Common sense why did I do that

[LoveTulips]

I think I have a lot of common sense and can't understand why people don't have the same. But the other day, I had a table fan on and did not think that it mattered that there was a cloth sitting just behind the fan. Well, it is a good thing my husband was in the room pretty soon afterwards as the cloth got sucked into the back of the fan propellers and would have caused a fire!

Funny, that one thing caused me to think why people do something dumb. And I feel a little more sympathetic to people who might do something dumb. Me, who, always says, "well I would not do that! What an idiot that person is!"

Have any of you done something that you figured, oh heck. I should have known better? I'm not talking about when you were young. I'm talking about now.

 

[OldFeller]

Very few people would have foreseen a fan sucking up a cloth.. Not sure it would have caused a fire. I think the strange noise it would make would alert you that something was amiss and you would have turned off the fan on time.

 

[astralcat]

I think most of us have done foolish things out of poor judgment. We can’t always anticipate what may happen and often times we are concentrating on something else and not paying attention to any possible hazards.

 

[seadoug]

I have. I put a whole package of uncooked brussels sprouts that had gone bad into the sink disposal. It was more than the disposal could handle at first, so it backed up and stinky water came up from the drain into the sink. For a couple of days I turned on the disposal on and water would again come up until the brussels sprouts were finally soft enough to dissolve. This was truly stupid on my part and I learned my lesson.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Way back in the 70s, a bunch of us unmarrieds decided to have Thanksgiving dinner together. I got to cook the turkey, because I was the only one with an oven. I put the turkey on a cookie sheet and stuck it into the oven. I was watching the game when the smoke alarm went off. The grease from the turkey was falling on the red hot element in the electric stove. Flames were everywhere-coming out the back , front and sides of the stove. Thankfully shutting off the oven saved the house from being burnt down. I had no idea that much grease came out of a turkey.
BTW, at the dinner, everybody commented about the nice smokey flavor of the turkey.