Dumbest thing you've ever done

I was thinking about all the informative posts on how to do things the right way. Most people are proud of their skill or ability to build or tweak their websites and share that knowledge with others; it’s what makes this a great forum, but what about the things you would rather forget?

C’mon…. fess up and share your most embarrassing or dumbest mistake. We’ve all made plenty along the way. We’ll never meet face to face anyway so go for it.

I’ll go first.

1. Back in my old days, and well before I knew or heard anything about pirated software, I bought a used 286 already fully loaded but without the floppies. Late one night I tried to dump a certain directory and its subdirectories. I used the DELTREE *.* command and it worked great. Unfortunately I was at the C:\> when I did it. I immediately learned the value of buying software.

2. I rebuilt a system recently and fought DV playback problems for hours before discovering I was still using XP’s AGP driver and not nVidia’s. I haven’t made this mistake in years – if ever!

3. Not mine but one I was associated with- Years ago I upgraded Win 3.1 to W95 (using 20 something floppies) for a guy who used a tape drive for backing up his business. I delivered a perfectly working system and got a call the following day saying his PC went FUBAR. After asking a few questions he said he needed to retrieve a file from his tape. Instead of selecting the file he went with the "Full Restore" option. Poof! No more W95.

4. I've hooked up the floppy cable bassackwards many times.

5. Recently I bought the wrong kind of hard drive PATA instead of SATA.

 

I think they have counselors that can help you with this problem. [edit: or drugs]

 

the IDE cable gets me a few times.

 

I stole an 5pence apple back in the day, I can remember I had to pay it back too!

 

Knocked back an invitation to become a professional ten pin bowler in the US. I was a junior at the time when the US junior team came to Australia to play against us. I kicked my opponents butt big time. The manager approached me and was going to set me up with work and then coach me if I came to the US. I said "No thanks. I already have a job with Coles Supermarkets". I had no idea of the great opportunity as a 17 year old.

Col

 

I spend all day long here and don't study for my test lol! bout the biggest mistake someone can make...

 

Err dumbest thing I have ever done would be when I was a kid.

I sold my dad's $200.00 golf club for $5.00 at a garage sale.

 

Thought sports would get me thru college. I was a REALLY good runner in high school and was almost certain I would get a scholarship for college. Because I was so certain, I didn't try as hard in school as I should have. Turns out, I didn't get the scholarship and my grades weren't good enough Oh well, I still ended up getting my degree, but not from the school of choice or timespan I had planned on.

Life moves on, we all make mistakes, I'm happy with my life and honestly probably would have partied all my college money away if I had indeed went to the University Of Iowa (http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_partyheartyschools/that_party_the_heartiest.html) for proof that University of Iowa people know how to party.

 

lol I did something exactly like that to.. I sold a Huge tool box HUGE with all of the nice and shiny tools in it for $20

He wasnt happy..

 

My bighest mistake got in love ....

 

i still remember i formated clients d: drive, when it was asked to format c:
in d there was all the backup, and i formated it by mistake.

i told the client that your d: drive crashed, but i felt sorry for the mistake after, as there was valuable data in it!!

 

I thought it would be handy to use my mother's vacuum to suck up all the dirt that was in my way when while I was digging for dinosaur bones in a dirt pile in my yard. I mean... vacuums suck up dust and dirt from the carpet, why not the dig? There was an outside power outlet located really close by, so I hooked up the vacuum, and sucked up a bunch of dirt and a few nice big rocks before the sweeper started smoking.

Sadly, the sacrifice of a vacuum and endless hours at the dirt pile failed to produce any dinosaur bones.

 

I can not remember to be honest, about doing anything to stupid.

Ah yes, now I remember, I gave away $100 free, to get $150 back, only to find the person took my money and ran away !

 

joined DP - lol jk

 

The biggest mistake I made was when chose my course for college.

--Joe

 

stole the giant trash can, then locked myself in a dark closet and searched for my still intact black and white film in there because i was too shy to do it front of my photography classmates.

 

um well in my tech class, we were doing a topic on plastics, we had to melt them into various shapes to join them and make sculptures etc, instead of melting it, i set it on fire lol, whole room filled up with smoke, and smelt really bad, principal came in and i got suspended lol

 

The Biggest Mistake i did was, that was four years ago, when i send $1200 after receiving a spam Mail regarding a Conference Meeting in United States. The Opportunity for States Visa.

 

ouch... too bad for you dude...

 

This is the dumbest thing I've done recently, I got involved with this thread and asked a simple question. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=291158

Geesh
Mary