Dumbest thing you've done lately

Subject: Dumbest thing you've done lately

Fellow Brooklynians, be the FAIL you wish to see in this world.

With some scientific effort, the following are the empirical results of this morning's experiment:

Probability of making a mess with a 2-mug coffee maker with 2 mugs of water poured in and only one side/cup selected: 100%

***edited to add the following update:
A listener by the name of Schrödinger dialed in to mention that I could drop those odds to 50% by merely placing the coffee maker inside a box for the experiment. Thanks for the tip!
***

Okay, on to you now.

What have you dumb for me lately? [sic]

I put a Coke in the freezer to cool faster and then I forgot about it. It exploded.

I went to work... dumb dumb dumb #-o

Drano wrote: I put a Coke in the freezer to cool faster and then I forgot about it. It exploded.

Drano - an episode of Mythbusters that aired recently compared various methods of cooling a six-pack from room temperature down to a lovely frosty beverage temp, and the one that won out by far was by submerging the cans in salt + ice + water, lowering the melting point. Cooled an entire 6-pack to 36 degrees in 5 minutes flat.

results from that episode wrote: Results (after 5 minutes):
ice: 57 degrees
ice water: 44 degrees
salt water: 35.9 degrees
freezer: 55 degrees
fridge: 60 degrees

Final results: * Ice + water + salt: 5 minutes * Ice + water: 15 minutes * Freezer: 25 minutes * Ice: 30 minutes * Fridge: 40+ minutes

Kind of like the old ice cream churners, with the icy salt brine that cools it as you stir.

Science at work for you!

I forgot to pay my taxes for 8 years. The coke was good though. Not that Coke!

I've been relying on temp agencies to find me a job....yea, right! Bastards!

I got preggers in the hottest month imaginable. ;-)

Someone told me baby carrots were an actually KIND of carrot and I believed them. Only for like 2 seconds, and I was slighly intoxicated, but I'll never hear the end of "Carmen going to the baby carrot farm."

doh.

most recently: attempting to rescue a cat that didn't need rescuing *cough*jeffreycarnivore*cough*

ultimate fail: 2006 and 2007 taxes not done - and those fuckers owe me money.

I was paying for something at Coney Island today and instead of handing one of those sum bitches 6 one dollar bills , I handed them 5 one dollar bills and a $20 dollar bill. Oooh , and whoever it was didn't try to give it back. That's fucked up , cuz I wouldn't do that shit to anyone. I wish people would be more honest when it comes to things like that.

Em26 wrote: I was paying for something at Coney Island today and instead of handing one of those sum bitches 6 one dollar bills , I handed them 5 one dollar bills and a $20 dollar bill. Oooh , and whoever it was didn't try to give it back. That's fucked up , cuz I wouldn't do that shit to anyone. I wish people would be more honest when it comes to things like that.

In Coney Island? Are you kidding? That's the homeland of grift!

Underhill_MT wrote: I got preggers in the hottest month imaginable. ;-)

That's not SO dumb. Better now than waddling around ready to pop in this heat, I'd think. It wasn't too hot to have s-e-x, now was it, missy? :safe:

In rushing out of the house today I went to call the office to tell them I would be a few minutes late and realized I had put the home phone in my purse instead of my cell.

i quit my (crummy) retail job before getting final, final, reconfirmed start-date info from my new, better job and am now unemployed.

Forgot my car was double parked yesterday (because I got a call from a client, to be fair) for street cleaning and consequentially got it towed. I am an asshole and now out almost $350 between towing and the ticket.

A few co-workers are going on vacation soon and my boss asked me to work overtime for 4 days. She looked so sad and desperate that I said yes :shock:
what the hell was I thinking?! this is the summer im suppose to have as much fun as possible and as little work as possible.

admitted to my mother that the bang i yelped at while we were on the phone might have been a gunshot.

admitted that i've heard gunshots before.

on my way home from work, after horrid amounts of Lincoln Tunnel traffic I was so damn anxious to just get back home that while walking to the fair control turnstiles at 42nd St I just walked right into it without even thinking to get out my Metrocard to swipe it. I had to step back and just stand there knowing a few hundred people just saw me look like I've never been to NYC and thought the subway was free. Then I went home and got drunk with my friend. So it worked out.

I do so many dumb things in the coarse of an average day that it's hard to keep count. Have done both Stacey and Sweet Tea's dumb things--more than once?
Today...frosty beer in oven and casserole in freezer. Just kidding, but if it happened, it'd be typical.

at least you didn't try to resuce a cat that didn't wanna.

Woke up at 3am!!....went to bed too early due to a pizza coma brought on by too much Lucali's and wine

am right there with you on the "woke up at 3am" crap. grrr.

@ Mamacita: thanks for inducing a huge, insane Lucali's craving...........I may have to sneak over there on Sunday while the bf is at Bruce.