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The "I'm a bonehead" thread.

#42
Showing up for a Monday-to-Friday day job on a Saturday...fully shaved and wearing a suit?

Wondered why the traffic was so light and it wasn't the regular anchor on the morning news show...

The empty parking lot should've tipped me off...

DD
 
#43
DirtDog said:
Showing up for a Monday-to-Friday day job on a Saturday...fully shaved and wearing a suit?

Wondered why the traffic was so light and it wasn't the regular anchor on the morning news show...

The empty parking lot should've tipped me off...

DD
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You win... hands down ;)

Doubly so if that's the Elgin station...
 
#44
embellisher said:
I have looked high and low for my glasses while wearing them.
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Yes!!! I've done that.

I did a rather complex and technical bonehead move a few months ago.

I traveled away from home for three weeks last October. The first week I was back in Connecticut visiting my mom, family, and friends, then to NYC for the AES Convention. Then to London, Frankfurt, and Paris on business, for a total of two weeks in Europe.

I brought my Philips electric razor and its charging stand. When I got into my hotel room in London I flipped the 120/240 switch on the bottom of the charger before I plugged it in and used it that way the rest of the trip.

Within a week after I got back home to California, the razor wouldn't hold a charge. Its green LED would blink, indicating it was fully charged, but once I started using it, it would die within a few seconds. One time I shaved part of my face with the electric and had to finish up with shaving cream and a blade.

I've had Ni-Cad batteries wear out before after a few years of use, so I figured that was the case with this thing. I bought a pair of replacement batteries at an electronics store, opened the razor up, unsoldered the old cells, soldered in the new ones, and closed the thing back up. It was a bit tight insde the razor, and a couple times I slipped with the tip of the soldering iron, and the motors would run briefly because of some residual charge in the batteries.

I placed the razor in the charger. Instead of a green glow from the LED, it was orange. I'd never seen that before, but I thought that maybe that was because the batteries needed a full charge, so I let it go. About a day and a half later, by which time the razor should be fully charged, the LED was still orange. I thought maybe I'd fried something in the charging circuit when my soldering iron slipped. Maybe I need to buy a new electric razor …

Only then, after all that, did I remember the voltage switch on the bottom of the charger.

I picked it up and looked at the switch. Sure enough--it was set to 240V. :hmm: I slid it over to 120V and set the razor into the charger. The green LED glowed, and within a few hours the razor was fully charged. Duh!!
 
#48
I am the IT guy for alot of small businesses and it seems like I work 24/7.

I was working late in the day at a customer's office and the office staff was leaving and they all said goodbye, and I said, "Bye", and then added, "Have a good weekend!"

This was on a Tuesday.


I'm also an artist and I got an art commission for many thousands of dollars from an online customer. He e-mailed me his confirmation.

I promptly forwarded the e-mail to my wife, with the comments..."Can you believe this commission? WERE IN THE MONEY NOW BABE!!!".

Of course, instead of forwarding it to my wife, I hit REPLY and it went back to my customer.

Fortunately my customer found the humor in it and we still have a great working relationship.

Talk about boneheaded. :rolleyes:
 
#49
Sundogue said:
I'm also an artist and I got an art commission for many thousands of dollars from an online customer. He e-mailed me his confirmation.

I promptly forwarded the e-mail to my wife, with the comments..."Can you believe this commission? WERE IN THE MONEY NOW BABE!!!".
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:D :D :D
 
#50
Sundogue said:
I'm also an artist and I got an art commission for many thousands of dollars from an online customer. He e-mailed me his confirmation.

I promptly forwarded the e-mail to my wife, with the comments..."Can you believe this commission? WERE IN THE MONEY NOW BABE!!!".
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:D
I did something similar - I had been working on a large project along with another guy in operations and several people from our IT department. I received an email from the project leader with some attached spread sheets and instructions for processing the data. I intended to forward a copy to my buddy who was also working on the project, along with some added notes that he would find humorous. (we had been going back and forth joking with each other, often referring to each other as "babe" as we found humor in the inappropriately familiarity) So I took the email explaining what I was to be doing, and I added a little note to it that said: "Hey, I don't have time for this crap. Why don't you take care of this for me, huh? Thanks babe." and hit send. After sitting there for about ten minutes thinking 'I wonder why Joey hasn't responded to my joke yet' (he's usually very quick to reply) I got to thinking and realized that I didn't recall selecting his name from the address book when I sent the message. I opened up my sent items folder and saw that I had replied to the sender, not forwarded to Joey. I didn't know the woman who was the project leader all that well, and I thought I had really stepped in it. I immediately composed a very humble email emphatically apologizing and trying to explain. I got lucky, she had a great sense of humor and had a good laugh with me. She did say she was quite shocked and didn't know how she was going to respond - she was quite relived to learn that it was just a joke gone wrong. I am a bonehead.
 
#51
Not once but twice while driving to a gig I started getting that strange feeling that something was wrong. Turns out I was driving to the wrong gig. I called the guitar player to find out where I was supposed to be. Now I check our website before I leave to make sure I'm headed in the right direction. It's a good thing I always leave early. :D

I also once had an episode similar to DirtDogs. I was gigging full time and working at UPS part time and my shift started at 5am. I raced home from a gig to get my 2 hour nap in, and must have set my alarm wrong. I got up, got in the truck and drove over to UPS and parked. I saw people coming out of the building to go home and none of them looked familar. I started to get out of my truck and looked at my watch. It was only 3am. :mad: Itwould have taken too long to driver back home so I just slept in the truck until it was time to go in. It was cold and it sucked.

At least I had the right day :D
 
#53
1) Once, I borrowed my roommate's car to go to the mall. Upon returning to the car, I found that none of the keys on his key ring opened any of the car's five doors, so I returned to the mall to call the locksmith. I then went back to the car and once again tried every key in every lock, without success. I went back to the mall and waited twenty minutes for the locksmith to show up. As he drove me up the lane to my car, he asked me which car was mine. "That one," I replied, pointing to the maroon Acclaim I had been trying to get into. As he pointed to the maroon Dynasty that was two cars before mine, he asked, "Is it that one, or is it that one?" For almost a half-an-hour I had been trying to get into the wrong car! The best part? There was a babyseat in the back of the other car and I had missed it not once, but twice! BTW, I was charged $15 for a service call by the locksmith.

2) One day, I walked in on my fiancee cleaning the bathroom with baby wipes. I was totally confused by this and asked her, "Uh, why are you cleaning the bathroom with baby wipes?" "They're not baby wipes," she replied, "They're Clorox Bleach Wipes and this is what they're for." Why's that so dumb? Because for several weeks prior to this incident, I had been using them on my bottom.

EDIT: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] a link to Dave Brockie's (GWAR) "Stupid" page. There are some real winners there, especially the one about the van stuck in the snow and his shampoo experience.
 
#54
Ooh! Ooh! Pick me, pick me!!

I too am a little 'directionally-challenged'. My wife seems to find it endlessly amusing. This debilitating condition usually manifests itself in a situation like the following: I am walking along a street, I become distracted by something in a shop, I enter said shop to assuage my curiosity. Upon exiting the shop, I proceed along the street - in the direction I just came from. It usually takes me a block to realise and turn around :(
This occurs whilst driving also. Although I generally don't drive along the footpath or into shops.

I have regular brain-fart episodes at work also. Generally along the lines of me sitting staring, blankly at a screen trying to work out why a certain telephone is not working and then realising that it may have something to do with the fact that it is not physically connected to anything :hmm:

A certain Norse God of Thunder once told me that absent-mindedness is a sign of superior intelligence. :D
 
#56
i was watching a UK TV show called "tarrent on TV" - it's basically rude or weird tv adds from around the world.

there was one, I think it was maybe like Sweden or somewhere in EU.

anyway, the carpentter just finished laying a carpet, and went to grab a ciggy. couldnt find his cigs. he suddenly notices a big "bump" in the carpet... so stamps it down without anyone noticing. good job!

next the owner of the house comes down the stairs "hey, are these yours? i found them upstairs!"
shocked the carpenter takes the cigs from the woman, when her daughter runs in... "mummy! have you seen my hamster?"

oops! :eek: :D
 
#58
This one takes the cake. My cake, anyway.

Turns out the $3.5 million Stradivarius cello that was recently stolen in Los Angeles was swiped by a guy riding a bike through the cellist's neighborhood in the early morning. How is that possible? Because the cellist left it sitting on his porch overnight.

I have to say it again because it's so boneheaded: the cellist left a Stradivarius cello sitting on his porch overnight.

-M
 
#59
mycranium said:
This one takes the cake. My cake, anyway.

Turns out the $3.5 million Stradivarius cello that was recently stolen in Los Angeles was swiped by a guy riding a bike through the cellist's neighborhood in the early morning. How is that possible? Because the cellist left it sitting on his porch overnight.

I have to say it again because it's so boneheaded: the cellist left a Stradivarius cello sitting on his porch overnight.

-M
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That truly is boneheaded.
 
#60
There is a yearly party in the Black Rock Desert (Nevada) that some friends throw, and my band plays at. I was going out to the spot to meet everyone and set up a little later than the rest. I didn't have the info on where it is, but I figured I could find it. The black rock is about 8 miles by 35 miles, all flat. I drove a couple hours out there, got onto the desert, couldn't find it. Started doing a search pattern type thing, couldn't find it. Running out of gas, sun going down, me getting pretty pissed (at me!). I headed for home. Apparently, right after sundown, they started shooting off fireworks and flares as part of the fun. 10 minutes makes all the difference sometimes.

Flanders (That's right, I AM an idiot)
 

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