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How dopey have you been
Topic Started: Mar 16 2009, 08:08 AM (288 Views)
somerled
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What's the dopeyest thing you've can recall ever doing (so far in your life) ?
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HistoryDude
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:lol: Saw this after the other one! :P Please refer to the last sentence in my post there... ;)
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captain_proton_au
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Making a makeshift skateboard with shopping trolley wheels, I was about 11

Actually what was more dopier was making the first test run down the steepest street in my neighbourhood, I gashed my left shin down to the bone on a fence at the bottom.

Then sent a new definition of "pain" to Websters dictionary
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somerled
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When I was about 16 some girls and boys who I was very friendly with from dancing and I went to visit a hobby farm one of the girls grandparents had up near Cessnock (near the river there) , stinking hot day so someone had the bright idea to go swimming in a secluded billabong (waterhole) and we decided while we were walking there through the bush to skinny dip since as no one had their swimmers or even a towel (well that was the excuse).

Well after having the dip , the water was positively freezing BTW , and getting very "friendly" with the girl I was dating (at the time .... lovely Christine) , we decided to sunbake for a while before heading back to the farmhouse for dinner ..... omg !!! don't ever get really sunburnt privates .... it was agony wearing underpants for some days afterwards and very red and sore ! Pure torture !

Pretty dopey thing to do without any sunblock ....
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Mel
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Why did I know that this thread would turn this way? Oh yeah...
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Admiralbill_gomec
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Four months ago I walked into a glass storm door. While I didn't break it I got quite a headache and left a "forehead print" on the glass. I paid more attention following that. New house or not, I knew it was there.
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somerled
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Me , 15 years old , dad;s car , big brothers boat.

I was keen on learning to drive .

We had a double length , single car width lock up garage , and my big brother's home built boat was parked with one of the trailor's wheels off and up on axle jack in the back half (used to be the workshop end). Dad had the habit of leaving the car parked in gear (I didn't know that at the time) and leaving the keys in the ignition when parked in the locked garage.

Well , I wondered out early one morning keen to practice the gears and thought I had depressed the clutch peddle and that I was pressing the brake peddle (wrong .... I had the accelererator peddle pressed hard up against the metal !!!!) , so when turned on the ignition (I can't remember why I thought I needed the engine running) , the car spun the rear wheels momentarily and lurched forward colliding hard with the tow ball on the boat trailor which penetated straight through the radiator and cracked the engine block , and simultaneously pushed the boat and trailor forward about 6 ft and off the axle jack and the big outboard (near new) motor went through the back wall of the garage and hit the back fence so hard that the motor's drive shaft was bent (the outboard was a writeoff it turned out) , and I was left there sitting in total shock and white as a ghost when dad came running out in his PJs and saw the havoc I had caused ....

My big brother's already low opinion of me was only confirmed as the boat was his pride and joy.

My self worth took a tremendous shaking that morning , as did my self confidence, and it took me 4 years before I was willing to sit behind the steering wheel of a car again or ask dad for a driving lesson.

That's probably the dopeyest thing I've done so far in my life.

BTW : I never leave my vehicle parked in my garage with the clutch engaged ,and if I park in the driveway or yard, it's parked with reverse engaged .

Edited by somerled, Mar 16 2009, 06:24 PM.
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I was 15. Me and my buddies had a few beers.


Add shopping cart. Passenger. Steep hill. Busy avenue at the bottom.


I was the crash test dummy that survived; fortunately the cart spilled over near the bottom and I just got some scrapes.


Never do what your crazy friends want you to do; from there on in I would always reply with "you go first". :lol:
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Intrepid2002
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UNGH!
I asked a patient in the ER, "How the *bleep* did THAT get THERE?!???!!?" Unbeknownst to me, he was some bigwig.

I think they sent me to sensitivity class after that incident.
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somerled
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Another one , more recent that comes to mind.

I was still working (then a combustion engineer) in the Mills' Technology Group and was sharing a phone with a colleague who had a new wife who very clingy .... would ring him sometimes 9 or 10 times a day over trivial matters .... this was wearing very thin by then with me as I was getting fed up acting like the Miskiewicz personal answering service and having to chase him up if he wasn't in the office when she called or take a message for him .... I had my own work to do and this was disruptive in the extreme.

Well one afternoon the phone rings .... I pick it up and without giving the person on the other end of the phone a chance to utter a word, and rather than my usual response then "Mill's Technology - how may I help you ?" I said "Miskewicz's answering service" , then I heard the voice of the GM for BHP Long Products Division (the boss at Newcastle Steelworks) say "who ? , this is Bill Kirkby I'd like to speak to Terry please" .... Terry who was my supervisor and superintendent at the time was in earshot and had heard what I said and luckily took the redirected call and somehow defused the situation .... very dopey , and embarrising , and a good thing that Bill Kirkby didn't followup on this ....

I was from then on much more professional how I answered the phone and not long afterwards James was reassigned and moved to another office ....

Edited by somerled, Mar 16 2009, 10:49 PM.
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LoriCiani
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This was when I was 15. Hot summers day, shale beach, me in a halter neck swim suit. I fell asleep on my front while sunbathing and got a bad case of sunburn across and down my back. It was so painfull that night I could hardly sleep. But the worst thing was the pealing skin the next day, yuck!
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Intrepid2002
Mar 16 2009, 10:05 PM
I asked a patient in the ER, "How the *bleep* did THAT get THERE?!???!!?" Unbeknownst to me, he was some bigwig.

I think they sent me to sensitivity class after that incident.
people put weird things in weird places
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