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deird1These are not the dumbest things I've ever done, but they're certainly the ones that stick the most in my memory:
1) typo-ing my resume
2) setting a cake on fire
3) forgetting to wear a shirt
4) slicing a light in half
5) accidentally insulting my whole prac group
1) typo-ing my resume
So, you've already heard about this one. I put a hugely awful typo in the middle of my editor resume (Please hire me to correct your typos! I'm so awesome at finding them!) and didn't notice for months.
2) setting a cake on fire
I don't know how I ended up with far too much cake mix, but somewhere in there my calculations must have gone wrong. At any rate, it overflowed in the oven, collected on the oven's element, and gradually got hotter and hotter until it caught fire.
Being reasonably sure that fire in the oven was better than fire outside the oven, and not seeing an easy way to put it out, I thought for a minute and then went and grabbed my camera.
3) forgetting to wear a shirt
I've had my fair share of forgetful fashion faux pas over the years - such as going to school in slippers, or turning up to church in a leotard - but the crowning glory has to be when I put on my entire school uniform... minus the shirt.
I didn't realise until I went to take my jumper off, and had to spend the rest of the day uncomfortably jumpered and wishing I could change.
4) slicing a light in half
So, my parents have those light fixtures where the glass surrounds are vaguely flower-shaped. In my parents' case, though, one of the light fixtures also has a line right across the middle of it where it was glued back together. That's my fault.
I was doing fencing at the time, and had discovered that my foil would make awesome swishy sounds if I swung it fast enough. Naturally, I wanted to try this out some more. Logically, I should have been trying it outside. Instead, I opted for the fanciest room in the whole house, swished my foil dramatically, and gaped as half the light went flying across the room. How I wasn't electrocuted, I'll never know.
5) accidentally insulting my whole prac group
...in my defense, I was really good at Mech Eng.
We were doing prac questions as a group. The idea was that we were each supposed to do calculations by ourselves, then compare and discuss the answers. And then at the end of the prac, the whole group would turn in a single set of answers to the lecturer.
So anyway, we finished one of the questions, and I looked up from my work and said "I got 93." And another girl said "I didn't - I got 98." And I, unthinkingly, said "Oh - what did you do wrong?"
!!!
I then had to sit there for a few minutes desperately hoping that I had got the right answer, so that at least my obnoxious insult would have some sort of reason behind it.
...and that's all. At least to date.
1) typo-ing my resume
2) setting a cake on fire
3) forgetting to wear a shirt
4) slicing a light in half
5) accidentally insulting my whole prac group
1) typo-ing my resume
So, you've already heard about this one. I put a hugely awful typo in the middle of my editor resume (Please hire me to correct your typos! I'm so awesome at finding them!) and didn't notice for months.
2) setting a cake on fire
I don't know how I ended up with far too much cake mix, but somewhere in there my calculations must have gone wrong. At any rate, it overflowed in the oven, collected on the oven's element, and gradually got hotter and hotter until it caught fire.
Being reasonably sure that fire in the oven was better than fire outside the oven, and not seeing an easy way to put it out, I thought for a minute and then went and grabbed my camera.
3) forgetting to wear a shirt
I've had my fair share of forgetful fashion faux pas over the years - such as going to school in slippers, or turning up to church in a leotard - but the crowning glory has to be when I put on my entire school uniform... minus the shirt.
I didn't realise until I went to take my jumper off, and had to spend the rest of the day uncomfortably jumpered and wishing I could change.
4) slicing a light in half
So, my parents have those light fixtures where the glass surrounds are vaguely flower-shaped. In my parents' case, though, one of the light fixtures also has a line right across the middle of it where it was glued back together. That's my fault.
I was doing fencing at the time, and had discovered that my foil would make awesome swishy sounds if I swung it fast enough. Naturally, I wanted to try this out some more. Logically, I should have been trying it outside. Instead, I opted for the fanciest room in the whole house, swished my foil dramatically, and gaped as half the light went flying across the room. How I wasn't electrocuted, I'll never know.
5) accidentally insulting my whole prac group
...in my defense, I was really good at Mech Eng.
We were doing prac questions as a group. The idea was that we were each supposed to do calculations by ourselves, then compare and discuss the answers. And then at the end of the prac, the whole group would turn in a single set of answers to the lecturer.
So anyway, we finished one of the questions, and I looked up from my work and said "I got 93." And another girl said "I didn't - I got 98." And I, unthinkingly, said "Oh - what did you do wrong?"
!!!
I then had to sit there for a few minutes desperately hoping that I had got the right answer, so that at least my obnoxious insult would have some sort of reason behind it.
...and that's all. At least to date.