When did you last make a big idiot out of yourself?

[EA11R]

I was shopping today and walked directly into one of the mannequins!

 

[Gabkicks]

I was driving home from work last night, listening to the most recent Kasabian album. Whilst sat in traffic opposite a row of shops i found myself mouthing the lyrics (my singing voice is that bad that i won't even sing to myself!) to the song "Shoot the Runner" I'd been starring into middle distance, but in the direction of a hair salon where one of the workers was sat in the window obviously waiting for closing time. She looked towards me which caught my eye and brought my distant focus directly towards her - just at the moment where i finished mouthing the line "I'm a King and she's my Queen, B*tch". You should have seen her face!

lol i've done something similar before.

 

[Touring Mars]

Possibly the most embarrassing thing I've done as an 'adult' was when I worked in a frozen food shop and I was working on the till one day, which I enjoyed despite the fact that this task was generally regarded as the short straw. Anyway, a middle-aged man came to my checkout with quite alot of shopping, and I noticed immediately that he only had one arm. So once I had finished scanning his items, I offered to help him put his shopping into carrier bags for him (you can see it coming, can't you). I asked him "Can I give you a hand?" and there was a stony silence for a second before he politely smiled and said "No thanks, I'm fine", as my face went a deep shade of crimson.

 

[Skid Mark 33]

Possibly the most embarrassing thing I've done as an 'adult' was when I worked in a frozen food shop and I was working on the till one day, which I enjoyed despite the fact that this task was generally regarded as the short straw. Anyway, a middle-aged man came to my checkout with quite alot of shopping, and I noticed immediately that he only had one arm. So once I had finished scanning his items, I offered to help him put his shopping into carrier bags for him (you can see it coming, can't you). I asked him "Can I give you a hand?" and there was a stony silence for a second before he politely smiled and said "No thanks, I'm fine", as my face went a deep shade of crimson.

I've I was him I would have taken the hand!

 

[Blake]

I asked him "Can I give you a hand?" and there was a stony silence for a second before he politely smiled and said "No thanks, I'm fine", as my face went a deep shade of crimson.

You so said that on purpose!

 

[EA11R]

I just realized this as I typed it.

Regarding DFP control philosophy versus DS2 control philosophy:

The intimidating thing to me about the wheel's large rotation is that there's an element of commitment not present in a 2.5cm wide joystick. Actually, I learned that lesson at excessive speeds in a golf cart. The others were not amused.

 

[Alfaholic]

When I stalled just after dropping a female colleague off after work.

Ahhh that reminds me of the Alfetta's habit of embarrassing its driver, apparently on purpose. Two examples:

1) Me in my GTV: I'd just washed and polished it. It was a sunny Saturday morning. I drove to the shopping mall, and cruised past the main entrance while on my way to find a parking spot. I went past slowly, shades on, window down, elbow on the windowsill. The car was quite loud, and just as it started getting some attention, it developed the biggest case of driveline shunt ever. Kinda hard to look cool when your shades are being bounced down to the end of your nose

2) My friend in his Giulietta: He'd just washed and polished it. It was a sunny Saturday etc... he was driving through his local residential area with a colleague. Both were in the airforce and so both were wearing Ray-Bans... They stop at a stop street. There are a pair of teenage girls standing on the pavement. They admire the car for a while then grin at the two guys. The guys grin back. The passenger says "spin the wheels!". My buddy thinks that's a good idea, calls up 5000rpm, sidesteps the clutch. Instead of nice showy wheelspin, the Alfa finds perfect traction and launches them at the horizon without a squeak from the tyres. Both guys practically get whiplash as their car carries them away from the girls as fast as it can...

 

[Touring Mars]

Touring Mars and the Mouse Click of Doom!!

I managed to put a £1,000,000 scientific instrument out of commission for a few weeks with a single click of the mouse this morning.. It wasn't entirely my fault, but I felt like an imbecile anyway. I needed to cool the instrument to 15 K (-258 degrees Celsius) and I had it quite stable between 13-14 K under manual control, but decided to switch to computer control to get it steady at 15.0 K. I set the temp on the computer and then clicked the button to switch on the heaters... Unfortunately, an update to the software meant that the computer was seeing a different sensor to the one I was reading..., and when I clicked the button, the heaters came on full blast and instantly boiled off the liquid helium I was using to control the temperature and BANG! Unfortunately it seems that a crucial seal has blown as a result and the instrument is probably out of commission until the seal is repaired.

 

[Sting]

Touring Mars and the Mouse Click of Doom!!

I managed to put a £1,000,000 scientific instrument out of commission for a few weeks with a single click of the mouse this morning.. It wasn't entirely my fault, but I felt like an imbecile anyway. I needed to cool the instrument to 15 K (-258 degrees Celsius) and I had it quite stable between 13-14 K under manual control, but decided to switch to computer control to get it steady at 15.0 K. I set the temp on the computer and then clicked the button to switch on the heaters... Unfortunately, an update to the software meant that the computer was seeing a different sensor to the one I was reading..., and when I clicked the button, the heaters came on full blast and instantly boiled off the liquid helium I was using to control the temperature and BANG! Unfortunately it seems that a crucial seal has blown as a result and the instrument is probably out of commission until the seal is repaired.

GOD! What job do you do TM?

 

[Touring Mars]

I break expensive things for a living...

 

[TheCracker]

GOD! What job do you do TM?

He works in Starbucks


I was driving back from climbing the other night when my mate asked me what day Christmas fell on this year. I told him the 25th...

 

[Metar]

I should invite you to our McDonalds place, Chris. If there's anything to break, I need you to find it. Everything else is already broken.

On the subject of public idioticy: I managed to become quite a fool yesterday while spraying the tables with sanitizer. After a while the task becomes uninteresting, so I trying spraying at different angles. After a while I decided that spraying from a distance at low angles was more enjoyable (don't ask me why), so I did this. (yes, my job really is that boring) Until... well... I sprayed a customer. A female customer. Who happened to wear something very revealing. And one who wasn't very happy with being sprayed full of sanitizer on her lower back.

 

[Touring Mars]

He works in Starbucks


I was driving back from climbing the other night when my mate asked me what day Christmas fell on this year. I told him the 25th...

25th again? That's 32 years in a row (for me anyway)..

We do have a Starbucks on campus now, I even patronised their establishment myself this morning. I have also worked in a cafe - albeit 16 years ago - where I nearly poisoned everyone by bleaching the cups and putting them back out into the serving area unrinsed

On the subject of public idioticy: I managed to become quite a fool yesterday while spraying the tables with sanitizer. After a while the task becomes uninteresting, so I trying spraying at different angles. After a while I decided that spraying from a distance at low angles was more enjoyable (don't ask me why), so I did this. (yes, my job really is that boring) Until... well... I sprayed a customer. A female customer. Who happened to wear something very revealing. And one who wasn't very happy with being sprayed full of sanitizer on her lower back.

edit: Ha! Busted... ^