
I didn't see it was level one, so I switched (to a full health pokemon), to get hit by an endeavor and die from hail damage.
All my pokemon were at about full health, so I was forced to sacrifice another to break the sash, losing it to the endeavor + hail that followed.
Needless to say, I felt like a dunce. That was a terrible mistake to overlook the fact it was level 1.

Biggest mistake irl?

That is easy.

Four years ago now I decided I'd like to go to Westwood High School (which is rated in the top 80 high schools in the US) and enter the IB program instead of going to Stony Point (the school I'd otherwise go to).
The results?
IB isn't worth very much, so the far worse grades relative to other students make me have an overall far more difficult time getting into college.
30+ minutes driving to school and then back (meaning an hour a day spent driving, instead of a very marginal time).
Having excessive amounts of homework in subjects I couldn't care less about (history specifically; don't have as much work in English).
The subjects I find easiest and care most about are science (biology in particular) and math. I don't care much at all about history or English.
IB in Westwood focuses very heavily on history (they make higher level history mandatory; this is Westwood only, other schools don't do it), and also focuses some on English. Math and science aren't very important.
Basically, I'm wasting tremendous amonuts of time (the far greater quantities of homework play far more heavily into this then does the length of time it takes to get to school) to make myself have a harder time getting into college. Top 10% (or even top 10) is what I'd have at the other school (I was smarter then all of them), vs. barely top 30% (this school is filled with geniuses who also happen to work hard).
Brilliant!

As a quick note, to give an idea as to the differential in intelligence between the schools, the average TAKS score at Westwood was 95%+ in all subjects. At the school I would have gone to (Stony Point) it was only around 75% or even failing in some subjects (I remember one subject had a 67%).
 
The first thread I ever posted on Smogon. It was some shit about Snapple I copypasta'd from GameFAQs, and it was that day I learned what flaming truly was. It racked up a good seven or eight pages of hate, punctuated by pleas from me to have the thread Tro du Culled (Culed? Cul'd?).
BEST FIRST IMPRESSION EVER.

As for IRL, there are so many things that I'm having a hard time thinking of one! :D
...alright, I'm not sure this really counts as a 'mistake', per se, but I'm posting it anyway.
So my friends and I have had many fucked up and hilarious lunchtime adventures, and one day toward the very end of last year, I decided to do something completely stupid that would probably get me in trouble in order to impress my peers. So I placed a carton of strawberry milk on the floor in a corner, directly below a security camera, and kicked it. It splattered all over the walls and got on my shoes, pants, and shirt a bit as well. My friends freaked out, laughed hysterically, then informed me of the camera directly overhead and how I was in deep bullshit. However, I never got caught or even questioned about the event. Good times.
 
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