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What was the last dumb thing you did?

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, Mar 26, 2013.

  1. buckeye

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    I had Direct TV installed last fall to replace our Time Warner Cable.

    They had to put the dish 130ish feet from the house to clear the trees in my front yard.

    They did not bury the cable from the satellite post to my house. They only bury like 10 feet or something like that. I never got around to burying it due to hunting season and then the ground being frozen...

    Hopped on the mower to chop up some leaves that accumulated in the back yard... Tore that cable line all up and broke it in half. I called around looking for the proper cable line (has a secondary ground wire attached to the outside of it) to fix it myself. I found some but only in 50 or 100 foot rolls, no good. Had to have Direct TV come out and replace all 130 some feet of cable line.
     
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    I got in a wing eating contest with a short fat guy. He kicked my *** and then bragged about it. Man, that was dumb.
     
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    Drugs...
     
  4. buckeye

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    Here is my latest dumb mistake.... Engaging in and prolonging a conversation with a class A tool bag. <--- I am talking about you.
     
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    Too many to list with my bathroom remodel. Perhaps the dumbest? Hanging the new curtain rod about 5 inches too high, then having to spend the next two days filling, sanding, and painting the holes left from removing the drywall anchors.
     
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    Backstory; I'm a machine operator for our local paper, we have our ads on skids/pallets an their stored on a rack that's roughly 30ft high an are 7 skids spots long.(if ya ever seen a pallet you get roughly how long it is) So you need a forklift to move them.

    Today while running the forklift at my job I was pullin a skid on the racks to move it to the top an trying to avoid nailing an air vent that's entirely to low an damn near directly over our racks. Well I was payin more attention to the air vent then I was the racks themselves, well I hugged it to close an tilted the entire rack filled with skids backwards. I about crapped myself, tryin not to freak I slowly dropped the forks an steadied the racks back level. Thinkin that I got away with this was about the only thing on my mind until I backed up an saw who was standin there watchin me the whole time, the head honcho Mr. Bossman. Can you say uh oh!


    Thankfully he was more happy I didn't destroy the racks then my minor mess up that I got out of it hahaha
     
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    Germ Legendary Woodsman

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    Some now I managed to infer one of the moms on my daughters soccer team was a lesbian, she smacked me.
     
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    I applied for an Alaska bear tag and nearly went ahead and bought the flights to lock in low rates.... Found out two weeks later that I had missed the draw for this spring by 12 months, and that I had applied for a season 18 months away. I ended up not drawing anyway, so now I'm looking at 2015 as the earliest return to this particular spot and the mountain there may be a radioactive mine by then.


    I listed a boat for sale without looking into pricing that much for it and sold it the very next day..... not a bad deal by any means, but always leaves you wondering how much money you left on the table.

    I decided selling my F-250 for a Camry was a good decision. Meeting in the middle ground this summer with a new Tacoma finally.


    To be a pretty smart guy, I sure do a lot of dumb ish.... Most of which I am not admitting publicly lol.
     
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    I told you that was a good price Trevor. ;)
     
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    Oh I miss read the question ( I haven't done drugs in a long time ) lol... I break checked a cop 2 days ago. He wasn't too happy. I told him he shouldn't have been riding my ***. He held me for over a half hour and made me late to work. No ticket though.
     
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    You gonna brag about it? lol

    Is that wing sauce on your chin?

    Wanna race kayaks?

    How about a 5k?

    Maybe a name calling contest? nah, you would definitely win that one......nevermind.
     
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    I bid on a "great price" pack of broadheads on a popular auction website. Didn't read enough to see they were used AND it was only two and not a three pack. On top of it all I hate how they fly :( complete waste of about 40 bucks :)
     
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    About 2 weeks ago, I was going to chop up a head of lettuce, by holding the lettuce in one hand and trying to trim the wilted leaves off with the knife in my other hand...can you see where this is going ?..... well, one thing led to another and after playing mumbly peg with the lettuce and the knife, I look down and I darn near cut the tip of my finger off....dang that knife was sharp, cut right thru the nail,(lost half of it a week later), and it bled like a stuck pig for almost a day !!!
     
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    I obviously do not care to interact with you very much and I thought that I had purveyed that... But yet, you are always following my posts around annoying me with your pointless nitpick replies.

    I do not dislike you per say, shoot a deer and I will throw you a congrats and mean it. Just tired of seeing your name with quotes from my posts in your replies.
     
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    Since ive been in school and in a relationship for awhile...not really.

    That in itself, is dumb.

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    Was it played out in slow motion? Thats usual how it works for me...as in you see whats happening a split second before it does.

    My list...humm let me think.
     
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    The last dumb thing I did had to be when I was pulling out a fence post last fall and the chain slipped and flew back towards my truck taking out the hood, the good news it didn't take out the windshield.
     
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    I think you might be giving yourself a little too much credit. Maybe the humor is lost on you. Maybe I am attracted to the low hanging fruit. I will put you on the "easily offended" list and leave you alone. Unless you want to just settle this the old-fashioned way......with a little kayak race. But be prepared, if I win, I will definitely brag a little bit.


    The last dumb thing I did was pick on buckeye.:poke:
     
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    I replaced my dishwasher. The connections are on the back side of a kitchen cabinets where I had to remove the panel off the back side. After I got the new dishwasher installed, hooked up and tested for leaks I went and put the back cabinet panel on and drove a nail right through the dishwasher. SOB was I pissed.
     

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