What's the dumbest thing you've done?

AprilT said:
I once ran a speed dating business titled it quick dates. Dumb, dumb, dumb. You don't want to know about the calls I received to the business, I had to change and re-register the name rather quickly after the first month, it wasn't even funny for a minute at the time.
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Ahhhhhhhh so it was YOU who hung up on me...
 
applecruncher said:
Among the many dumb things I did was to refuse a full college scholarship because I’d decided on a different college – HOWEVER, I was only 16. They (hs guidance counselor and the college rep) should have called in my parents instead of accepting my refusal
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Our youngest daughter pulled that...........took her many years to pay off her tuition.
 
I'm queen of dumb sometimes, these two......my husband was even shocked.

#1 Was getting quotes on a new fence for our yard. One of guys noticed an antique lamp I had and me, not thinking, told him 'hey, look at this one if you think that one's nice'. By the time I realized what I just did, we were in our guest bedroom standing before the lamp. Dumb, dumb, dumb. It was as if we both realized at the same time where we were. He left quickly and didn't win the bid, and he had the best price, I was just too embarrassed.

#2 To this day, I'm still bothered by this one...................It was when the census folks were coming around. Our doorbell rang and standing there was a portly gentleman with all these lanyards around his neck (I thought that was weird, but that's as far as it went). He claimed he was trying to reach our neighbors across the street and did I know anything about them. Told the guy they were never home so couldn't help. He then stated he forgot which house and could I come outside and show him again. I readily walked out our front door and in our driveway he started acting screwy and there was just something that went off in my mind that told me he wasn't on the up and up and what was the real deal. I think he realized I was questioning his sincerity and he turned and walked away as fast as he could. I still wonder what was going on and think I'm lucky nothing happened to me.
 
Bobw235 said:
Went "scrapping" one time with a college friend and some other young guys. Entailed going into an abandoned building in the middle of the night and pulling out the copper wire. A really stupid thing to do, but then I was young and stupid at the time. One of the guys nearly got electrocuted.
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But you were not "caught in the act"? imp
 
The dumbest thing I did two years ago, was let a vacuum cleaner salesman in the house. This was a well rehearsed company as the driver would drive away and leave the salesman until he called the driver back after the sale. I never let salesmen in my house but this time I had a mental brain fart. After about an hour of his BS, I actually threatened to call the police. Never, ever, will this happen again.:mad:

Oh, and the price started at $4,500 and before he left, dropped to $1,800. Hmmm.
 
I was traveling to Sweden with my 15 year old granddaughter a few years ago and I tried to smuggle my bottle of liquid foundation (make-up) through security at Heathrow Airport. I thought they would take it away from me and I'd just paid $15 for it so didn't want to give it up. Well, I was pulled out of line and the lady had me dump out my tote bag and she went through it, held up the foundation and told me to put it in a plastic bag and move on. I said "You aren't going to take it away from me?" and she said "No, we just want it in a plastic bag so it won't spill." I thought because it was a bottle of liquid over a certain weight they would confiscate it.
 
jujube, many people have had to learn that lesson the hard way. Large or small amount, if you can spare the money it's better to give (not loan) money and to never mention it again to anyone.

If you can't spare it, just say No - something a lot of people have a hard time doing.
 
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imp said:
But you were not "caught in the act"? imp
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We were not, but to further add to our "adventure", after loading up a van full of wire, making our way out of a tiny street level window, in the early dawn, one of our merry band nearly fell out of the van as it rounded a corner. Never did anything like that again, but at the time used the money to take my future wife out for a nice dinner.
 
Bobw235 said:
We were not, but to further add to our "adventure", after loading up a van full of wire, making our way out of a tiny street level window, in the early dawn, one of our merry band nearly fell out of the van as it rounded a corner. Never did anything like that again, but at the time used the money to take my future wife out for a nice dinner.
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Now, ya tempted my curiosity! Mind if I ask whereabouts this wire deal took place? imp
 
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