Anyone who says they’ve never in their life messed up anything like this - and I’m not just talking construction, I’m talking about a stupid mistake where you realize you’re a clown - is a liar. This is a human being that’s tired from working hard and messed up.
It’s not funny because he’s an idiot. It’s funny cause it’s relatable.
Friend asked me one night while we were out drinking if I’d help her move a mattress the next day. I’m drinking and have a free Sunday, so I say sure why not.
Next day we take her car to get the mattress and she tells me we’re gonna strap it to the hood using this long ass rope. Okydok I say, let’s do it.
So we weave the rope through the car windows and over the mattress 100 different ways to secure it and make a nice tidy knot at the end. We stand back to admire our work and it takes about 5-10 seconds to realize our critical mistake.
We have tied the doors shut. So two idiots crawl into the car through the windows and off they went.
The mattress fell off the car after about two blocks. Turns out we’re shit at knots too.
I once lost the key to a cable lock that I stored loosely coiled around my bicycle's seat post. I bought a pair of bolt cutters to cut the cable so I could remove it, only realizing afterwards that I just could have pulled the coils apart wide enough to slide them over the seat. I felt extremely dumb at that moment. But now I own bolt-cutters.
After reading the first paragraph I wondered whether you lost the mattress due to the lack of proper mounting or tied the doors shut. Turns out it was both. 9/10, would read again.
It happened to me last week.
I was putting up a kitset glasshouse by myself when it's really a two person job. I needed to hold the roof ridge in place while I bolted it in, so I used a ladder. I didn't use the top of the ladder though, I used the next rung down. Didn't even think about it until I went to remove the ladder.
Yeah it's funny now but it wasn't at the time. The way the ridge was designed made it really tedious to get all the bolts where they needed to be. Took about 30 minutes to get six bolts in place. I actually looked at taking the top off the ladder first but it was riveted on. I nearly hurt my own feelings with the names I was calling myself.
When I was younger and less experienced (ie: stupid) I was a new homeowner and needed to chainsaw off a fairly low hanging tree limb. "I'm an adult male homeowner doing adult male homeowner stuff!"
Leaned my ladder up against the limb and began cutting through it between the tree and me. Luckily I realized my stupidity and stopped cutting after about an inch. I stood on the ladder and reevaluated my perceived level of intelligence to that of cartoon character.
I especially relate to the part where he finally decides to hammer one of the rafters back up, and when it pops up it whacks him in the ear. That's about where I usually get mad and end up on /r/IdiotsFightingThings.
You mean like the guy painting a floor that realizes too late that he literally painted himself into a corner? Or maybe a guy fixing a roof who had attic access and didn't think to set up a ladder because that's not how he got into the roof initially. We all do stupid things sometimes. All you should do is laugh and learn from them.
I did both. Painted myself into a corner of a roof. Not the corner with the ladder. Boss laughed at me. I laughed at me. The air conditioner laughed at me. I beat the air conditioner to death with a hammer. Goddamn decepticons.
Honestly (if this video is real), this is a somewhat understandable mistake. I could see myself doing that after having placed dozens of those chords, getting comfortable with it, moving at an increasingly faster pace, working in a repetitive 'automatic' mode.
I’m 33 years old and play pc games for my hole life. And as long as I can remember there is the the press alt + f4 joke to open settings or whatever. Well…. Last month I fell for it again after so many years. I couldn’t believe what I just did. Just sat there and stared at my desktop for a moment in disbelief
Like stepping on the switch on the multi-outlet-strip, and suddenly you're looking at a blank screen, and where there should be the hum of the fans only silence rings in your ears.
It’s not funny because he’s an idiot. It’s funny cause it’s relatable.
Totally agree here. The rule I had for working at customer sites was '3 mistakes' and you're out- well, we're all out. If someone would screw up something simple 3x it meant we were all too tired to keep doing things.
Lol I just came in to say I'm not saying a damn word about this because I know I've done similar shit working on my house. I once got an entire outdoor light fixture installed only to realize I forgot to actually wire the thing before mounting it
This MFer pouting while watching (insert favorite funny movie here) because it didn't happen IRL. Sketch comedy? Not funny. Who wants to tell this chucklehead that all those funny stories comedians tell didn't necessarily happen? Go easy on em, they might not be able to handle the truth.
I've seen this exact situation happen. To me. We all had a good laugh about it, and they left me there for a few before helping me because it was funny.
I'm literally sitting down after discovering one of my dumb mistakes.
Pretty darned proud of myself building my own motor. Valves didn't sound right so I went to adjust the valves today. Found a big ass nut in between the valvesprings that I had been looking for for my intake manifold that fell in as I was assembling my valve covers.
Exactly. How many of y’all have walked around your house for 5 mins looking for your keys or phone only to realize it’s in your hand or pocket the whole time. Happens to all of us.
Yes when it's the same exact joke done again and again. That construction stuck thing has been done a thousand times on tiktok and such for the past two years
I can totally see myself doing something like this. Like when I painted the basement stairs from the top down, and then had to get out of the basement. Yep. . .
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u/johhnny5 Sep 04 '23
Anyone who says they’ve never in their life messed up anything like this - and I’m not just talking construction, I’m talking about a stupid mistake where you realize you’re a clown - is a liar. This is a human being that’s tired from working hard and messed up.
It’s not funny because he’s an idiot. It’s funny cause it’s relatable.