What's the stupidest thing you've ever did?

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something serious: dropping out my first university.

not very serious but really stupid: once I pressed my hand against an iron, I knew it was hot but I just felt like I should do it. I was like 12 years old.

loaning someone my car

telling a homophobic bozo that i was trans, and letting him trick me into voluntarily visiting a hate group

majoring in something i later flunked out of, and did not like, just b/c i assumed it had to be a STEM major, b/c of autism symptoms

going to school in a homophobic city

not socializing more

gorging too much. ramen, angel food cake, white bread, mashed potatoes, lasagna. tasted too good. however, if i had to gorge, then should have done so slowly and enjoyed it.

continue interacting with former precious little "friends", that were judgmental chatterboxes

but @ the time, all those actions seemed justified and good. thus, now that i am 34, feel like doing fewer things, b/c i know that sooner or later someone will peer pressure me into doing something i regret.

Getting my tattoo without a doubt. I know many people really enjoy body art but for me I was a teenager and I have changed a lot. It was $100 to get and thousands if I removed it. It's not even that big but that's how it works. I can at least be happy that a shirt covers it during job interviews. I was not thinking of those when I got it.

I once intentionally tried to make myself choke on orange juice, just to see if a person could intentionally make themselves choke.

Stupid? Well... I consider a few:
Something social?
Asking my dad a seriously inappropriate question on the phone. In front of my mom.
Well, that's a 12 year old me, not knowing what appropriate was, earning a slap and a lecture.

Something consequential? Well...
Paying a (Around 20 USD, which is already huge for an average worker, that with a less than 3 mbps speed) Internet bill with my own savings (As a highschooler) in hopes of reconnecting the net. Only to find out it didn't.
So I wasted around 800 php over nothing.

Something physical? Uhmm...
I jumped off from the 2nd floor balcony just for laughs. And to scare the crap out of people since everyone inside knew I was upstairs.
Nothing broken. Just bunch of scared and surprised visitors.

Something stupidly embarrassing but did it anyway?
I was about 5 minutes late in class, and the current teacher is one of the strictest and possibly one of the most hostile. Students are respect and fear of him. What did I do during that class? Instead of going straight into my seat, I went behind the teacher as he lecture introductions and make funny gestures around him of course the whole class laughed, and the teacher didn't noticed I went and gone back to my seat. The whole thing ends with an applause and a confused teacher.
I end up with no consequences. I still wonder if said teacher knew what I did then...

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I accidentally stabbed myself in the foot as a child, I reckon I was either 11 or 12 at the time because I was on one of my old family holidays in Devon. To this day I have quite an impressive scar commemorating that single, isolated moment of utter carelessness, which in turn reminds of Stephen King's book, Misery: "...it was just a little cut!" -_-

I don't know if its the stupidest thing...

But I remember one time in either middle school or highschool we were playing hockey in P.E class. Well I sort of really zoned in on it for whatever reason and didn't notice when the rest of the class stopped and went to line up to go to the locker room. I was still sliding the little disk thin(can't remember the word) around with my stick like a real derp....lol. I certainly found that to be quite embarrassing.

I didn't know I had autism then, but I remember I asked my mom if she thought it was a sign of anything wrong with me...but she sorta dismissed that idea. Lol funny thing is, perhaps if we had looked into it more I would have found out sooner. As looking back it certainly seems to be something related to autism, getting to zoned in on something to notice other things around you. I mean now I can laugh at it but at the time I was really worried something was severely wrong with my brain.

Hm. How to put this....

At the tail end of my technical film career with the Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival, I made a simple mistake in 1986 in the festival world-premier of the Sidney Lumet film Power starring Richard Gere. Unlike today's cinemas which mostly use high-density Blu-ray disks, theaters then used real film which needed to be spliced together in order like chapters in a book. The festival typically presented 100-150 films, so I was splicing a lot of film together as quickly as I could.

Halfway through the screening of the film, someone started pounding on the projection-room door. I opened the door to see an enraged man screaming for me to "shut down" the film. I replied "who are you?!?" That shut him up for a few seconds, until he replied that he was one of the film's producers and the film was being presented out of order. I asked him if he really wanted me to shut down the film. He said yes, and I muted the sound, turned off the projected images and brought up the houselights to a confused audience (including Al Pacino, Jane Fonda and Roger Ebert). The producer asked how long it would take for me to fix the mistake. I said, about 30 minutes. He didn't like the answer. I offered to rescreen the film the following morning, but he declined (angrily).

The producer stormed out of my room and left. I was stunned. I had made the one and only mistake in my decade-old technical film career. I had presented more than 11,000 films without a mistake. My one simple mistake was a BIG mistake because of the audience. One or two Sundance officers apologized to the audience, and every one left the building slowly. I hid out so I would be the last person to leave the theatre.

That night, however, Roger Ebert and several other reporters like Entertainment Tonight had reported the mistake, but described the film as a bomb, anyway. In fact, most of the audience didn't even realize that the film was out of order because the film was so badly made. My state's Office of the Governor got involved with the controversy and sent a messenger to me to ask that I "find a way to make it look less like our fault." I hated lying, but did it anyway ... overnight. By morning, I told the Sundance staffers the truth and who had asked me to lie.

My mistake was all over the television and entertainment news media. Luckily, no one mentioned my name. One of the Sundance staffers who liked me wrote a book about his time with Sundance, and kindly avoiding mentioning my name when he described the mistake.

The worst part was when Sundance staffers hired another film tech to "watch" me for the duration of the festival. I was humiliated, and ultimately resigned from Sundance months later. The staffers felt quite badly about what happened and the intense pressure I was under to lie. But, I didn't want Mr. Redford doubting me in the future (he had trusted me with the security code to his front gate and the keys to his Jeep Cherokee, and I felt like I had embarassed him).

So, that is my stupidest thing I ever did.

So it's a few f**k ups that I have made. Some may just be due to age:

-When I was 2, I jumped off a rocking chair in my parents' bedroom. I still have a scar on my chin, even though it has mostly disappeared
-When I was in middle school, I laughed whenever people would say "pudding"
-When I was at summer camp, I once walked around naked in public, but I was wearing a towel. I didn't want to use the bathroom because it was disgusting and I thought no one would see me change. People did and uhh...my dad was not pleased
-Oncce, I wrote something inappropiate on a sheet of paper about my middle school teacher and she saw me writing and asked what was on it. I panicked and immediately, got up, tore the sheet of paper, and put it in the recycling bin. She yelled at me in front of the entire class, tried to collect the pieces of paper, and put it back together. Thankfully she didn't see what I wrote.
-I wore my shirt backwards at school and I think I was the only one not to notice
-I put my hand in my pants, since it's a habit I do when I'm alone, but I forgot my roommate was there and she said verbatim "Can you not put your hands in your pants? We use the same stuff so please sanitize", she said in her deep voice.
-I left the door to my apartment open at night so it would be easier for me to carry my stuff to my car and basically the neighbors downstairs were having none of it. I was about to go downstairs a second time and I overheard them talking about how they wanted to shove someone back into their mom's p*ssy and uterus. Pretty graphic stuff. Apparently they were mad because some guy tried to come in and they were waiting for someone to come down. I ask my roommate if I can go through her room to the back entrance and I get to my car and drive off as I see them at the front still waiting. I was hoping I would get off scot free but then my roomie called me and said "Hey the girls from downstairs were yelling at us because someone left the door open and they think it was us. You need to apologize to them later." Of course, I was mortified beyond repair. I lied and said I forgot to close the door and that weekend I was so angry and depressed about what happened. I didn't want to go apologize to them. I was going to make up a story about how my sister forgot to close it but then I come back home at the end of the weekend and no one ever mentioned it to me again. To this day I didn't apologize to the neighbors.

^ i was 9 (?) once..and using scissors to "enhance" a paper airplane i had just made. these were no ordinary scissors... they were my mother's fuckhueg tailor scissors made of solid stainless steel. yeah, i did not line them up right, and with one quick snip i sliced off a part of my left thumb. soon later the whole hand was bloodied. scar still there, will be for a long time.

slapped my hand down HARD on an incredibly sticky mouse trap, when i was around the same age. for weeks afterwards my right hand was significantly more adhesive than my left...(IIRC)

In high school I had a very close friend, and through him I ended up with a large group of friends of various ages.

A year or so after the end of highschool, my depression and anxiety led me to convince myself that we had drifted apart and there was nothing to fix that, so I cut off all contact permanently. I basically threw away one of my best friendships, along with a whole group of people, all of whom were very supportive and kind people. I've never stopped regretting that decision, but there's no way I can go back to them now. They must hate me, and even if they somehow managed to forgive me for what I did, I'd still have to reveal the truth to them about just how emotionally vulnerable I am, and I can't bare the shame of doing so.

I can't believe what madness led me to do that. It was such an unfathomably stupid thing to do. I destroyed a great friendship with a truly nice, hardworking, mature guy. I effectively spat in his face, when he already struggled socially. I hate myself so much for doing that.