I got nothing recent, but here are a few from the past.
I was once reading a magazine and tried to pinch-zoom a photo. I tried multiple times before I understood the depths of my stupidity.
I once took my new car into the dealer about a month after I got it for warranty work because the washer fluid wasn’t working anymore. This was after I looked it over and couldn’t find the cause, so I assumed it was a body control module or maybe the stalk was bad. I was pushing the stalk forward instead of pulling it backwards. The tech, service writer, and myself had a good laugh about how I had forgotten how to use the damn thing. There is a freaking icon with “pull” on the stalk. I had been using it just fine and then caught the stupid one day.
I once remarked that they should invent vizine, but for your mouth while I had cottonmouth. Before anyone steals my idea, water was invented over 12 billion years ago.
I tried to take photos of hallucinations to show others. Yes, photos, plural.
Before you worry, I am dedicated child-free.
lmao similar to the pinch-zoom thing, I do a lot of digital art normally, but whenever I draw on paper, I reach for ctrl-Z first instead of flipping the pencil over. Probably doesnt help that If I do draw on paper, its in the same spot where I normally put my tablet
I often use an electronic drawing tablet, with a button on the electronic pen configured as “undo.” The frequency with which I reflexively press on that bit of a real pen to undo a physical ink-based mistake does not reflect well on me.
I wouldn’t consider the photos as an “Am I stupid?” moment as much as an “Am I high?” one.
I’ve done the pinch zoom thing a few times before
I’ve more than once pulled down from the top on my gameboy, in order to see what time it is
I’m a programmer, so this is pretty much a constant thing haha. Sometimes you write the smartest shit imaginable, and sometimes you waste 4 hours on something extremely simple.
I’ve had many other jobs and few experiences in them have been as humbling as programming. My favorite is trying everything to fix an issue then realizing the problem is that you’re pointing at the wrong database or running the wrong branch.
I was having a good weekend until you reminded me of the hibernate behavior I need to continue troubleshooting Monday 😔
Added an extra shelf to my shoe rack today. After measuring, cutting, drilling, even made little notches below the shelf, barely putting the shelf in because of hinges in the way, vacuuming the mess, halfway packing up my tools and call it a successful day and… doors won’t close because of the hinges on the doors hitting the shelf. Moved it 5mm lower after drilling another set of holes.
Asked my dad’s permission to go see the eclipse next month
I’m almost 30
What if he said no?
My job involves opening boxes, getting serial numbers from the contents, and resealing the boxes. I have repeatedly done the last two steps in the opposite order.
I believe that is called ADHD.
I find it hard to tell if it’s adhd with this amount of information.
While trying to mount a speaker:
Where’s my drill bit?
Where’s the mount?
Where’s my pencil?
Where’s my level?
Where’s the mount?
WHERE ARE THE SCISSORS?
I JUST HAD MY FUCKING DRILL BIT!
GOD DAMNIT, JUST LET ME MOUNT THIS THING, WHERE IS MY PENCIL?
Every time I try to do anything. I’m probably undiagnosed ADHD, tbh.
Opens Reddit.
I was laid off this year. I’m a 25 year veteran programmer, and not to brag in the sea of tech folks we have here, but I am rather proud of my skills I have picked up over the years.
My first interview this year, they set up an online development environment and had me solve a fairly simple array sort problem, and I completely choked. Something about being watched and judged while I worked broke my brain.
I managed to ace my next interview, but they didn’t bother with the programming exercise at all.
I tried taking a new route through a familiar building. Automatic actions took over and led me back to the entrance I came from.
I used to constantly get lost in a square building.
Woke up.
Fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head.
Went downstairs and had a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
[heavy breathing]
Why is that dumb?
I think they’re saying that they regularly ask themselves that.
I could be wrong though
Spent weeks without pepper because I thought the grinder thing wasn’t working. Turns out I hadn’t screwed off the cap and removed the foil. I was just about to give up and buy a new pepper grinder.
I have pepper again.
Every day I wake up and go to work and realize just how stupid of an idea that was.
Every day I wake up
and go to workand realize just how stupid of an idea that was.fixed that for me
Looking for my phone… while holding the damn thing in my hand.
21st century version of running around looking for glasses…that you have on top of your head.
Yep. On multiple occasions I’ve said down the phone to someone that I’ve lost my phone.
Looking for my phone… while holding the damn thing in my hand.
Home, night, lights turned off, trying to locate my phone before going to bed WHILE using the phones flashlight.
Starting to do tasks that other employees wouldn’t touch with a 10’ pole due to complexity and now having to deal with the consequences including being assigned more complex tasks… I’m making myself essential I guess, but in a union job it’s not as if I can negotiate for a better salary…
For some reason, I wanted to try the new Dutchman burger that people were talking about online, and right as I took the first bit, I instantly remembered that the buns are replaced with onions and my body doesn’t like that much onion all at once.
