Ever amazed by your own stupidity?

[Sterlo]

I was drilling a piece of wood, holding it against my leg and drilled through the wood and caught my joggers in the drill. I missed my leg by a small margin but the twisting of the material caused a burn on my inner thigh, I can still see the scar years later.

 

[TheDoctor]

You know those stick blenders? If you're blending some soup, and bits of leek are stuck in the blades, make REALLY REALLY SURE you unplug it before sticking your fingers in to clear it.
Fecking. Ouch.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I won't tell you how often I've looked for my glasses for several minutes while wearing them.

 

[Drago]

Not me, but still worthy of a chuckle.

The other morning I was walking Mini D to school. we'd just crossed the road at a junction, and as we started to walk on a car approached and slowed for the give way lines...only for the travel mug on the roof to fly forward and deposit its contents upon the road surface. cue one very sheepish driver getting out to pick up his cup while we tittered away.

 

[mikeIow]

I've had eggs explode when I put them on to boil and forgot about them. Made quite a mess of the kitchen ceiling!

As a student, about a hundred years ago*, a pal & I popped a steamed treacle sponge in a pan of water to boil....went upstairs, & clean forgot about it.
About an hour (maybe two ) later, there was an almighty BANG from the kitchen....
The can had exploded in beautiful symmetry along the side seam and top lid....shooting the entire contents up the very tall ceiling
That took a helluva lot of cleaning up

* actually 1984 - astonished I still have this picture!

 

[DRHysted]

I had the remote mic of the works radio fall off as I was using the industrial shrink wrapper at work to wrap 4 steel drums to their pallet.
the pallet is spinning round while I was desperately trying to reach the emergency stop button. Thankfully the pocket on my overalls ripped apart, and the whole radio became wrapped without me. I didremove the radio and rewrap the pallet before dispatching to the customer.

 

[slowmotion]

Aged thirteen, on my first day at secondary school, I was given a written IQ test to determine which class I would go into. They put me in the bottom one.

I didn't realise that there were questions on the back page.

 

[mustang1]

It happened in the metalwork room at my secondary school when one of my classmates got his tie caught in pillar drill and luckily someone was close to him to stop it.

Actually I should have put a smiley in my post to signify that I did believe it but... Uhm well, was attempting humor.

 

[roadrash]

I am the man that discovered that if one lays the toaster on its side it is possible to then make cheese on toast.

Of course, after some months of such abuse the toaster caught fire and by the time Mrs D had returned home the kitchen looked like Dresden after Bomber Command had flown past and I was duly rumbled.

heres a tale originally posted by @theclaud ...

Call that a disaster? There's a guy in the pub I work in who came in with a burn across the bridge of his nose. He had got back from the pub the night before and fancied cheese on toast, but couldn't be arsed to put the grill on. So he'd lain the toaster on its side, toasted the bread lightly, placed the cheese on top and carefully placed the whole lot back in the side-down toaster. All rather ingenious until he got impatient and decided to peer into the toaster to see how it was getting on, when he was suddenly reminded in abrupt nose-searing fashion that eye-level grills do not normally fire their toasted contents at your face when they consider them done. I forgot to ask whether he opted for Worcester Sauce or Mustard

 

[Drago]

Damn the man to hades for stealing my idea, just as my range of rotatable toaster racks is about to hit rhe shops!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I don't believe you. This kinda stuff only happens in cartoons.

I did see a picture of a dog who had smelt the sweet wrapper that a kid had fed through the shredder
poor mut was lucky a human was nearby and hear the scream

apparently he recovered just fine - but with a squared off tongue



on a different note my ex never really believed Microwaves worked as advertised
so assessed the correct time to cook a salmon fillet for was about 10 minutes


after we broke up I started using that Microwave
it took me about 3 years to properly clean all the residue from the inside - it was a week or two before I could even use it properly!

 

[Trickedem]

I recently was unblocking the kitchen sink and removed the ubend. Picked it up and poured the contents down the sink.

 

[Profpointy]

Regarding microwaves: one my ex-Mrs' work colleagues had seen a leakage detector for sale and was a bit concerned as he'd had his cooker a long time. He was skeptical it was actually working as it registered zero right next to oven without even a twitch of the needle. "how can I get a reading to prove it works?" he asked himself. I think you can see where this is going. A shower of sparks later he'd ruined the microwave and the detector

 

[steve292]

One of my works colleagues put fairy liquid in the dishwasher, because we'd run out of dishwasher tablets.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I recently was unblocking the kitchen sink and removed the ubend. Picked it up and poured the contents down the sink.

I think I may have done that at some point.