I made a huge mistake... What stupidity have you committed recently?

If this is the stupidest thing you have ever done than you should be a ceo..

@trailsillustrated: Haha, thanks… I’ve done plenty of stupid things, but not many as an adult. Mostly pissed at myself because I’ve never stood anyone up in my life and I am usually super anal about time and appointments.

I bought a rather expensive PC laptop earlier this year and realized, past the time I could return it, how much I hate Windows 8.

My ad on Craigslist immediately attracted two scammers offering to pay me extra via PayPal to ship the laptop out of state to a relative who’s having a birthday.
* sigh *

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room, that’s a bummer. I’ve been figuring, what with the over-saturation of commercials about Windows 8, that it must be pretty bad…
And what are the chances of two people pulling the same scam! :-p

if that’s your biggest problem I envy you..

Ah, @bookish1, those of us who use Craigslist often and/or have ever been stung by this type of scam (I was, the first time) know how common it is. I’ve sold a lot of electronic stuff online and never not gotten such an offer.

As for the Windows 8 laptop, I added it to my Closet of Stuipid Purchases and bought a MacBook Pro.

How did this get to cr? thought the op woke up late to somthing?i

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room : Oh, I believe that they were scammers. I was just kidding. Unfortunately, it’s hard to convey tone over the internet.

@trailsillustrated: I posted this in Social. People are free to take the conversation wherever they want.

@bookish1 ooookaaay…

You should see the beautiful cardinal outside my kitchen window right now.

Wow….

I few years back I trusted my family doctor to do a complete 5 year physical. BIG Mistake!
He did not include a PSA with the blood work because he read a European study that said men were being overtreated for Prostate cancer. There were too many false positives with the PSA test. They recommended not doing the test if there was no family history of prostate cancer, no urinary problems, no performance problems, no enlarged prostate or nodules felt during a rectal exam. That was me.
He saved the medical system $85 – until it was discovered later. And that treatment cost 500x more.
Guys, If you are over 45 you should know your PSA and what it means. If you have a male doc and he says you don’t need it, ask him if he knows his PSA. If he says “Yes”, kick him in the nuts for me.

Let’s just say it involved getting caught for doing something illegal in a foreign country and leave it at that.

I received a phone call from Microsoft Technical Services saying that my computers had a new virus that only they could be removed from XP by installing Windows 7. I allowed them total access to my two machines for over ten hours. I discovered that they had installed an anti-virus program and had not changed my operating system. Since I had paid $270.00 via Western Union using my credit card, I contacted my card company and stopped the payment. I then had a PC repair company wipe both machines, changed my credit card, bank and savings account numbers. I should have known Microsoft NEVER calls. The people who had slammed me have called over a half-dozen times with the same scam, apparently not knowing they had contacted me before.

Question for @bookish1: Did the friend and the new guy forgive you and understand?

Question for @LuckyGuy: Did you contact the first doctor and tell him off?

As for myself, I will think and post later. I’m sure I can find something reasonably stupid that was done recently! I have a few things I’m thinking of but I know there’s probably something stupider LOL.

Yesterday, I was walking back from the gym and I noticed two girls carrying a big box. The stupidity was not offering them help and showing off my Brodin blessed strength.

@OneBadApple: I wish I could see it too! I love cardinals. There are tons in my town right now too.

@janbb: What happens in France stays in France!

@Bill1939 : Oh, how horrible. Quick thinking to change all your accounts.

@jca: I don’t know. I apologized profusely by voicemail and email, and I am waiting for one or both of them to call me back :-/ They probably won’t be up for hours, though…

@Michael_Huntington : Next time, think fast and get all up in that box…

@LuckyGuy : Sorry I missed your post. That is indeed awful. But it sounds like it was your doctor who made the huge mistake…

@Bill1939 we used to get those “microsoft” scammers calling on a regular basis. I always used to tell them that there were seven computers on our home network and if they could provide me with the MAC address of the one that was “faulty” I could arrange for my partner, who is a Microsoft-certified engineer, to fix it, free. Funnily enough they always hung up without answering.

An update for @jca the update lady:
Just heard back from the gentleman friend. He doesn’t seem angry, but he was worried I had gotten into a car accident or had some other SNAFU last night. I’m gonna try to patch it up by bringing him flowers and cooking him breakfast :-p

Was working with a very sharp knife and I left the knife hanging off the edge of the counter while I left the room. That’s the only thing I can think of at the moment.

At work, I am driven to make NO mistakes, and in the first three months of this year, I made three:

I clipped a roll up door with a fork lift.
I miswired a piece of electronics, frying the board.
I tied a new (50 pound) battery to a rope to lower it 25 feet into a vault. I didn’t notice the rope had a rotten spot, and it broke, ruining the battery.

Now, I am the kind of person who beats themself up over mistakes, but I didn’t here.
I have just vowed to not make any more mistakes this year.

We were late for a movie and ended up parking in a half hour only meter and got a $40 parking ticket so it cost $60 to see the movie.

Being the easy going type I recently took a position and did not ask all the right questions as to services expected. Now I feel grossly underpaid and am struggling with how to ask for a raise. I feel my work expectations were minimized so right now I am choosing to keep my obligations to a minimum as well while I continue to ponder how I might want to approach this situation with my employer. Gah…you’d think at my age I would have learned by now to be more thorough before jumping in with both feet. Bah!

I want to ask for a $300 raise and make it clear this is to bring me up to my current level of responsibility not to add more work to my load. Pffft!

There was a very long thread on another website I visit called “What is the most disgusting/strangest thing you’ve ever seen in a porno?”

I don’t know what the hell I was expecting, but I don’t think I’ll ever be the same again after clicking some of those links.

And I got a $200 speeding ticket.

@Coloma: That’s interesting. Please provide an update as to how things go with that one!

JCA
The Update Lady

@janbb You are such a badass!

Thanks for the reminder, @blackberry. I got my first speeding ticket last month. I’m usually more vigilant than that!

I locked myself out of my apartment and a locksmith had to come and replace the lock for $300. Then I did the same thing 5 weeks later for another $300. I’ve now distributed keys and it will NOT happen again. stupid

Oh no, @bookish1 how did those two dudes take it? It’s not something stupid though, you were tired…and passed out. I mean, that happens. Hopefully your friends will understand and just laugh about it. you lazy bugger :p

One of my first jobs ever as a waitress in a Jamaican bar, on my very first day of work…some guy asked me to ’‘box’’ his cake. I had no idea what that meant at all, and never bothered to ask. I thought the guy was politely asking me to throw it out. So I hucked it. About 20 minutes later, he’s like, so…where’s my cake? Then I’m like, what? I asked you to box it. Boxing food in restaurants is when you pack it up so the customer can take the leftover home with them.
And I threw that dude’s cake in the garbage. It was just one piece, but a big piece…I explained my mistake. The guy took it real well though and he even thought it was funny. So did the boss. The boss was real cool about it, and pretty much took the blame for not giving me the ropes when I came in. I mean I show up on my first day, never did any waitressing before and he’s like, alright, go! So after that little incident, he got one of the other girls to show me how to box food, and a few other things.
But I felt really stupid. Throwing out the cake. I mean I didn’t even bother to ask what ’‘boxing’’ meant lol.

I have done way stupider things than this though. XD

@Symbeline Can you box something for me? * wink wink *

@bob_ You’re lucky to be asking now that I know what it means. :p

I gave one of those computer scammers the business when they called. They said I have detected a problem with your windows computer.
me: What, I can’t hear you, could you speak up.
him, louder: I’m calling about your windows computer
me: Windows: No, we don’t need any windows right now, we just had some work done
him, louder: YOUR COMPUTER, I’M CALLING ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER
me: I already have a computer, I don’t need another one
him: YOUR COMPUTER HAS A PROBLEM
me: Oh, I’ll be sure to tell me husband, he’s a computer expert.

@YARNLADY Sounds to me like you did the right thing there, instead of making a mistake. ;)

@glacial O, but that was in another country and besides, the wench is dead.

@janbb That response does nothing to quell my curiosity!

@glacial Yes, sorry, I was just making conversation – not answering the question.

@YARNLADY Still a good story. :)

To answer your question: I recently had dental surgery, and the first day, I took a penicillin pill and an Ibuprofen both at the same time, then I ate breakfast. Within an hour my stomach took offense and ejected it all.

Glad you got some sleep!
Do you mean, like, it the last year, or in the last 5 minutes? :) Let me think….

I feel you, @bookish1. I have slept through many alarms and have missed way too many events to count, including my daughter’s school play!

Probably the worst time was when I fell asleep sitting up on the couch, shortly before my pre-kindergartner was due home on the school bus (I was sick and on medication at the time). I slept right through the bus driver pounding on the door and multiple phone calls, incorporating it all into a dream I was having. By the time I realized it wasn’t a dream, they’d taken her back to school. Worst. Mother. Ever.

@jca I’m a little late getting back you but, Yes, I did tell my family doc. He was horrified. I also told every guy I knew about getting their PSA checked. I told quite a few guys the full story. This is not a big town and one went to the same doc for a physical. I told him to kick the doc in the nuts if he did not order a PSA. I specifically showed him where it would show up on the blood test request. It was there! I made a difference.

I regret that I have but one prostate to give for my country.

Thanks to this question, I’m cursed. I just went out shopping – I mean who goes shopping in 108 degree heat?

Anyway, the OSH store near me is having a going out of business sale, and I needed some things. I found some shade in the parking lot, and then I had to walk clear across the parking lot and around the corner to get to the door. I shopped for an hour, and then had to face the long, long walk back to the car across the hot tarmac, when I could have parked right in front of the door in the first place.

@LuckyGuy At least he was horrified. I give him credit for that.

Well, if we keep it to sleeping, when my daughter was about 6, I had fallen asleep in front of the TV in the middle of the day. I NEVER fell asleep in front of the TV and I didn’t take napes, but I imagine I was just super exhausted that day. My sweet daughter came down to wake me up to tell me the neighbor was at the door. My instant reaction was to swing…and I clocked her upside the head with the TV remote. :( :( :( Man, I felt awful. She laughs about it today, but I still feel awful.

Naps.