Have any of you done anything this stupid?

[Lacarnut]

No air freshener accidents, but I tried to clean the little boys' toilet and the floor around it with bleach.

Bleach + ammonia from urine = very, very nasty fumes.

I knew that bleach plus ammonia was a bad combo, I just wasn't thinking of urine making ammonia.  Very stupid. 

I mixed about a cup of bleach with a cup of ammonia in the toliet; After getting a couple of whiffs of that, I called the National Center Poison control center to see if I needed to go to the hospital.   

[djones520]

In High School chemistry we did this one experiment that produced this very deadly poison gas.

I don't remember what it was, but when combind with copper the gas was produced.  So we're in the classrooms big hud thing that vented the air, and I was holding the tongs that had the pennies on it.  The teacher yelled at me because I didn't have my goggles on, so while still holding onto the tongs, I turned around to grab them.  Thereby bringing the penny smoking with extremely deadly glasses, right into the faces of the entire class.  I had only had it there for a second by the time I realized what I was doing and shoved it back into the vent, but it was probably one of the dumbest things I've ever done.

[DarkHalo]

Attempting to imitate Gene Simmons around 1976 I almost poisoned myself because I used gasoline.  Then, when I spat out the gasoline and it didn't light in the air like it was supposed to but instead lit when it landed on my arm. 

That same year I saw a friend (both of us USAF stationed in So Dakota) doing flaming shots of Bacardi 151....he missed repeatedly and was so drunk he didnt realize how badly his face was burning. And the rest of us were so drunk we just stood around laughing at him. Took almost a year before the USAF got around to reconstructive surgery for him. I thought they waited that long so he would ponder his stupidity. But as for me doing something so stupid? I doubt I would admit it, lol.

As for BEG's original question...I have sprayed air fresheners with them pointing the wrong way straight into my face so i guess that counts. 

[Eupher]

A musician (such as myself) coupled with ethanol usually yields some pretty dumb shit. 

'Nuff said.

[JohnnyReb]

"Have any of you done anything this stupid?" ...nope can't say that I have.

But I have gotten as high as about 2 levels below stupid a few times.....

[Thor]

A musician (such as myself) coupled with ethanol usually yields some pretty dumb shit. 

'Nuff said.

Especially musicians that play valved instruments......

[Eupher]

Especially musicians that play valved instruments......

  

Remind me to tell you about a trombone player named Bob Levitsky. His ambition in life after the Army was to become a slum lord in Boston. I shit you not.

He further distinguished himself by wrapping his trombone slide around another trombonist's slide when performing that goofy tune "Lassus Trombone" by Fillmore. He did that shit sober. I ain't gonna tell you what he did when he'd been imbibing.....

 

[Baruch Menachem]

The short answer is YES/

No details though.

[DixieBelle]

Here's your sign

Yep. I've been there too. Where I used to work, there were those commerical air fresheners in the bathroom stalls on the wall above the toilet. I never really noticed them until the cover of one was hanging off for some reason. Like an idiot, I pulled on it and got a snoot full of cherry air freshener and ruined a blouse.

[jtyangel]

OMG...my guffaw was witnessed by eveyrone I worked with at the time and my then fiancee

I was sitting at work in a chair like asdf mentioned. I was bored, so I got to rocking in it, like office chairs tend to do and I was just kind of sitting there, staring off into space, and leaning back...next thing I know, I flipped over backwards...I mean, totally flipped and I was wearing a dress. I worked with all men too save for one other female. I got up and said, "now for my next trick" and went back to work. I gave everyone permission to laugh, since I knew they wanted to...really really bad.

[Wineslob]

I am such an idiot.  I just got one of those spray air fresheners (airwick) that automatically spray the freshener every few minutes (9, 18 or 30 minutes). It said specifically on the instructions NOT to point it at your face and that it has a delay of 15 seconds before it does it's first "test spray".  I put the spray can in and I didn't think I had it in there right so what did I do, held it right up to my face.  What did it do?!?  It sprayed right in my face.  Yes it burns your eyes and doesn't taste very good.   

My wife is the queen of air fresheners. Shes blonde and has never done anything remotely that...........................blonde.   

[Splashdown]

At least you didn't claim to invent the internet and be a prophet of global warming!



 

[Uhhuh35]

I bought a can of deodorant (I usually use roll on) and after using it a few days was dissatisfied with it. It didn't really stop the wetness and was just too sticky. So I looked again at the label and saw that it was hairspray. 

I did the same thing once with laundry detergent. I picked up a bottle when I was TDY in Georgia and after a while I noticed that my uniforms smelled good, they weren't getting too clean. I looked at the bottle again and saw that it was fabric softener.

Probably the dumbest one I've done, and there have been many, was the time I was using paint stripper on a piece of furniture in my garage. I opened the can and looked for something to pour it in and without thinking grabbed the nearest cup which was an empty foam coffee cup. Within two seconds the stripper melted it's way through the cup and was all over my newly painted garage floor. I can laugh now but I was really pissed at myself for that one!