In the wake of some recent events, I realized that I actually remember majority of the stupid things I have ever done and whenever something happens, all of them just come back to haunt me.
So, bros here could share some of their experiences, it would be great.
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Not doing enough DD on my current employer (seriously). Kids, ask everyone and anyone about the company / people you're thinking of joining!
In a stupid drunken moment I bet half a year's student loan on black... and lost
Got blackout drunk, stole a car and drove it in a ditch. Luckily there was little to to no damage, or any injuries. I had just turned 18.
On a related note: We had this incredibly thick Russian guy at our school that sent the CIA a bomb threat as a prank...this was two months after 9/11. One hour after sending the mail, SWAT had raided his dorm room and confiscated all of his equipment. I wonder if he ended up on the No Fly list.
There was a 12-13 year old kid in my (international) school, who posted on facebook that the day he leaves singapore forever, he would bomb the marina bay sands (singapore) and spit chewing gum everywhere (chewing gum is banned in sg) and he was DEPORTED back to India due to this. The swat think is still kinda swag thing to say haha, but this is just... Well, I dont even have a word for this. Singapore is absolutely brutal towards foreigners and even its own minorities.
^ Christ!
Something tells me a lot of this will involve alcohol.
In high school, me and two buddies got wasted and broke into a construction site...yes, pretty fucking stupid...to see if we could steal wheelbarrow and push one of my friends around as he stumbled into a small pot hole and twisted his ankle. My other mate thought it would be funny to get a digger moving so we could make a hole. We ran out of patience as everything was locked so continued drinking. Passed out and woke up the next morning with a builder arched over me who just said "you're fucked sunshine...you weren't planning on finishing this store up for us are you?". In hindsight, I'm glad the first person to get to the site had a good sense of humour and sent us on our way.
hmm... most popular word in the post above... drunk, drunken, ...
In college, Big Ten school, fraternity, right before x-mas break ... We had noticed for about a month that a nearby townhouse had a Big Ten scorers table up on their porch (the type you'd see at a basketball game which lights up the whole deal, ~20 ft long, etc). Browned out one night a few of us decided to steal the thing at about 4am when no one would be outside since it was only 2 houses down. There was about an inch of snow on the ground and it was dead silent out, prob a weekday night during exam week.
So we quietly go up onto their porch and realize this thing weighs like 600 lbs and we have 3 of us to carry it off this porch down about 5 steps and back to the frat. It was a struggle to say the least being an awkward shape. I am positioned at one end of the table gripping fiercely when all of the sudden a hinge I hadn't even noticed closes down on my right thumb slicing it length wise like a hot dog in the microwave. Additionally, the hinge is now locked somehow with my thumb in there and I can make no sound as we cannot wake anyone during this theft. My buddies take about 30 seconds to figure out how to open the hinge so I can get my thumb out.
Blood has now begun to gush everywhere which includes all over the white snow in that houses walkway and nearby sidewalk. I am essentially leaving a trail of blood pointing in the direction of who stole the table. We later cleaned up our tracks a bit and some more guys came outside to help get the table completely moved into our house.
To wrap up, I went to the ER that night and got a zillion stitches in the thumb, breathing whiskey breath all over the guy stitching. The tendon was only partially severed so I got away without surgery but I had to do rehab for about 3 months and now I can bend my thumb down about 85% of the way which is fine by me. The scorer's table lasted 1 semester in the house and it looked pretty cool, but was definitely not worth the aggravation. At least I had a bunch of refills of pain pills over that x-mas break.
If you're a vet the standard answer to this question is "I believed what the recruiter told me".
Threw a match into one of those metal gas cans when I was about 10-11 years old. It blew up, but the explosion went the other way.
Was driving around 120-130 down the highway when a tractor trailor pulled out from the shoulder in front of me. I went around it on the grass while still maintaining control of my car. Pretty cray cray
Angie.
There are a couple drunken events that I would talk about, but I'll just say that something really stupid I did for a long time was steal. I used to be a huge kleptomaniac, and couldn't go into any store without stealing a few things, and the rush I got from it was euphoric. Bizarre, I know. I stole several dozen times easily, and never got caught thankfully, although I came close once. Honestly, stores almost seem to make it too easy for you. It was a hard habit to kick, and I still get weird urges when I enter stores. I'll probably get down-voted for this admission but I thought I'd just share.
Stupidest thing I've ever done - shocked I didn't get arrested. My friend's Dad was a lead detective at the precinct in our area. After classes he drove into the Police dept. motor pool pulled out a corn cob pipe and baked out his jeep for about a half hour. Every 20 seconds I would remember where I was and freaked out, forgot about where I was and relaxed, laughed because I couldn't remember what was stressing me out 15 seconds earlier then began the process over. Not my brightest moment but fun to remember actually having time to be an idiot before starting on the CFA track.
I once overpaid by 100% for an escort even though I know what her rate was, I wasn't that horny at the time of the payment, but it just happened. One of those unconscious things.
During my sophomore year my friends and I were walking back to the dorms after a day party. As we were walking back we walked past a couple cops that were arresting some kids for underage drinking. The cops had taken the beer (6er of Platinums) and rested it on the hood of the cop car. In my drunken state of mind I thought it was a good idea to steel one of the beers from the hood of the car, I successfully stashed it my pocket and we laughed our way into the dorm. Everything is going fine until I get a call from the police the next day asking about what had happened and i had to go confess. Apparently one of the cops noticed, but didn't feel like dealing with another drunken ass at the time, so they tracked down who swiped into the building at that time and were able to check the cameras in the dorm lobby. Ended up going to court, but the judge thought it was a great story and that I had "brass balls" so he didn't charge me with anything.
For me it would have to be moving out of parents house too early after getting a job. Nothing bad really happened because of it but I definitely could have save close to 10k by just waiting for about 6 months or so.
First we got caught underage drinking in my dorm. Got a warning, should of stopped there. The next week, we were caught smoking mary jane in the dorms and was kicked out during the school year. My buddy and I lived in the Motel Six for a couple weeks before finals were over. Of course, when we got to the Motel Six, we used the sink in the motel as a place to put ice to store beer. We also smoked alot of mary jane there too and had people over every night. Damn I was stupid as fuck.
Decided to get a business degree.
Stupidest Shit you've Done/Do (Originally Posted: 07/20/2013)
Pretty bored at work right now so figured I'd seek entertainment from the WSO community to help this Friday speed up. Feel free to post literally anything.
1.) Attending a Non-target...
Take your signature seriously.
Gentleman? Bodybuilder? My panties just dropped on instinct.
Haha what?
Forget to knock
Attend a non-target and dated a Tibetan girl.
Stuck it in my former firm's butt with no grease and then broke it off, a slight to which they responded with a multimillion dollar lawsuit. Lost a year of my life for it. Hilarity did not ensue.
Also been married three times.
Dealer's choice.
Harvard dropout here, sup bros.
I don't remember who said this, but somebody like Peter Thiel felt like getting into Harvard and dropping out was the ideal scenario. That way, you don't have to prove that you're smart (since you have Harvard pedigree) and can then pursue a more focused skill-based/tools-based education relevant to what you want to do.
OP: The stupidest thing you've ever done is attend a non-target?
You need to do more stupid shit lol
Boinked a chick on a millionaires desk ... on a weekend. Stupid for thinking the magic would rub off on me.
Not seeking mentors when I first got to university. Dated for more than a year while in said university.
lost the card of VP in HR at Wells Fargo Secutities who told me to contact her for an internship...
smoked salvia...
How was that? Serious question.
man ripped a bowl of some 40x, mind raped forever
AIDS hooker.
Wore velcroe high-tops to all my Superdays
OP, please tell me that your signature is the same as your Linkedin headline.
It is.
But seriously, can't tell if yours and Daisuki's comments are love or hate for my signature. Oh well, I like it.
Finding this site. It's fucked with my expectations/standards for future employment.
hooked up with grenade
I've smoked salvia maybe 10 times. I've smoked it with probably 10 different people and all but two have loved it.
I personally.... have mixed opinions. It wasn't pleasant in the traditional sense. It was fucking intense, which I liked, so I kept doing it now and again.
The first time I did this, this is what happened:
Be 17 or something Sitting in my bedroom with like 5 friends We take turns taking bong rips of 40x extract salvia My turn: This was a while ago, so the memory is blurry (also, I was on salvia).
You know what, fuck it. I can't find the right words to describe it. I came to after ~10 minutes. At some point, I had ripped my shirt off and was soaked in sweat. All of the people around me turned into large purpleish blocks/blobs. There was a kid named Bobby with us and I, for whatever reason, spent a few minutes chanting, "Fucking Bobby."
Everything was just very intense and interesting. And it took me another 20ish minutes for my worldview to return to normal. I come to from salvia "trips" having no idea what the fuck is going on. So I take a few minutes to recall my own name, where I am physically, in life, etc. It's kind of a fun feeling.
Hard to limit to the stupidest thing I've done. But, almost every single one (if not every single one), involved heavy drinking or drugs (but most of the dumbest involved drinking).
One example: falling into a bonfire after drinking a ton and then smoking a couple of joints (luckily I had a coat on that took the brunt of the damage). More: DUI conviction, tattoos, fucked a late 30's MILF in the pool at my apartment while I was in college (wait, that was a good one, except for the chlamydia), public intoxication conviction, inhaling enough blow in Vegas to embarrass Dwight Gooden and subsequently losing a ton of money, eating an entire habanero pepper, etc.
I won't even get into the embarrassing ones.
U r The man lol!! Im so glad iRead this post
I ate 3.5 habaneros once in high school. It was a top- five most painful decision of my life.
This is pretty solid list for starters (wtf, why would you eat an entire habanero pepper????????????????????????????????????????????????? cocaine is a hell of a drug).
haha you and BH have some similar narratives.
apparently dumbest thing i've done so far: not enough drugs.
Wasting several years preparing to be a doctor. Definitely not juicy like some of the prior responses, but it's my boring truth.
ish vill see your Velcro shoes und raise you to Velcro suit:
//www.youtube.com/embed/OhGVVnZZW5o
I vore this to my IBD interviews und it was an uber disaster.
Everyone on this post except SirTradesALot is really fucking lame.
Good list. How'd you get the public intoxication conviction? I thought that was a joke charge that gets plead down to something meaningless or dismissed if you show up with a some what competent attorney. I'm guessing you did something worse and that was part of the plea deal.
^^don't remember, but it's all I was ever charged with.
Tackled a guy onto the road, he had a gun in his back pocket. I have never run so fast in my life. He was caught later the same night for trying to rape 2 girls...
Explain.
I got into a super target and chose to attend a total non-target. I believe it was a huge mistake but hopefully my career won't suffer. Tibetan girl was a total disaster. She did not show any emotions whatsoever so it was really hard to even figure out how she feels.
cant beleive none of you have said "wasting time competing with the other poor dads/hamsters over being a well paid slave at a firm like GS/JPCHASE/CITI/ETC
I don't get any bragging rights out of this one, but the thread is stupidest thing you've done and its a true story:
Accidentally butt-dialed my mom on my cell-phone when I was losing my virginity. Left like a 10 minute voicemail.
+1
You mean 10 second voice mail right? jk
Could have been worse. My first sexual experience got cut short because the biggest loser in all of hs was friends with my gf and stopped by her place unannounced. I was maybe like 20 pumps in of the most defining moment in a young mans life when the glee club chair rang her doorbell.
oh wow. you win bro. you win.
sounds like a Ben Stiller/American Pie movie
what's wrong with that? Seems like a noble pursuit...
+1
I don't think you get points for dropping out. Or should I put leaving my Penn grad program (lack of finances) on my CV?
stupidest shit I've ever done: saying I aced my previous interview to my potential employer jumping on top of some china dude's Audi while I was drunk in china blowing $400 on partying with less than a $1,000 left in the bank trusting some indian man to do a good project for me (no offence to indians) trusting the same indian again and actually counting on him with more responsibilities this time got chased by a taxi who wants to sell a prostitute to me in vietnam ......and more... those were the days...
When I was around 10-12 years old my friends and I would roam around our neighborhood to find glass bottles, and go behind a strip mall to throw them into the back of stores who had their doors open. The cops would get called and we would stay in the neighborhood and avoid them pretending we were army men lol
Ive done much worse but on phone
occult shit... in general, not knowing when it is enough and where to stop
however, stupidest shit i did (and keep doing) = constantly wasting time
I want to say things but don't want to have it linked to my profile.
Geez kinda sad that so many people said going to a nontarget.
Just tried to scale a three floor condo via the balconies on a dare here in Panama City Beach last night. Halfway up the second, slipped. Cut up but not broken!
Here's the stupidest shit you'll see today. Gravity's a fickle bitch:
//www.youtube.com/embed/JonYbMZRO_Q
I was smiling/cringing the entire video because I could see it coming. He hit like a rag-doll.
What the fuck am I reading?
Spam.
Haha, this one is good Ok, my turn
BTW, I regret only the 2 last things...
dated a stripper for 2 years
Please, expand on this...
Impregnated a (barely)16 year old when I was 19... ish.
It's a little bitter-sweet remembering some of the stupid shit that's happened.
uh hows that going for you? abortion or kid, sorry had to ask..
We had her. Probably the best thing that's happened to me, but I can't say it wasn't stupid. The mom is gone, though. Now that I've typed that out, I feel like I could be the poster boy for some white-trash reality tv show. I live in Alabama, but she was Asian - so I don't know how that would work out.
No statutory rape laws in Alabama? You're lucky you didn't go to prison.
Attending a nontarget because I wanted to stay close to my psycho ex
Dunked my ball-sack in a friends flatmates pot of tea. Woke up with an excruciating pain between my legs.
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Going into accounting instead of finance...
The list of dumb shit I've done is only topped by awesome shit I've done.
I once decided that organizing a street race would be a brilliant idea. Everyone who showed up got arrested. I was getting laid at the time and didnt show up. People were less than thrilled about this.
Gold.
-went 170 mph in my car with all of my friends in it. Still had some room to run, but one of my friends peed himself
-Every day heading home from school my friends and I would street race. We would travel over the same overpass every day, but one day there was a cop facing the direction of oncoming traffic as we were heading onto the highway from coming over the overpass. My friend pointed him out, I looked left, and the policeman and I matched eyes (at this point I was going around 70 on the turn) - I proceeded to downshift and floor it. The cop quickly turned on his car and proceeded to follow me, but I outran him. My car could take turns pretty well so there as a bend on the highway where he couldn't see me and I took an off ramp at around 90 mph lol
I have plenty of more car stories but I need to get back to work!
Actually just thought of one more.
-Did a fully 360 spin out because I took an off ramp so fast. My gf (now ex) was in the passenger seat, got out of the car, and walked home
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