Which hour?

whew, nothing lately, at least not overly incriminating. Though, I was going to suggest to you the other day: pineapple and vanilla smoothie.

smoothie tonight. It was yummy. No fruit.

but skiing by hanging onto a car by hanging onto the rear bumper and 'skiing' on an iced over parking lot comes to mind.

growing up in a neighbourhood that didn't salt the roads in winter, but put gravel on them leaving good snow coverage kids used to do that. And add to that a boys private school and you got lots of opportunistic bunkers as you drove along the snowy streets. I never did it myself. I don't like machines of any kind. My mom, when bunkers used to latch onto our car, would zigzag the car to get them off.... I would never have done that either. Very dangerous.

This was done in the patking lot of the local mall. Sadly, it seems that mall likely does not have enough traffic for such nefarious activity.

I was in a hurry on the way to Costco.

If I did I would still be in Germany working and most likely a German Citizen by now.

I blew my one chance to easily relocate to a more civilized nation. Biggest regret in my life too.

dumbest thing I ever did. I mean...NO ONE leaves them! I would have had credentials for all the races, been a part of their restoration program for their extensvie antique car collecion (they have more than twice the number of cars on public display in their musem) and been in charge of their Indy Racing League transporters.

Really stupid.

You see, I am still alive.

I was eating some pineapple and talking to a friend about how I really like pineapple but the burning and stinging sometimes lasts all day... so yeah, apparently it doesn't taste like that to everyone.

But it really does taste good (mouth ulcers aside, I mean!)

so you may not be alone in liking the flavor + burning sensation

be careful, if it is really an allergy it might start to get dangerous. I suspect it is more that you have a tender mouth and it is the enzymes natural to pineapple that are causing your irritation (pineapple makes a good marinade and for the same reason can't be used fresh in jello/gelatine as it prevents it from setting.)

But who knows? I have the same reaction to kiwi, I've discovered, but nothing else. I don't care so much about the kiwi, but pineapple!?! So delicious, but owwwwwwww.

My list of stupid things is very long...

I was on the Sally Jessica show on TV in Miami and one of the newscasters wanted me to do a portfolio for modeling. I turned him down. Who knows? I could be another Christie Brinkley today.

but it was early spring and the ice was getting thin. We made it to the island and explored it but on the way back the ice proved too thin to hold us and we fell into the icy water. We kept trying to grab onto the ice to pull ourselves out but it kept breaking. This went on for quite a few feet and we got exhausted just keeping afloat and trying to pull ourselves up. Finally, we found a thicker stretch of ice just in time. The ride back home on our bikes in soaking wet clothes was pretty cold. I could talk about two years later, when my friends and I lowered ourselves into a cave pit on a rope and the rope became so slimy with mud that we couldn't pull ourselves out again but I think I'll stop there.

Ive done a a lot of dumb things but that really takes the cake.

Really foggy night. Thought the boat ramp was a road.

by heating up butcher knives on the oven burners, to melt through the ice. Wanted to check if the knives were hot enough, but I had one in each hand so I couldn't just grab the blade to feel. (Hands were full). Did the next best thing. Laid the blade on my tongue for a minute.

It was hot. Very hot. Don't heat up metal blades on the stove then put them on your tongue.

Bought a $75 videogame, and 2 $15 figures for use with the game. (Disney Infinity)

Game turns out to be boring, haven't played it since late October.

Used videogame places won't take it.

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or chronologically?

I can tell you one that happened recently with my 74-year-old aunt. She decided she was going to re-do her bathroom in different shades of blue but, being on a fixed income, she had to do it on the cheap. So she goes into Catholic Charities Thrift Store and sees a beautiful blue "vase." She brought it home, proudly took it out of the bag to show her husband (the ex-biker) who proceeded to laugh his ass off. He said, "You HAVE to take a picture of that and text it to LTH." So she sends me the picture and I laughed until I cried -- it was one of the most beautiful blue bongs I'd ever seen. Double funny in that she bought it from Catholic Charities. I broke the news to her that her new "vase" might get her arrested in St. George, Utah.

Not too long ago I was making a batter which called for an egg. Without thinking, I cracked open the egg, threw the insides down the garbage disposal and threw the shells in the batter.

That aunt story cracked me up!

I'm glad you started this thread, applegrove. For me it's a "feel good " thread. I'm not the only one!

I was painting in my kitchen and I was up on one of those ladders that has the the tray thingie you can put up to put your tools on, etc.

I noticed the clips on the painting tray and then I noticed there was a place to clip them on to the step ladder.

Wowie kazowie. I'm only a baby boomer and I just figured that out.

So proud of myself that I was able to clip that painting tray to the stepladder thingie.

Anyway, I finished painting and forgot I'd clipped it so when I grabbed the paint tray to lift it off, the liner came loose, fell on the floor, and I had leftover paint on my kitchen floor.

Fortunately there wasn't much paint left and the cleanup went fairly easy.

But


Cher

for thought I guess my world view is a little harsh. Note to self: try and reconnect to your sardonic silly side.

while the light was red.

Then it turned Green.

( he didn't know I was on it the trunk. )

I dropped and rolled when he was about 15 20 MPH. Broke my collar bone.

That wasn't the stupidest part of of it. (1985)

OH, wait -- you said lately...

I broke my other collar bone in 1999. That was a softball incident.
(I don't think people REALLY wanna know stupidest thing I've done. I got caught with cigs AFTER I was admitted for appendicitis... I've done a lot of stupid things.)