“I Spent 35 Minutes Trying To Get Into The Wrong Car”: 35 Highly Educated People Share Their Silliest Moments In This Viral Twitter Thread
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Just because you have an awesome university degree or a super successful career, you don’t automatically become immune to making silly mistakes. If you’re having a tough day or feeling a bit blue, then we’ve got the perfect cure, courtesy of the awesome crowd on Twitter.
Dr. Paul Bones, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University, started up a fun, quirky, and thoroughly honest thread about a recent mistake he made. A mistake involving his hand, some super glue, and a box. Inspired by the Ph.D. (who has tenure, no less!), other highly-educated individuals, real pros in their respective fields, opened up about their own funny fails.
It’s proof that we have way more in common with each other than we think. It’s also a reminder that nobody can avoid embarrassing situations (no matter how many diplomas they have on their walls), and that having a great sense of humor is wonderful. Scroll down for the funniest tweets, dear Pandas. When you’ve upvoted your fave ones, tell us all about the silliest mistakes you’ve made recently, in the comments. And yes, you can totally let us know how many degrees you have.
Bored Panda got in touch with Dr. Bones, and he was kind enough to share how he feels about the sudden internet fame, as well as his thoughts on why his post went so viral. Read on to see what he told us.
Meanwhile, we also reached out to Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D., a Licensed Counselor, Professor, and Chair at the Department of Counseling and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University, for a chat about healthy reactions to embarrassment. She told Bored Panda that one of the most important practices we should develop is the ability to laugh at ourselves.
Shall we begin?
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"I had no idea so many people would like and share the post, let alone share similar stories," Dr. Bones, the mastermind behind the fun viral Twitter thread, told Bored Panda.
"For me, it was just an offhand comment about a ridiculous thing I did, and for some reason felt like sharing. I kind of wish I hadn't tweeted it, honestly. I don't really like this much attention," he said.
Bored Panda wanted to get Dr. Bones' take on why his post resonated with so many people around the world. Here's what he had to say: "I think all of us do silly, ridiculous things. And there's an idea that education makes you smart, which should mean you don't do the absurd stuff, but in reality, everyone's brain switches off from time to time. Plus, it's fun to laugh at people we think should be smart enough to not directly dump glue on their hands."
Laughing off your mistakes is a good way to deal with embarrassment. "I have little-to-no shame, so I'm always a fan of laughing at my mistakes," Dr. Bones said.
"Granted, I usually do so privately, not for 200k+ people, but it was nice that others were willing to help me feel better by sharing their similar stories," he told Bored Panda.
Lol something similar happened just recently. So my grandma asked my dad and I to fix something and we needed to use super glue. Fast-forward five minutes and he's dropped some on his leg so I get kitchen roll to clean it and guess what happens... He's now got kitchen roll stuck to his leg. Then we were gonna put tape over the glued area but I put it on squint so I had to take it off and I put on the side of the table... There's now a piece of tape glued to my grandma's table and finally in the processing of getting it off I get glue on my hand... Needless to say we haven't been asked to fix anything else 😅
"A sense of humor and flexibility are key traits to successful adulthood and being able to laugh at our missteps allows us to go easy on ourselves when we do something potentially embarrassing. No one likes to 'lose face,' and that is engrained to varying degrees across cultures. Unfortunately, our brains may be especially prone to catastrophizing events and so we might make something more out of something no one else really noticed and no one else will recall later on," Professor Degges-White, from Northern Illinois University, told Bored Panda.
"For decades, magazines have been publishing those 'Boy! Was my Face Red!' type of columns where people shared their embarrassing moments. When we are able to 'get it off our chest,' we actually feel better about the event. That's a healthy response to an embarrassing moment. When our personalities are wired to feel that we must be 'perfect' in all that we do, we internalize negative feelings about the mistake we made and mistakenly assume that everyone else is judging us due to that one moment," she explained.
"Fortunately, our brains are designed to protect us from pain and many of us may suffer horrible humiliation at some point in our lives, but we can benefit from a brain that allows us to 'selectively forget' the incident or else we're able to rationalize it by reminding ourselves that 'everyone makes mistakes,' 'it was just one time and no one will remember it,' or similar healthy responses."
ok this!!! i got some rly weird looks from laughing so darn loud!!
However, some people are raised by parents that demand perfection and use "forcible means to correct" their behavior if their expectations aren't met. "For those people, making mistakes throughout adulthood may be experienced as something that would provoke punishment and that brings on even more humilation," the professor said.
"The best way to embrace our mistakes is to acknowledge we've made one—or else no learning can take place. Then remind ourselves that everyone makes mistakes—that's totally normal behavior! Then figure out a way to laugh at yourself before allowing someone else to laugh at you first. When you laugh at yourself, others laugh WITH you, not AT you."
Dr. Bones’ thread had a whopping 204.4k likes at the time of writing, and the professor wrote on Twitter that he was stunned that the tweet got as much attention as it did. He was also surprised that people started following him because of his moment of foolishness with the bottle of super glue.
In our experience, being honest about silly mistakes and presenting it in a funny way is a great recipe for online fame. Though (probably) nobody wants to be known as That Super Glue Guy (especially if they prefer to live a more private life), the fact of the matter is that the professor brought a lot of joy and laughter into people’s lives. And that’s worth a lot.
This must've either been a while ago, or with keyless entry and ignition. I remember a girl at work locked her keys in her Ford Fiesta, and we were stood there trying to get it open with a coat hanger (how hard could it be?), and failing miserably. Bloke with another Fiesta comes over to see if he can help, tries his key, and whadda you know, only opens the ruddy door! I also remember someone else having to buy replacement keys for two cars after he placed the keyless entry/ignition fob on the roof of his car and drove off. The fob had the keys to his other car attached to it!
The 'Dagenham Dustbins' could be unlocked by practically any other car key. . My Husband's Cortina was broken into practically every time he parked it. They take weird things like his card board air freshener and the k**b off the radio, just to show they'd vewn in there.
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My aunt drove away from the store in someone else's car once (same color and everything). She returned when she realized the mistake, and the owner was standing there laughing at her.
My key fob worked on a camry once that was identical to mine and it had just been washed... like mine. Climbed in and got ready to start it, then glanced at the passenger seat. The entire car was DISGUSTING on the inside!!! I mean fast food trash, stains, etc. And for some odd reason, my brain immediately said "omg, who would get in my car and do this???" Then I realized my car was parked on the other side of a pickup truck between us. I tried to be super casual getting out of that car, as it was in full view of the store the owner was in; it probably looked like I was stealing it. 😳
Not very secure if another set of keys to the same make of car can open it.
Truck driver here : my employer has the same key cut for all of their trucks. They have about 1,600 of them on the road. Been that way for years. Employer also only keeps the trucks for 3-4 years and then sells them. So if you own a maroon Freightliner and you lose your keys, find someone else with a maroon Freightliner - chances are very high the key will fit.
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I gotta be honest, I'm a paralegal, and I've known attorneys who were brilliant but I've also known attorneys who, I honest to god don't know how they graduated law school. Some lawyers graduated with a D average, folks.
My sister has a degree from a tech college.... Most of her work she manipulated other people into doing for her. She once told me that I owed it to her to write her psych paper for her....um no, I don't.
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Not an attorney, but did that, got home and started to unload the groceries from the backseat..........I don't drink milk............Oh bother!
My mum has gotten into other cars at the supermarket before but she’s never gone as far as driving off in one!
Ugh I kinda did this but not as bad. I was in the parking lot putting my groceries in my backseat, I even picked up an article of clothing and a thermos and was like "where's this stuff from?!", put them all in, git in drivers seat which is way back bc I'm only 5'1 and finally looked around and realized this isn't my car. Dude.. I grabbed my stuff and went and found my car. Never tried to explain it to anybody, find the person...nothing. So relieved they didn't come out and find me rummaging through their backseat
I have gotten in other people's cars and loaded my groceries and when I couldn't start it realized I was in the wrong car. How did you drive someone else's car without a key or key fob
Well, to be fair just because one is an attorney it doesn't make them smart, just like having any other PhD or certification.
I read a news piece a while back about a moderately prestigious brand that only had a couple of dozen codes for their keyless-everything system. Some accountant had run the stats on the likelihood of 2 identical systems being within range of each other and decided they could save money.🤷♂️
A while ago, my husband wanted to do something on his car, he doesn't know much about cars but he said he'd watched a you tube video and it would be quicker than going to a garage. So first job was to disconnect the battery which was in his boot. But it started raining so he left it a while. Problem was, now the car had no electric so the fob wouldn't work to open the boot. That's when we found there was no way at all to get in the boot from inside the car - there was a button inside but it needed electric too. In short, we lost the whole day trying to work out how to jump a car with disconnected battery just to get the fob to work.
I start getting out of my car without turning it off... I remember before eventually
CAN'T...STOP...LAUGHING! I myself spent 45 minutes in a Iowa snow storm try to unfreeze the frozen lock on my driver's side door. Finally tried the key on the passenger side and...Success!!! Unlocked the driver's side door from the passenger side, walked around, got in, and realized it wasn't my car. My car was right next to the car I inadvertently broke into. I turned 20 shades of red, got in my car, and left... praying enough snow would fall to cover my tracks before the owner of the car came out and saw what happened.
Did that with an old fiat 500 in Rome. White with brown stripes on the sides. What are the odds? I returned the car, but had to park it quite a ways away. 40 years later I am still wondering if the owner ever found his/her car.
Cannot say how many times my husband has either attempted to open a car identical to his, attempted to unlock it, was able to open the (unlocked) passenger door for me to get in, or even got inside and thought "Huh, I don't have a beaded seat cover..." LOL
I had a situation where my key unlocked an identical car AND started it. Fortunately I realized before leaving the parking lot at church and knew the owner so wasn't a big deal but was strange
I blow on my ice cream, too! No idea why. The seat belt thing is a new one though, Lol!
There is absolutely no way that you’ll be able to spend your time on Earth without making some sort of mistake or thoroughly embarrassing yourself in one way or another. We’re talking about the kind of stuff that low-key haunts you at 3 am because your brain just had to remind you of how you messed up in front of all those important people.
The antidote to this deep sense of shame that can pursue you for years is learning to embrace your mistakes. Meanwhile, being able to laugh it off is without a doubt another powerful tool in your arsenal.
Previously, Bored Panda spoke about embarrassment and shame with psychologist and well-being consultant Lee Chambers. He shared his thoughts about the healthy and not-so-healthy ways to react to embarrassment. Moreover, the expert revealed to us how to calm down during those moments where we’re so embarrassed that it’s almost completely overwhelming.
Plot twist, it's always the same car. You have a doppelganger that follows five minutes behind you everywhere you go.
On a similar note my father, a radiation oncologist, fainted making a hole in my brother's finger nail after it was smashed to relieve the pressure. Horrified look on his face removing staples from my neck from a cervical fusion surgery I had. He was also an eagle scout who couldn't start a fire to save his life.
"While embarrassment can be a challenging feeling that is fleeting or overwhelming, being able to find a response that assists rather than a reaction that is unhealthy is a skill to build," psychologist Lee told Bored Panda.
"If it's something that isn't particularly serious, laughter can be a great response that instantly makes you feel better," he said that having a sense of humor is very important.
"If the feelings are intense, try taking a few slow, deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth, calming your nervous system and physiological response. In a similar way to laughter, smiling can be effective in shifting your state to the positive,” he said.
Two degrees here. I click 'x' on the layers tab on photosh0p on a regular basis (bad eyesight - that x is tiny) and then have to Google how to get it back. Now when I start typing the request it auto-fills the rest!
I had a radio with a cassette tape that could record it! I would make my own radio show over the real radio shows.... I rewound it and learned I do not have a voice for radio...
“There are times when playing down or even ignoring the feelings can be helpful in the moment, taking the edge off, but it is important that you accept them and express them if it's something significant," the psychologist suggested embracing whatever we’re feeling in these situations instead of trying to run away from those feelings.
"Because the feelings of embarrassment are generated from a past event, anything that brings you into the present moment can bring relief. Try to avoid saying sorry, as it will keep taking you back to the moment. You can even keep your biggest embarrassing moments top of mind, having reflected and realized that in hindsight, they weren't as big an issue as you felt at the time," he said.
Why would anyone put a power cord in their mouth in the first place even if it's unplugged?? Am I missing something here?
"We can even reflect back on our blunders from the past, and with the emotion dampened, take some of the lessons and observations forward for next time we feel like we've messed up. By doing this, you will feel more courage even when the fear of embarrassment strikes, and sharing these stories will elicit others to share, quickly realizing we are not alone, and that nobody is perfect," the expert told us these embarrassing moments are perfect learning opportunities and a chance to improve one’s emotional resilience.
My garage door has a sensor thing that will not let it close if there's something in the way. I thought that was pretty standard... maybe it's a new or more recent feature?
Would you like to get anything embarrassing off your chest? Are there any majorly embarrassing things that you've done that you think you might want to air out and get over? What do you do when you've made a super embarrassing mistake? Let us know what you think in the comments.
I've also had this happen! Who knew superglue melts felt!? The only thing I had to evacuate was my bed room though..
I remember being a kid and my mum and dad hustling me downstairs to pack the car for our holiday. We reached where the car should be, but it wasn't there. I was crying, my mum was crying, general panic-stations kind of situation. My mum had just set off running back in the house to call the police when my dad slaps his forehead and goes 'I know where it is!'. He had driven into town the day before to grab some supplies for our trip, but caught the bus home. The car was still parked in town where he had left it. He has yet to live that down, four decades later. Bless him.
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so the summary is: superglue and smart people is a bad combination. Here's mine. I accidentally squirted it on my suit while repairing a laptop. bye-bye suit.
I'm a park ranger, have been working for the same national park for about 6 years. I somehow lost my truck in the thick forest. I was running around in the bushes trying to find it before my boss realised what I'd done, and then I saw it. I ran over to it and fell in the lake. I literally FORGOT THAT THERE WAS A LAKE THERE, even though I'd been working there for so long. The walk of shame to the boss' office in a soaking wet and algae-covered uniform was hilarious to them, but not to me.
Several years ago, I used to drive a white Dodge Avenger. I came out of my bank one day, jumped in the car and closed the door before noticing the giant computer and radar and realizing IT WAS AN UNMARKED POLICE CAR. I never got out of a car so fast in my life!
Clearly, there is no uniform, linear measure of intelligence. There are many types of intelligence. Traditionally "smart" people are often in danger of doing or believing dumb things because they think being everything. I'm a software engineer, and people at my work have called me a genius multiple times, but I like to respond but saying that my brain just gets coding and we're all skilled in different ways. If a fish judged itself on their ability to fly, it would constantly feel dumb. We should all be aware that we all have areas of expertise and non-expertise, and not compare ourselves to society's narrow definition of intelligence.
This reminds me: have several occasions where I was eating snacks and playing a game and then tried to eat the game piece and play my snacks …
Not only am I a certified mechanic, and a certified welder, but I was the safety officer at my previous job. I finished welding the support for muffler and moved on to the next one. I wisely decided to brace my arm against the chunks of metal I had just melted together. (Got a cool scar out of it, though)
I live in Austria, where shops are usually closed on Sundays and Holidays. More than once I stood in front of a store wondering why it is closed.
My boyfriend, a passionate and well-off Engineer, managed to squirt super glue into his eye. We ended up in ER
I have no degree's at all and I've tried to enlarge things with my fingers on my desktop PC screen.
When I was around 8, waiting for my uncle to bring around the car after buying the groceries. Did a little pirouette or something and stepped on a lack of 12 eggs we had just bought😶
I was holding the tv remote in one hand and a drink in the other as i came back from the kitchen. I attempted to toss the romote onto the couch but instead threw my drink on the couch. Didn't try and stop myself halfway, just tossed all the liquid from the cup straight on the couch and stared at it as it landed, and wondered if I had recently had a stroke. I dont have a phd, but i do have a job where people pay me $95 an hour to play with puppies
My mom is not a college graduate but she's not dumb either. But there was this one time... My sister and I were both kids and my mom had picked us up from the rec center. She was coming up to a light behind a car and came to a stop. We were all talking and she started freaking out, honking the horn, and yelling that the car in front of her was backing up into us and was going to hit us! My sister and I started yelling too to try to help get the attention of the car in front of us. Then our car came to a quick halt and my mom's mouth was wide open. She was like "oops....I guess I let my foot off the gas. It was our car rolling slowly towards the car in front of us. We almost hit THEM!". We laughed so hard we cried when we thought of what the people in the car in front of us must have been thinking seeing us yelling like morons and honking the horn in a panic as we slowly rolled toward them!
I’m supposedly smart but once blew out an oil lamp and got really upset when it didn’t re-light. I thought it was one of those things where the bottom of the flame is covered so it lights itself again. It wasn’t.
Not entirely the same thing cause it wasn't my fault and I'm not mega smart, but when I was in shop class in middle school, I had my arms folded up on the table, completely unaware of the still wet super glue someone from the previous class and spilled. Quite a bit of it too. Got my sleeves stuck to the table, didn't realize it for another 20 minutes, because we had been watching an instructional video, no note taking. Teacher told me I had two options, he could cut my sleeves off, or I could slip out of it borrow one of his spares (he kept a duffle bag in his closet for who knows what reason) and he could try and remove it at the end of the day. I spent the rest of the day in a shirt long enough to be a dress. Lol OH! And I feel I should point out I clearly had a tank top on underneath. He wasn't telling me to slip out of my only shirt. We just werent allowed to wear tank tops at school. Lol
I'm always amused by the fact that, wherever you are in the world, at any time, day or night, there's someone with letters after their name stranded by the side of the road, calling for help, because they don't know how to change a tire on their automobile.
On my way to school - flat tire, on the highway. Trucker pulls over - 'let me help you'. Me: 'Show me. Second flat tire (also highway - going to school), trucker pulls over, 'let me help you'. Me: 'Watch me'. Third flat tire (yes, I drove clunkers with old tires), guy (don't remember if he was a trucker) pulls over. He says 'Let me help you'. I say 'Thanks, I'm good!' Helped some guys once. My time was 13 minutes from first lug-nut offf to last lug-nut on.
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I've got a degree in speech and language. I couldn't log into my emails. Kept checking the username. Eventually went into the phone shop (was a new phone I was setting up). The assistant looked at me and said you've been writing homail instead of Hotmail. Many times I've tried to get in my house with my work badge wondering why I can't get in.
I am a preschool teacher. We had a birthday recently which we celebrated with chocolate chip cookies. I have no idea what's gotten into me, but when I saw a "lost & forgotten chocolate chip" on the table, I instinctively plopped it in my mouth. Though it wasn't a chocolate chip. Nor was it a raisin. I have no idea what touched my tounge. A chunk of brown crayon?? Dried up play-doh? I'll never know.
Sounds like being highly educated, doesn't mean any common sense. Glad to see nothing has changed over the years ...
i have 3 degrees and have done a lot of really stupid things. far too many to mention. reading this makes me feel like i belong in a club
I went into a Kohls not far from me that I'd never been to. Right after Christmas I was looking for sales. Nothing. So I walked back out the door. My car was gone. I ran around with my keys going beep beep looking for it. The lot was nearly empty. Why the hell would someone take my crappy Mitsubishi? I sat down on a concrete block and called the police then Gieco. Then sat down to cry. The cop showed up in no time. He listened as I cried and hiccuped thru my story. He said Ma'am did you know there were two parking lots here? I had no clue. He goes, jump in. He drove around to the other side of the building. There was my car. The key fob to lock or unlock plus the siren sound on the panic button...I probably freaked out a lot of people!! Beep beep beep!! Lol!
No PhD but I lost my 14-month-old in our house one time while I was cleaning and being mom to my 2-year-old and 3 and 1/2-year-old. I started walking around the house calling my 14 months old's name while my other two just looked confused while they followed me around. I was starting to get concerned as I hadn't found her and then I heard a giggle on my hip. I had been carrying the baby the whole time, calling her name, and was so used to having her on my hip that I forgot she was there!
In the early 70s, my brother-in-law, who was a nuclear physicist, went to use our bathroom. About 30-45 minutes later he came out and said, "There was a rope stuck to your bar of soap, but I finally dug it out." It was "soap-on-a-rope" that was popular at the time.
College prof here, degrees in computer science. Back in undergrad days, taking psych 100, we studied the process of how our eyes can interpret rapid sequence of pictures as motion. The main biological mechanism involved had this odd French name with which I was not familiar, but I never questioned it. Couple years later on a camping trip at night lying in my sleeping bag, looking up at the night sky and mind wandering, the stars brought me back to that psych lecture. Suddenly it came to me, "like a flash, like a vision burnt across the clouds": Good lord, that wasn't a French word pronounced "aff-TARE-eh-mage"...it was "after-image!' Thank goodness the occasion had never come up that required me to use the term in actual conversation. Still, I sat there feeling ridiculous even just in front of myself. :-)
I'm well educated, about to start a post grad. Was vaping while I did my mascara the other day and attempted three times to put the wand into the vape, not the mascara bottle.
I tried to call an elevator with my car key. My car got unlocked (only one floor down). The elevator magically opened. PhD candidate here.
Hilarious thread, but I dislike how everyone just had to mention their profession or academic degree.
Highly skilled people are just as absent minded as the rest of us are. Just because you went to an elite university or have a degree dosnt make u exempt from stupid human error. All people do stupid absent minded things. This was an elitist and pretentious article.
You cannot teach common sense. Most the highly educated people I know are severely lacking in that department
so the summary is: superglue and smart people is a bad combination. Here's mine. I accidentally squirted it on my suit while repairing a laptop. bye-bye suit.
I'm a park ranger, have been working for the same national park for about 6 years. I somehow lost my truck in the thick forest. I was running around in the bushes trying to find it before my boss realised what I'd done, and then I saw it. I ran over to it and fell in the lake. I literally FORGOT THAT THERE WAS A LAKE THERE, even though I'd been working there for so long. The walk of shame to the boss' office in a soaking wet and algae-covered uniform was hilarious to them, but not to me.
Several years ago, I used to drive a white Dodge Avenger. I came out of my bank one day, jumped in the car and closed the door before noticing the giant computer and radar and realizing IT WAS AN UNMARKED POLICE CAR. I never got out of a car so fast in my life!
Clearly, there is no uniform, linear measure of intelligence. There are many types of intelligence. Traditionally "smart" people are often in danger of doing or believing dumb things because they think being everything. I'm a software engineer, and people at my work have called me a genius multiple times, but I like to respond but saying that my brain just gets coding and we're all skilled in different ways. If a fish judged itself on their ability to fly, it would constantly feel dumb. We should all be aware that we all have areas of expertise and non-expertise, and not compare ourselves to society's narrow definition of intelligence.
This reminds me: have several occasions where I was eating snacks and playing a game and then tried to eat the game piece and play my snacks …
Not only am I a certified mechanic, and a certified welder, but I was the safety officer at my previous job. I finished welding the support for muffler and moved on to the next one. I wisely decided to brace my arm against the chunks of metal I had just melted together. (Got a cool scar out of it, though)
I live in Austria, where shops are usually closed on Sundays and Holidays. More than once I stood in front of a store wondering why it is closed.
My boyfriend, a passionate and well-off Engineer, managed to squirt super glue into his eye. We ended up in ER
I have no degree's at all and I've tried to enlarge things with my fingers on my desktop PC screen.
When I was around 8, waiting for my uncle to bring around the car after buying the groceries. Did a little pirouette or something and stepped on a lack of 12 eggs we had just bought😶
I was holding the tv remote in one hand and a drink in the other as i came back from the kitchen. I attempted to toss the romote onto the couch but instead threw my drink on the couch. Didn't try and stop myself halfway, just tossed all the liquid from the cup straight on the couch and stared at it as it landed, and wondered if I had recently had a stroke. I dont have a phd, but i do have a job where people pay me $95 an hour to play with puppies
My mom is not a college graduate but she's not dumb either. But there was this one time... My sister and I were both kids and my mom had picked us up from the rec center. She was coming up to a light behind a car and came to a stop. We were all talking and she started freaking out, honking the horn, and yelling that the car in front of her was backing up into us and was going to hit us! My sister and I started yelling too to try to help get the attention of the car in front of us. Then our car came to a quick halt and my mom's mouth was wide open. She was like "oops....I guess I let my foot off the gas. It was our car rolling slowly towards the car in front of us. We almost hit THEM!". We laughed so hard we cried when we thought of what the people in the car in front of us must have been thinking seeing us yelling like morons and honking the horn in a panic as we slowly rolled toward them!
I’m supposedly smart but once blew out an oil lamp and got really upset when it didn’t re-light. I thought it was one of those things where the bottom of the flame is covered so it lights itself again. It wasn’t.
Not entirely the same thing cause it wasn't my fault and I'm not mega smart, but when I was in shop class in middle school, I had my arms folded up on the table, completely unaware of the still wet super glue someone from the previous class and spilled. Quite a bit of it too. Got my sleeves stuck to the table, didn't realize it for another 20 minutes, because we had been watching an instructional video, no note taking. Teacher told me I had two options, he could cut my sleeves off, or I could slip out of it borrow one of his spares (he kept a duffle bag in his closet for who knows what reason) and he could try and remove it at the end of the day. I spent the rest of the day in a shirt long enough to be a dress. Lol OH! And I feel I should point out I clearly had a tank top on underneath. He wasn't telling me to slip out of my only shirt. We just werent allowed to wear tank tops at school. Lol
I'm always amused by the fact that, wherever you are in the world, at any time, day or night, there's someone with letters after their name stranded by the side of the road, calling for help, because they don't know how to change a tire on their automobile.
On my way to school - flat tire, on the highway. Trucker pulls over - 'let me help you'. Me: 'Show me. Second flat tire (also highway - going to school), trucker pulls over, 'let me help you'. Me: 'Watch me'. Third flat tire (yes, I drove clunkers with old tires), guy (don't remember if he was a trucker) pulls over. He says 'Let me help you'. I say 'Thanks, I'm good!' Helped some guys once. My time was 13 minutes from first lug-nut offf to last lug-nut on.
Load More Replies... I've got a degree in speech and language. I couldn't log into my emails. Kept checking the username. Eventually went into the phone shop (was a new phone I was setting up). The assistant looked at me and said you've been writing homail instead of Hotmail. Many times I've tried to get in my house with my work badge wondering why I can't get in.
I am a preschool teacher. We had a birthday recently which we celebrated with chocolate chip cookies. I have no idea what's gotten into me, but when I saw a "lost & forgotten chocolate chip" on the table, I instinctively plopped it in my mouth. Though it wasn't a chocolate chip. Nor was it a raisin. I have no idea what touched my tounge. A chunk of brown crayon?? Dried up play-doh? I'll never know.
Sounds like being highly educated, doesn't mean any common sense. Glad to see nothing has changed over the years ...
i have 3 degrees and have done a lot of really stupid things. far too many to mention. reading this makes me feel like i belong in a club
I went into a Kohls not far from me that I'd never been to. Right after Christmas I was looking for sales. Nothing. So I walked back out the door. My car was gone. I ran around with my keys going beep beep looking for it. The lot was nearly empty. Why the hell would someone take my crappy Mitsubishi? I sat down on a concrete block and called the police then Gieco. Then sat down to cry. The cop showed up in no time. He listened as I cried and hiccuped thru my story. He said Ma'am did you know there were two parking lots here? I had no clue. He goes, jump in. He drove around to the other side of the building. There was my car. The key fob to lock or unlock plus the siren sound on the panic button...I probably freaked out a lot of people!! Beep beep beep!! Lol!
No PhD but I lost my 14-month-old in our house one time while I was cleaning and being mom to my 2-year-old and 3 and 1/2-year-old. I started walking around the house calling my 14 months old's name while my other two just looked confused while they followed me around. I was starting to get concerned as I hadn't found her and then I heard a giggle on my hip. I had been carrying the baby the whole time, calling her name, and was so used to having her on my hip that I forgot she was there!
In the early 70s, my brother-in-law, who was a nuclear physicist, went to use our bathroom. About 30-45 minutes later he came out and said, "There was a rope stuck to your bar of soap, but I finally dug it out." It was "soap-on-a-rope" that was popular at the time.
College prof here, degrees in computer science. Back in undergrad days, taking psych 100, we studied the process of how our eyes can interpret rapid sequence of pictures as motion. The main biological mechanism involved had this odd French name with which I was not familiar, but I never questioned it. Couple years later on a camping trip at night lying in my sleeping bag, looking up at the night sky and mind wandering, the stars brought me back to that psych lecture. Suddenly it came to me, "like a flash, like a vision burnt across the clouds": Good lord, that wasn't a French word pronounced "aff-TARE-eh-mage"...it was "after-image!' Thank goodness the occasion had never come up that required me to use the term in actual conversation. Still, I sat there feeling ridiculous even just in front of myself. :-)
I'm well educated, about to start a post grad. Was vaping while I did my mascara the other day and attempted three times to put the wand into the vape, not the mascara bottle.
I tried to call an elevator with my car key. My car got unlocked (only one floor down). The elevator magically opened. PhD candidate here.
Hilarious thread, but I dislike how everyone just had to mention their profession or academic degree.
Highly skilled people are just as absent minded as the rest of us are. Just because you went to an elite university or have a degree dosnt make u exempt from stupid human error. All people do stupid absent minded things. This was an elitist and pretentious article.
You cannot teach common sense. Most the highly educated people I know are severely lacking in that department
