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Not my story. But was with a sister in Flagstaff and neither of us are from there. She was driving and tried to get onto the freeway using the off ramp. Almost **** myself.
 
I dialed into the wrong call number at work, happened to get into an active meeting. There was a heated discussion so in the middle I just joined right in. I ended up dominating the conversation (this is not so weird for me) but everyone else fell silent. They finally asked who I was, I told them, and they told me I was in the wrong meeting. Pretty embarrassing.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I dialed into the wrong call number at work, happened to get into an active meeting. There was a heated discussion so in the middle I just joined right in. I ended up dominating the conversation (this is not so weird for me) but everyone else fell silent. They finally asked who I was, I told them, and they told me I was in the wrong meeting. Pretty embarrassing.
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LOL, that's hilarious.
 
VINYLONE said:
I don't know if I ever posted in this thread or not but I lent someone here at work a few thousand dollars. Sigh. Needless to say, I never saw it again and the guy was subsequently fired after it was discovered that he was borrowing money from 27 different people from around the lot. All in all, I think that dude got over on people for close to 55k. Sigh.
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That's a shame.
 
I found some money - about $17 - in a "secret" pocket of a purse I hadn't used in about four years and I got worried that it was no good because it had expired. I scrutinized both sides of those bills and got really frustrated because I couldn't find the expiration date.

I finally had that "face palm" moment...
 
I ran track in high school-- the 110m and 220m hurdles were my events. One day at practice, after the team had finished with stretching/warm-ups, I went down to the other corner of the field where the starting line is for the 110s and took off my pull-away warm-up pants. About 5 seconds later I heard my coach's voice through his megaphone from the other corner where we had done warm-ups. He yelled my name twice, paused, and then: "Where are your SHORTS?!!" It dawned on me in that moment that things felt a little breezy, and I immediately realized-- along with the entire track team-- that I had failed to put shorts on, and was standing in my tighty-whitey underwear and a hoodie.
 
Troutbum once offered me 100 dollars to sell him jazzhacks.com. Being the moron that I am, I said no - mainly because it was Troutbum. I let that domain name die this week. Should have taken that money and ran.
 
I once drove around with a 'busted' passenger window that wouldn't roll down for 6 months. It was during winter so I didn't care enough to fix it. When warmer weather rolled around I decided it was time to fix the window. Ten minutes into fixing it I realized I had the window lock on and the window was fine the whole time.
 
I tried some substances for the first time a couple weeks ago and said some really cringey ****ed up things to some friends of my friend (whom I met for the first time that night) that are so cringe and embarassing that I think about it multiple times a day every day since and can't type here what I said because of how bad I will be judged.
 
This was several years ago:
I was using a cordless drill with a 3 1/2” hole saw to drill through the exterior wall of a house. It took forever and was burning through the wood more than cutting it. I just assumed the bit was dull. Turns out I had in it reverse the whole time. I burned up a $150 drill by cutting a hole in reverse.
 
The Blue Elephant said:
I tried some substances for the first time a couple weeks ago and said some really cringey ****ed up things to some friends of my friend (whom I met for the first time that night) that are so cringe and embarassing that I think about it multiple times a day every day since and can't type here what I said because of how bad I will be judged.
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I hate that feeling. I'm pretty sure everyone has been there in some form or another. You just get like a wave of embarrassment that you can't do anything about. It probably doesn't help that your serotonin levels are low post whatever you did I'm guessing.
 
bigb said:
This was several years ago:
I was using a cordless drill with a 3 1/2” hole saw to drill through the exterior wall of a house. It took forever and was burning through the wood more than cutting it. I just assumed the bit was dull. Turns out I had in it reverse the whole time. I burned up a $150 drill by cutting a hole in reverse.
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You'll probably appreciate this one.

I finished wiring my Attic. I got all the outlets done and just finished the recessed lights and bathroom fan. I flipped the breaker and turned in the light switches and nothing. After being annoyed I started checking everything but couldn't see anything wrong. I decided to cool off and walk away from the project and come back to it. After awhile I couldn't think of why they were not working so I went to walk back up to start tearing stuff apart to start checking it more thoroughly when I noticed that I hadn't put in the light bulbs yet. Good news is they worked just fine after I put those in...
 
Ron Mexico said:
You'll probably appreciate this one.

I finished wiring my Attic. I got all the outlets done and just finished the recessed lights and bathroom fan. I flipped the breaker and turned in the light switches and nothing. After being annoyed I started checking everything but couldn't see anything wrong. I decided to cool off and walk away from the project and come back to it. After awhile I couldn't think of why they were not working so I went to walk back up to start tearing stuff apart to start checking it more thoroughly when I noticed that I hadn't put in the light bulbs yet. Good news is they worked just fine after I put those in...
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I had a service call the other day. The homeowner’s son had changed out a couple switches. Suddenly, every time he flipped the switch, the breaker tripped. I was there an hour before I realized the dude had hooked the ground wire to the same terminal as the wire to the light. Every time he flipped that switch, it sent power to the ground, an immediate short circuit. I was pretty disappointed in myself for not catching it sooner.
 
bigb said:
I had a service call the other day. The homeowner’s son had changed out a couple switches. Suddenly, every time he flipped the switch, the breaker tripped. I was there an hour before I realized the dude had hooked the ground wire to the same terminal as the wire to the light. Every time he flipped that switch, it sent power to the ground, an immediate short circuit. I was pretty disappointed in myself for not catching it sooner.
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Trying to fix other people's mess ups seems awful. From my friends who are electricians that seems like the worse part of their jobs.

Speaking of which could you come over and take a look at something I broke... Jk
 
I was running a little late for work, not so much that I was going to be late, just leaving a min or two after I normally do. So I get to my car and use my key fob to unlock the door, then as I'm getting in I realize I forgot something in my house. So I walk up top my front door and push the unlock button on my key fob and wait for a second listening for the lock to open before realizing that's not how my front door works.
 
Bulletproof said:
So I walk up top my front door and push the unlock button on my key fob and wait for a second listening for the lock to open before realizing that's not how my front door works.
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I've done this a time or two. I'm always really glad that no one is watching.
 
I never take the key fob out of my pocket and my doors open automatically. But I cannot tell you how many times I have gone looking for my keys when they were in my pocket the whole time. Once while the car was running. Absentmindedness is a sign of genius right? Right?
 
Ron Mexico said:
I hate that feeling. I'm pretty sure everyone has been there in some form or another. You just get like a wave of embarrassment that you can't do anything about. It probably doesn't help that your serotonin levels are low post whatever you did I'm guessing.
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I actually had an intense afterglow effect that lasted 5 days. Very thankful as without it and if opposite happened I would have been in worst mood of my life while cringing over things I said and did.
 
Bulletproof said:
I was running a little late for work, not so much that I was going to be late, just leaving a min or two after I normally do. So I get to my car and use my key fob to unlock the door, then as I'm getting in I realize I forgot something in my house. So I walk up top my front door and push the unlock button on my key fob and wait for a second listening for the lock to open before realizing that's not how my front door works.
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Pretty sure I've at least pulled my keys out and *thought* about doing that with my bike lock, even if I haven't actually pushed the button.
 
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