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Stupid Things...

posted 5 years ago by ShogunofYonkers (72088)
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...I do all the time

Ever engage the turn signal at the end of your own driveway? Who was I just signaling to? The Squirrels??

When you hear a phone buzz in a movie do you mistake it for your own phone and immediately assume it's bad news?

Have you ever walked into a room in your home and thought, 'Why am I in here? What did I want?'

Sometimes I ask the annoying chatty guy at work how his weekend went...
15 minutes later and I'm wishing I hadn't!

When the doorbell rings and I'm not expecting company I just assume the 'bad people' have finally come and it's time for the final fight that ends us all!

I constanly behave like I'm impervious to injury...I am constanly hurting myself:/

Do you often do really stupid things or is it just me?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Try to follow me on this. It really happened: I keep a lamp in the living room on at night in case my elderly mom gets up. (She has dementia.) I don't want her falling because it's too dark. However the lamp keeps me up so I keep my bedroom door partially closed which makes my room cooler since the heat does not disperse as well. I decided I would turn off the lamp and turn on the exhaust/light over the range in the kitchen. Now my kitchen entry is in the middle of my living room wall. A chair and lamp are on the left and a large framed mirror hangs on the wall to the right of it. As you enter the kitchen you face the double window on the opposite wall and behind you will be the wall with the front door from the living room.
So: I turn off the lamp and head to the kitchen, in the dark, to turn on the range light. As I get to the kitchen entry way I see a sillouette of someone standing in front of the kitchen window. I panic. Frozen I yell "Who are you? What are you doing in my house?" They say nothing. I start to back up and notice they are backing up, presumably I thought, to head out the back door. My heart is racing as I reach for the wall switch that I know is by the front door to turn on the overhead light. But the switch is not there. Instead I feel the chair and realize my error. I was not standing in front of the kitchen entry way. I was standing in front of the mirror and was viewing my own sillouette, from the front door window, being reflected in the mirror. So I then walk into the kitchen (ignoring my sillouette) and turn on the range light and head into moms bedroom to make sure my screams didn't startle her. She was awake but more dumb founded then scared. I asked her if I startled her and if she was okay. She said she was fine and asked "when's breakfast?"

[–] kspkap (13055) 5 years ago

😂 Now that’s too, too funny! The same thing is happening to me on a continuous basis! My stairs going to the upstairs begin at the entryway into my kitchen. I have a habit of hanging my coat when coming in from outside on the banister post finial. Countless times I’ve caught sight of the coat from the kitchen out of the corner of my eye...and jumped 2 feet startled.....thinking a person is standing there!

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72088) 5 years ago

LOL!
Accidental visual effects startle me pretty often

We have Black Bears in our area
They are usually shy and keep far away but when they do raid the garden or trash cans it's best to get inside!
My neighbor has a large rotting tree stump at the end of his driveway and nearly everyday coming home from work I catch it in the corner of my eye and think 'Holy crap! Black Bear!!'

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6931) 5 years ago

It's not just you. Since I was a kid, I've gotten left and right mixed up and still do. Dunno why. Also, sometimes I get scared or shocked up "things" on the ceiling, which are actually the insides of light bulbs.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72088) 5 years ago

If it helps they taught us as kids to make the 'gun shape' with your hands...the one with index and thumb forming an L when viewed straight on was Left...lol, I still remember being taught that somehow!

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6931) 5 years ago

I was never taught that as a kid, but I have heard of it. I just never think of it when it comes up.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

That's very interesting. My Mom, and several women I've dated, never seemed to quite grasp that concept.

And my Sister (who is actually smarter than I) doesn't know clockwise from counter clockwise! I discovered that amazing fact at Christmas.

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[–] GlenEllyn (21118) 5 years ago

Wow.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

That was my reaction. We were doing a Christmas Gift Exchange, and she swore we were going clockwise, but we
were actually going counter clockwise. I tried to explain it to here by designating people as 12 o 'clock, 3 o'clock and
6 o'clock, but she was having none of it. She finally cut off the conversation.

😎

[–] GlenEllyn (21118) 5 years ago

Apparently she has a brain gap!??

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

I have no clue. I was amazed.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 5 years ago

I hate when I try to undo the draw string on my pyjama bottoms and I somehow find that I did an impossible double knot . How did I do that ? I’m an adult. I can tie the bow but then when I untie it it’s some triple knot that I need my swizz army knife to untangle

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72088) 5 years ago

I feel 'ya
My shoelaces give me fits

[–] GlenEllyn (21118) 5 years ago

I read this as "my shoelaces give me tits." Oops.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72088) 5 years ago

😂

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

DAAAMMMNNN! I've done that too! I thought I was the only one who ever did that.

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[–] twinA (4826) 5 years ago

Two weeks ago, I was done folding laundry, going to put used socks in the clothes bin. Instead, I ended up going to the restroom, and for whatever unforeseen reason, decided to toss my foot wear into the toilet! Was I daydreaming being part of the NBA Jam or something? Haha! (^o^)''

Our brain plays tricks on us all the time. Ever try to read black letters on a white background from far away? It looks like black beady dots moving.

~~/o/

[–] kspkap (13055) 5 years ago

LOL! You had a decision to make...what to do? Depends on what was in the toilet🚽! I also had a mishap and for that the lid goes down before flushing. I had my wireless earphones around my neck watching a program on my iPad when I had to take a wee wee break. Yep! It happened! When I leaned over to flush...plop! Oh! Oh! I reached down and grabbed them in a flash, threw them in the sink, rinsed & dried...just knowing they were shot! Nope! They worked and are still working. So, socks or earphones? Socks or earphones? Hmm?🤔

[–] twinA (4826) 5 years ago

Ha!
Funny thing is, I didn't have to use the restroom! I was just there, making the story weird. Sounds like you have good taste in iPad, being safe from toilet plunges. Let's see Apple try to market that fact.

~~/o/

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72088) 5 years ago

Ha!
That's a good example of the wacky stuff most of us seem to do

[–] twinA (4826) 5 years ago

Had I needed to go, with urine having ammonia in it, my dirty socks would have been partially clean, kinda. So, there's that proud image we won't be able to get out of our heads now. (^ ^)

~~/o/

[–] kspkap (13055) 5 years ago

If you knew how many dirty diapers i’ve rinsed out in the toilet, you can understand why a little urine didn’t phase me. There definitely was a trick rinsing diapers without losing them! And that my friend is some of the wacky stuff we had to do. We had no choice.

One of these days when all of us are long gone, no humans, no nothing...there will be at least two things left....roaches crawling on mounds and mounds of crappy disposable diapers!

[–] twinA (4826) 5 years ago

Oh my... (O_o)
Don't forget racoons. Those pesky rascals can adapt to almost anything, including urban life.

[–] db20db (16222) 5 years ago

Our brain plays tricks on us all the time.

After several years of working second shift ( 3:30PM - 12:30AM ) for a huge, international manufacturing company, I finally decided to switch to first shift which began at dawn. I was seriously disoriented and fatigued at times, my body clock attempting to reset itself. One day I awoke, glanced out my window and saw the sun on the horizon. I rushed to my phone and ended up calling in late, on the wrong shift, on my day off. I had taken a nap and in my groggy, panicked state of mind had confused sundown with sunup.

My initial embarrassment was quickly replaced by a blissful sense of relief and relaxation realizing I was off duty for both that night and the following two days.

[–] kspkap (13055) 5 years ago

My shift for a well known electronics company was from 4:00 PM-1:00AM. With that schedule plus having 2 young kids, one in kindergarten, the other age 2, plus a husband....I didn’t know a sunrise from a sunset! After working that shift I had to get up in time to run the older one across town for the half day of school, return home to take care of home chores including laundry which had to be hung outside (no dryer), cleaning, etc., then run across town again to pick up kid from school by 12:30, return home, finish cleaning (vacuuming), then begin cooking a full course meal (every day plus cleaning kitchen what I could) for husband to reheat. I left for work at 3:30, had a sitter until 5:00PM. All he had to do was reheat dinner, serve, make sure kids were bathed and put to bed. As I stated I didn’t know if I was coming or going....I never saw a sunrise or a sunset!

[–] GlenEllyn (21118) 5 years ago

Can you top this?

The first time I met my now-daughter-in-law, I was returning from a bike ride around the block, killing time until she and my son arrived. They walked out to meet me as I approached the end of our driveway...and I did a face-plant while getting off my bike. 😳

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72088) 5 years ago

First impressions are important
I'd say you nailed it!

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

DAAAMMMNNN! I've done ALL of those, and more!

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

PS Sometimes I can't find something no matter how hard I try. Then later I find it in a place I ALREADY LOOKED! My theory
is that the object was temporarily beamed up to the Mother Ship, and then later beamed back down.

😎

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72088) 5 years ago

Happens to me too
Your's is the only possible explanation👍

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

Yep!

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

A stupid thing I've been doing more and more lately is go to YouTube with the intent on looking up something very specific, get distracted by a video featured on the home page, watch 17 suggested videos stemming from the first one, then leave YouTube having completely forgotten to look up what I went there for in the first place.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72088) 5 years ago

We are both very stupid this way👍
I have lost hours doing the same