What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done?

Probably a tie between staying in a toxic relationship/going back into said relationship knowing that it would never change, multiple times, and not realizing that my Mother was having a stroke.
From the outside, looking in, I believe those instances would be considered stupid by a vast majority but each just feel like casual bumps in the road of life to me.
 
Spilled chocolate milk on the tv when I was 8. It may have been an accident, because I didn't think it would spill by putting my cup of chocolate milk on to of the tv, but nope it spilled and completely ruined that tv pretty much forever... that was definitely dumb of me to decide to do.
 
Depends...stupid when I was probably too young to know any better, or stupid when I was old enough to know better and therefore objectively stupid?

For the former...I slammed my finger in the front door at my old house because I didn't want to go out the back on my skates. Nope, I wanted to go out the front door, because it was faster. I slipped on the steps as I was closing the door and caught my finger. Damn near took the top of it off. It didn't hurt, surprisingly. But it was an extremely stupid thing to do even so. Cue mother panicking, several hours in hospital for stitches, and a couple of months with my finger bandaged up. I didn't get to go swimming that summer, and I adored swimming...but it DID get my out of sports day, which I hated. xD

More recently - well, it was about 8 years ago now - when I was unsure of my gender identity and very confused about various things, I decided to have a voice call on Skype with a few people I thought I could trust. One of them recorded me talking and spread it around on the forum I was on, where I had deliberately kept it a secret. That was...not fun.
 
I got addicted to drugs.
 
You mean I have to choose just one stupid thing, out of all the numerous monumentally stupid things I've ever done? This question's too hard.
 
when i was 8 i watched shrek on vhs 3 times in a row
 
Ok but being more serious, I've always had an urge to make everyone happy, and it's come to bite me in the ass at times. Especially as a kid I wanted to impress my peers by stealing, getting in fights, etc. I realize now that I just need to be myself, and the right people will find me.
 
Nothing serious but some of the stupid moments I can remember having - I had been using a bunsen burner for a chemistry assignment back in the 9th grade. I'd used a gauze mat which had been heated by the bunsen burner and for some reason I thought it'd be a good idea to straight up pick it up with my hands afterwards whilst it was still hot and I proceeded to burn a hole in my finger. Could have been a lot worse but Why.

I once also played Marco Polo on concrete - I was in and I ended up tripping over a bench, hitting my head and having to wear bandages for a week or so. Good times. I also once fell straight down a hill and got a huge scar on my knee because it didn't occur to me that running down a sandy, slippery slope at full speed wouldn't be a bad idea at all.

Also random slip ups like once I was in a hotel elevator with my friends - I hadn't noticed there was another person in the back and for some reason got possessed to say "Wait why is it also going to the 25th floor?!?!" My friends lost their minds but I think the random person in the elevator was super nice about it and laughed it off. :D
 
Sydian said:
when i was 8 i watched shrek on vhs 3 times in a row
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That's actually perfectly understandable

As for myself, there was this time some friends and I decided to make a potato-shooting canon out of PVC Pipes because of a science project (and because we are dumb). That shit exploded like 3 times during testing and was never finished.
 
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CommanderSaturn said:
Probably a tie between staying in a toxic relationship/going back into said relationship knowing that it would never change, multiple times, and not realizing that my Mother was having a stroke.
From the outside, looking in, I believe those instances would be considered stupid by a vast majority but each just feel like casual bumps in the road of life to me.
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Honestly, I've been there with the toxic relationship part and it's not stupid. It's hard to break out of something like that. People promise things and you want to believe so bad that they are going to change. Also, it's not stupid to not know when someone is having a stroke, if you're not a medical professional I'm sure it's hard to tell exactly what's going on.
 
Nanusmightyena said:
Honestly, I've been there with the toxic relationship part and it's not stupid. It's hard to break out of something like that. People promise things and you want to believe so bad that they are going to change. Also, it's not stupid to not know when someone is having a stroke, if you're not a medical professional I'm sure it's hard to tell exactly what's going on.
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It was the fact that I could tell the signs but I was so caught up in my own selfishness, that I just disregarded them. It was her Birthday and ironically her death day, because of my callousness but you live and learn I suppose.

As for the relationship thing, I say it was stupid on my behalf because I actually knew that it wouldn't change. It had just been so long since I felt anything that even the sadness and frustration felt nice but eventually that grows old as well!


P.S. I suppose that I at least had the good graces of not befriending people on Tumblr? Haha I feel like I am missing something there.
 
CommanderSaturn said:
It was the fact that I could tell the signs but I was so caught up in my own selfishness, that I just disregarded them. It was her Birthday and ironically her death day, because of my callousness but you live and learn I suppose.

As for the relationship thing, I say it was stupid on my behalf because I actually knew that it wouldn't change. It had just been so long since I felt anything that even the sadness and frustration felt nice but eventually that grows old as well!


P.S. I suppose that I at least had the good graces of not befriending people on Tumblr? Haha I feel like I am missing something there.
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I think you're being too hard on yourself. People make mistakes. I'm sure you did everything you could've done. With the relationship part I've been guilty of that as well. My last off again on again relationship was like that. She was extremely abusive mentally and I knew she wouldn't change but I stayed around. She threatened to gut me, kill me and hang me on a meathook, lol. So if that makes you stupid I guess we're stupid together.
 
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