Stupid Things I've Done

[Dogwatcher]

This isn't something I did but something a friend did on the weekend.
I'm still astounded by the stupidity:

My friend is 30. Has never, I repeat never, driven to Adelaide alone (when she goes with someone else, that person always drives).
On Friday night she drove to Adelaide, as she had a party to go to the next night.
Doing the right thing, her BF programmed a sat nav program into her phone.
She left Loxton just before six o'clock for a drive that should have taken her three hours at the most.
Her eventual arrival time at her accommodation in Belair? 1.20am.
That my friends is a seven and a half hour drive.
Why did it take so long? The sat nav led her the wrong way and she kept following its instructions, rather than seeking help from a friend or even someone at a service station.
She travelled through the Barossa, Mt Pleasant, Mt Barker, Elizabeth, Norwood and I'm not even sure of anywhere else.
Breath taking in its stupidity!

[heater31]

This isn't something I did but something a friend did on the weekend.
I'm still astounded by the stupidity:

My friend is 30. Has never, I repeat never, driven to Adelaide alone (when she goes with someone else, that person always drives).
On Friday night she drove to Adelaide, as she had a party to go to the next night.
Doing the right thing, her BF programmed a sat nav program into her phone.
She left Loxton just before six o'clock for a drive that should have taken her three hours at the most.
Her eventual arrival time at her accommodation in Belair? 1.20am.
That my friends is a seven and a half hour drive.
Why did it take so long? The sat nav led her the wrong way and she kept following its instructions, rather than seeking help from a friend or even someone at a service station.
She travelled through the Barossa, Mt Pleasant, Mt Barker, Elizabeth, Norwood and I'm not even sure of anywhere else.
Breath taking in its stupidity!

I see she took the scenic route........even though the last half of the trip was in complete darkness

[Jimmy_041]

You probably shouldn't have used the lawnmower to trim that ungainly large toenail.

x 1,000,000

[JAS]

This isn't something I did but something a friend did on the weekend.
I'm still astounded by the stupidity:

My friend is 30. Has never, I repeat never, driven to Adelaide alone (when she goes with someone else, that person always drives).
On Friday night she drove to Adelaide, as she had a party to go to the next night.
Doing the right thing, her BF programmed a sat nav program into her phone.
She left Loxton just before six o'clock for a drive that should have taken her three hours at the most.
Her eventual arrival time at her accommodation in Belair? 1.20am.
That my friends is a seven and a half hour drive.
Why did it take so long? The sat nav led her the wrong way and she kept following its instructions, rather than seeking help from a friend or even someone at a service station.
She travelled through the Barossa, Mt Pleasant, Mt Barker, Elizabeth, Norwood and I'm not even sure of anywhere else.
Breath taking in its stupidity!

I see she took the scenic route........even though the last half of the trip was in complete darkness

I think you'll find that blokes are just as capable of blindly following satnav directions.

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Regards
JAS

[Dogwatcher]

Jas, don't think i was bagging her because she was a chick. It was her stupidity that astounded me.
I had an experience with a mate and his satnav recently.
I knew the way to go, he ignored me and followed his satnav. Eventually accepted we were going the wrong way, reset the satnav and took off at brisk pace. Within 100 metres, he'd gone through a speed camera.
If he'd listened to me and not the satnav, he wouldn't have been anywhere near the speed camera!

[Big Phil]

This isn't something I did but something a friend did on the weekend.
I'm still astounded by the stupidity:

My friend is 30. Has never, I repeat never, driven to Adelaide alone (when she goes with someone else, that person always drives).
On Friday night she drove to Adelaide, as she had a party to go to the next night.
Doing the right thing, her BF programmed a sat nav program into her phone.
She left Loxton just before six o'clock for a drive that should have taken her three hours at the most.
Her eventual arrival time at her accommodation in Belair? 1.20am.
That my friends is a seven and a half hour drive.
Why did it take so long? The sat nav led her the wrong way and she kept following its instructions, rather than seeking help from a friend or even someone at a service station.
She travelled through the Barossa, Mt Pleasant, Mt Barker, Elizabeth, Norwood and I'm not even sure of anywhere else.
Breath taking in its stupidity!

I see she took the scenic route........even though the last half of the trip was in complete darkness

She's not mates with Johnno37 in she !!!

Sorry Johnno

[JK]

2. You know how in the movies, people can run up walls and do a backflip, well, i thought if i substitute the wall for a trampoline, with the added "spring", i could achieve this. Result - Half a back flip, couldn't walk properly for a week and a half.

The entire post was quality, but I'd really like to give special praise to the one above that forced my Pepsi Max to exit my body via a nostril.

[Choccies]

This isn't something I did but something a friend did on the weekend.
I'm still astounded by the stupidity:

My friend is 30. Has never, I repeat never, driven to Adelaide alone (when she goes with someone else, that person always drives).
On Friday night she drove to Adelaide, as she had a party to go to the next night.
Doing the right thing, her BF programmed a sat nav program into her phone.
She left Loxton just before six o'clock for a drive that should have taken her three hours at the most.
Her eventual arrival time at her accommodation in Belair? 1.20am.
That my friends is a seven and a half hour drive.
Why did it take so long? The sat nav led her the wrong way and she kept following its instructions, rather than seeking help from a friend or even someone at a service station.
She travelled through the Barossa, Mt Pleasant, Mt Barker, Elizabeth, Norwood and I'm not even sure of anywhere else.
Breath taking in its stupidity!

I see she took the scenic route........even though the last half of the trip was in complete darkness

She's not mates with Johnno37 in she !!!

Sorry Johnno

Johnno is earning a few extra bucks with his personal 'Sat Nav' services.... even puts on the voice for extra $5 and guarantess you'll get there eventually !!

[Jelom19]

When I was a bit younger I came from work had a couple of cans and fell asleep only to wake up and realise it was 7:50 and the sun was coming up thought to myself oh shit slept all nite and now Im late for work rang the boss who wasnt there andtell him i was running late one of the other guys tried to explain to me he had gone home it was then i realised that the sun was in fact going down it was the afternoon shift that were working,yeh ha off to the pub for a big one and guess what i was late for work the next day but my boss let me off because they passed on the message that i was going to be late never lived it down

[Lunchcutter]

thinking I had missed my station on the outer harbour train I quickly jumped off my seat, held open the door of the old red hen and took a running jump as the train was pulling away.... only I forgot to keep running and you guessed it - I went an absolute gutsa and took a wild tumble on the ashfelt type ground of the station.. ended up with scun elbows and knees ripped stockings and a really bruised ego... after composing myself I got up only to find that I had exited one station too early and I now had an extra kilometre of so to walk (hobble) to get to the next station where I had parked my car.. boy that sure was an experience

[JK]

Received a pretty disgusting email tag picture (anyone who's received it know what Im talking about), which I sent off to a bunch of mates ... Without realising until after I'd sent it, I shot a copy off to the Qld State Manager of our largest client - Ultra straight-laced bloke, and my ass was grass for sure.

I rang the store to apologise and discovered that not only was he not in yet, but that the staff there hated his guts ... After telling them what I'd done and they'd pissed themselves laughing, they set his machine up for me to remote-in and I removed the email without him ever being any the wiser!

[therisingblues]

Drunk in North Adelaide, chatting to strangers and our group was getting in to our rides to go somewhere else. Very loud, I said goodbyes to all the friendly people I'd just met and sidled into my ride, which was car that I was standing next to. Smoke in hand still being too loud I asked who had a ****.ing beer. I look up and see three shocked faces that I'd never seen before staring at me. As I had been talking to the people on the sidewalk, I'd inadvertantly walked a very short distance and gotten into a car that looked very similar to my ride. So I did the right thing and explained my mistake, "I'm in the wrong ****.ing car."
I was just a youngun' at the time.

[Dirko]

When I was a bit younger I came from work had a couple of cans and fell asleep only to wake up and realise it was 7:50

LOL ! I used to work shift work and finish at midday. Usually I'd have a couple of hours snooze, then get up and have a few hours daylight, before going back to bed and getting up at 4 in the morning for work.

One day must of slept real well, as I woke up and looked at my alarm. 6. SHIT ! I'm really late for work ! Jumped up threw on the uniform, ran inside grabbed a apple, said goodbye to Mum & Dad, who looked at me kinda weird. Huh ? Mum & Dad ? WTF !

Yep it was 6 in the evening and they were having tea ! Oops.....I'd only slept for 4 hours but felt like 16 !

[Strawb]

When I was a bit younger I came from work had a couple of cans and fell asleep only to wake up and realise it was 7:50

LOL ! I used to work shift work and finish at midday. Usually I'd have a couple of hours snooze, then get up and have a few hours daylight, before going back to bed and getting up at 4 in the morning for work.

One day must of slept real well, as I woke up and looked at my alarm. 6. s***t ! I'm really late for work ! Jumped up threw on the uniform, ran inside grabbed a apple, said goodbye to Mum & Dad, who looked at me kinda weird. Huh ? Mum & Dad ? WTF !

Yep it was 6 in the evening and they were having tea ! Oops.....I'd only slept for 4 hours but felt like 16 !

Been there and done that Best one for me is waking up at 11pm for a 1am start and looking at the clock and only seeing one of the ones and rushing myself

[Lightning McQueen]

I was about 20 at the time and had gone out for a night on the town, there were a few of us travelling back to my joint at about 5am. My brother was driving and we were in my street approaching my house when I thought I'd prepare for a stunt-man roll as he went up our driveway, I had the door opened and was half hanging out of the rear passenger-side door. He was unaware of this and decided to do his own trick and fly up next doors driveway on his approach to the front lawn, he got really close to the stobie pole and crushed me between the door and the car-body.
I hit the deck like a sack of poo and he thought he'd killed me, I waited a minute then done the big "surpirse, I'm allright" as I jumped up. I never tried that trick again.

I remember being about 9 and thought I'd sneak the old mans slug gun outside to shoot some birds, a pellet bounced off the fence and shot me stright in the eye, there was nothing I could do except put up with a sore eye for about a week, the oldies would of killed me.

Around the same age I wanted to play cricket in our driveway with some friends, the old mans car was in the way, I thought I'd move it myself as he wasn't home, I started it up and it was in gear. I ended up in the backyard with the side gates both smashed off their hinges

[Footy Chick]

Man, you were a little shit

[JK]

I was about 20 at the time and had gone out for a night on the town, there were a few of us travelling back to my joint at about 5am. My brother was driving and we were in my street approaching my house when I thought I'd prepare for a stunt-man roll as he went up our driveway, I had the door opened and was half hanging out of the rear passenger-side door. He was unaware of this and decided to do his own trick and fly up next doors driveway on his approach to the front lawn, he got really close to the stobie pole and crushed me between the door and the car-body.
I hit the deck like a sack of poo and he thought he'd killed me, I waited a minute then done the big "surpirse, I'm allright" as I jumped up. I never tried that trick again.

I remember being about 9 and thought I'd sneak the old mans slug gun outside to shoot some birds, a pellet bounced off the fence and shot me stright in the eye, there was nothing I could do except put up with a sore eye for about a week, the oldies would of killed me.

Around the same age I wanted to play cricket in our driveway with some friends, the old mans car was in the way, I thought I'd move it myself as he wasn't home, I started it up and it was in gear. I ended up in the backyard with the side gates both smashed off their hinges

Is that you Macauley Culkin?

[Jimmy_041]

This is the best topic on the site!!!!

[BAZZA13]

Changed the polarity of a three phase electrical cord of a bowling green mower...

With the power still on...

Goodbye lunch (instantly) and motor skills(for 10 minutes) ...

[the big bang]

2. You know how in the movies, people can run up walls and do a backflip, well, i thought if i substitute the wall for a trampoline, with the added "spring", i could achieve this. Result - Half a back flip, couldn't walk properly for a week and a half.

The entire post was quality, but I'd really like to give special praise to the one above that forced my Pepsi Max to exit my body via a nostril.

i may just add, that at the time i was wearing a bright pink shirt, and no pants, just my jocks!