Help me feel better... tell me something silly you did.

[Mr. K]

So, I want to get back to the gym, I bought an MP3 player, about $50.

Loaded all the songs on it. Used it three times and lost it. It is small and it clips on your shirt or whatever. I clipped it on my pants when I left the gym, but it must have fallen off on the way to the car. Nobody turned it in.

I kick myself, $50 wasted. Now I think it could be worse right. I could have lost my phone or my watch, then I would be seriously bummed out. But still since it was a brand new MP3 player.

So can anyone relate, it could have been worse, but anyone else got a story to share so we can commiserate together? Anyone make a bonehead move that was like throwing $ away.

Please share.

[jjnd08]

I try to block out my instances so I don't beat myself up for too long.

[watchwatcher]

We don't have the bandwith available on this forum for me to list them all...

OK, here's one--just for kicks. I gave the guy in the McDonalds a twenty when I was getting a coffee and forgot to wait for the change and promptly drove off with a $20 cup of coffee. Ouch.

[RichM]

Thought about trying to remove some light scratches on my Daytona with a Cape Cod cloth. Then I thought better.

[sdwtchlvr]

I jumped started my Lexus RX350 last year and crossed the cables. I've jumped a car 100 times and would have never thought I could be so dumb. Thought I fried the computer in my car but turns out I just fried a .25 cent fuse...could have been worse.

[Mr. K]

Thanks guys, feeling better already.

[Rock]

You ever pay for something, chatting to the cashier, and then walk out leaving it on the counter?

[Mr. K]

Originally Posted by Rock

You ever pay for something, chatting to the cashier, and then walk out leaving it on the counter?

Depends on what the cashier looks like.

[zama]

Reversed into a tree in an empty golf club car park, because I was worried my mate parked next to me would run into me.

[Laszlo]

About three months ago I took off my sunglasses and set them on the counter to put a box in a shopping cart, left the store and didn't realize it until I got home. Glasses gone and they were my favorite.

[TheVTCGuy]

O-M-G.... Silly.. Stupid... Dorklehead things that I'VE done???? Well, I guess we could start with book one volume one... And work our way up from there. Have you guys got several weeks with nothing to do but read?

[GradyPhilpott]

I have lost or broken so many things in my life that I finally had to just stop worrying about it and try to learn from the mistake.

Recently, I went to the grocery store and when I checked out at the self-service station, I pushed the button for $60 cash back.

I got distracted and when I got back to business, I grabbed my receipt and my groceries and left the money in the return.

I felt bad about it for about a half hour, I guess, and then just chalked it up to experience. Things like this have happened before and they will happen again, so it's jut not worth the energy.

Now, there have been times when a lost or wasted ten dollars has been a major catastrophe and I've had to go without food as a result, but even those kinds of losses have to be accepted for what they are and ultimately pushed to the back of one's mind.

[hdrazor251]

I would tell you mine but that would triple my post count.

[Andad]

Talk to my wife.

She has a daily list of mine.

[rootbeer7]

Showing father-in-law how using a nato was cool and double safe as if one spring bar failed the other would hold it............then dropped the bloody thing face down on a stone floor!! Just waiting for the repaired BB to come back from RSC any day now.

[cop414]

Years ago on the job I was in the office and received a call for a church burglary, I loaded some fingerprint and photography equipment into my cruiser and responded, maybe about 2 miles from the station. As I pulled into the church parking lot I hear a "thump" then watch in horror as our good 35mm camera goes sliding off the patrol car roof, down across the windshield, onto the freshly waxed hood and smashed into the ground just as I came to a stop. Dang thing stayed on the roof right where I put it until I stopped in the parking lot. Ended up using an old Polaroid camera that day, oh well.

[The Joker]

Last week I couldn't find my wallet, so I checked the black jeans I was wearing, turned house up-side down, went to the shops where I last had it, turned house upside down again. Then cancelled all my cards.

5 minutes later I'm checking the jeans again on my bedroom floor, hold on they're not the ones I was wearing. The black ones I was wearing the day before are folded in the closet with my wallet in the pocket.

[subtona]

funny thread :)


had an early flight, up and out a 4am (not a fan, usually going to sleep at that time)
had packed my bags and laid out my close the night before,
threw on may sweat pants for the plane ride grabbed my bags and off to the airport.
at the counter (NY to LA) ticket agent asks for ID…… can't find my wallet,

it was a cold winter morning, had on 5 layers and lots of pockets…
searched and searched and searched, no wallet to be found, they finally agreed to let me fly if I volunteered for an extensive screening and search.

at this time my scheduled flight was rolling down the runway for take off, my girlfriend taking it in stride.

all of my layers were on the chair next to me, frisked by two different TSA agents… OK sir your good to go…

as i was putting all my layers on, i pulled my shirt down and smoothed it around my waist, when i got to my lower back i noticed a something that felt a lot like a wallet…

my wallet had flipped up over my waste band still in the floppy pocket of my sweat pants, it was there the whole time, i didn't find it, two TSA agents didn't find it… i boarded the next scheduled flight exhausted from the ordeal.

[azguy]

I dropped a 45 lb dumbbell on my foot about 2 months ago and broke a toe, I guess I deserved it as I was ogling a lady working out near me and not paying attention

[AzPaul]

Pitched my (almost) brand new driver into the middle of a lake during a particularly frustrating round.

. . . . because, of course, it was the driver's fault

[Globule]

I am a keen cyclist. When I retired, I had my dream bike hand built tube by tube to my own specs. It was and still is the most comfortable machine I have ever ridden.

Anyhow I knocked it over in my shed where the top tube promptly sought out the front chain ring of my recumbent trike. No injury to the trike but the top tube of my beloved bike was neatly dented and perforated by three of the trike's chainring teeth.

I invented so many cusswords that day that I was invited to edit the next Oxford English Dictionary!

Oh the repair? Yes that was a cool £450. Ouch!

[gmh1013]

When i was 18 and a senior in high school (1976) i went out on a date once and got sooooo drunk that i got up to go pee and then left the bar and her in it. I was so drunk I forgot i had a date..... a few days later i saw her in the hall in school and asked her how she was doing and would she like to go out again......she said no.....wonder why?

[Scot_3]

Poaring down rain on our family vacation, I decide to take the whole family to see the new terminator movie. Leaving the theater I believe doors were automatic opening. Walked in to the door , blacked my eye, and the whole family is still laughing at me.

[greggsiam]

Darwin award candidate - Going out, trying to dress quickly and put on a turtle-neck. Almost choked to death by forcing my head down the sleeve hole thinking it was the neck just being stubborn.

Almost drowned my family as a kid at Disney World by splashing a duck that "was mocking me" which upturned the canoe, dumping us all in the water. My grandfather couldn't swim. I got some evil stares riding back wet on the monorail.

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by watchwatcher

We don't have the bandwith available on this forum for me to list them all...

OK, here's one--just for kicks. I gave the guy in the McDonalds a twenty when I was getting a coffee and forgot to wait for the change and promptly drove off with a $20 cup of coffee. Ouch.

So funny you mention this.
In Florida I bought a mini pizza, gave the waitress what I thiought was a $10 and said keep the change. She smiled and said THANKS! I figured she was just being friendly. I got back to our room and later that night realized it was $100

[fmc000]

Just 5 minutes ago I felt an itch at my right elbow and scratched it. Then I realized that I spilled some blood on my polo shirt and trousers, 200€ wasted and half a day in the office with red stains on.

[GB-man]

Originally Posted by AzPaul

Pitched my (almost) brand new driver into the middle of a lake during a particularly frustrating round.

. . . . because, of course, it was the driver's fault

Hilarious! I put a lob wedge 30 feet up a tree once

I've got too many to list.

Just last week I walked into a pole in the grocery store. Was people watching instead of looking ahead....

I once left a shopping bag from LV in a NY taxi going from Bloomingdales uptown to soho and didn't recall the cab #. Then walked to soho LV and repurchased the same wallet (a gift).

When I was 17 my good friends and I we're leaving a bond film late at night and in the dead of winter. Feeling particularly bond like I decided to execute a 180 in reverse out of the seemingly empty parking spot and lot. Except for that car that was in my blind spot. (I had an SUV they had a Hyundai compact)

I could go on but let's not worry about it

[wantonebad]

Lets see, I've gone to Red Sox games twice without my tickets granted 10 year apart but it still happened.

In college I was dating a woman who gave me a gaudy gold chain as generous BDay gift. Two days later during a pick-up football game it must have popped a link cause it was gone when i got home never to be seen again. Yes it was tacky but probably $600 worth of gold. I spent the next semester quietly cause I was alone.

Playing golf with my new (at the time) father in law at his private club, I didn't engage the foot break on the golf cart, the cart rolled down the hill into a creek...

Those are just three off the top of my head...

[andromeda160]

Left a $180 pair of carrera sunglasses in an airport.
was at a bon fire, I was throwing wood in and my parents bought me a diamond and gold ring for my 16th bday, had like 100 little diamonds coating it. Ended up flying off my finger into the fire, I killed the party, poured water all over the fire and ruined everyones night in an effort to find my ring (found it, but the fire destroyed it lol, never got invited to another bon fire either.

Prior to Rolex, I mainly tinkered with Remote control cars, trucks boats and planes. They had the gas engines and most were $300-1000. I bought 2 planes, and played the trainer game at the store for 10 minutes and decided that I passed pilot school and it was time to take these babies out for a spin. First flight, I was using a plane they call a "trainer" they're easy to fly, not aerobatic, and fairly slow/easy to land. My maiden flight went off without a hitch, I thought it was a piece of cake and I wanted to do some stunts so I pulled out my stunt plane that I had around $400 into, got it up into the air, flew around, did some loops and flips and decided I was going to try a nose divr. Built up as much altitude as I could, throttled back and put her into a dive, midway through I throttled up a bit and tried pulling up, the thing throttled straight into the ground the engine was about 10" in, plane shattered into a million pieces and about the most dissapointed 16yr old in the world. I was more pissed off I did it in front of a group of 10-15 people who were all fascinated by the planes at the park I was at. That was the end of my RC plane career. The thing hit the ground so hard it destroyed the engine too lol

my other expensive RC screw up was with a nitro RC car, thing went around 60mph and I always was opening up the throttle, the thing couldn't keep straight if you opened it up at once. Anyways, I took it to the school parking lot that was next to the field that consumed my plane, having a blast until my sterring servo broke and I crashed straight into a curb full speed. Seized the engine, snapped everything in the front end, bent the aluminum chassis in half almost, I laughed though when it happened because I knew it was bound to happen.

I blew up my crotch rocket tire the second day I had it by doing a nice smokey burnout Blew second gear a few months later rofl

destroyed my saturn drifting it on a dirt road, got on the highway and realized I blew my rear main seal because oil was smokescreening everyone for 1/2mile behind me.

Accidentily donated my childhood coin collection worth a few grand to salvation army.

I've lost so many expensive pairs of sunglasses partying it isn't even funny.

The list goes on, with expensive tastes come expensive mistakes, as long as it doesn't bankrupt you, just best to chalk it up and move on xD

My girlfriends dad has a 38ft powerquest he backed into his house parking the trailer and cracked a good 5 ft of the hull lol
and ripped the back of his camper off cuz it was pinched on a branch when they were driving off.

[wantonebad]

Originally Posted by andromeda160

I've lost so many expensive pairs of sunglasses partying it isn't even funny.

I pair of REVO's $250
2 pairs of Maui Jim's $300 EACH
2 pairs of Ray Ban's $150 each
4,500 pairs under $100

so Yeah I hear ya and am clearly right there with ya...