Your "What An Idiot" moments.

Does anyone have any stories that you look back and say "God, I was such an idiot!"

Too many to count.

Every time I think I've lost my phone when it's in my hand.

Drank an entire bottle of Seagram's VO and a bunch of shots of Kraken, then thought it'd be a great idea to stand on my friend's roof and shoot off Roman candles despite barely being able to stand. Wound up falling a good eight or nine feet and landed on my side, which I vehemently refused to go to the doctor for. The pain wasn't ridiculous (the hangover sure was, though) and went away after a few days, and I don't believe that I broke anything, but it was easily one of the dumbest alcohol-related decisions I've ever made.

edited 20th Sep '15 3:32:51 PM by HasturHasturHastur

I was a really stupid kid when I was little:

• Two for two here: I put a paper towel over a candle to see if the hot air would make it rise, only it caught on fire instead. I panicked and tossed it in the trash can, which caused the trash can to go up in flames.
• When I was five, I tried to pick up an ax and wound up dropping it on my foot when I thought it was too heavy.
• I walked straight into a concrete column without even changing my direction.

And I also have made stupid decisions now when I'm older. Including to not try driving posts into the ground when you're angry. You could wind up accidentally driving yourself into the ground with the post-hole driver.

I spent almost a full two minutes looking around my seat and table for my iPod in a restaurant while it was clipped to my belt and I was listening to it. Not my finest hour.

When I was a kid, I was helping my dad with his model planes. He had to go do something for a moment, so he told me to sit still and don't touch the knife, it's sharp

So of course my young self thought "Oh, it can't be that sharp" and long story short when my Dad got back I was crying and my hand was covered in blood

The earliest I can think of is seeing my cousin roast marshmallows over a candle once at his house one summer and deciding I wanted to do it on my own... But I used a citronella candle, because that was what my family had on the porch. Thankfully, the one bite I took tasted gross enough that I didn't eat enough to get sick.

I can also think of falling for scams a couple of times due to being too naive about trusting strangers. Once was when someone asked for a certain amount of money in exchange for a grocery store gift card for an equal amount - of course the card turned out to only have a penny left on it. Another was a time someone on the subway wanted "change" for, let's say 50 dollars, then claimed they didn't actually have the 50 with them and I'd have to go to a certain stop on the train with them to get it - Of course, they were planning on having me wait for them someplace and taking off with my money, and when I finally figured that out I insisted on following them, making them rather pissed off. This part could have proved even dumber because I was in a completely unfamiliar, seemingly little-traveled area^note Also, I did not have a smartphone to find my way back with at the time, and I had no idea if they'd attack me... But actually resulted in me getting a small portion of my money back: I guess I was freaking out enough that they were worried I'd attract attention, so they told me to hold my hand out, take whatever they gave me, and leave.

edited 20th Sep '15 10:18:14 PM by MikeK

nll

edited 5th Jun '17 11:36:57 AM by MsCC93

I almost considered trading my Mew for a Bulbasaur in Pokemon Soul Silver. Thankfully, my brother objected, and the Mew was an event, meaning I couldn't trade her anyway. Then there's all of my screwups on TV Tropes. When I screw up here, I screw up BADLY.

On the subject of Pokemon:

Let's be honest, is a Woobat really worth trading away a Kangaskhan for?

Not unless it's a shiny.

Wasn't shiny. At least I got another Kangaskhan later.

Well, that was a poor decision, then. :P

I lit my leg hair on fire once. (Un)fortunately, hair melts.

I put flammable medicine in the toaster

There's flammable medicine? :S

Here's a warning about flammable medication.

It shouldn't be THAT surprising that there's flammable medicine.

I once got distracted and stared at the ceiling for several minutes because there was a cobweb that kind of looked like Blaze the Cat. To be fair, it was the most interesting thing in my field of vision and I was stuck standing there for a while.

However, the reason I was standing around like that was that my mom was giving me a haircut at the time. It... had an effect on the result. The distracting cobweb kept being referenced for years.

edited 22nd Sep '15 3:10:14 PM by KatanaCat

My nearest Target is with in walking distance. Technically.

5 hours and going the wrong way, twice, I got back home.

I'm not sure if the sale on eggs was worth it.

What Bacon Maniac said.

-highfives the other person who probably turned out better than they should have-

Yesterday I forgot where to put the apostrophe in "don't".

A bunch of mistakes that left a scar in my mind.

...I've hurt people I care about.

Once, I was trying to watch a movie, and my vision was all blurry, so I was trying to find my glasses. Then I realised I was wearing them (my vision wasn't blurry because I wasn't wearing them, it was because I had a migraine. But still, I probably should've realised they were on my head earlier than I did)

I also once forgot to give my teacher my phone number when we were on a trip, and then misheard the time we were supposed to be at the meeting point as 30 minutes later.