Dumbest thing I have ever....
This may not be the dumbest since there some I've chosen (or tried) to forget but 8 years ago I was living in Hong Kong. I like spicy foods and while making dinner one evening was happily chopping away at some Thai bird shit peppers (if you've had them you know what I mean). It's often recommended that one should wear rubber gloves because the oils from the pepper will most assuredly burn. A lot.
In the middle of this delicate operation the phone rang. Conversation over and having been distracted, I did my dumb thing. I went to the bathroom (with the chili oil still on my hands). Spent the rest of the evening sitting in a tub of cold water.
Moral of this story: Either get someone else to chop the chilis or wear a diaper so you don't have to stop mid-chop.
LOL! I've done something like this:
When I was a kid, my dad's idea of a fun summer was to get in the car and go for two weeks driving holiday...god I hated that! The only good thing was the comic books I got to shut me up ('are we there yet?!') and the food on the road. Which normally rocked!
There was this one mexican food place in the Texas Arbuckles (Picks?). Fucking amazing tamales delivered in newspaper. Anyway, we'd stopped there as part of our drive onwards to Colorado. While waiting for our food, dad and I chowed down on chili's, crackers and 7-Up. LOVED the chili's, still do.
Unfortunately, we got about 20 miles down the road and I stuck my fingers in my eyes...you can imagine what happened next. My dad couldn't be bothered stopping the car, which meant I suffered for 5 hours in the back of the car.
But the REALLY stupidest thing I ever did on purpose was to bet the kids in 6th grade that I would put my foot under the bus and let it run over my naked foot. Which I did...both the tires.
Didn't really hurt much, at least not until I got a block away. At that point, the pain ramped up so fast that I fell onto the neighbor's lawn, writhing in pain. Of course I then sucked it up, and hobbled home. Never told my parents what I'd done. To this day, my right foot gets sore in cold weather and I'm getting the start of a bunion on it.
When I installed our new hot water heater, I cut the incoming water line before turning the valve off and the rest is history. lmao
