Thank God no one was watching..................... (page 3)

JH

Elsewhere

With a manual transmission, that wouldn't have happended

Solace

lol @ Jesika,

You guys are so funny.

Ok, I'll share too. Warning, this is really D U M B though.

My aunt was moving into an apartment and had given us her large freezer since she couldnt bring it with her. It always worked fine and my husband does so much hunting we knew we'de make good use of it. Anyway, we brought it home and plugged it in. It seemed to work fine so we went about our buisness. The following week, we went to put something in it but it wasnt cold. This was confusing because we knew it worked earlier and we could even hear it running. Weeks went by and we mentioned it to our family but they didnt have any idea as to what the problem was since it worked fine at our aunts house. They suggested letting it run, maybe something shifted and needed to settle (the liquid freeon) I have no idea how to spell that btw.

A few more weeks had gone by and I was in the basement doing laundry. I finished, shut the light off and noticed something.

The freezer stopped running.

The freezer had been plugged into an outlet that was controlled by the light switch and we were shutting it off every night.

We are so crazy.

ballistic

Elsewhere, we mainly have manual gear boxes in the UK. Is it true you call them something like stick shift????

JH

Ballistic,

They call it a ballistick shift

Edited by - jh on 20 December 2002 20:53:29

Jesika

LOL

Heaven, I have done something similar but it was with a phone and not a freezer!

Elsewhere, I have done that too, but I had to have a stranger get in my car and try and start it only to realize I hadn't put it all the way in park. I am sure that guy was thinking *women*, as I drove away blushing at my ignorance.

Jesika

These are so fun and funny.

MORE MORE

SPAZnik

Haha. Those are some good ones. Well, I submit that I've got ya'll beat on the stupidity front (or iz it the rationalization front?)
Read on:

THE "COMPOSITE" SIGN - AN HOUR IN THE LIFE OF AN IDIOT:
(in my own defense, I wuz really really sleepy when this happened AND engrossed in a good read)

I wake up with a start and my first thought iz "I don't feel rested enuf, is it morning already?"
I check my clock, "crap it's 9 o'clock!", so i bolt outta bed
and proceed to race around showering and dressing,
worried I'll be late for 10am team practise (paddling) at local lake.

CLUE #2
I call in for bus times and a friend who works there answers the phone.
I think, "she normally works nights, what is she doing at work this early in the morning?"
I say, "I overslept, can you tell me when the next bus is?"

CLUE #3
"How wuz your day?", she asks.
I think, "that's odd, I just said I overslept, why would she ask me that?" but I comeback with "all 8 minutes of it?"
She's like "oh, you've slept all the way up til now?" I wonder sleepily, "it's only 9:00, whut iz she talking about?"
We both hang up the phone a little confused. But I bravely forge ever onward....

CLUE #4
I grab my book and head for the door. I walk outside, expecting it to be too bright cuz I recently lost my sunglasses (again),
it's a clear blue sky, but surprisingly enuf, my ball cap is providing enuf shade.

CLUE #5
I walk toward the gas station, and notice someone walking into the cornerstore across the way.
Somewhere in the recesses of my mind I think, "funny, I didn't know that store wuz open this early on a Sunday morning."

CLUE #6
I buy coffee and a powerbar at the gas station and as I leave the guy says "have a good night".
I look at him a little funny and rationalize, "odd, he must be in the habit of saying that
from working the graveyard shift all night."

CLUE #7
I sit at the bus stop and lose myself in the book I'm currently working on.
oblivious to the fact that there um, sure iz a lotta traffic out here for so early on a Sunday morning.

CLUE #8
My bus arrives. I'm mildly annoyed that the bus driver sure is taking his sweet ass time
according to my schedule and sure is awfully talkative for a Sunday morning.

CLUE #9
I make it to the University and wait around for my connecting southbound bus
which will take me to the Lake. A northbound bus shows up instead.
(Believe it or not I'm now beginning to think, what the hell is going on?
but I shrug and keep on reading, figuring "my bus will show up any minute now")

CLUE #10
My southbound route is now several minutes "late".

CLUE #11
I think, "hm, getting darker, not lighter, seems overcast, maybe it'll rain on our practise".

CLUE #12 (the clincher)
"Are those street lights that just turned on?!!!"
I look at the time on my cell phone a little more closely for the first time since I woke up...
9:38. PM....SAT.

Oh. My. Gawd.
I'm such an idiot.
It's 9:00 PM on Saturday night, not 9 AM on Sunday morning.

I shake my head at myself and can't help but laff.
I contemplate the many ironies of what just happened
as I walk to the nearest train station and head for home
where idiots like me are arguably safest.

SPAZ (too-much-of-a-good-book-can-be-dangerous klass)

ps - is it progress if i can at least ADMIT i'm an idiot?

pps - "i come by it honestly"....here's anuther funny one....once upon a time my beautiful-albeit-high-strung-single-mother, went downtown to pay her utility bill to the "City of TwoRivers". She couldn't find the place she wuz looking for, so, standing smack in the middle of City Hall, smack in the middle of "TwoRivers", she bellows out, "COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE THE CITY OF TWORIVERS IS!??" Some guy replies "uh, what planet are you from lady?"
(some names have been changed to protect the frighteningly absentminded....hehehe)

Edited by - SPAZnik on 20 December 2002 20:38:48

Jesika

LMAO @ spaz

That was sooooooooo funny!!

Damn the stories are getting better and better!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOO HOOO, now we need to set up a support group!! Any suggestions LOL!!!!

Jes

bikerchic

oh my! So glad to know I'm not alone in this! I just did one, poor Craig hope he doesn't read this one......although he knows about it I'm still embarassed.

I made a deposit at the bank yesterday and today while trying to use the debit card it was rejected, gerrrrr! I got home and we called the bank to see what happened and it seems I put one extra "0" in the amount deposited, wishful thinking on my part ( I guess) but the bank wasn't so generous (hey it's Christmas!). Anyway the amount was so high the bank was doing an investigation before it would release the funds or something like that. Sheese, I'm freakin dangerous!

Sorry honey!

Katie

ballistic

LOL JH, thanks for that.

Sabine

This happened to Makena, but it was my fault...

I finished the laundry and was setting piles that needed to go upstairs on the banister. I had a pile of my undewear on the banister when Makena walked in from work and set his jacket on the pile. Next morning he has a dentist apointment.

Apparently, one of my Victoria Secret thongs got stuck in the fleece lining of his jacket. When he hung up his jacket at the dentist's office a pair of panties falls to the floor. He didn't notice this, but when he came out of his appointment all the ladies in the office were giving him a "knowing" look and one got up the nerve to ask if he was missing anything??? He said no, I don't think so and then she shows him a pair of my underwear. He still denied it and came home telling me how the dental assistant was trying to "pick him up"...I realized what happened and had to bust his bubble. We laughed so hard over this one!!

Oh shoot, I guess someone was watching...oh well it happens.

Thank God no one was watching.....................

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