Dumb Things I have Done
Dec 3rd 2009
Madeline HunterGoddess Grins & Madeline Hunter
My next book, Ravishing in Red, will be released on January 26. (See today’s contest below for an ARC). It opens with the heroine taking a bold action on behalf of her dead father. Unfortunately, things do not turn out quite the way she had planned.
Even before disaster strikes, she is having second thoughts. She knows that proper young women should not do this. She knows it is risky. She knows that there are those who would say this was a dumb-ass thing to do.
I expect to get at least one reader scolding me for having her do something dangerous, even if it was for the most noble of reasons, and even if she took precautions to protect herself. I can only say in her defense, and mine, that people do dumb-ass things, risky and– in hindsight— dangerous things, all the time, especially when they are young. I certainly did.
I did some things that were so dumb-ass that I can’t ever bring myself to tell you about them. They usually involved guys. Let’s just say that if any of those guys had been even ten percent less decent I would have been in big trouble. At the time I discounted all that. Only later might I look back and think hooooweee, was that dumb.
For example, when I was 20 I was on my first trip to Europe. A friend and I were in Florence and one night we began the long walk up to the piazza that overlooks the city. People go there for the view and to scope out each other. As we trudged, a cute red convertible sports car with two guys in it—total strangers, mind you, but they had these adorable accents—- stopped. We were offered a ride up the big hill.
We went. Innocently. Trustingly. Stupidly. We went even though at home we would never accept such an offer even if the guys were in a Ferrari. Especially if they were in a Ferrari. Maybe we went with the illusion that we had strength in our numbers (of 2).
We were lucky. They took us up the hill, hung out a while and flirted, tried to seduce us, and finally took us back down to the town and drove off. Now, any adult woman knows all the reasons why this was a dumb thing for us to do. It even entered my mind while I sat in that convertible. What if. . . .? I mean, they could have been burying our bodies in Switzerland before dawn.
Oh, and regarding that trip in general. I was with a school group. However, I did not stay with them for the first two weeks when they did the sightseeing stuff. That was not cool enough for me. I stayed alone in a small hotel. Nothing really dumb there, except that I probably missed out on some fun.
No, the dumb part was that about two days after I got there I realized that I had not left the name of the hotel with my family back in the U.S. or with the school group. So there I was and if I disappeared—–? It would be a couple of weeks before anyone even knew.
Looking back, I did so many stupid things on that trip that I should probably just call it Madeline’s Excellent Dumb-Ass Adventure.
What about you? Any dumb things you want to share? They do not have to be dramatic or dangerous. Just dumb. 
As an incentive to get you to dish, I will be doing a contest and include everyone who posts in the pool from which I will pick the winner. I will send one poster an Advanced Reading Copy of Ravishing in Red.
I went looking for the pictures to decorate this post and learned to my consternation that it seems to be assumed that Dumb and Drunk go together. I want it to be known that I was cold sober during at least 85% of the dumb things I have done. I don’t know if that speaks well of me or not.
102 Comments »
Archer on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:10 am #
I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve also done the getting in a strangers car when I was younger. Even worse it was just me. But in my case I think the guy was also strange for letting a stranger sit in his car while he was away.
I was waiting outside the Embassy (they won’t even let you stand in front of it) during a snow storm. A guy offered to let me sit in his car while he did some errands and I accepted. I think I sat in his car for about a half an hour.
Laurie G on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:32 am #
MY parents went on vacation one January and let my great aunt “babysit me”, I was a junior in HS. I did not want a babysitter!! I wanted to travel to Green Bay (35 miles away) to get a dress for a Sadie Hawkins/TWIRP ( the woman is required to pay) dance. My great aunt refused to let me go as a snowstorm was predicted. I decided to go anyway. On the way home the storm hit, white out, blizzard conditions. I skidded off the road into a snow bank. Luckily, a good guy stopped with a truck and pulled me out. No damage. No injuries. I was so lucky!! But, DUMB!
Susan M on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:15 am #
Most of the dumb things I’ve done have more to do with finances than anything else. Blowing money when I should have saved it. Running up credit cards. (I’m still paying for this one.) When I was in 8th grade I went into the woods by my house with an older boy. That was pretty stupid. Thankfully (although I wasn’t so thankful at the time) my parents found me before anything could happen. They shipped me off to my grandparents for the rest of the summer.
Cail on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:15 am #
Well, just last year I decided to drive to NY in a Blizzard. I could have gotten really badly hurt, had everyone not been driving 20 mph. As it was the snow on top of the roof of a bus fell on my car and blinded me for a terrifying 10 seconds. Will I do it again? Probably…
Carole St-Laurent on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:33 am #
I sometimes forget I don’t have the same strength as 20 years ago. Hell, even not 10 years ago. So I tend to extend myself too much, like getting something heavy from the attic down that little ladder by myself. So far, I’ve had only cuts and bruises but it could be so much worse.
Kathy on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:35 am #
I’ve done some pretty dumb stunts. my friend and I got into a sailboat. the 2 cute boys sailing were friends of my brothers, and went to our school so that was safe. No, the dumb thing was that we swam away from the beach without a nod to anyone where were we going. At 17, I knew better. but alas no cell phones back then.
We sailed along being silly and the we capsized the small boat in the harbour. my friend fell in first, the sail on top of her, then I hit the sail. I had to get my bearings under the boat in the air pocket of the overturned boat then swam out to help them flip the boat.
At the time it was exciting and we arrived safely to tell the tale. Sometimes, looking back I think it could have gone so wrong.
Susan E on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:40 am #
1) Trusting amateurs to cut my hair.. a couple of times.
2) Shopping with QVC for a couple of years. Still digging my way out.
3) In my teens, taking a drive, on icy roads, because I was bored..
4) Allowing a drunk boyfriend to drive me home.
LisaK on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:43 am #
When I was 11 or 12 years old I had the feeling that I had to do something kids my age did on TV and so I “ran away from home”. Well, yeah, I did not actually run away since I told me mother that I was going now and had my cellphone with me, but, well. The dumb thing was that I went into the woods. That wouldn’t have been a problem per se had it been some nice, light wood belonging to someone’s garden, but, well, my village is surrounded by the first mountains of the Alps, the woods are dark, it was November and oh-so-frosty and the first wild bear that appeared in Germany again was shot here, so, brrr. When I was climbing around there were actually some dogs that started barking wildly and since I’m madly afraid of dogs that was the reason for me to finally turn around and never “run away” again. Dumbness, I knew it then, and dumbness in hindsight…
Sabrina Jeffries on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:49 am #
Lots of dumb-ass things here, too. I tried to turn my car around inside my uncle’s garage since their car was blocking mine, and I got it wedged against the load-bearing pole. If I had knocked over the pole, his entire garage would have collapsed. Boy, did he yell at me when he came home and had to un-wedge it without destroying his garage!
I took cabs all over Bangkok alone at night as a teenager. I didn’t think twice about it. Everyone else did it, too, so I don’t know if I could consider it stupid, but I still wonder at what could have happened.
I know there were others …. I’ll have to think about what they were.
Sherri Erwin on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:55 am #
Years ago, I reviewed my own book on Amazon and forgot to check a box to be “Anonymous” so it left the review under my own name. It was my second book and it wasn’t getting as much talk as the first, so I thought I would go give it a little nudge. Learned my lesson. I never reviewed my own books again. In fact, I stopped following the Amazon reviews. But that review is still there as a reminder. “Excellent! Highly recommended!” By me! I still blush at it.
Freedom Writer on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:04 am #
I have done many dumb ass things, but I’ve sworn myself to secrecy. One stupid move I can tell you about is when I married my practice husband. What a dumb move! Even dumber keeping him after discovering cutesy love notes between him and another woman. He told me he wouldn’t do it again. After the second woman came along I smartened up and left him. I made a better choice with my current dh. We have been together over 26 years.
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:05 am #
Archer— I think we go through a stage when we think we are immortal, from about 14 to 23, and do dumb things like getting in those cars!
Cail and Laurie G—I once got on the highway in a snow storm knowing my wiper fluid was low. You guessed it–I ran out and went through some scary miles as the windshield got dirtier and dirtier and I got blinder and blinder. I carry extra in my trunk now.
Susan M— I did not even get into the dumb things I have done with money! I know what you mean about how that can take a while to get out of too.
Freshechelle on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:06 am #
I really want that ARC and I’ve done or not done some stupid things I regret.
Refused to pull a pint at the local pub because I was too prissy to want ale spilling all over my arm – yuck.
Driving 2 Italian strangers from the bus out of NY to the address they were visiting because their host didn’t tell them the bus they were taking passed 2 Kingsland Aves in 2 different towns. They’re suitcases were big and heavy enough to contain a body.
Driving 2 strangers to their hotel in Chicago (I had dined next to them in the Detroit Airport) from O’Hare. They were authors going to a writer’s conference so it didn’t seem so risky but still no one knew I was doing it, I could have disappeared at their hand.
Implying that my favorite singer is a b#*ch during a Q&A session of a show taping.
And countless time, my hypercorrective nature has foiled many people’s attempts to be clever or discrete in public situations. For instance when I worked in retail stores, someone might make up a policy to a client because they know they client is using a fraudulent credit card. I’m the idiot who barges in and says “no, it’s such and such” thus enabling the theft.
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:09 am #
Kathy, once a group of H.S. friends and I went out on a lake in a boat when a storm was brewing.
well, it came in faster than we expected and we were on this metal boat with lightening all around us. We got to shore, fortunately, but had to find our way back to the camp site in woods we did not know, in the pouring rain, then face the guy who had rented us the boat (which was still back who knows where.)
susan E, I have a sister who got into QVC rather too well, so I know of what you speak. I think that having amateurs cut your hair took more nerve than I ever had, tho!
Lisa K, I never ran away from home. Whenever I would threaten to my mom would offer to give me some money to get me started, but of course never enough. She always called my bluff, but, man, once I really wanted to call hers. I was too much a coward, fortunately. Glad you turned around, tho. Dogs would do it for me too.
LoriHandeland on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:09 am #
Oh I was dumb all over the place as a teen and YA.
Driving to Ohio in my Mom’s car–no map, no directions–we figured we’d follow the signs. Ending up in MI, lost before cell phones, in the middle of nowhere and having the car break down. Yes, the hook armed man was very helpful.
Leaving bars with guys because my friends wanted to stay and I’d had enough and they’d offered me a ride home. Aargh. Really dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
Lisa H on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:14 am #
Oh I see I am in good company…what is it about the opposite sex that causes all rational and years of instruction to fly out the window?
I have done some very dumb things, and trust me, I still regret them. I am ashamed of my behavior to the point of not being able to share here the extent of my dumb-ass-ness.
I will say while in High School I broke up with an incredibly wonderful guy who was my first love and an amazing person for a total loser who was not only abusive, but evil in every way. A 17 year old girl is no match for a grown con artist, and I was too naive to understand his motives. That took away seven years of my young life.
I also once got in a truck when my car broke down on the thruway…this was before cell phones…thankfully the truck driver didn’t kill me.
Karen Rose on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:15 am #
Most of my dumb stuff was done in my late twenties, when I hit my teen rebellion. I’ve always been a slow bloomer.
One night while in Amsterdam, I and the two business associates I was traveling with decided to sample the beers of the city. Amsterdam has a darn lot of beer and some very interesting nooks and crannies of the city if you wander around toasted long enough.
After a good bit of wandering, I realized I wanted to go back to the hotel where the group was staying, but I was lost. So were the two associates I was with. None of us knew where we were or where the hotel was, so we hailed a cab. “Red Lion” we said in very bad, toasted American French. The driver gave us a weird look, drove about 100 feet and stopped. We were there.
Never occurred to me until later the danger I could have been in, wandering around toasted with two people I really didn’t know all that well, in a strange city. And “strange” covers a lot of territory in Amsterdam.
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:15 am #
Sabrina, I have done that too! Only there was no supporting pole inside, so it was not as potentially disasterous. Heck, it was a big garage and there was enough space. Really!
Sheri, I think if I ever saw that amazon post with your name I would think it was deliberate and funny. But I do understand why it is your offering here
Freedom Writer—- yeah, the dumb ass things that don’t end fast are the worst, aren’t they? I’m glad the second one was a keeper!
Freshechelle—I’m trying to decide if getting into a stranger’s care is dumber than taking strangers somewhere in my car. . . .hmmm.
Karen Rose on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:17 am #
I was actually supposed to be in Dusseldorf that evening, but had caught a ride to Amsterdam with these co-workers, so I figured I should call home and tell DH where I was. From my room, with the window wide open as there was no A/C, I called DH and told him I was ****-faced. He could hear the traffic outside and thought I was calling from a pay phone in a gutter somewhere. Blissfully unaware, I hung up and worked on my romance novel, not knowing he was terrified until he heard from me again the next night when I got to London.
Days before cell phones, kids. We forget how out of touch we were!
Karen Rose on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:19 am #
Oh, and the adage “Beer on whisky, might risky. Whisky on beer, never fear.”?
They are soooooo right.
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:20 am #
I am noticing how many of our dumb things were especially dumb because they happened before cell phones. I wonder if cell phones make kids less dumb today. Probably not, huh?
SuzyQ on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:26 am #
Madeline, I totally understand the getting in a car with a cute guy thing. Been there, done that.
I grew up near a school and one summer me and my friends discovered an unlocked window. Well, we used to go in the school and hang out in the teacher’s lounge. If we ever got caught, we would have gotten in so much trouble – but who thinks of those things at the time.
I also let a friend put blonde highlights in my hair. Yeah, well she told me if I sit in the sun it would process faster. When she started rinsing my hair she got all quiet. I knew something was up. Not only was my hair white, but she “highlighted” way too much.
Karen Rose on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:26 am #
>>I wonder if cell phones make kids less dumb today. Probably not, huh?
Um, I’d say NOT. We might know where they are, but opportunities for dumb things went up exponentially.
Sherri Erwin on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:29 am #
Madeline, now they’re sending naked pictures and sexting. Those dumb things might be easier to survive, but harder to live down or move on from when they can appear later (as we’ve seen in the news). But yeah, that review thing… I did it on purpose. It wasn’t dumb. It was cheeky and deliberate. Yeah! (Thanks! Great idea!).
Michelle B on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:38 am #
I’ve done so many dumb things in my life that I think my Guardian Angel has been working over time. I’ve got the guy stories, car stories, money stories, shopping in the dangerous part of a new town story (who knew?).
I had just graduated from H.S. and was playing on a girls’ softball team. I got to the game late and had to park across this park on the other side of the ball fields. Our game ran late and we were last to leave. As I was crossing the field the lights were turned out and I had to go through the park in the dark. There was this sidewalk lined with tall bushes that led up to the street and I cut through them to angle to my car faster. As I was walking I heard the bushes rustle behind me and a guy started walking behing me. I walked faster and so did he. I ran. As I got to my car (no automatic door opener, had to use a key) I got in as fast as I could and locked the door. While I was starting the car this guy stands on the passenger side doing some nasty business with a private part onto my window. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough and cried the whole way home. I always wondered what made me cut through those bushes instead of going up the sidewalk.
Kim on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:39 am #
I am noticing how many of our dumb things were especially dumb because they happened before cell phones. I wonder if cell phones make kids less dumb today. Probably not, huh?
Ha! No way. My son does dumb ass things all the time. Like getting a speeding ticket in his shiny new red mustang just like mommy told him he would.
I’ve done a lot of really dumb ass things in my life and I’ve only been drunk once, so nope, they don’t go together.
As I get old, what really gets my goat is that when I think of doing those dumb things I really beat myself up over them. You know, when you were 14 and wanted to say something really clever to impress THAT boy and it goes over like a lead balloon?
Michelle B on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:41 am #
No cell phones back then.
Do cell phones make kids smarter? Oh no, it made my daugher easier to catch somewhere she wasn’t supposed to be. She had her cell in her pocket and it accidentally called me. She didn’t know that I was listening to every word she said. Busted!
Alicia on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:53 am #
I am a preachers daughter. My first year of college I got caught up in a bad, bad crowd and ended up on drugs for about two years. Damaged my relationship with my ‘rents. Fortunately I never got in any trouble and the relationship with my ‘rents is better than it has ever been. But I KNEW those weren’t the people I should be hanging out with, so I’m adding that to my DUMB-ASS-THINGS-I’VE-DONE list.
One of my best friends and I did a number of dumb things when we were teenagers! And, of course, they ALL involved boys!! I’ll never forget, she left me sitting in her car with this guy I didn’t know to run off for a little while with this other guy. The guy in the car was like begging me to let him kiss me. Finally, I gave in and was like, “FINE, BUT NO TONGUE!” (I didn’t know this guy from Adam, remember) The next week…..I found out he was MARRIED!! I was sooo embarassed that I had pretty much made out with a married man and mad at my friend!! Please don’t think I’m horrible. I was 17, and he was probably 20-something and had I known he was married I would not have sat alone in that car with him!!
Rachel Gibson on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:58 am #
Too many dumb things to count. Most involved four-wheeling in my Chevy Vega. If you all don’t recall, a Vega was kind of like a Pinto–without the exploding rear fuel tank.
Claudia Dain on 03 Dec 2009 at 9:03 am #
I’m with Rachel; too many dumb things to count. I’m pretty hard on myself. If I go to the grocery store and forget to buy toilet paper when I’m down to two rolls, that counts as a Really Dumb Thing and I’m mad at myself for a full day about it.
Kim on 03 Dec 2009 at 9:07 am #
Claudia-I knew there was a reason I loved you so much. LOL
Kathy on 03 Dec 2009 at 9:17 am #
how about the time I made out with a guy I had a major crush on…then went to a party the next weekend, where I innocently told HIS GIRLFRIEND’S best friend about it.
did not know there was a girlfriend. Thank goodness, said girlfriend had the smarts to blame him and not me.
he was a musician, first in a long line of stupidity involving that breed of boy.
I think it was the same summer of the sailboat flip.
Michelle B on 03 Dec 2009 at 9:17 am #
Rachel, that car I ran to across the softball fields? A Chevy Vega! Three speed on the floor. I don’t know about yours but mine had tons of electrical problems. Stranded me once on my way back to college from a friends house. Another dumb choice on my part.
Julia London on 03 Dec 2009 at 9:33 am #
In my twenties, I went to the Middle East with $100 in my pocket and wearing a pair of high heels. I was in an exchange program, but I didn’t know any other student (there were 8 of us, I think), or have any way of phoning home. Which was okay…if you have more than a passport, $100 bucks, and a pair of heels. Egads, I was dumb.
Jamie on 03 Dec 2009 at 9:41 am #
For me, boys all equal me doing something dumb. I was always trying to impress them before I learned that if they dont like me as I am then they can hit the road. SO, I was 17 driving around my boyfriend (yes i was driving, because he was to lazy) when he got the bright idea to start throwing things out my window at this crowd of people on the corner. Needless to say he hit them and they came chasing after us. My boy got his butt whipped and I, along with his crew who was in the backseat went to the police station to give a report. We were there til 2am, along with my Mom. Oh and did I mention that the next day was Mothers Day. My mom is great though and she didn’t yell just said “that was stupid but i understand you wanted to impress him. maybe you should think about what he means to you and if you plan on spending more time in police stations.” i love her!
Janae on 03 Dec 2009 at 9:51 am #
Let’s see. Driving out of state without a license – and I lost a contact, while I was driving.
With one of my sisters we decided to see if our mom’s corolla wagon would really go 100 miles per hour. We tested it in this particularly deserted stretch of road in MT. The car started shaking like crazy around 90-95, but we pushed it up to 100, anyway.
Then, there was the time in hs, I had to go with my family to visit my aunt and uncle. I talked one of my bffs into coming with me. She and I went to a party out in the country – not a stretch in WY with my cousin. After a few hours we wanted to leave since we were the only ones not drinking. My cousin was wasted by the time we found her. She told us the door to her house was unlocked. Some guy who had been following my bff, who was pretending to be an Aussie, offered us a ride. The door was locked, and rather go to my uncle’s house, we went home with this guy. I had never met him before, and I practically grew up in my dad’s hometown. The next day we found out from my cousin that this guy wasn’t all that he seemed. My bff and I spent the weekend avoiding him, which is hard to do in a town of about 1800.
Louisa Cornell on 03 Dec 2009 at 10:11 am #
Hmm. Would sitting on the back of my boyfriend’s Harley while he road it off a bridge on a dare count? Got out of that one with a few bumps, scratches and bruises.
Walking down to Bourbon Street alone at 2 AM at the age of 16 to retrieve some male jazz band members who were about to miss bed check. Nobody knew I’d left the hotel. And even when I found them I had to herd three drunk brass players all the way back. DUMB
Hang gliding off the coast of Spain way out over the ocean when I can’t swim? I landed back on the beach, but if I had gone down in the ocean I’d be sleeping with the fishes without benefit of pissing off a Mafioso.
Strolling down the red light district of Amsterdam at 10 PM alone during Fleet Week. There were some REALLY drunk sailors out and about and I ended up taking refuge in the doorway of one of the window exhibited prostitute’s place so her pimp could fend off the sailors. The prostitute and her pimp were very nice. We talked about the business, had a cup of tea and then he called a taxi for me.
After hearing about that poor man out west who got stuck in that cave and they couldn’t ever retrieve his body I guess my spelunking trip into a bat cave in Ms
Louisa Cornell on 03 Dec 2009 at 10:16 am #
was pretty dumb too. I was with my DH and some others, but the last 100 yards we crawled through a passageway just big enough for us to get through on our hands and knees. Looking back I realize that was NOT SMART!
Confronting the abusive husband of one of my former students when I saw him dragging her across the grocery store parking lot by her hair. I cussed him out. Told her to get her kids and get in my car and drove her to a women’s shelter. That night he showed up at my house, drunk and armed. I called the cops, my neighbor and tried to keep my Rottweiler from eating through the door to get to him. Fortunately I live in redneck country. My neighbor came down with his shotgun and walked the guy back up the hill just in time for six sheriff’s cars to show up. (Slow night in the county.)
I realize now that he could have shot me in the parking lot or shot me at home. Dumb.
B on 03 Dec 2009 at 10:18 am #
Dumb? I got some of them. Most dangerous you’ve been the LA guy. Like you, Madeline, I let the cute thing fool me. Except that I went farther than you did. I was 19, thought I was about the coolest thing and had set in my mind that I wanted to hook up with a guy in Los Angeles. So, I went about it.
It wasn’t until we were getting a room that the whole ‘Criminal Minds’ set hit me. It hit me that I did not know this guy, and, for all I cared, he could be a psycho killer, and I’d be found chopped to little pieces in a motel room. What would my parents think? I was over 7000 miles away from home. I could see all the headlines in my city’s paper here in Brazil. And, worse, I didn’t have the courage to bail then. So, I went through with the whole thing. I was so relieved when I was killed and chopped later, but I felt really, really, really horrible about it. I mean, what the heck was I thinking? (btw, don’t tell my parents, THEY would kill me)
I can’t believe I wrote this here! Ehh *blushes, runs and hides*
Lyn on 03 Dec 2009 at 10:33 am #
Lots of dumb-ass things here. But this one was the worst. When I was 14 I almost lost my life because I ignored some parental rules..imagine that! We had a cabin we used on the weekends and I was always allowed to bring some friends with us. Parental rules 1. No riding on motorcycles. 2. No riding on motorcycles with boys. 3. No swimming in the river. We broke all 3 rules in one day. We got on their motorcycles and went down to the river. There was this rope swing on a tree limb over the river the guys were using. One of my friends doubled dared me to do it. Mind you this was a 30 foot drop. I swung out and let go. Somehow the rope got tangled up in my legs and I tumbled down and hit the water hard. I blacked out, came to, and couldn’t tell which way was up since it was water was very murky, and there were strong undercurrents. One of the guys jumped in and grabbed my hair then pulled me up and out and got me to shore and up the bank. I had horrible rope burns down the insides of my thighs and lungs full of water. We snuck out later that night to meet the boys again. I got my very first kiss that night from my hero. Never broke rule 3 again! Lesson learned.
RachieG on 03 Dec 2009 at 10:35 am #
I know this isn’t that exciting, but in an effort to get out of hte car fast to visit with this stupid boy (ha!), I forgot to put my car in park. Then there I was, visiting and my car slowly easing forward. I panicked but no one and nothing was hurt!
Janae on 03 Dec 2009 at 10:40 am #
Oh, I just remembered another one. Riding a motorcycle without a helmet. That’s just so stupid.
Kathy Wheeler on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:12 am #
eeek. One time years (and years) ago, I was coming home from being out dancing. There was a woman in the street. Seemed like she needed help, so I let her in my car and drove her to downtown Dallas. It was after 2am. Everything was fine…she even offered to pay me gas money. I didn’t take it but that was kind of dumb. I have another story of when I was in Mexico….I’ll save that one.
TrishD on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:13 am #
I was going to say that I don’t do dumb things and I know you all would have believed me.
However, after reading only the first few replies I was reminded of quite a few of the dumb things I have done. Since I know you all would have believed me if I said I’ve never done anything dumb I am going to share with you some of my dumb deeds… in no special order….
1. A friend and I were walking along the pier in Grand Haven and started talking to 2 men in a boat. We ended up getting into that boat with them and headed out on Lake Michigan never once thinking our bloated corpses could have ended up on a Wisconsin shore.
2. In college, my roommate, a friend and I decided on a cold February night that it would be fun to run outside naked. I’m pretty sure drinking was involved.
3. While taking part in dumb move #2, I forgot to “check out” my male friend. I was so disappointed!
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:25 am #
Karen R—- we trust our instincts so much, as you did in Amsterdam. Although I don’t trust mine so much when I have been drinking.
TrishD— I gotta admit that for some reason and I don’t know why, I do think it was dumber to get in a boat with strangers than a car. No trace of your dead body, I guess. And I can’t believe you ran naked outside. Did anyone else see you?
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:27 am #
RachieG—I hate to admit it but I have gotten out of a car, locked the door, and realized I had left it running with the keys inside. I was a grown woman at the time, too. Was my face red when I called AAA on that.
Emmanuelle on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:30 am #
The last really (and I mean REALLY) dumb thing I did was in the kitchen. I had decided to make one of those fancy salmon and vegetables terrine. The thing had to be cooked though and I was wondering how I could make sure that my beautiful terrine wouldn’t stick to the pan (which was a special terrine pan btw so really I should have let my crazy odeas go). Anyway I had one of those stupid ideas, that did seem extremely thaughtful at the time, to use PLASTIC WRAP !! Pfff I know. Anyway I put the plastic wrap on the bottom and the sides of my pan, filled it with the terrine and put it in my oven. As can be expected, the thin plastic melted and my fancy terrine ended up in the trash.
I had guests that night. I told them my little story and I admit we had a good lough… so I guess it wasn’t all for nothing, right ?
kay on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:40 am #
I also got in a car with someone I didn’t know. And as soon as the car took off, I was hugging the doorknob thinking of ways to get out. I did ask him to pull over and hopped out and never did that again. In my early twenties for that one. There was also the time I was with a male friend in my college days, however, it was icy and he wanted to see “how his car handled in a skid”. I didn’t ride with him anymore either. After listening to some of my husbands stories about skidding cars on ice, I’m thinking that might be a male rite of passage.
GSM on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:44 am #
Dumb things? Daily! Last night, I called/texted my daughter on her cell phone three times, even though I knew her phone wasn’t working. I like to consider these things not so much “dumb” but just proof that we are human…in my case, very, very human. (Rationalization is important when you do so many dumb things!)
Claudine on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:50 am #
There are so many dumb things that a person can do in the run of a day, but the one that makes me laugh at myself the most is when I end up with 2 copies of a new release book. I have to say that if I do not keep to my new release list when I go to the book store I have been known to pick up the occasional book twice and do not discover this until I am home and put it with my books to be read. I have done that 4 times in the last 3 months. The employees at the bookstore I frequent, almost weekly, know me by now and just laugh along with me when I go back with the extra copy. Where I live it can sometimes take up to an additional 3 weeks after a release date to reach the bookstore, if I am lucky I can find them at a box store and pick it up, this is when I usually end up with purchasing the second copy at the bookstore because I don’t have my list only when I to the bookstore. I have since started a new system, I have an envelope in my purse with new releases and their dates, when I pick up the book I take that off my list at the store.
Sara E. on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:59 am #
I have done too many small dumb things to list- it’s a part of growing up I think. The one I laugh at now is the time I got a small ding on the side of my parents car and didn’t want to tell them. I let my mom think it happend in the parking lot of her job (once they noticed). I don’t know why I didn’t say anything- I wouldn’t have gotten in trouble I know, and it was an innocent mistake. I think I focused so much on being perfect when I was younger that doing something like that stressed me out more than I would admit.
Maureen on 03 Dec 2009 at 1:16 pm #
Back when I was going to college and working there were no cell phones so when my car broke down at night on the way home from work on a deserted highway I did accept a ride from an elderly couple because I was miles from my college and figured staying on the highway was probably more dangerous.
Claudia Dain on 03 Dec 2009 at 1:17 pm #
Madeline, what is on that girl’s face? Please tell me it’s not a tattoo.
Freshechelle on 03 Dec 2009 at 1:55 pm #
Madeline, locked the keys in the car while it was running? Done that 3 time and with the radio on.
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 2:03 pm #
Suzy Q–when I was in college two friends and I stole ice cream from the nuns’ kitchen when we got in one evening. Yes, dumb. It wasn’t even a flavor I liked. We ended up in front of the judiciary council. There was a comic aspect to it. I mean, we had stolen, no two ways about that, but the value was about 2 dollars and of course the real crime was sneaking in. We thought it was funny. Dumb.
Louisa, you may get the prize, I gotta say. You had me at riding off a bridge on a motorcycle.
Julia, you sound like you had your own Excellent Dumb-ass Adventure. Isn’t it nice that God usually looks out for stupid college girls who think the world is wonderful? I mean, even I had more than a hundred in my pocket when I went overseas the first time. . ..
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 2:05 pm #
Yeah, Freshechelle, but did you have to go to your boss’s office to get to a phone to call for help, so your boss knew what a dumb-ass you were?
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 2:06 pm #
claudia I think it is a tatoo, and then written on it something about being stupid.
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 2:08 pm #
Gee, Lyn, you almost paid the price for being dumb. I normally come out without almost dying.
Freshechelle on 03 Dec 2009 at 2:15 pm #
Madeline, were you there? I DID have to go to my boss’s office to reach a phone and my mother worked in the same office so the teasing was unavoidable. And it was my sister’s car so the word made it home too. Still, managed to do it 2 more times after that.
Gale Laure on 03 Dec 2009 at 2:39 pm #
Dumb things? Oh, never. I am a total genius. LOL Once, at a ritzy formal affair, I got toilet paper stuck to my shoe and unrolled the whole roll following behind me through the bar into the ballroom. It was a momentous occassion. The whole place was watching and laughing. I could have died.
GL
Claudia Dain on 03 Dec 2009 at 2:57 pm #
Geez, I’m going to have nightmares tonight! That face…that disfigured face….!
Karen Rose on 03 Dec 2009 at 3:16 pm #
Once I locked my keys in my car at a gas station. It was my daughter’s birthday and I was on my way home to get her to take her to Chuck E. Cheese. My Honda had a sun roof that I’d left open. I wasn’t about to climb in to get my keys, but there was a man filling his tank next to my car. He had a 10 year old son. It took me about 30 secs of yelling at myself to then decide I’d humiliate myself by asking this dad for help.
Luckily, his son thought it was the coolest thing to be lowered through my open sunroof, LOL, and the dad had recently locked his keys in his car and felt my pain.
I got my keys and made it to ChuckECheese on time! Thanks to that kid, I wasn’t in the doghouse with my own kid.
TrishD on 03 Dec 2009 at 3:18 pm #
Madeline, I honestly don’t know if anyone saw us. It was pretty late, around 1 or 2 am. I remember us walking to the front door in our tennis shoes, towels wrapped around us, making sure our door would be unlocked when we returned, then dropping the towels and running hand in hand around the backside of the on campus apartment community we lived in… laughing the enitre time. It was really cold and the snow was crusty…. I fell and skinned my knee.
We each promised not to tell anyone for 5 years… it’s been 17, I think I can tell the story now!
Judy F on 03 Dec 2009 at 3:28 pm #
Oh boy have I ever.
Locked my keys in a running car before. Recently in a snow storm at 6 am trying to clean off my car. Luckily I live down the street from the police and the nice officer helped. Oh got a ticket too cause my car was in the snow emergency lane. Dumb
Once I had one to many at happy hour and decided to wait till the am to get gas. Yup ran out of gas on the way to work the next day. Boy did my dad not let me forget that one.
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 3:38 pm #
Carole St-L— I do a lot of dumb things that result from forgetting I’m not a young chicken anymore too
Lori H—Hey, you aimed West, right? It wasn’t dumb to assume you would hit Ohio when it is smack dab in the way.
Thanks, Kim, for more proof that dumb does not = drunk. Karen R’s post might have gotten some people wondering. No, you and I can be dumb even when we are totally sober!
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 3:50 pm #
Alicia, girlfriends got me into a lot of dumb situations too. I’d blame them, but I just kept dumbing my way along once in them.
Jamie, you reminded me of my dumbness with my first boyfriend. I would type his school papers. Bad enough, but he would wait to do them at the last minute. So he would sit there long into the night writing, then handing me a page to type. I learned a lot from that experience. As in never again.
Kathy, that girl should have blamed him! But we know mad girls don’t always get it right.
Rachel G—I have to say that some of your posts conjure up some interesting images of a young Rachel doing some very wild things.
B—don’t worry. You are among friends. If you ever want a post edited or pulled, tho, just tell us
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 3:55 pm #
Freshechelle, no I wasn’t there. Just I assumed that maybe like with me, the key to your office was on the keychain in the car, so you needed another phone. In my case, the closes was in my boss’s office.
Judy, every girl that does dumb things—and the evidence is that most do—needs a dad to get her out of it. Did yours bring you gas?
Gale, I have a whole neurotic routine I go through if I am out and use a ladies room. Check for the t.p on shoe, check for the skirt hiked up and stuck in top of panyhose, etc
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 4:02 pm #
Maureen, I think you can be excused from accusations of dumbness. You were stuck and they were elderly. (Although one wonders—-crazy killers who don’t get caught could eventually get elderly, right?)
Claudine—I have done that! Bought two copies, new, of the same book. I feel very dumb when I realize it. Talk about an effective cover and blurb, tho.
Kathy W—I did that once, but the woman was lying on the ground. Turned out she was drunk. I have never seen anyone that drunk. Being young and dumb, I put her in my car, then had to find someplace to bring her. I tried one place she mentioned and they turned her away. Finally she just staggered off.
Emmannuelle! Plastic wrap! If it did not have to cook, it would have worked wonderfully
Sara E–I don’t want to one-up you, but once I went out with parents’ car and came back with a bullet hole in it. I had no idea how it got there. I even told the police that when parents woke me up while they were making the report.
Gwynlyn MacKenzie on 03 Dec 2009 at 4:19 pm #
Thank you for this post. I thought I was the Queen of Dumbass. While that may still be true (I’ve always been a trusting soul, and even age hasn’t quite dispelled it,) I’m so glad to realize I’m not alone!
In HS, a friend had an older sister that took us into Philly to go to a club. I was already engaged to my dh, but it sounded like fun. Well, it wasn’t. Some guy asked me to dance, but had more hands than a clock shop! And he wouldn’t go away. Fact is, he scared me. My friend thought it funny. I didn’t. Threatened to tell the management we were underage if she didn’t take me home. She stayed my friend, but was really peeved at me.
After HS, I went to Philly for school. Got a job downtown. To save the bus fare up Market street, I would walk the nine blocks to Broad. One night after work (about 10 p.m.) I got to the stop and there were four guys on the church steps smoking and being crude. Since it was later than normal, it was them and me. I stood by the light post and prayed until the bus came.
I’m only admitting this because I’m jonesing for that ARC, you know. Signed?
Kathy on 03 Dec 2009 at 4:44 pm #
the girl in the picture was in the news a few months back. she DUMB-ly got stars tattoed all over her face. her boyfriend and father freaked out at her when she got home and she tried to blame the tattoo artist, saying her must have drugged her and she only really wanted one star.
silly human
Chelsea B. on 03 Dec 2009 at 4:44 pm #
Hmm, what to say what to say. I’ve done many a dumb thing, but out of all of them, and I don’t really know why, this one made me feel the dumbest: I ‘lost’ my cell phone in Wal Mart one time and started frantically searching for it, only for my sister to look at me a little funny and point to my hand, alerting me to the fact that I had actually been holding it the whole time. How do you even DO that? LOL:-)
Julia London on 03 Dec 2009 at 4:56 pm #
Yeah, Madeline, it was the first of many excellent dumb-ass adventures.
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:20 pm #
Chelsea, I don’t know how you do it, but I know I have done it too.
Kathy, thanks for the story behind the starry face. I was pretty sure they were tatoos. She probably was proud of them for about an hour. Now, she looks in the mirror and sees dumb tatooed, not stars.
Gwynlyn, my dear, of course it will be signed. I am trying to remember how old I was before some healthy fear for my safety kicked in before I was in an isolated place and in danger. Well into my twenties, I am sure. Probably later. Maybe when I had my first child? Nothing like responsibilitiy for a little one to make you aware of these things.
Trini on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:24 pm #
Dumb?… a lot of dumb things…
My High School was very very close to the beach… in the rest of the classes we often went to rocks to see the sea…. in winter too… with very high waves… and sometimes we played to escape of the waves running by rocks… yes, yes… very funny, but one day a wave took us and it soaked us from top to bottom, so my best friend and me went to talk with our teacher to tell him that we have to go home to change our clothes, for that reason we can’t go to class…. but we were very “smart” so we stayed at HS’s bar playing billiards… of course, our teacher caught us…
When I was 19 one of the best friends of my boyfriend had a motorcycle of great piston displacement, so when we went out on saturday night we went from a pub to another one in the motorcycle, full speed…we three together!!! (ok, in that moment I was very thin, today I couldn’t do it)
And following at my young time, in another moment (a Saturday night too) two friends and I decided to go to the beach, we undressed and we bathed, you can’t imagine the discomfort that is to get dressed completely wet and with the body full of sands… (in that moment I haven’t any cellulitis)
Kathy on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:30 pm #
does sticking my baby finger up my nose while washing my face causing a ripped nose tip count as dumb? or just profoundly clumsy?
B on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:39 pm #
I’ve been coming here all day to see the dumb things everyone did, haha!
Barbara Elness on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:40 pm #
I got married and had my son at a young age. I did some pretty dumb things when my son was a baby – like getting out of the car with him in it and the car running and locking the door. Luckily the window was down a tiny bit so I was able to get the door unlocked with some passerby’s help. Another time I locked the door behind me with my baby in his crib – I was lucky that time that a neighbor had a key to the house. A recent dumb thing I did was go to a convention author signing, purchase a particular signed book, read it, and then order the same book online a short time later. I’m still not sure how I managed that one.
Trini on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:43 pm #
I forgot to say that, against which it can seem, at all those idiot moments I was completely sober because I never drink alcohol or drugs…. so the conclusion is that I suffer a serious brain damage…
Judy F on 03 Dec 2009 at 5:44 pm #
My dad brought me gas and a lecture. LOL I never ran out of gas again.
evlqn on 03 Dec 2009 at 6:07 pm #
I’ve done some really stellar dumb things in my life. One was doing 90 on a gravel road with bald tires, the only thing that saved my “too dumb to live” life was both rear tires blew at the same time.
#2 on the dumb parade or maybe it should be #1, I got married on a drunken bet to someone who was not my fiance. That one didn’t work out too well. Note to anyone who has a bit much to drink, STAY OUT OF COLORADO!! They will marry anyone with the licence fee.
A weird thing happened today DH#2 called to talk, the last time was about a year and half ago. Being separated for 19 years really helps a marriage. I like him much better at a distance, 860 miles is about right.
Janice on 03 Dec 2009 at 6:23 pm #
Back when I had my first car, I was once driving along Santa Monica Blvd at night, not far from the Troubadour. I stopped for a red light and some weird filthy bearded guy with crazy eyes got off the bus stop bench and tried to open the passenger side door. Which, for once, I had locked. He had his fingers into the top glass trying to force it down when the light changed and I took off. The totally dumb ass thing? Waiting for the light to change!
A couple of years later we heard about the Manson murders. The guy I saw that night looked an awful lot like Charles Manson. I’ve always wondered about that.
evlqn on 03 Dec 2009 at 6:47 pm #
Janice scary thought alright, I worked for a woman who was supposed to go shopping with Sharon Tate the day she was killed but her kids got sick and she stayed home. She had nightmares for years after. Manson used to crash in the coach cottage behind my house before he had gathered his flock together. Thankfully that was before I had moved into my house and I didn’t know about the history of it.
Tal on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:03 pm #
getting MARRIED after only knowing my husbander two weeks..
(the two boys I had made up for a LOT!!)
Tal
Tal on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:05 pm #
I meant husband , husband+highlander!!lol
BTW, its was our 20yrs. anniversary recently!
Lisa G on 03 Dec 2009 at 7:46 pm #
I have done some really dumb things in my life. I was in my car driving during an ice storm which is a very dumb thing to do. I hit my brakes and slide down the hill to my house sideways! Go figure? How does one slide a van sideways?
I locked myself out of my house one night and got caught climbing into the front window by the cop who lived across the street.
I have walked into my children’s school without a bra on…
I am a goof!!!
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:30 pm #
Trini, we call it skinny dipping here—and you do learn fast why bathing suits are good ideas if it is the ocean. Sand everywhere (or so I have heard. ahem.)
Kathy, that is a tough one. I think you are off the hook on dumb, tho. You did not intend to stick your finger up your nose and tear your nose apart,right? So, clumsy yes, dumb no.
Barbara E, I do a lot of dumb things when I am distracted and in my own head. Are you a daydreamer? Whenever I lock myself out it has been during a period of deep thought and reflection.
Lisa, sideways or not, you got home!
Madeline Hunter on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:31 pm #
Tal—married after only two weeks! Did he sweep you off your feet?
evlqn, you are too funny.
Pesky on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:32 pm #
I’m the Mary Poppins of non-stupidity. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
*The author disclaims any knowledge of roof climbing incidents, barn door jumping, midnight walks through town in blizzards, jumping of fences to walk a bridge and getting applauded by the town drunk when doing an amazing flip over the top bar while her friend was laughing her butt off, screaming “ARGH YOU GOT ME” during hunting season when someone shot in the woods too close to her house, driving in Ireland or Rome, the objectification of men while slightly disguised, calling of cute guys over to her friend’s table from across the street, telling her boss EXACTLY what she thought of her, and a variety of other items that her so called “friends” insist she did even though she has no memory or knowledge of them. This I swear on my gnarliest pair of flip flops so help me kermit the frog.*
evlqn on 03 Dec 2009 at 8:41 pm #
I just remembered another dumb thing I did in my mis-spent youth. I had a Happy-face stamp and we were sitting in our local watering hole when I whipped it out , stamped a friend’s hand and said,”Gotcha!” Well he thought that was SO funny he went around the bar playing “Gotcha” with anyone with in reach. We were asked to leave, so we went across the state line to another bar. Friend still had possession of the stamp, yep we got the boot. Well, that’s okay, there’s another bar on the other side of the parking lot. You guessed it, we’re gone. That was a personal best for us and the title of a great country song “Three Bars, Two States, One Night.”
Patricia Barraclough on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:11 pm #
There were dumb moments, but chalk it up to innocence. I traveled alone for three years in the Philippines and then in a little of Southeast Asia. Most of the time, no one really knew where I was. Telling my family I’d be in Indonesia for 10 days left things a little vague. I took the train from Jakarta to somewhere. It arrived at 2 AM and dropped passengers off at the station. I was the only american/european and the only female. There were pedicabs for hire to take into town. I had no idea how far it was or what the fee should be (and that had to be negotiated). Top it off with no electrical lighting, these guys speaking little english, and my figuring my body would never be found. When we got to the place where I was staying (and that is another story), I didn’t have the correct change, the proprietor was taking a long time to come to the door (after all it was after 3), and the driver was going ballistic because he thought I was trying to stiff him his fee. 39 years later I still wake up in a sweat over that one.
It is a very different world today and I could never get away with what I did back then.
Julie on 03 Dec 2009 at 11:48 pm #
Generally I’m a cautious person, but I think I tend to rely too much on the fact that I’m around the height of an average American male; I’m the “bouncer” whenever I go out with a group of girl friends (a group of petite, glammed-up Asian females attracts a lot of unwanted attention). As such, sometimes I take risks that I feel perfectly safe doing but my friends have heart attacks over. For instance, jogging in LA after midnight (the bums are nice, mostly). Or strolling down a woody area christened the Rape Trail after dark…alone. My excuse is always along the lines of, “but who’s going to attack a person as big as they are?” Pretty dumb argument.
Other than that, one of the dumbest things I used to do is offer my hands to whatever dog or cat that walks across my path (stray or not). Sometimes I still forget, and usually get scolded by whomever is accompanying me.
Bronte on 04 Dec 2009 at 12:19 am #
like karen most of my dumb moments have followed alcohol consumption and also following the theme involve men as well. My sister has an absolute doozy of a dumb move. She was travelling in sweeden and went to check into a hostel and found that it had closed. She found three german guys round the back drinking beer and they told her
Bronte on 04 Dec 2009 at 12:22 am #
it had shut down but she was welcome to stay with them. Even offered her a bed.my sister ended up sleeping on the couch and no harm came to her. I think the saying about god protecting fools and innocents is 100% true
Deborah on 04 Dec 2009 at 3:16 am #
Fell UP a hill and damaged ligaments in my elbow whilst “ever so slightly” inebriated….
Trini on 04 Dec 2009 at 10:21 am #
Thanks Madeline for translate correctly what I say, definitely I have to study english. And YES I do learn why bathing suits are necessary…. once in my life and never more…. Atlantic Ocean is very wild…
LauraR on 04 Dec 2009 at 11:26 am #
Oh my, just reading all the posts has brought back way too many dumbass things I have done. Like when I had just gotten my driver’s license and the dog got out and ran down the street. Rather than jump on my bike or follow him on foot, I jumped in the car and tried to get him to follow me. While I had my head turned I ran into our neighbor’s parked car. Humiliation.
Angela on 04 Dec 2009 at 3:14 pm #
Okay, 1 really dumb thing. Accidentally locking the front and back doors of the house and leaving your keys inside. Had to climb in through the only open window which was at least 3 feet from the ground.
Hoped the neighbors weren’t looking.
Abby on 04 Dec 2009 at 4:36 pm #
28 yrs ago. This was really stupid of me. I am a real stuborn person. My now husband and I were dating. We were at a dance and had argued. He had decided we were finished arguing and brought me home, well I wasn’t finished, so I walked the mile back to the dance ( it was 11pm). He got home called my house and my mom said I wasn’t home.he was really worried, so he went ride around my neighboorhood looking for me. He saw some guys walking around and asked them if they saw me, they were real sacastic and made lewd remarks. He then saw a policeman and told him what had happened. I, in the mean time had arrived back at the dance looking for him, but found his brother and went rode with him, looking for my future hubby. Finally my future brother in law brought me to my future hubby’s house and said to wait there, while he looked for his brother. Well finally future hubby came home, mad as hell when he saw me, lol, since he was so worried. I surely wasn’t going to continue the fight, the police arrived canceled the search. Mom drove up, in her PJs, she told my future hubby, next time you drop her off ring the doorbell. I was embarrased. We have been Happily married since.
Madeline Hunter on 05 Dec 2009 at 12:28 pm #
It looks like a pattern, guys. Lots of our dumb things involve one or more of the following: guys, cars, and travel, and keys.
Angela, I have fixed the problem with locking myself out of the house. I don’t lock the house anymore. Hmmm, wait a minute. That is pretty dumb too, huh?
Abby, your round robin of missed meetings would make a funny movie!
LauraR, that was even more embarrassing since it was a new license. If it helps at all to know it, I did something dumb and had an accident within a month of getting mine too. (This blog is bringing up some memories I had buried pretty well, guys.)
Deborah, I wish you had posted earlier so we could learn how you fell UP a hill.
Madeline Hunter on 05 Dec 2009 at 12:30 pm #
The winner of the contest for the ARC, determined by all names in the hat selection, is Michelle B. Michelle, if you see this contact me through my web site. I’ll be trying to get in touch too.
Niki on 15 Jan 2010 at 10:22 pm #
At my young age, i still think i’m the most clumsy/ dumb person alive..
#1- me and a friend were at H&M and we had to go down a floor by the escalader. we were really into the conversation, and didn’t even notice we were taking the down the UP escalader we kept walk onto the step and got back to the ground… that was until we noticed there were people annoyed behind us and people coming at us trying to get off.. (hope u get the situation)
#2- this spring i was walking on the sidewalk going to school… i was daydreaming, and had my head down, just looking at my shadow, a large shaped shadow came at me .. i was screaming.. until i noticed that it was a truck that was driving in the opposite direction of me… from the shadow it looked like the truck really was going to drive at me…
Niki on 15 Jan 2010 at 10:46 pm #
#3-last year i was at my schools washroom after school, washing my hand’s when i got a call from a friend. I didn’t have her number saved so i HAD TO pick up. I picked up my phone with my wet hands then decided to put her on speaker (since i was totally alone in there)..we talked and i told her I had to come over to get some notes… i went to take a tissue to dry my hands… and we said bye and i left the washroom!!!!!
without my PHONE!!! my NEW IPHONE!!!!! now thinking about it i was just dumb…no excuse.
i guess i felt like i was talking to a friend in the washroom and then said bye and left… it clicked when i got on the bus and started looking for my phone to play with….. i ran back hoping no one stole it… luckily no one did
THANK GOD!!!!!!! I never spoke a word of it with my parents… and ever since i havent left my phone any where… but i’m still terrible with OTHER stuff recently i lost $100 bill (i’ll tell you abbout that next next time).