I Don't Know Why, But People Are Owning Up To The Silliest Things They've Ever Done, And I Can Actually Relate

"So for over an hour, I cried blue chunks of gunk, but on the bright side, my eye never smelled better."

You know how it is when your common sense decides to take some time off and you're left thinking: "Why on earth did I just do that?" – Well don't worry, as it's becoming clear, we ALL have those moments.

TNT

So, here are 24 times people made silly mistakes.

This post contains descriptions of injury detail. 

1. "It was first thing in the morning, I was making my first cup of coffee of the day."

Buena Vista Pictures

"For some reason completely unknown to me to this day, as I was pouring the freshly boiled water into the cup, I decided to move said cup by placing my hand over the top of it. The worst part is it took a couple of seconds for it to register in my brain that I was in fact pouring the kettle straight onto my hand. My brain apparently doesn’t handle super early mornings very well."

—emmanwilliamson

2. "I knocked a cactus off the side and was super pleased I managed to catch it in my hands until I realised I'd just caught a cactus.

Paramount Pictures

—lizm75

3. "Remember those PaperMints things, the fresh breath strips?"

NBC

"I thought it would be a great idea to put one in my eye, hoping it would give everything a blue tint. It did NOT work. And when the paper got wet it stuck to my eyeball and couldn't be removed. So for over an hour, I cried blue chunks of gunk, but on the bright side, my eye never smelled better."

—iamhestbechiamorphan

4. "I was eight and swimming with my sisters and neighbours at their pool. I thought it would be fun to put the arm floaties on my ankles and jump in."

NBC

"The second I jumped, my feet immediately went to the top of the surface while my head went under. I was struggling so hard to get my head above the water thinking, 'is this how it ends???' Thankfully my neighbour's dad was doing yard work and saw what happened and pulled me up. Lesson learned. Whoopsie!"

—ohforfuxsake

5. "I decided to grow out my hair to my upper waist."

ABC

"I was holding a lit candle in one hand and bent down to the floor to pick up something I dropped, with my hair untied. I ended up setting my hair on fire. I learned three things that day: hair is EXTREMELY flammable, burnt hair smell is REALLY strong, and my mother was right about my common sense."

—jreader48

6. "I was curling my hair with a wand and texting a mate."

Fox

"It was impossible to do both so I put the handle of the tong in my mouth and with this now free hand, picked up my phone to continue texting. The tong fell out my mouth, obviously, and landed on my forearm resulting in the worst burn I've ever had, pulling off the skin. The scar it has left is absolutely awful and I'm praying with time it fades. Multitasking: 0, no common sense: 1."

—reginaphilangee

7. "In uni, we were melting glass to make capillary tubes and were told not to touch it even if we thought it’d cooled down because it wouldn’t have."

Hide The Pain Harold

"Obviously I thought I knew better and touched it and lost part of my fingerprint for a couple of years. I cannot stress enough that this was a high-level university that I’d studied super hard to get into and I did this on my first day in the laboratory so I simply refused to tell the staff I’d hurt myself by being stupid."

—emmfarc

8. "My baby brother received a Superman cape when he was about eight and he sincerely thought he could fly down the stairs with it."

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

"He tested that theory. Painfully." —lightnlife

9. "When I was little I bent a paper clip around the +/- ends of an AA battery and tried to make a circuit as a science experiment."

Fox

"The metal clip wire burned the tip of my left ring finger, but I was lucky and pulled my hands away quickly enough that I wasn’t hurt anywhere else, but it hurt like heck for three days."

—eternalrealms

10. "I was trying to fix my DVD player and had the cover off."

Fox

"I, however, forgot to unplug it from the wall. I accidentally touched some parts that I shouldn’t have and the shock that run up my arm hurt like hell. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that long ago that I did this so I can’t even blame it on youth – I just had a really dumb moment!"

—meld84

11. "When I was three I decided to see if I had the strength to make my basketball hit the kitchen light."

NBC

"I was so amazed when I did it that I looked up when the glass broke, and needed four stitches less than an inch from my eyeball."

—brtswana

12. "I wanted to see if the water in a hot water bottle was still hot so I put my finger in it. Got it stuck and pulling it out took a ring shape of skin off my finger."

NBC

"I was 15." —sunshinonleith

13. "I had tested a sample in a melting point tube, in an instrument which heats up your sample while you watch through a little magnified window to check when it melts."

New Line Cinema

"My sample melted at about 160°C. Once done, I took to tube out with one hand at the cool end, and put the other end in the other hand to dispose of it, this time the hot end! Had a stripe on my finger for a few years."

—victorialouisebarnes1988

14. "A week after my 53rd birthday I decided to clean out the chute on my snowblower with my hand."

Universal Pictures

"I luckily still have all my fingers, but I don’t have all the feeling in the and they will never have 100% use again, but at least I have them. The moral of the story – if there is a big yellow sticker that says don’t put your hand in here, I advise not putting your hand in there."

—lisab120107

15. "When my brother in law was a child, he decided to stick tweezers into a wall socket."

Universal Pictures

"He reported that he got 'shivers' and it did not feel good." —ninjatasty

16. "I remember in high school chemistry a guy stuck a copper wire into the 220 outlet. I had never seen a person fly across a room before but he sure did. Luckily he was okay but it was pretty scary at the time."

Universal Pictures

—geow1234

17. "When I was young I had those stick-on glow-in-the-dark stars all over my room. I also had a lighter for my many many candles."

ITV

"I had the not-so-bright idea that I could melt a glow star into a candle to create glow candles. I quickly learned that if you aren't careful with melted plastic it will stick to skin and burn like hell. 26 years later and I still am missing part of a fingerprint on my left hand."

—greenbutterflydaisy

18. "A few years later, I had the bright idea that I could break open a glow stick and use it like hair gel..."

20th Century Fox

"No dumbass you can't! it stinks to high heaven to the point of noon so headaches and nausea for days no matter how much you shampoo, it also makes your bathroom, towels, pillows everything glow for weeks."

 —greenbutterflydaisy

19. "I took a challenging political science class in my senior year of college."

ABC

"One evening, I was in my friend's room doing homework for this class. I got hungry, so I decided to microwave a cup of Easy Mac. I was so distracted by this homework that I forget to add water."

—beachfish1121

20. "One time (after I had two kids under two, I should add) I decided it was a great idea to cut open a frozen bagel with an 8” chef knife while holding the bagel in my hand.

NBC

"My thought was, 'I’m probably going to cut my hand open doing this' precisely three seconds before actually cutting my hand open. Seven stitches to reconnect the meat between my thumb and index finger."

—emtaylore

21. "I once emailed a Word document to a coworker and asked them to print it out for me so I could inter-office mail it."

Nickelodeon

"She asked why I don’t just email it to the person. I died."

—r4274e8a6b

What's the silliest thing you've ever done? Let us know in the comments below!