Ok, so, yesterday when I left the office, I did something incredibly stupid.

I left the water running in the sink in the breakroom. I remember turning it on with the idea that I'd fill the sink to let some things soak, but apparently I then forgot to turn it back off. I could have sworn I did, but very obviously, I did not.

Thus this morning, the entire office was flooded between 1 and 2 inches deep in water. The entire office.

I ruined the office. It's a miracle no one was electrocuted as there are countless powerstrips on the floor! It's another miracle that so far, no equipment or hardware seems damaged. I'm just waiting for someone to find something really expensive completely destroyed and fire me.

So far, everyone's been pretty decent about it - only a little teasing which stopped when I started crying. Of course, the boss keeps making comments that make me feel like crap, but I'm pretty sure he's completely unaware they are having that effect.

Anyway... someone make me feel better and tell a story about something stupid you've done, so I won't feel like the biggest idiot on the whole planet...

Hopefully this will cheer you up. The fifth one down, though a little crude to think about, seems to play to my sadistic nature. I laughed a little.

Dumb Moments.

During a cooking class, I left hot water running. Not, "Oh, this is pretty warm" hot. But the kind of hot that turns your skin red in an instant and only needs to get a bit warmer to begin to boil.

So, I filled the sink, and went to listen to the teacher, leaving the water running. We heard water splashing, remembered I left the water running, and shut it off. In order to make it easier to clean up, I had the great idea of pulling the plug from the sink. So I rolled up my sleeve and shoved my hand into this hot water.

Then I realized I left a plate at the bottom, which was covering the drain, and I had to move it in order to pull the plug. Half of my arm was red for the entire day.

Cool points for shoving my hand into hot water, but even more stupid points for shoving hand into hot water.

Thank you Jigan and Ayridion!

At my first job they wanted me to back up the work van into the shed to make it easier to load tile and thinset into it. Well, I backed the van into the shed. But not "through the door" style into the shed, but "next to the door" style that involves a dented van and dented garage. I was close though...

In seventh grade, I got punched in the nose in home ec. My glasses flew halfway across the room and my nose was bleeding. I ran across the hall to the bathroom to clean up. Five minutes later, the teacher finally found me, totally clueless that I had been hanging out in the girl's bathroom. It was rather embarrasing.

When I was about.. Seven or eight, I guess, we were playing out in the school playground. It was winter, so there was plenty of frost and some places were pretty laden with ice. Outside of the classes, there's a section with two raised slabs and about a metre gap between them. Of course, everyone was jumping between them and encouraging others to. Strangely, seeing how I don't even think they were in my class, year, or were my friends at the time, I walked over and agreed. Needless to say, I jumped. Fell. And smacked my face on the slab. You've suddenly made me realise where the little bump in my nose is from.

Thanks Acrune and Sylphas!

And wow Ayridion! Glad you weren't hurt too badly. I broke my nose when I was a kid too. I was a little older than seven or eight - more like nine or ten, and I had each of my sisters sitting on a foot, holding onto a leg while I tried to walk across the living room. Eventually, of course, I started to lose my balance and fall forward. At the same time, my youngest siter (who happens to also have the biggest, boniest head) started to stand up. My nose hit her forehead and my nose has been a little crooked ever since.

Really, thanks you guys! You've all helped cheer me up!

Is it too late to say that I nearly hugged a stranger by accident because I thought she was my mother?

Is it too late to say "at least you didn't leave the water running in a bathtub on the tenth floor"? :P

I hugged a catcus. It hurt.

No way! That sounds like an awesome story!

I was jumping on a trampoline, got bumped into by my friend, hit myself in the eye with my knee, blackening it and breaking my nose. Took me about 5 more hours to realize the reason my head hurt so much was that I had managed to break my nose at the same time.

Also, for gap jumping: I managed to land RIGHT in front of the other ledge, all my momentum carried me forward in the knee-height ledge, which catapulted me face first into the ground. I'm lucky I didn't break my knee or leg.

So, moral of the story is: at least you didn't break yourself.

Sadly (or not, depends on how you look at it, like whether you are me or not ), that's all that happened. I got out of it pretty much scot-free. The stranger didn't know, my mother didn't know, only God and I know.


Wait.
Now you know too.

The squotter knows too. It's watching you.

Plenty of things can come to mind to show how stupid I can be at times, in addition to the above post of mine.

Cutting one of those sausage things you always get around the winter times in my hand. Cut my hand with a knife.

Walking up the hill where everyone was sledding down and not paying attention. Several times.

Using QVC box lids as a sled down the stairs. Using QVC boxes as sleds down the stairs. The stairs are carpeted. You don't so much as slide as you do tumble.

Walking on thin ice over a small pond.

Everyone makes mistakes. Most of us are human, after all. If we never made any mistakes, Og would still be trying to drive a cart with a squarel.

Hmm, I love heels. And one year I got these tennis shoes that gave me about 2 more inches, only problem I also have 'weak ankles' I have fractured them so many times they don't heal. So I am wearing these shoes in Wal-mart, walking around doing some christmas shopping with the flavor of the month boy toy and he had the cart. Needless to say I was looking for him, cut through the ladies clothing and my ankle gave, and lets just say it took them about ten minutes to rearange that whole area, and I had a headache for two hours from the hit on my head.

I still have those shoes and still wear them, along with heeled boots I have added to my collection. One lesson I refuse to learn.

Oh and add taking down about four miles worth of barb wire on my first standard driving lesson. One way to learn the gas peddle isn't the breaks.

It seems that you're feeling better about the situation, which is positive.

For amusement's sake, however, I'll tell you that, late last year, during the Hall elections, the house was strewn with propaganda pictures. On my way down to the kitchen via a particularly steep stairwell, I came across a poster bearing this image. Needless to say, it was more Hoff than I could handle, and, startled, I fell down the remaining steps and crashed into the door. My weight caused it to swing open, dumping me unceremoniously across the computer room floor in front of a group of bemused transfer students, to whom I quickly apologized, before slinking off to obtain some frozen peas.

Just yesterday a guy at my office spilled his 2 litter sized bottle of water on his keyboard and desk.

Everybody was thankfull for the non-carpeted floor we have