What is the dumbest thing you've ever done?

[The Old Goat]

Just to get this thread started, I've got a beauty.

When I was about 13 or 14 years old, I would wait for my Mum, Dad and brothers to go to work/ college and then sneak into my eldest brothers room. He had a copy of a magazine called Men Only which was a softcore publication under his bed. I would take it out and ….. well, you can guess

One night I had watched a Laurel and Hardy movie. Stan and Ollie were sharing a bed and Stan had put a lighted candle under his bed. The flames had whipped around the bed In a strange fashion and I thought " That wouldn't happen". Like a dick, I'd done my usual hand shandy and then lit a candle and put it under his bed. Imagine my surprise when it did Exactly what it had done in the movie. To cut a long story short, I burned my parents house down.

Dumb as fuck.

[shktamim]

Fall in love.

[SadVarant]

Made the really stupid and narrow-minded decision to drive drunk. Ploughed my car through some poor bloke's fence and lost my licence for 18 months. Luckily I didn't hurt anyone, and have since become committed to giving up alcohol, but yeah definitely the lowest and dumbest point of my life.

[alexora]

Going AWOL from my army base to travel 100s of kilometers away to watch a Rolling Stones concert.

By rights, I should have been sent to a military jail for 6 months for this, but my CO took pity on me since my overall record was clean (believe it or not, I was actually a good soldier), and I was only weeks away from being discharged. All I got was a week of confinement to barracks.

BTW: that gig wan't even particularly good...

[thruster315]

Originally Posted by shktamim

Fall in love.

I think we've all gone down this route at one point or another.

I was ass over tea kettles in love with this one gal after college. I was three years older than her and was ready to start my career. I was set on becoming a responsible adult. Little did I know she still wanted to hang out with some of her friends- smoke, drink and be the party girl. She wasn't set on pursuing her post college career and just wanted to "live it up" before she got serious.

I guess that included me in that deal too.

Thankfully I've moved on but yep, I fell down that rabbit hole too.

[The Old Goat]

Originally Posted by alexora

Going AWOL from my army base to travel 100s of kilometers away to watch a Rolling Stones concert.

By rights, I should have been sent to a military jail for 6 months for this, but my CO took pity on me since my overall record was clean (believe it or not, I was actually a good soldier), and I was only weeks away from being discharged. All I got was a week of confinement to barracks.

BTW: that gig wan't even particularly good...

That's a great one. You must have really loved the Stones.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by The Old Goat

That's a great one. You must have really loved the Stones.

I still do...

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[uglybob]

When I was 12, I jumped down from a 2 story window into the sand below. Nothing happened to me even though my tumble roll didn't turn out like I expected. I should have broken something, or at least been bruised.

[ReclaimedMdT]

I was 17 (back in 97) and had just got the internet. I naturally started talking to girls from all over. I ended up talking to this chick from Indiana. She was a couple years younger. We talk for like 5-6 months when she comes up with the bright idea that I should come out and see her for a few days.

We set something up and I end up making the trip in early August. We spent some together. Ya know, went to the movies, bowling, and shit like. She had brought her friend along and this other guy, we’ll call him “John”. We were having fun and stuff so nothing seemed all that odd to me.

I’m back in NY and we’re still talking and one night I get the email explaining “Yeah, I’ve been seeing “John”. for the last few weeks. Wait a second, you’ve been what?

Now fast forward 20 years or so later and she’s pushing 250lbs, 4 kids, and a meaningless desk job in the middle of nowhere.

[thruster315]

Originally Posted by Dead Optimus

Now fast forward 20 years or so later and she’s pushing 250lbs, 4 kids, and a meaningless desk job in the middle of nowhere.

Isn't this always the case where we finally have some validation where they turn out to be some waste case? Not that they wouldn't have become this if the relationship would've worked out but this is always revenge served up cold years later.

I've kept distant tabs with a few old flames. Nothing this extreme but they've done well for themselves but then I haven't exactly sat still, porked out and living on welfare either. The only old flame of mine that struck me as mildly shocking was that she's now married (congrats to her), and she's taking up adopting a ton of kids. I would've never have guessed she had those sort of maternal instincts- but when we were dating in our early 20's, the last thing we were thinking about was raising a family. We probably busted out every form of birth control just to prevent anything like that from happening.