Cell Phones, Popcorn, & Opaque Black Tights

I got one of those bulletins containing a list of items to check to see if you're stupid or not. Now, I know I'm not stupid and I didn't take the quiz in case I incriminated myself. BUT, it did make me think right off the top of my head of a couple really brainless moments I've experienced in my life and me, being the kind and generous soul that I am, decided to share for your entertainment.


** A few months ago I was searching all over for my cell phone. I couldn't find it anywhere and walked all the way around the first floor of my house twice looking for it. I went out in the back yard looking, went out on the front porch to see if I'd left it in a rocker, went out into the garage where I hadn't actually BEEN to see if it had gotten up and walked out there on its own. I complained to my mother about how I couldn't find my cell phone and she asked me why didn't I use the house phone to call it. We don't have a house phone and it was then I realized I was talking to her on my cell phone.

** Several years back I was attempting to pop a pan of popcorn on the stovetop. I put the pot on the stove, poured in the oil and covered it. When I opened the lid to pour in the kernels, fire shot straight up from the pot. I screeched and picked up the pot, removing it from the heat, but instead of sitting the pot in the sink and tossing flour on it, I set the pot on the floor and put the lid back on. Now, the fire smothered but the pan burnt a hole through the vinyl floor. There's a reason micorwave popcorn is such a success.

** When Rich and I had been dating a few months I went to his parents' house with him for a weekend. He told me we were going out for the evening with friends so I put on a pair of black tights, my Doc Martens, a black miniskirt and a long sweater. (Shut up, it was 1994!) We drove over to a convenience store, picked up a case of beer and then picked up a couple of his brother's friends, drove to the top of an abandoned coal mine and sat up there for hours, drinking beer. This is only stupid because of the tights and how hard it is for women to pee outside anyway. In my defense, though, where I was from "going out" meant going to a bar.

In previous posts I've already listed the incredibly stuipd incident about the haircolor and the fiasco with the car and my garage door so I think I'll stop for now. My ego can only take so much of a beating at once. But if you haven't read those, you should. There are valuable lessons to be learned.

Really, there are valuable lessons to be learned from any mistake we make, no matter how stupid we may feel at the time, no matter how embarrassed we may be or how expensive it is to fix. So don't overlook the stupid things. Even if they are only good for a laugh!