Einstein said, "The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." Write about a time when you did something and later thought, "Wow! That was really dumb!"
When I was little, my sister and I would play on this army tank while my parents played horseshoes. One time a kid filled a pop bottle with pebbles and threw it. He said it was supposed to hit my sister, but it hit me. I fell off and messed up my neck. I was rushed to the hospital and had to be on bed rest for about a week. I think back on it from time to time and think that we were morons because we played on an army tank. Every once in awhile when I go to my dad's house, I drive past that army tank and see kids still playing on it. Kids just won't learn...
One time when Russell and I were in 6th grade he invited me over for the 4th of July. He and his family had a huge party with a bunch of people. We had fireworks and a lot of food. The next morning when we were cleaning up the yard we found a leftover mortar. Russell had the great idea of lighting it again. So I held it, he light it, and then I chucked it acrooss the road. Not less than two seconds later a car came whizzing by. I could have either blown off my arm, or blown up the car that was coming by. Yeah, probably should have thought that one through =)
Oh wow, I have done that a quite a few times. Hm....well one time I was going to get my horse out to ride her like I had always done. We had just put a few timbers down by the gate, because we were going to build a little bigger shed. My mom failed to tell me that horses are scared of unfamiliar things. As I was bringing out my horse she spooked from the timbers and took off. Of course me being scared that she would run into the road I hung on to her and she drug me all the way up to my front yard. Thinking back about it now if she would have ran into the road, I would have been going with her which would have been more dumb than me just letting her go into the road.
Well, I think that I have probably had a lot of those moments. One time I left my brand new basketball shoes on the top of my car and drove out of the parking lot. On my way out I saw a lady walking her dog waving at me so I just waved back. However, when I got home and realized that I had forgotten my shoe, I went back to the school to look for them with no luck. We had morning practice the next day so I grabbed my old shoes and tried not to make a big deal out of it. Then, I asked if anyone had seen them laying aroung anywhere and Jess Jackson said that her dad found some shoes outside her grandparents house last night. So, then I realized that the lady with the dog was totally not waving at me to say hi, but she was trying to tell me that I had forgotten about my shoes. Well, I felt really dumb for a while and I bet that the lady thought I was a complete dope. Oh, well at least I got my shoes back.:)
Just another random thing. I do this a lot. I sing a song that I don't really know and kinda make up words. Then, the next time I sing it I htink that those are the words, but they really aren't. :) For example, I thought that the song Firflies by Owl City said "I want to meet myself a lady." but it really says I want to make myself believe...I know... they don't even sound the same and it doesn't even make sense wth the rest of the song.
I feel like there are soo many to pick from! But the one that comes to mind is my sophomore year our girls basketball team went to state. I was all set to go and got on the bus and when we got to the place where we were going to play, we all went straight to the locker rooms. Well time went by and I put on my jersey and got all ready but when it came to about ten minutes I realized that I forgot the most important item needed to play basketball...my shoes! I was like freaking out and I called my mom and about 2 minutes before we were running out on the court my mom threw my shoes down from the top level in the stadium. I got super luck. But it really was a "Wow Im dumb!" moment.
I have had my share of thesem moments. One time I as cleaning my car and my brother was in the garage looking for some fishing stuff. Once I was done cleaning I had to run up to the school for something. I vaguely remember seeing my brother put his phone on top of my car, but later forgot all about it. I began driving to the school, and was distracted by my singing. I glanced in the mirror by chance and saw a black object fly off of the roof of my car. I immediately turned around and remembered "Oh ya that's Bronson's phone." I initially thought "Crap he's going to kill me!" I called him and he was pretty upset so we didn't talk for a couple days so that he could cool off! He still gets mad when the family brings it up though. ~Alexa
I have alot of these moments, but i would have to pick the time i handcuffed my self to a wheel chair. I thought they were cool at the time and just messing around with them, but now that i look back on that day it is totally really dumb. WHy would i have handcuffed myself to a wheel chair in the first place. WOw very stupid decision on my part haha
Oh man. I have moments like these all the time. One story I can think of seems to be the most "Did I really just say that?" moment.
Okay, so you know how roast beef is different then any other kind of lunch meat? Like it is way darker, and tastes just so different. So I have always wondered what animal it came from. Finally sick of not knowing I asked a lady in the delli at Wal-Mart what roast beef was made out of. I was being completely serious, but she just stood there and looked at me. So I was like "Do you not know either?". She then looked at me completely dumbfounded and said "roastBEEF??". Yeah that was one of my "blonde" moments.
Now that I'm thinking about it there is a story that some of you may remember. I think that it was freshman year, and I was sitting in english when Jan announced of the loud speaker that if anyone knew who was "whipping doughnuts" in the parking lot they should come to the office. Well I had never heard the term "whipping doughnuts" so I turned to Kody Goulet and was like "Who would drive around the parking lot throwing (whipping) doughnuts at people. I would be so upset if they did that to me!!" I went on and on about how mean that is. Once again he just sat and stared at me. I later found out that the real meaning of "whipping doughnuts" and also that Kody was the one that had been doing it. Yep, that wasn't my proudest moments.
This year, at the beginning of the basketball season,the team had a meeting. I decided to skip the meeting and go hunting instead. Stupid! Right! Well, coach found out where I had been and he made me feel like a big piece of crap. There was no reason why I felt like I could go hunting while the rest of the team sat in his room for an hour after school. I learned that a team is more important than pleasure, and to make better decisions. Making these mistakes is all part of growing up, and I figure if I get them out of the way now, then I won't make so many in the years to come.
Well, there's multiple times that I think I do stupid things.
The most recent was yesterday. I decided to walk home. Yes. I walked home. 4 miles. From school. Lately I've been feeling a little bit deprived of the outdoors so I thought that this would be a good way to enjoy being outside. It really was, too! I even beat my sister home. That was better than sitting around waiting for her to get done with basketball. In every way, I enjoyed my nice little hike.......until......... I got home and realized that I have a crapload of homework. I had a book report due the next day in Social Problems. After supper, I spent over four hours reading a very good book by Pat Conroy. I finally "finished" at about 12:45 a.m.. I still had other homework that I wanted to get done, but that didn't happen. It probalbly would have been smarter and better for my body to not waste an hour and a half of my time walking home. Oh well. It was dumb, but I enjoyed it a lot.
Oh yeah, and todays stupidity was probably telling people that I walked home. It's not exactly a good thing to tell other (lazy) people if you don't want to get harassed.
Alright, this sounds like a fun journal! The summer of my sophomore year, I bought a four wheeler; a really fast four wheeler. So being a guy, I decided to make a sweet ramp so I could ride off of the ramp and get "sick air". (The dumb part of this story actually arrives while constructing the ramp). So I was out in our woods all by myself clearing this path that lead to a cultivated dip in the ground (which is where the jump was going to occur). The only problem was this little tree, about 4 inches thick, that was standing in the middle of the dip. From where I was standing, about 20 yards away, the tree appeared dead and all that it would take to knock it over was a heafty, strong push. So I gather up some speed, square myself, and heave my body into the tree. I could feel the tree bend farther and farther as I pushed harder. I didn't think it was going to break until... BAM! Instead of splintering (like trees are suppose to do when you push them over), this particular tree cleanly sheared off at waist level and struck me with catastrophic force in the man area. I doubled over in pain as this overwhelming sickness consumed me. To make things worse, my shorts got caught on the tree and hung me upside down from my croch. It was a very dumb idea and I still am not sure if I have recovered.
One time, Jadra and I were driving home from Lake Holcombe. We had gone to a basketball game there to see a friend, and it was about 10:00 when we got near Bloomer. I accidentaly passed our turn off into Bloomer, and so I decided to turn around in a driveway. I quick turned into a driveway that looked like it belonged to a nearby shed because a car was coming the other way. I waited for that car to pass, put my car in reverse, and tried to back up. The car wouldn't move! Jade and I tried everything from pushing the car to rolling it back and forth. Finally, we called our parents. My mom and dad drove over with shovels in hopes of digging us out. By this time, it was really late, and since we couldn't have the car on for very long since the exhaust was blocked, we were cold! My parents, Jade, and I tried to get my car out. Suddenly, my dad started laughing. He said, "Emma, this isn't a driveway. It's a snowmobile trail!" A policeman stopped and tried to help us too, but eventually we just had to call a tow truck.
hmmm... well there was one time when I was about twelve. I was outside in the cow pasture with my family. We were checking on the cows. Well there was a nice fresh cow pie laying right there by the fence. My dad saw it and said that he would pay me a dollar if I stuck my hand in it. So I did it. It was very squishy, and warm, and smelly, and gross. But hey, I needed the money!
When I was little, my sister and I would play on this army tank while my parents played horseshoes. One time a kid filled a pop bottle with pebbles and threw it. He said it was supposed to hit my sister, but it hit me. I fell off and messed up my neck. I was rushed to the hospital and had to be on bed rest for about a week. I think back on it from time to time and think that we were morons because we played on an army tank. Every once in awhile when I go to my dad's house, I drive past that army tank and see kids still playing on it. Kids just won't learn...
ReplyDeleteOne time when Russell and I were in 6th grade he invited me over for the 4th of July. He and his family had a huge party with a bunch of people. We had fireworks and a lot of food. The next morning when we were cleaning up the yard we found a leftover mortar. Russell had the great idea of lighting it again. So I held it, he light it, and then I chucked it acrooss the road. Not less than two seconds later a car came whizzing by. I could have either blown off my arm, or blown up the car that was coming by. Yeah, probably should have thought that one through =)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, I have done that a quite a few times. Hm....well one time I was going to get my horse out to ride her like I had always done. We had just put a few timbers down by the gate, because we were going to build a little bigger shed. My mom failed to tell me that horses are scared of unfamiliar things. As I was bringing out my horse she spooked from the timbers and took off. Of course me being scared that she would run into the road I hung on to her and she drug me all the way up to my front yard. Thinking back about it now if she would have ran into the road, I would have been going with her which would have been more dumb than me just letting her go into the road.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think that I have probably had a lot of those moments. One time I left my brand new basketball shoes on the top of my car and drove out of the parking lot. On my way out I saw a lady walking her dog waving at me so I just waved back. However, when I got home and realized that I had forgotten my shoe, I went back to the school to look for them with no luck. We had morning practice the next day so I grabbed my old shoes and tried not to make a big deal out of it. Then, I asked if anyone had seen them laying aroung anywhere and Jess Jackson said that her dad found some shoes outside her grandparents house last night. So, then I realized that the lady with the dog was totally not waving at me to say hi, but she was trying to tell me that I had forgotten about my shoes. Well, I felt really dumb for a while and I bet that the lady thought I was a complete dope. Oh, well at least I got my shoes back.:)
ReplyDeleteJust another random thing. I do this a lot. I sing a song that I don't really know and kinda make up words. Then, the next time I sing it I htink that those are the words, but they really aren't. :) For example, I thought that the song Firflies by Owl City said "I want to meet myself a lady." but it really says I want to make myself believe...I know... they don't even sound the same and it doesn't even make sense wth the rest of the song.
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I feel like there are soo many to pick from! But the one that comes to mind is my sophomore year our girls basketball team went to state. I was all set to go and got on the bus and when we got to the place where we were going to play, we all went straight to the locker rooms. Well time went by and I put on my jersey and got all ready but when it came to about ten minutes I realized that I forgot the most important item needed to play basketball...my shoes! I was like freaking out and I called my mom and about 2 minutes before we were running out on the court my mom threw my shoes down from the top level in the stadium. I got super luck. But it really was a "Wow Im dumb!" moment.
ReplyDeleteI have had my share of thesem moments. One time I as cleaning my car and my brother was in the garage looking for some fishing stuff. Once I was done cleaning I had to run up to the school for something. I vaguely remember seeing my brother put his phone on top of my car, but later forgot all about it. I began driving to the school, and was distracted by my singing. I glanced in the mirror by chance and saw a black object fly off of the roof of my car. I immediately turned around and remembered "Oh ya that's Bronson's phone." I initially thought "Crap he's going to kill me!" I called him and he was pretty upset so we didn't talk for a couple days so that he could cool off! He still gets mad when the family brings it up though.
ReplyDelete~Alexa
I have alot of these moments, but i would have to pick the time i handcuffed my self to a wheel chair. I thought they were cool at the time and just messing around with them, but now that i look back on that day it is totally really dumb. WHy would i have handcuffed myself to a wheel chair in the first place. WOw very stupid decision on my part haha
ReplyDeleteOh man. I have moments like these all the time. One story I can think of seems to be the most "Did I really just say that?" moment.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so you know how roast beef is different then any other kind of lunch meat? Like it is way darker, and tastes just so different. So I have always wondered what animal it came from. Finally sick of not knowing I asked a lady in the delli at Wal-Mart what roast beef was made out of. I was being completely serious, but she just stood there and looked at me. So I was like "Do you not know either?". She then looked at me completely dumbfounded and said "roastBEEF??". Yeah that was one of my "blonde" moments.
Now that I'm thinking about it there is a story that some of you may remember. I think that it was freshman year, and I was sitting in english when Jan announced of the loud speaker that if anyone knew who was "whipping doughnuts" in the parking lot they should come to the office.
Well I had never heard the term "whipping doughnuts" so I turned to Kody Goulet and was like "Who would drive around the parking lot throwing (whipping) doughnuts at people. I would be so upset if they did that to me!!" I went on and on about how mean that is. Once again he just sat and stared at me. I later found out that the real meaning of "whipping doughnuts" and also that Kody was the one that had been doing it. Yep, that wasn't my proudest moments.
This year, at the beginning of the basketball season,the team had a meeting. I decided to skip the meeting and go hunting instead. Stupid! Right! Well, coach found out where I had been and he made me feel like a big piece of crap. There was no reason why I felt like I could go hunting while the rest of the team sat in his room for an hour after school. I learned that a team is more important than pleasure, and to make better decisions. Making these mistakes is all part of growing up, and I figure if I get them out of the way now, then I won't make so many in the years to come.
ReplyDeleteWell, there's multiple times that I think I do stupid things.
ReplyDeleteThe most recent was yesterday. I decided to walk home. Yes. I walked home. 4 miles. From school. Lately I've been feeling a little bit deprived of the outdoors so I thought that this would be a good way to enjoy being outside. It really was, too! I even beat my sister home. That was better than sitting around waiting for her to get done with basketball. In every way, I enjoyed my nice little hike.......until......... I got home and realized that I have a crapload of homework. I had a book report due the next day in Social Problems. After supper, I spent over four hours reading a very good book by Pat Conroy. I finally "finished" at about 12:45 a.m.. I still had other homework that I wanted to get done, but that didn't happen. It probalbly would have been smarter and better for my body to not waste an hour and a half of my time walking home. Oh well. It was dumb, but I enjoyed it a lot.
Oh yeah, and todays stupidity was probably telling people that I walked home. It's not exactly a good thing to tell other (lazy) people if you don't want to get harassed.
ReplyDeleteAlright, this sounds like a fun journal! The summer of my sophomore year, I bought a four wheeler; a really fast four wheeler. So being a guy, I decided to make a sweet ramp so I could ride off of the ramp and get "sick air". (The dumb part of this story actually arrives while constructing the ramp). So I was out in our woods all by myself clearing this path that lead to a cultivated dip in the ground (which is where the jump was going to occur). The only problem was this little tree, about 4 inches thick, that was standing in the middle of the dip. From where I was standing, about 20 yards away, the tree appeared dead and all that it would take to knock it over was a heafty, strong push. So I gather up some speed, square myself, and heave my body into the tree. I could feel the tree bend farther and farther as I pushed harder. I didn't think it was going to break until... BAM! Instead of splintering (like trees are suppose to do when you push them over), this particular tree cleanly sheared off at waist level and struck me with catastrophic force in the man area. I doubled over in pain as this overwhelming sickness consumed me. To make things worse, my shorts got caught on the tree and hung me upside down from my croch. It was a very dumb idea and I still am not sure if I have recovered.
ReplyDeleteOne time, Jadra and I were driving home from Lake Holcombe. We had gone to a basketball game there to see a friend, and it was about 10:00 when we got near Bloomer. I accidentaly passed our turn off into Bloomer, and so I decided to turn around in a driveway. I quick turned into a driveway that looked like it belonged to a nearby shed because a car was coming the other way. I waited for that car to pass, put my car in reverse, and tried to back up. The car wouldn't move! Jade and I tried everything from pushing the car to rolling it back and forth. Finally, we called our parents. My mom and dad drove over with shovels in hopes of digging us out. By this time, it was really late, and since we couldn't have the car on for very long since the exhaust was blocked, we were cold! My parents, Jade, and I tried to get my car out. Suddenly, my dad started laughing. He said, "Emma, this isn't a driveway. It's a snowmobile trail!" A policeman stopped and tried to help us too, but eventually we just had to call a tow truck.
ReplyDeletehmmm... well there was one time when I was about twelve. I was outside in the cow pasture with my family. We were checking on the cows. Well there was a nice fresh cow pie laying right there by the fence. My dad saw it and said that he would pay me a dollar if I stuck my hand in it. So I did it. It was very squishy, and warm, and smelly, and gross. But hey, I needed the money!
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