Point taken. :smile:Most people may be more willing to broadcast "stupid" than "embarrassing".
Point taken. :smile:Most people may be more willing to broadcast "stupid" than "embarrassing".
Point taken. :smile:
Sorry, I wasn't paying attention , what was that???
Oh, did you find my example humerus?? I assure you I didn't, then or now. It still serves me well in day-to-day conversations quite well, although an actual recording by 10 different machines in 10 different locations might be considered proof today. My method of bringing about recall of past conversations includes broken things, like faces and knuckles. Knuckles being the last to crumble.
A true amnesiac would not be able to recall I even had an opinion, or is that just the old-timers disease.
In a true situation of vivid recall from days gone past or an instance in almost no recall of any (bad) events which is better ..... really. It isn't like the thing about the word dite can be undone, the recall just means I can remember as far back as that flash of heat across the cheeks tat came with the realization I was an object to be laughed at. If I had know what the finger was it would have been shown. With no recall that doesn't mean today you will not encounter some event that causes that same flash of heat across your cheeks. Back then I left, today I might handle it somewhat different before I leave. Mistakes are how we lean, unfortunately. Which is the better teacher about drinking and driving, a movie you watch or being behind the wheel. (today it would be a virtual program). Get picked up @.22 and that is what level you get to be (bring your own booze) in the virtual drive. You get a copy of just how bad you would do under certain circumstances, think that would help you to not drink and drive??
Yeah, I agree.
I sure wouldn't want to tell anyone about the time I was recovering (I thought) from a bout with flu and diarreah. I was 12 at the time and friend of my mother and her very cute 12 yr. old daughter were at our place for a nice Sunday lunch.
The girl's mother was wearing some really strong perfume and right at the beginning of the meal, it wafted over and caused me to sneeze quite violently and unexpectedly. Unfortunately, I apparently hadn't quite fully recovered from the diarreah problem, as the impressive sneeze was followed abruptly by the equally impressive sound of my bowels evacuating everything from my duodenum to my butt with a very commanding "KER-SPLARSH!"
I took 2 o r 3 seconds to panic and then escaped by running (excuse the term) first to the bathroom, then to my bedroom, and I only came out after my mother assured me our guests had left hours before.
No, you're right - that would be embarrassing to me if that story every got out! :lol:
PS - No, I never did ask that girl out in later years. And, she was obviously a mannerly and considerate young lady, as I never heard any gossip or stories about that fateful day.
Good grief, countryboy! I have one similar but it happened on a beach at Peurto Escondido, and that is enough said about that. :lol:
No way, no how. I've said all I will on that subject. :lol::lol::lol::lol:Well, at least you were close to the water!
Aw, c'mon...quit teasing...tell us! We won't laugh. Much. Well, it depends on how good "the moment" was.
No way, no how. I've said all I will on that subject. :lol::lol::lol::lol:
Going back close to 40 years, in a remote community on Northern Vancouver Island, I was driving home sh*tfaced from the pub one night and going to have a little party at my cabin. When I got to the cabln these two girls suggested one of them back my car in. I says "no way I can do it"..........................Bang right into the hydro pole...........one looks at the other and shrugs, "we could have done that". Not sure where that comes under stupid, embarrassing or hilarious.
Boy, the "good" old days, eh? I have no idea how we survived. Nobody thought a thing about drinkin' and drivin' then...it was part of the culture. We used to say, "I gotta' drive home 'cuz I'm too drunk to walk!" Which was usually a fairly accurate evaluation of the situation.
Now I'm not sayin' it was right or wrong...in those days, that's the way it was done. Good embarrassing/hilarious moment! (I left out stupid to avoid any conflict...)![]()
Ten Stupidest Things I've Done (that I'm willing to admit)
in no particular order
- poured gasoline on a pile of brush I had already tried to light. Yes there was a spark. minor burns, I was lucky.
- fired a FMJ 9mm into a concrete wall at a range of 12 inches. It disintegrated, instead of bounced. My guardian angel is a tired old soul.
- dropped a 200 lb rock (with the help of friends) off a 75 foot cliff.......with houses at the botton. As God is my witness, we didn't know it would bounce!!!! I was 15.
- cut my self out of a tree. a la Bugs Bunny. Don't ask.
- went into the bush on the 20th of November during the tail end of a hurricane without my usual survival kit (was only going in for an hour!) Got lost.
and seriously:
- was ever rude, mean or nasty to my wife.
- didn't take care of my health, lived on cigarettes, beef, and butter.........got fat.
- Didn't go on to do a Master's/PhD when it was offered free gratis.
- let the only job I ever really liked slip away because of surmountable problems
- been an angry man.
- dropped a 200 lb rock (with the help of friends) off a 75 foot cliff.......with houses at the botton. As God is my witness, we didn't know it would bounce!!!! I was 15.
That's funny. Back when I was 12, we went on a field trip to Fort Howe. I picked up a good sized rock, and heaved it over the cliff on the back side. Only when I heard the crash did I realize that people who lived across the street had parking spaces donw there...so I went off to another part of the hill...