Social Science Your blonde moment

[Stinga]

Ever had one of those moments where you thought, "Why the hell did I say/do that?".

I remember a blonde moment on my behalf. I had a TV in my bedroom, not a great one, but a flat screen nonetheless, which was about four years old. I went to turn it on one day with the remote and got nothing. Tried the buttons on the TV, nothing. I thought after a couple of house moves and four years of good service, the TV had run its race.

I went out and bought another one, an upgrade in size and quality and took it home, eager to see this fine piece of technology up and running. As I was about to take apart the old TV when I noticed that the cable into the back of the TV was a bit loose. Yep, I pushed it back in, and abracadabra, the old TV was up and running again in all its glory. So I stood there wondering why the hell I didn't check the cables and went out in a hurry to spend the best part of $700 on a new TV.

Not my finest moment but I got $100 for the old TV and got a bigger, shiny new one to take me into slumber every evening.

Ever have those moments where your brain just isn't working at full speed?

 

[powerful girl]

Seems to me that deep down you just wanted an excuse to get a new TV !

 

[radiojake]

Ever had one of those moments where you thought, "Why the hell did I say/do that?".

I remember a blonde moment on my behalf. I had a TV in my bedroom, not a great one, but a flat screen nonetheless, which was about four years old. I went to turn it on one day with the remote and got nothing. Tried the buttons on the TV, nothing. I thought after a couple of house moves and four years of good service, the TV had run its race.

I went out and bought another one, an upgrade in size and quality and took it home, eager to see this fine piece of technology up and running. As I was about to take apart the old TV when I noticed that the cable into the back of the TV was a bit loose. Yep, I pushed it back in, and abracadabra, the old TV was up and running again in all its glory. So I stood there wondering why the hell I didn't check the cables and went out in a hurry to spend the best part of $700 on a new TV.

Not my finest moment but I got $100 for the old TV and got a bigger, shiny new one to take me into slumber every evening.

Ever have those moments where your brain just isn't working at full speed?

This has nothing to do with the colour of anyone's hair, and everything to do with the amount of TV that you watch - Frizzled your brain and those Harvey Norman adverts have brainwashed you into thinking that 4 years service for a TV is somehow good service?

Jesus Christ, forget climate change, consumerism is the death knell for this culture -

 

[Stinga]

This has nothing to do with the colour of anyone's hair, and everything to do with the amount of TV that you watch - Frizzled your brain and those Harvey Norman adverts have brainwashed you into thinking that 4 years service for a TV is somehow good service?

Jesus Christ, forget climate change, consumerism is the death knell for this culture -

I do see where you're coming from but for the quality of product and the cost of the inital outlay of that original TV, I wasn't surprised that something may have wrong with it. Sure I was a little peeved at it 'blowing up' but being on of those "I just moved out, I'll get a cheap TV" type things, I wasn't going to slit my wrists over it not working any more.

 

[Stinga]

Seems to me that deep down you just wanted an excuse to get a new TV !

I definitely wasn't too upset about getting a significant upgrade, I just thought it was a waste of a perfectly operational TV, but at least it found a new home. I deserved the ribbing my roommate gave me for a little while after that.

 

[SugarShane]

Had a day off last Thursday. The plumber was coming around to fix some leaking taps out the back so i spent all morning doing nothing and just waiting for him. Around lunch time he finally rocks up, and an hour later finishes what he was doing. Finally i thought i could now grab some lunch and start doing something productive. I also told the missus i'd grab some lunch for her and drop it and some other things she needed off to her at work.

So as the plumber drives off, i lock all the doors we had open, grab my wallet, phone, and the stuff to drop off to the missus and walk out the door and shut it behind me. Put every thing on the car so i can get my keys out my pocket... Empty. You idiot. Run around checking every door incase i forgot to lock one, nope, all locked, with my keys inside. What a clown.

 

[Alesana]

Went into a real estate place for the first time, Barry Plant real estate, for some reason I thought you had to see the person whose name was on the sign, so guess who I asked to see

 

[JuddsABlue]

A 'blonde' moment I had was at the football MCG for a night game. About halfway through or something I was looking around and noticed at the top of level one some bright lights (food stand or something else) and noted to the people I was with that it was still daylight outside, thinking the bright lights was sunshine coming through from outside ala Etihad

We wouldve walked to the game in the dark that night

As for really stupid funny stuff which I'm sure is what this thread will be about, not sure but I'll check back once I remember something

 

[WinmarToLockett]

Once upon a time I put my sneakers in the oven to dry them. Then I went and played video games and I only remembered I had my sneakers in the oven when the house started to smell of burnt plastic.

Not so much a "blonde" moment as a "really really stoned" moment.

And I was pretty young...

 

[Caesar]

Yesterday I asked someone at McDonalds where the closest petrol station was. They looked at me like I was simple and said "next door".

No idea how I didn't see it.

 

[Poseidon]

Placed a pick-up order at Pizza Hut over the internet.
Drove down, parked in front of Pizza Hut.
Walked into Chinese Restaurant right next to Pizza Hut and asked for my order.
"What did you order?"
"Just 2 large BBQ chicken pizzas and a pepsi"
Long pause.
"Pizza Hut is next door"
Look around and notice the restaurant doesn't even closely resemble Pizza Hut. WTF am I doing?
Sheepishly walk out.

And yes I was 100% sober.

 

[Kcrack]

Placed a pick-up order at Pizza Hut over the internet.
Drove down, parked in front of Pizza Hut.
Walked into Chinese Restaurant right next to Pizza Hut and asked for my order.
"What did you order?"
"Just 2 large BBQ chicken pizzas and a pepsi"
Long pause.
"Pizza Hut is next door"
Look around and notice the restaurant doesn't even closely resemble Pizza Hut. WTF am I doing?
Sheepishly walk out.

And yes I was 100% sober.

/thread

 

[WALL-e]

Would have been good just to troll the Chineese place.

I once placed an order at Hungry Jacks, paid, then left......

 

[Igloo]

Not so much a blonde moment, just one of those "how does this even happen" moments.

Me and my family were having fish and chips, and I got up to go to the toilet. Instead of going to the toilet, I walked to the bin, opened it up, and started to take a piss. About halfway through, I realised what was going on, and just thought to myself.... wtf?

 

[HolyRioli]

Have done this a couple of times now. Have withdrawn money from the ATM machine, taken my card and walked off. Leaving the money behind

 

[Igloo]

Have done this a couple of times now. Have withdrawn money from the ATM machine, taken my card and walked off. Leaving the money behind

The automatic teller machine machine?

 

[raskolnikov]

Would have been good just to troll the Chineese place.

I once placed an order at Hungry Jacks, paid, then left......

One time at a drive-thru at McDonalds. I placed my order, then paid, then with my mind on something else I drove straight past the pick up window and took off down the street. I had gone a couple of hundred metres when I realised and had to turn around and drive through again.

 

[The Passenger]

many years ago with my GF of the time. we were walking past a farm near her place which had a sign "Free Range Eggs for Sale"

i had a puzzled brain for a minute or so as we walked when dialogue to this effect occured

me: "Hey did you notice that sign down the road the said free range eggs for sale"
her: "Yeah, what about it"
me: "well, how can they be free if they are for sale?"
her: "huh?? what are you talking about??"
me: "well if something is for sale then how can it be free... and what are range eggs anyway"
her: "yeah... they're free range eggs"
me: "but they're for sale. so they're not free"
her: "you taking the piss??"
me: "what??"
her: "they are free range eggs, and they are for sale"
me: "so they're not free??"

i'm pretty sure she punched me at this stage

and this continued on for a few more exchanges before it clicked with me

me: "oooo. yeah, free range eggs. **** i feel like a bit of a ******** now"

she give me a lot of shit about that for the rest of our relationship.

 

[nicky]

Once upon a time I put my sneakers in the oven to dry them. Then I went and played video games and I only remembered I had my sneakers in the oven when the house started to smell of burnt plastic.

Not so much a "blonde" moment as a "really really stoned" moment.

And I was pretty young...

hahahaha that is pretty funny..

I flooded my uncles apartment building by accidently breaking the firesprinkler valve.

What happened was I broke his clothes drier (or thought I did) so hung my jeans with a coat hanger from a fire sprinkler in order to dry them. Once they dried I got up on a chair to take them down and broke the glass valve. The water pressure was intense and knocked me across the room.

Flooded his apartmen, all the apartments on his floor and the floor downstairs. Caused electrical damage to the entire building and broke the elevators - at one stage i was in the foyer and a whole load of people were waiting for the lift. The lights would flash as if they were about to reach the ground floor, however the doors would open and there was no lift there - just buckets of water dripping from the floor above.

Was a disaster...

Oh yeah, and firebrigades charge you 10k for 15 minutes for every truck that is there - if they come out for anything that isn't a fire - about 5 trucks rocked up. We got a bill for 150k

The whole irony of the situation was that my electritian friend came over a week later as i wanted to thank him for helping me fix the electrical work in the building. I asked him to look at the drier as it would have been nice to have that fixed before my uncle came back from os. Anyway, it was in perfect working order, i just hadn't flicked some safety switch.

As hilarious as this was for all of my friends it was a really shit time in my life as my uncle is the most highly strung person in existence.

 

[Doctor Feel]

This has nothing to do with the colour of anyone's hair, and everything to do with the amount of TV that you watch - Frizzled your brain and those Harvey Norman adverts have brainwashed you into thinking that 4 years service for a TV is somehow good service?

Jesus Christ, forget climate change, consumerism is the death knell for this culture -

Since harvey norman make the tvs and everything.

Regardless: My girlfriend and I were in the car (she was driving) through a shopping centre carpark at night after all the shops had shut (we were cutting through). When a black guy walked out across a zebra crossing which my girlfriend failed to spot (both the crossing and the guy) proceeding to almost take him out.

I said, you weren't paying any attention whatsoever. She replies "Its not my fault, it was dark and black people should have reflectors on their heads!"

Oh boy...

 

[philohk]

She replies "Its not my fault, it was dark and black people should have reflectors on their heads!"

Oh boy...

Or they could just smile, surely. Sounds like a real keeper.

hahahaha that is pretty funny..

I flooded my uncles apartment building by accidently breaking the firesprinkler valve.

What happened was I broke his clothes drier (or thought I did) so hung my jeans with a coat hanger from a fire sprinkler in order to dry them. Once they dried I got up on a chair to take them down and broke the glass valve. The water pressure was intense and knocked me across the room.

Flooded his apartmen, all the apartments on his floor and the floor downstairs. Caused electrical damage to the entire building and broke the elevators - at one stage i was in the foyer and a whole load of people were waiting for the lift. The lights would flash as if they were about to reach the ground floor, however the doors would open and there was no lift there - just buckets of water dripping from the floor above.

Was a disaster...

Oh yeah, and firebrigades charge you 10k for 15 minutes for every truck that is there - if they come out for anything that isn't a fire - about 5 trucks rocked up. We got a bill for 150k

The whole irony of the situation was that my electritian friend came over a week later as i wanted to thank him for helping me fix the electrical work in the building. I asked him to look at the drier as it would have been nice to have that fixed before my uncle came back from os. Anyway, it was in perfect working order, i just hadn't flicked some safety switch.

As hilarious as this was for all of my friends it was a really shit time in my life as my uncle is the most highly strung person in existence.

You cannot leave this story there. What happened?

 

[Plugger35]

One time at a drive-thru at McDonalds. I placed my order, then paid, then with my mind on something else I drove straight past the pick up window and took off down the street. I had gone a couple of hundred metres when I realised and had to turn around and drive through again.

I've done that a couple of times, one time I actually made it all the way home before I realised I hadn't picked up my order. I can imagine it must be pretty amusing for the staff working in the drive thru to see someone pay for their order and then just take off.

Have also withdrawn money from an atm and walked off without taking the cash. Luckily I realised pretty quickly and returned in time to get it.

 

[d33my]

Although not quite up to the standards of some of the stories in here, a regular moment I have is sending emails without necessary attachments, often to my embarrasment/detriment.

I notice hotmail now has a thing that alerts you if it 'looks' like you're supposed to be sending an attachment (probably looks for keywords or something.)

I hail the inventor of such a thing.

 

[nicky]

You cannot leave this story there. What happened?

The neighbours downstairs tried to sue me - they worked for a very prestigious law firm in Melbourne and used it's letterhead. My uncle being a barrister was straight onto it so i used the fact that they had used their employers letter head to send a letter to sue without their employers permission as leverage against them. They dropped it.
The firebriggade sent my uncle a bill for $150k - as I said, my uncle is highly strung and hit the roof - infact, i was getting phone calls from him all the time with new complaints of people wanting to sue him, fines from the emergency services etc etc. If you had to choose the worse person to be bound in relationship due to a natural disaster, it would be my uncle - He is the worst.

All in all, i got out of it unscathed, the body corporate paid the firebrigade bill, the neighbours withdrew their case to sue me and my uncle eventually stopped talking to me for a few years.

The only repercussion I get is at the family dinners when my uncle from London is in town (whom i stayed with for a while when i lived there) and my uncle whose apartment i flooded. They have "great jokes" about my house sitting fk ups.

 

[Kcrack]

Sometimes after I order food and the person says "enjoy your meal", I say "you too" without even realising what I just said. Kinda stupid.