People Are Sharing Their Moments Of Pure Idiocy That They Still Remember To This Day

Recently, UserSchmoozername asked r/AskReddit "What is your astir memorable 'I'm a fucking idiot' moment?" And, arsenic sharing is caring, we thought we'd stock immoderate of the champion responses.

1. "I started a caller occupation arsenic a handyman."

"One of my archetypal tasks was to regenerate a airy fixture. I did a cleanable occupation removing the aged 1 and installing the caller one, but I couldn't get it to crook on! I checked the switch, I checked the fuse box, and I checked the powerfulness to outlets astir the area... The brag took 1 look astatine it and fto maine cognize that I hadn't enactment a bulb successful the damn thing."

–SirDucer84

2. "One clip I filled my motorcycle lipid each the way."

"I tried starting it, but the lipid would watercourse retired of the aerial filter box. I recovered a tiny spread successful the bottommost wherever the leak was. It either failed determination or… it looks similar immoderate idiot tried to drill a spread successful the bottommost of the aerial filter box.

Anyway, I plugged the spread with ace glue, and past the happening wouldn’t commencement astatine all. The aerial filter was each oily. Nothing made sense. I YouTubed the issue, which seemingly didn’t exist, for an hour. Why wasn’t anyone other experiencing this? 

Turns retired vehicles instrumentality a finite magnitude of oil; you don’t conscionable capable them to the top. The overflow spread was in… the aerial filter box. I plugged their idiot-proof backup program for erstwhile a freaking dumbass fills the lipid excessively far. And I thwarted them! I’m dumber than they thought!"

–DigNitty

3. "I was watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre successful the theatre, and I said the country wherever the feline was chasing idiosyncratic with a chainsaw was anserine due to the fact that the hold cord wouldn’t beryllium that long."

–dbusque

4. "I was an 18-year-old physics student, and I knew thing astir cars."

"I did find retired astir occurrence pistons and knew cars had spark plugs. Why the hellhole did they request spark plugs if you tin ignite things with a piston nether pressure? Being 18 and cocky, I evidently did nary probe connected this whatsoever. 

So I went to the caput of my department, who I often had small chats with. I precise excitedly told him that I thought spark plugs astir apt weren't necessary, and we could conscionable plan cars that commencement the motor with 1 forcible plunge to ignite the archetypal spot of substance and proceed from there. He sat backmost successful his large seat with his arms supra his head, grinning. He fto maine decorativeness my full pitch. When I finished, helium said simply, 'I deliberation a antheral named Rudolf Diesel had a akin thought 1 100 years ago'."

–Annual_Campaign_6598

5. "I was confused astir wherefore a caller nightlight wouldn’t crook on… portion I was holding it successful my hand. Then I realised it was due to the fact that it wasn't plugged into the wall."

–licht_hikari

6. "Having a sub for luncheon astatine work, I unwrapped it, crinkled up the insubstantial successful my near hand, and consecutive tossed the sub successful the garbage with my close hand. I conscionable stared for a infinitesimal successful disbelief arsenic the country laughed their asses off."

–PotentialAd9543

7. "I was going to instrumentality thing astatine a store."

"I had the receipt successful my hand, and I enactment connected my coat, past the receipt was conscionable gone. I couldn’t find it. I went done everything: my car, the house; I was freaking out. I yet conscionable went to the store with the item, and the woman was truthful nice. She was capable to look up my recognition paper accusation and springiness maine a refund that way, but I was inactive truthful huffy and befuddled astir what happened to the receipt. When I yet got location and took disconnected my coat, the damn happening was stuck successful the sleeve."

–LongjumpingTune9787

8. "I was riding my motorcycle during unreserved hr and came up to a reddish light. I stopped. What I did not bash was enactment my feet down. I fell over."

–shawnwarnerwrites

9. "I've had tons of mishaps, but this is 1 I tin retrieve disconnected the apical of my head."

"My colleagues wanted to bid luncheon from a beauteous pricey sushi spot that had conscionable opened a caller determination close down the street. I’m usually beauteous cheap, but I decided to splurge due to the fact that it was a caller spot and I hadn’t ordered luncheon successful a while. I volunteered to telephone the bid successful and prime it up due to the fact that I was successful a bully mood. I proceeded to spot similar a $240 order. They said 45 minutes to prime up, and I said okay.

I caput implicit successful 45 minutes, and determination is nary bid ready. The woman astatine the beforehand table was confused and said they did not person an bid nether my name. I busted retired my telephone to amusement them my telephone log to beryllium what clip I called. I amusement her the call. She informs maine that I’m a fucking idiot who placed the bid astatine 1 of their different locations, similar an hr and a fractional away. So I wage retired of pouch to re-order the afloat $240 worthy of orders for everyone truthful they wouldn’t termination me.

Guess who spent respective hours that evening picking up $240 worthy of acold ass sushi and serving it to my household for meal for respective days? This fucking idiot, that’s who."

–UserSchmoozername

10. "I spent 10 minutes looking for my telephone utilizing the flashlight connected my phone."

–Voltmann

11. "I erstwhile astir checked to spot if determination were immoderate updates to a website... that I maintained."

–hymie0

12. "I placed my java cupful upside down and past brewed a K Pod. I was truly confused wherefore the antagonistic was filled with coffee. I assumed the mug was cracked until I picked it up and realised it was me. I’m the problem. It’s me."

–Herdistheword

13. "I drove to the shops astir 5 minutes away, past aboriginal astatine location had a feeling I had forgotten something. It turned retired it was the car... I had walked home."

–maxdacat

14. "I was 20 and driving adjacent the section bowling alley. I recognised the car successful beforehand of maine and thought however chill it would beryllium to ascent implicit their footwear and extortion and look astatine them upside down done the windscreen. Turns retired I did not cognize them. Yes, intoxicant was involved. And plain stupidity."

–haroldped1

15. "I received my replacement driver’s licence successful the mail. The instructions said I should instantly chopped up oregon shred the expired one. So, afloat of assurance and intent, I instantly fed the caller 1 consecutive into the shredder. Like a boss."

–SpongeJake

16. "I spent 10 minutes trying to get a interaction retired of my oculus that was ne'er successful there."

–Swedish_Business

17. "Went location connected luncheon 1 day, took frozen veggies retired of the freezer and boiled them, lone to enactment them successful Tupperware and enactment them backmost successful the freezer for later."

–Dylanc97

18. "Taking retired the trash portion leaving location (I unrecorded successful a high-rise and the trash goes down a chute successful the communal area), I locked my door, walked to the chute, opened it, and tossed my keys down the chute."

–eldeeel

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