Ever do something dumb yourself?

[JustaNumber]

Hey JettBoii,

Nice Magritte!

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Durning a line check, I was off altitude by 30 - 50 feet or so, so i adjusted the altimeter to show what i should have been. Check airmen didnt notice.

That ain't stupid brother...that's pure genius.

 

[Parrot_Head_Fly]

keyless

My truck has keyless entry, walked up to my house after a nice 14hr duty day, and on my front porch... found myself clicking the unlock button.. genius!

 

[Mr Wu]

I took a discovery flight, it went downhill from there.

 

[txpilot1974]

I took a discovery flight, it went downhill from there.

Dammit!! You beat me to it!!

 

[jonjuan]

I sat at a stop sign waiting for the light to change.

Better than going stop sign to stop sign and coming up on a red light. Of course, thought it was a stop sign as well-about crapped my pants half way throught the red light.

 

[lowtimedriver]

I was out the gate counter for Southwest at Skyharbor once, when a 737 captain came up to the counter and I asked him how it was doing. He told me: "not good, I can't find my airplane".

 

[MarineGrunt]

Better than going stop sign to stop sign and coming up on a red light. Of course, thought it was a stop sign as well-about crapped my pants half way throught the red light.

Been there. Done that. Not good.

 

[TWA Dude]

I searched for 45 one night! man did I feel stupid

Heck, one time I kept searching for fifteen minutes after I found my car. doh!

 

[DrewBlows]

I let my roommate borrow my crashpad car once with the understanding that he would leave a note in my v-file telling me where it was. So I got off a trip and found a map that looked like it was drawn by a three year old. I used my best map reading ability to decipher that it was located somewhere in the employee parking lot, and set off on my journey. Much to my displeasure, I was forced to search in the remnants of a snow storm. There was approximately six inches of snow on the ground which had blown into drifts, fortunately there were a few cars that had traveled through the parking lot so I could walk in their tracks. The temperature was about 10 degrees F and the wind was strong. I walked around the parking long enough to circle it twice (and curse out my roommate about 1000 times), when another roommate drove by and offered to aide in my search. A few minutes later we located the lost vehicle. We later celebrated the great accomplishment over beers.

 

[CrownandCoke]

I hadn't driven a car for about three months, and was flying a Warrior, so when I finally got into a car, I reached for the ignition on the bottom left of the dash...I'm...dumb

 

[svcta]

I've never done anything dumb. The only thing I can add is that there's a stretch of I-20 between ATL and somwehere west of there that has you driving with a centerline(yellow, at that), in the left lane[road work area]. It's all I can do not to steer with my feet when it's late. But I'm better at maintaining lane than anyone else.....so I got that going for me.........which is nice. Once again, I've never done anything dumb. Except for that one woman in XNA.

 

[OPECJet]

Done this more than once.....

Waking up at Oh God thirty for a butthole o'clock report, and when candying up the coffee I dumped 4 packs of sugar and 2 creamers into the little trash can they put there for the empties. The last time it happened there was another pilot from a different company standing there who watched the whole episode.

Sad part was, it seemed normal to him......

 

[OPECJet]

Oh yeah... I worked at an FBO where I learned to fly while I was in college. There was another airport next to the school where I was taking a summer class.

One day I had a report due I totally forgot about and ended up bumming an airplane while at work to run it over to the school. (Maybe a 15 min flight each way).

I landed at the airport next to the school, went to grab the report, and yep.... no stinking report. Had to fly back to the other airport to get the damn thing, then ended up setting the airplane on fire when it backfired into the updraft carb box. Melted the cowling a bit, but no real damage.

Finally had to rent an airplane to save my bacon to get the paper in on time. Professor wouldn't give me any slack....

 

[Beanie]

All I can say is "Dude looks like a lady!"

 

[Beanie]

Just Kidding.

 

[Smacktard]

Another one from the Seminole days...

Problem: A little fast on final
Solution: Press on toe brakes :nuts:

One of the better ones, thanks for the laugh...

My favorite one was responsing to traffic and saying "we're IFR". Took me half a second to realize how f'ing stupid I was.

 

[flatspin7]

The alarm clock I have you flick a switch to set the alarm time and then have to put the switch back so see the time... I go to sleep early for my 5:30 am show, I wake up look at my clock... it says 345 time to get up! So I get up and get ready to go... I get in the car and look at my clock and the time said 12:15am.

I get very confused and my other clocks agree with the 12:15 error... I walked back inside and flushed my alarm clock down the toilet.

The day didnt get much better!

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I've had to marshall my wife in and out of the garage so she didn't rip off one of the mirrors.

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

Waking up at Oh God thirty for a butthole o'clock report, and when candying up the coffee I dumped 4 packs of sugar and 2 creamers into the little trash can they put there for the empties. The last time it happened there was another pilot from a different company standing there who watched the whole episode.
Sad part was, it seemed normal to him......

And what was he doing in your room at O'dark Thirty? Little too much to drink the night before, thought you'd act on one of those taboo fantasies of yours???

 

[OPECJet]

And what was he doing in your room at O'dark Thirty? Little too much to drink the night before, thought you'd act on one of those taboo fantasies of yours???

Good one....

No way I'm using the coffee maker in the room. This was downstairs at breakfast. Two crews go out on the same van at this place.

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

Ok, got it now.
But man, for a minute there you had me wondering...

 

[#%&@$!]

I've done so many of those thing - poured the creamer in the trash, reached for the turn signal, misread the clock - makes me feel normal after all.

Here's another one -

Took off in a Baron. At 500 AGL attempted to retard the props to 2500 rpm but grabbed the mixture controls by mistake. Fortunately both engines restarted when I restored the gas.

 

[Meiguy]

The alarm clock I have you flick a switch to set the alarm time and then have to put the switch back so see the time... I go to sleep early for my 5:30 am show, I wake up look at my clock... it says 345 time to get up! So I get up and get ready to go... I get in the car and look at my clock and the time said 12:15am.

I get very confused and my other clocks agree with the 12:15 error... I walked back inside and flushed my alarm clock down the toilet.

The day didnt get much better!

Done that before. I had about a 5:00 Am show time with a reduced rest the night before. Being as exhausted as I was I crashed at 8:00Pm that night for the early wakeup. Heard the alarm, popped up, hopped in the shower, got dressed and just about ready to walk out the door for the van when I glanced at the clock and it was only 10:00 PM. I looked at the alarm on my phone and it was still set for 4:30 AM. I think I stood there with a blank stare for 2 or 3 full minutes thinking how the hell that had just happend. I must have heard my alarm in a dream and took it for being the real one. To top it off I had to look at my pairing to remember where I was. Absolutely clueless that morning. I guess you got me beat since you made it out to your car.

 

[JettBoii]

I once had a terrible nightmare (sleepwalk)on an overnight. It scared me so bad that I shot out of bed and grabbed the door handle to run out of the room but that crazy latch prevented it. Good thing that little latch was there because I sleep naked. I woke up standing by the door and went back to bed. I didn't realize until later that I would have been in the hall with no clothes on with no room key at 1am. Pretty.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I once had a terrible nightmare (sleepwalk)on an overnight. It scared me so bad that I shot out of bed and grabbed the door handle to run out of the room but that crazy latch prevented it. Good thing that little latch was there because I sleep naked. I woke up standing by the door and went back to bed. I didn't realize until later that I would have been in the hall with no clothes on with no room key at 1am. Pretty.

I sure hope the cleaning staff changes the sheets every morning.

I'm a restless sleep at times, and I'll wake up (sleep walk actually) and imagine somebody is in the room with me. kind of like thinking the lamp in the corner of the room looks like a person standing there.

Luckily I manage to wake myself up before I start throwing cell phones and clock radios at it.

 

[dogman50]

After a long day of instructing, I found myself pulling back on my steering wheel as traffic began to slow, in an attempt to climb over it.
Also Rambling on to the pax at the end of a 14+ duty hour day, I Included our airline and flight number at the end!!! (something like sit back and enjoy your flight, blah blah blah skywest 6789.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Taking a new job before my unemployment benefits ran out.

 

[BlueCanoe]

Logging onto this crackpipe

 

[J32driver]

Yes, but she was cute

BEST RESPONSE EVAR!!!