Seemed like a good idea at the time...

[WildIrish]

I started this thread because I think I have a lot to contribute.

Let's share with each other some insane things we have done in the past that sounded like a great idea but didn't quite turn out the way we anticipated.



My first contribution: I went to replace a burnt out light bulb, and rather than going all the way down to the garage to hit the breaker & get the ladder, I grabbed a bulb and pulled up the closest chair...a rocking chair. I stepped up, reached for the fixture, and when the chair rocked...my finger went straight into the socket. :yikes:

[IowaMan]

Well, the first thing that comes to my mind was greatly assisted by single malt scotch. Was with my brother in law enjoying a bottle of Glenlivet and for some reason we decided it would be really cool to get out some fireworks and play around.

He had a bottle rocket that he wanted to light but the only bottle we had was the scotch and well.......... can't use that one. :p

So........... I said, "hey, I'll just hold it and aim it, you light it." Sounded like a good plan to him so we gave it a go. The rocket shot into the air maybe four or five feet and then came right back down, hitting me on the foot. Of course, I wasn't wearing shoes, just sweatsocks and yep, the sparks started it on fire.

Meanwhile my BIL was looking in the air saying, "Where'd it go? Do you see it?" I'm laughing because I'm drunk as hell and my foot is on fire. So I said, "Here it is!"

BIL sees my foot on fire and starts laughing with me. Then says, "Hey put it out!"

So I poured the rest of my glass of scotch on it. Got a nice little flame from that one which we found even more hilarious than the fact that I was simply on fire.

The next morning I woke up on the couch with their greyhound licking my foot. Not sure if she was tasting me or trying to clean the wound. My BIL ended up staying at my place for about a week because my sister wouldn't talk to either of us.

Yep, probably should've just used an empty beer can to hold the bottle rocket. :)

[WildIrish]

Ah yes...explosives are such a great topic for this thread. I was riding shotgun in a VW bug, and we were throwing lit bottle rockets out the window. It was suggested that I try to throw it out in front of the car so we could try & catch up to it and watch it explode right in front of us. Great idea!

I lit it and threw it out the window. It went out in front and right into the open driver's side window landing between his legs. Knowing there was nothing he could do...he slammed his legs shut. I, of course, had no idea what the hell was happening until I heard him scream "OH SHIT" and it was followed by a muffled pop.


Good times! Parenthood is nothing like those days! :D

[Loulabelle]

Hmmmm...right now something that seemed like a good idea at the time was me saying:

'Let's have a baby'

Testing times in the Pucker household right now - it's a developmental thing I think.

[osuche]

I used to fence with live blades. I once slit my boyfriend's (at the time) biceps open. It was pure Hell driving him to the Emergency room, and explaining to his mother what we were up to.

[1nutworld]

getting married to a woman with 2 daughters?? and after divorcing the first, then dating another woman with 4 kids?


Well they are both in the past, live and learn I guess.

[Eastern]

seemed like a good idea at time

1. saying lets adopt from china

i would still do it again but the plane ride sucks big time. if someone could just make teleporting. lol

[scotzoidman]

Aw hell, I could waste the rest of my life on this thread... :banghead:

[WildIrish]

Wanna hear about the time I tried to jump my bicycle over a septic tank? :D

[Aqua]

Riding a skateboard with really loose trucks down a large hill standing up. (Hey, I was triple dog dared.) After falling off at the bottom my elbow looked like it had been attacked by a cheese shredder. It also didn't help that I slid and rolled into some gravel on the side of the street.

A year later I removed two rocks from under the skin and a Dr had to remove the third cause it was too deep for me to dig out.

[Aqua]

Oh, and moving my girlfriend into the apartment with my wife and I was not the brightest thing I've ever done either. :rolleyes2

[Booger]

Do you want a list of when I was drunk or sober?










(the sober list would be a lot longer)

[WildIrish]

I want it all, Boog!

Take for example, the time my cousin and I spent almost an entire week pulling the lead off of 22 shells so we could collect the gunpowder & fill a toilet paper tube to make a firecracker.


A firecracker that generated a four feet deep crater and relocated several small trees. Not to mention the soiled trousers. :p

[scotzoidman]

Found an unused firecracker sometime after the Fourth of July, it had gotten wet but was dry when I found it...the fuse seemed a little shorter than it should have, but I was pretty sure I could light it & toss it quickly enough...

Wrong again. I should've gone with a quick toss instead of the windup. Went off in my hand just as I drew back.

my right ear rang for the next 3 days...

[Booger]

Not sure if this was realy a bad idea over all but it didn't turn out to well.

I call a friend to jump my car one night and when it didn't start right away with the jump we deciided he would hook his tow strap on and tow me home. It was night and just starting to rian and about a half mile down the road the battery didn't have enough juice to run the winshield wippers or the linghts. I hit a slick spot and my car went in the ditch before my friend even relized it he had pulled me back out and my car shot into the other lane. Where I met a 4 wheel drive truck head on (luckly I was in a 1969 Chevy Impala a Car made back when they made them with real american steel). End up with a broken femur that needed a plate and 5 or 6 screws in it a week in the hospital and 6 month on crutches.

[LixyChick]

Testosterone is gonna win in this thread! LOL!

[Lilith]

ha ha! I just thought the same thing Lixy :D

[1nutworld]

Well there was this one time when a freind of mine needed some extra money while he was in college, so he decided to sell knive sets (like the ones that get advertised on TV at 3am).

So in order to prepare himself for his new job, once he got his demo set, he had a bunch of us come over so he could practice his sales pitch. I was there with my best friend, NOT the knife sales guy, and after witnessing my friend Jim do his sales pitch, my friend Darren grabs one of the knives and attempts to make a cut with it, cutting off the tip of Jim's thumb.

We didn't realize it at first, but noticed that Jim had left the group for a while, we found him soaking his thumb in the bathroom sink, full of ice.

[IowaMan]

My first night at college, two days before classes were to start. We got a few cases of beer, some whiskey, vodka, etc..... and decided to have the guys from the floor in our dorm down to sort of get to know them. Well, it turned into a big "I can outdrink you!" kind of thing. Of course since I was "the small town guy" I couldn't let the big city kids drink me under the table.

Well, seemed like a good idea at the time to switch over from the beer to the whiskey about three or four hours into our little get together. By this time it was a full blown party. So........ gotta impress all the guys there you know and well, there were lots of young ladies there who had yet to witness an idiot of my caliber so ...........

Next morning I woke up with my head in a waste basket. Apparently after I finished my fifth of whiskey I went for the peach schnapps. That apparently seemed like a good idea too. :banghead: On my way to breakfast I was walking across the quad and people I had never met were calling out to me by my nickname and I wondered how the hell they even knew who I was.

No big deal, we've all done stupid shit while drinking, right? :nod:

Four years later on the night before we graduated a bunch of us gathered together to reminisce about our times together and talk about what our futures may hold. There were about six of us still there from that first night. One of them, the wild man of the group, brought out his collection of 8 mm films that he had shot over the time we were there. Some really great memories that left us all smiling and sort of wishing that we could live it all over again.

Then he put that last reel on the projector and said, "Hey guys, you all remember this one don't you? Well, maybe all of you don't." Yep, there I was in all my glory from that first night. Nope not just drunk, I was buck ass naked roaming the halls asking everybody I saw if they had any beer for me. Stopped to pose with probably 20 girls while I was out there on my hunt and smiling to beat all hell. Not a care in the world.

So, what seemed like a good idea at the time turned into an "OMFG, did I really do that?" four years later. I'm scared to death that I will someday stumble across that damn clip online. :yikes:

[WildIrish]

Booger...FUCKING OW!!!!!


That beats the hell out of the time my cousin & I set me on fire trying to make a flamethrower out of a windex bottle filled with gasoline. :yikes:

[wyndhy]

testosterone?
invincibility complex methinks.

(<---has been know to have a bottle rocket battle or two and steal dad's car a few times but i can't say any of it ended up badly. just lucky i guess. :p)



boog ... no horn? glad you lived to tell.

[jay-t]

This one happened to my wife a few years ago she has more than her share of "Good Ideas" Living in the country we always got peoples dropped off dogs and cats ,at the time we were over ran with 6 mo. old kittens abou 10 of them. We had set out live traps ,tried everything to catch them.Unknowing to me she was in the kitchen one day and found a bottle of Codeine and thinks Hmmm! this puts me to sleep I'll give it to the cats and when they pass out I can catch them!Later that day shes on the front porch and I hear "Well Damn!"I look out just in time to see a kitten go tearing across the yard jump straight up in the air do a flip and hit the ground running,ran up a tree and then fell out!Have you ever seen drunk hyperactive cats? But the look on her face was pure gold!
Over our marraige Chevy has not outdone her on better IDEAS

[Coaster]

Testosterone is gonna win in this thread! LOL!


Come on Lixy....... we know you have a wild side....... spill it girl!!! :D

Well nothing life threatening here... but I did grow up on a farm and was a curious fella. So one day while walking around the back 40, I suddenly had to relieve myself. I could have picked any spot in the 250 acres, but seeing the new shiny electric fence, I wondered what would happen if I peed on it................ I think I must have looked like this... >>>>> :yikes:

[wyndhy]

don't wizz on the electric fence

[Aqua]

"So, you wizzed on the electric fence, didn't ya?" :D

[FussyPucker]

I was a young FussyPucker speeding down a hill on my lovely bike when I thought "Wouldn't it be a good idea to test my front break right....NOW?!?" it worked!! This wasn't what entered my head as I went arse over tit and smacked into the road HARD!!

or maybe it was the time I thought it would be a good idea to strip some electrical cable with a 5 inch bladed VERY sharp knife........didn't quite make it down to the bone on two of my fingers and I never did finish stripping that cable.

oh and there was the time when I thought it was a good idea to ride to work on my motorbike when there was a couple of inches of snow and plenty of ice......made it all the way to the last turning and then the bike just slipped from under me........that wasn't so bad but one of the managers was driving behind me at the time and had to swerve and she only missed me by a few inches...

:D