People Keep Sharing Their Moments Where Common Sense Left Them, And I'm Having A Quiet Chuckle To Myself

"Anyway, that’s how I set the microwave on fire."

We all make silly mistakes where we (or our partners/friends/parents/selves) think "what on earth has made you do that?"

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At the end of the day, and with some time having passed, we should all be able to have a bit of a laugh at the times we've made a fool of ourselves. So here's 21 peoples silliest mistakes:

Note: This post contains injury detail. 

1. "My freshmen year of high school, my friend and I were in a cardio class, next to each other on treadmills."

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"I was passionately singing at her and lost my focus. Before I knew it, the treadmill threw me back and slammed me into the mirror! I wasn’t hurt, but my pride was wounded forever."

—karlidavis

2. "One time I got a nosebleed while on the toilet, fainted upon seeing the blood (not squeamishness, just reflexes) and fell off the toilet."

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"I came round to find myself on the bathroom floor with a splitting headache, nose-blood drips everywhere, and my jeans round my ankles. Classy."

—gemface

3. "In primary school, I was trying to impress my friends, so I told them I could put a coin in my mouth and make it disappear without swallowing."

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"I thought I could just hide it under my tongue and it would be funny. Unfortunately, I didn't do that. I instead swallowed the coin. The school had to call my gran to pick me up to go to the hospital for an x-ray. It was making its way down and in the end, I just had to wait for it to pass naturally......"

—behindbreakaway

4. "I was trying to impress a boy I liked and I was on my bike and cycling past his house."

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"I saw him, shouted 'hi', and waved without looking where I was cycling. I ended up crashing into a parked car, flying over the top, hitting the curb, breaking my front teeth, and dislocating my shoulder."

—behindbreakaway

5. "When I was far too old to be doing this, I stood in front of a mirror with my eyes closed so I could see what I looked like when I was sleeping."

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"It obviously didn't work and it took me a minute to figure out why. Sigh."—saraa4a00f7b8f

6. "A few months ago I set up my humidifier in my room and I guess I thought the air would be so fresh to inhale right from the spout thing."

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"I was sick for a few days..." —odd_soup

7. "When I was about six, my dad gave me some change for my piggy bank and I decided I wanted to incorporate it into my circus act. I was really into the circus for some reason."

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"I put one of the nickels in my mouth and tried to balance it on the tip of my tongue while I gurgled water. Guess where the nickel went… my mom had to sift through my poop for the next three days to make sure it made it out the other end."

—itsgivinganxiety

8. "One time I went to set a plastic container on the stove, and thought 'I wonder if the burner is still hot'>"

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"I then used my hand to feel the burner and it turns out was, indeed, still very hot." —cougar33

9. "Growing up, my sisters and I lived in the mountains where it snows a lot."

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"One night we discovered that we could warm up our blanket by holding it upwards and using the hair dryer to make it super warm inside. After a couple days of doing this, we wanted to do it longer so we could trap the heat. I remember it blowing a flame and burning a small patch on the blanket. We never did that again!"

—cyruslovescrystal

10. "It was after a fairly heavy night of drinking, and I impressively made it to my morning university lecture."

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"It wasn't the most riveting subject matter, and after a while, I drifted off. I realised something was strange when I woke up to muffled, awkward giggles. I must have been having a reasonably stressful dream because my lecturer stopped the session so everyone could listen to me shout 'stop peeing on me' increasingly loudly. Not my finest moment..."

—casualgem30

11. "During my mid-twenties I had a sinus infection. I sat down on the toilet at an angle (I was sick and dizzy so I don't remember the logic behind it)."

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"I sneezed so hard – mid pee of course – and hit my head on the bathroom counter. I woke up nauseous with a mild concussion."

—caffeineandnicotine

12. "When I was younger, my mother had surgery which resulted in her having to use crutches. One day, I got bored and attempted to use the crutches from my bedroom to the kitchen downstairs."

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"Obviously, I fell down an entire flight of stairs."

—ilovebenadryl

13. "As a kid, my partner got appendicitis and was in the hospital for two weeks."

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"He got out just in time for his 10th birthday, got rollerskates as a present, and broke his arm while using them. Straight back into the hospital for another operation to put pins in his arm."

—gemface

14. "I tried to dry just laundered (but still damp) socks in the microwave while showering for work."

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"Fortunately, the fire was contained inside the microwave." —adrianw440bbeae3

15. "Some kid in our old neighbourhood decided to put tire shine over the whole tire, including the tread."

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"He hit a wet spot on the way out of the neighbourhood, slid sideways into the curb, and rolled it onto the roof, thereby totalling his newly detailed car."

—axj66

16. "When I was about five or six, I was using a sparkler with my dad. When it was done he told me to be careful and not touch it because it was still hot.

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"I specifically remember thinking in my head, 'that doesn’t look, I bet he’s wrong' and purposefully went in for a touch. Damn, that was hot! I definitely learned a lesson that night."

—capybaravsllamawhowins

17. "As a child, I was in my parent's room and I saw my mum's little wicker chair at her vanity table (it was the '90s)."

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"For some reason, I thought 'I bet my head would fit through the side of this' – so I tried it and it did fit. The problem is I couldn't get out. Eventually, I had to shout for my mum and stepdad. After laughing, they tried and couldn't either. They took me outside and my stepdad used his saw and cut me out!"

—behindbreakaway

18. "My mom was taking my senior pictures at my grandparents’ house. They have a really fun old fence that we thought would look nice in the photos, so I decided to sit on it."

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"Their cows like to rub up on the fence, so they have an electric fence that runs along the back side of it. I touched the electric wire gently with my pinkie to see if it was on and, thankfully, it wasn’t.

I sat down on the fence and posed for what I was sure would be a masterpiece. Turns out the electricity was on, but it was set to the pulse setting. Three seconds into the photo shoot I got the most shocking experience of my life! My bum stung for a few days afterwards. To add insult to injury, several of my cousins were standing by and got to see the whole thing."

—hollyjeanmorgans

19. "I was on a second date with my now-husband and we went to his place. He lived in an old house with windows that you had to unlatch at the top."

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"It was hot and I decided to open the window — but instead of using something like a chair to reach the top of the window, I imagined that I’m a world-class athlete and began bouncing up and down by the window frame. 

I jumped and landed very clumsily on the side of my foot. I was hopping around on it for three days before going to see a doctor. Naturally, my foot was broken, I had to have surgery, and all of our courtship was done with me on crutches and mostly sitting down, instead of going on romantic walks."

—galoux

20. "When I was about five or six I wanted my mom to help me heat up some garlic knots."

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"She was on the phone so I decided to do it myself. I put them in the microwave, set it for 99 minutes because I was still figuring out how numbers worked at that age and wandered off to watch cartoons. Anyway, that’s how I set the microwave on fire. Once we’d cleared out all the smoke my mom taught me how to actually use a microwave."

—hailcthulhu

21. "I was walking around my house barefoot on a hot day while getting ready for a job interview."

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"I went to (gently!) kick my partner's boot out of my way and stubbed my toe on the reinforced toe cap of the boot... and broke my goddamn toe. Luckily it was a Zoom interview so I didn't have to go anywhere on my now-broken toe – and I got the job!"

—gemface

Note: Some submissions were edited for length and/or clarity.

What's the silliest thing you can remember doing?