Realizing you did something stupid

[hyperhammy]

I'm talking about the feeling you get 1 second after you did something stupid and survived. I bet many of you know this feeling, so when have you experienced it? I just had it. I was playing around with my Zippo lighter (don't try this at home) and wanted to do a trick. So I put some lighter fluid in the cap, lit the zippo and blew the flame so it looked like a big fireball. It did look impressive until I noticed I couldn't stop the fire and the flame got way too big. I walked to the bathroom and threw it in the sink, at which point a huge flame errupted. I quickly turned on the water and managed to stop the flame. Fail or win?

 

[likalaruku]

As a child, I somehow thought a 6 foot pile of snow could somehow support my weight & that I could walk right up to the roof. Boy was I wrong.

 

[ANinjaBurrito]

I was trying to climb up a wall at school, and when I was swinging myself to the top I slipped and fell. Scratched my body all on the wall, ouch it hurt. No broken bones though

 

[GuyWithABeard]

I don't really have reprocussions on actions as much as I do have my patented "What the hell am I doing" moments in which I'm in the process of doing stupid and laugh at myself as if I'm actually watching me do it.

 

[hyperhammy]

I don't really have reprocussions on actions as much as I do have my patented "What the hell am I doing" moments in which I'm in the process of doing stupid and laugh at myself as if I'm actually watching me do it.

LOL and then you start trolling on yourself. xD

 

[Bellvedere]

I set my hair on fire. Well a few times.

A few times it was lighting cigarettes drunk. Nothing big or dramatic though. Just enough that it confuses hair dresses why one side near my fringe is a bit shorter than the other.

My big something stupid was when straightening my hair, the straightener exploded and burnt all of my fringe. It's still all fuzzy and completely unmanageable. I had to dye my hair to on account of the fact that when it burnt it turned orange. Weird.

Not so much life or death but it's pretty dumb and I look like an idiot unless I put some serious effort into taming it.

 

[Estocavio]

Yesterday i fucked a muscle on my shoulder trying to climb a fence. Yeah.

 

[AvsJoe]

The only thing I can think of is when I absentmindedly walked into traffic because I was focusing on how bloody cold it was (-35, -40ish). Thank freaking goodness the driver of the van saw me and stopped (and that there was no ice to prevent the stoppage). I fully believe that I'd probably be dead were it not for that.

And yeah, I felt like a true idjit for weeks afterwards. Who the hell walks into traffic? People have won Darwin Awards for less stupid acts.

 

[ShatteredBlack]

When spending my year in Scotland, I was exhaused after treking up a big hill for the 20-somethingth time. I decided I needed a liedown, so flopped onto what I thought was a puffy snowbank.

Turned out to be a rather large boulder, covering in a scant 3/8-inch of snow. Ouch...

 

[Estocavio]

Yesterday i fucked a muscle on my shoulder trying to climb a fence. Yeah.

I took that sentence literally and the image it conjured has left me confused.

Just imagine climbing to the top of a fence, pulling your knee up to your chin, losing your balance and trying to grab, then pulling your shoulder too far up and stretching something, then realising you stretched that muscle in front of your shoulder leading to your neck about 5 minutes after...

For your enchanting imagination however, my arm got bent around and went... Somewhere.

 

[kazork]

I once drove a car wich was far more faster than i thought. So i get to a higway ramp which had a curve in it ( i think it is called that) and punch in the gas.

The car shoots forward and i drift through the turn and litteraly get launched on the higway instantly crossing 2 lanes. I was lucky that the highway wasn't that bussy at the moment.

There was no accident but i tought that my life would come to a burning and crushing end.

EDIT:The drifting part may sound cool but it wasn't. It was the scariest thing that happend in my life.

 

[The Lizard of Odd]

I'm more often than not the person who -prevents- dumb things from happening...particularly at parties where people get drunk and decide things like 'well, if throwing candelwax on the fire is awesome, I bet throwing this gas container will be GREAT!'. Yeah, thank god they listened to my shrieking insults.
I've had my dumb moments, but mostly low key. Like deciding to ride my bike home in the snow one day, and having it flip out from under me on the plastic stuff between the rails of the T (Boston). I landed mostly on my thumb and wrist...and never went to a doctor. It wasn't broken, but I have my suspicions that it was still messed up somehow lol.