The "I Did Something Stupid Today" Thread

[LittleJerry92]

I didn't do this today, but it was definitely stupid. In fact, it was not only stupid, it was STOOOOOPID!

Be warned, this is long. A little background first. I collect old commercials from between 1982 to 1999. I get some later ones, if I happen to like them. I find most of them on YouTube, and I've been doing this since 2006. I kept them all on a separate harddrive. Well, stupid me decided to break up the commercials from commercial blocks various people have posted (which was a pain in the neck at times, because, out of a group of commercials, they only had one I wanted). I had these in a separate folder on my desktop, along with folders of video files of various TV shows that I put in my iPhone. Well, stupid me moved all the folders to my external hard drive, and got a notice that said "Name of Folder already exists in this location. Would you like to overwrite it?" Me, being the idiot that I am, checked off "Yes to All," not realizing until it was too late, that I had deleted all but 50 or so of my 400+ commercials, most of which are no longer on YouTube. Basically 14 years of commercial hunting down the drain!

However, there's a happy ending to this story. I found a program that could recover them, and it actually worked, so I didn't lose those 400+ commercials after all.

Moral of the Story: WATCH WHAT YOU'RE DOING WHEN YOU COPY STUFF FROM YOUR DESKTOP TO YOUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE!

Losing all your hard work is the absolute worst feeling, I agree. At least you got everything recovered, though!

 

[D'Snowth]

I suppose it may have been insensitive of me, and in poor taste to have eaten BBQ spare ribs on @Pig's Laundry's birthday. . . .

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

I suppose it may have been insensitive of me, and in poor taste to have eaten BBQ spare ribs on @Pig's Laundry's birthday. . . .

We all have our moments of weakness.

 

[D'Snowth]

I noticed Muppet Wiki didn't have an article page for Paul Rugg, so I wrote one up and everything, and just as I was in the process of creating the page, I saw an alert on the Wiki that indicated that there once was a page for him on the Wiki, but that it had been deleted by Scott because he technically isn't involved with anything Muppet-related, just strictly JHC . . . and, I guess that means any Muppet Wiki page for him is unnecessary. So, there's that.

 

[LittleJerry92]

So late last August on the highway, this truck driver was tailgating me on the right side of the road while I was going the speed limit.... and he didn’t bother merging to the other side. Instead, he tried giving me a “what the **** are you doing?!” hand gesture as I looked in my mirror and I pulled to the side of the road. He looked at me like it was my fault that he wasn’t getting his way on the road. But I made the stupid mistake of chasing after the guy, cutting off a couple cars as a result, and rolled next to him and yelled out my window “HEY, *******! YOU DROVE SO ******* CLOSE TO MY CAR, YOU PIECE OF ****!” and gave him the finger. To be honest though that day was a wake up call on my road rage. I get it pretty badly unfortunately, and normally I’m not someone who likes to get into conflicts with other drivers. But that was a day where I’m just like “**** this, not putting up with that guy’s ****.”

 

[fuzzygobo]

I totally get it. As tempted as I’ve been to get in people’s face while driving, it’s just not worth it. I never want to start something that might not end well.
The thing that got me bent out of shape the most, was people tailgating me, and them flashing their hi - beams. I chas d one or two to give them a taste of their own medicine. But when my wife is in the car, I’m not going to put her life in danger just to settle a score.

Tou really wanna tick somebody off? When they drive past you, they might give you the finger, but smile and wave at them. You’ll ruin their day!