I've done my share of goofy things/had them happen to me for sure. Back when I was about 8, I was walking in the grass under Goldenrod city in my old gold version and found a shiny rattata. I'd literally found out about shiny mons just yesterday and boy was I excited! Looks in bag, had used last ball on a caterpie...
I also reset my Heartgold version that had a green zubat and tangela because I wanted a different starter. Hindsight 20/20!
One time I accidentally saved after going into the Elite 4 in Diamond with nothing but a Mewtwo and some lv. 20s, I got to Cynthia and realized that i couldn't damage her spiritomb at all and I didn't have any TMs that could either! #reset
Also, I've had a slowbro freeze my heatran in the HG battle subway for 14 turns straight. 0.0 I don't know what's worse, the bad luck or the fact that the slowbro took 14 turns to use surf! Also, the wide lens starmie I was using in the BS missed with Hydro Pump 4 times in a row against a Jolteon, which missed 4 times with Thunder! I kind of felt sorry for winning that one.
On a kind of unrelated note, there's a spot on route 25 in RBY where a trainer stands in front of an enclosed space with an item (trainer 7 on the diagram
here). If he sees you, he walks over to you, allowing you to go behind him after the battle and grab the item (normally you have to get it by using cut). My question is, since you don't get cut until later in RBY, and since saving in RBY makes trainers who've moved revert to their original positions and trees regrow (that's what lets this glitch work), has anyone ever saved in the spot behind trainer 7? Unless I'm missing something, they'd have to do a new game, since there'd be no way out when they turned the game back on >.<! That would probably be the biggest POSSIBLE facepalm I can think of.
Idk, there's no way anybody's
THAT stupid!!! Right?