Stupid things you've done?

[Nigredo]

About 5 minutes ago, I went into my room, picked up my Shinai (bamboo sword) swung it up and smashed my light fixture. Luckily, the glass only cut my left arm, and I cut my right index finger while I was cleaning up. Somehow, the fixture hit my head, but I didn't get cut on my head, (although it hurts:( ) I am an idiot. I need to make sure I never get a sword of any kind, (and definitely not firearms.) I don't even want to tell anybody this happened.
Care to share anything stupid you've done? Maybe it'll make me feel better. :D

[otaku]

my brothers done some pretty stupid things

one time he refused to use a pot holder when pulling pizza out of the oven and it was so hot that it made him drop the plate on his toe, and the plate didnt break, but it split the bone in his toe and had to see a bone doctor. it almost required sergery.

[Nigredo]

Alright!!! Now I don't feel so bad!:D

[ninja velmor]

lets see, where i live it snows. and a few days ago it rained, so the ground was ice. i desided to see i far and fast i could run on it until i feel i got about 10 feet the busted my @$$.

[Zee'd]

i'm tall, and there's this doorway..... and i managed to smack into the top of it 3 times in 5 minutes.....

/me get battle-hammer and does some "renovation"

[Zushio]

I have a list too long to post of incredibly stupid things, but the main one tends to be: waiting too long.

Mind you, thats only a small drop in the pool of my stupidity. And I think that the king of stupid is the infamous Master_Blaster. I know him in real life, and let me tell you, he has honestly done some of the stupidest things ever. The man has had 14 concussions, only three of which were sporting event related, the other 11 were his own doing.

[Phelddagrif]

not suprising...


I have done plenty of stupid things...most evil towards others...

My favorite...where I live, it's illegal to skateboard...so me and mah friends got out our boards and stood next to a cop car at the donut shop...

We got arrested...but they let us go.

[Nigredo]

Originally posted by -=Moonlight=-
I have a list too long to post of incredibly stupid things, but the main one tends to be: waiting too long.


Ummm... waiting too long for what? Can you be a bit more specific?

Oh damn, that cut on my arm from the glass is definitely gonna leave a scar... YES! Now I can brag about it and make up stories to prove my manlyness.:cool:

[kyo]

lets see once i was chasing my brother in the house(ninja velmor) and i was holding a spoon in my hand the end of the handle of the spoon was in my hand and while i was running it the spoon hit the handle of a door and drove the end of my spoon into my hand.it hurt really bad

[otaku]

one time in french class i was doing the assignment and the question asked if the picture of the house showed a kitchen, i got distracted and instead of writing yes it has a kitchen i wrote, yes it has a house

[Zero]

A lot of things I'm not proud of.......A few crazy stunts that I am proud of, though :GD It's kinda insane when a water ballooning prank turns into a high speed car chase......uh......you didn't hear that, lol.....

[otaku]

at lunch the other day me and my friends got into a fight when they all tried to steal my manga and i threw an apple and instead of hitting him it hit a group of preps and it exploded on them. it was quite funny until they were chasing me so i hid under a table with some of my nerdy friends, and they happened to be under the table playing with a 10volt battery pack with wires sticking out. so were playing pyro in the school cafeteria when the pizza box were burning holes in sparks and lights on fire. so now were running out of the cafeteria hoping no one saw.
but then a teacher sees the pizza box at the table and freaks out. i asked my friend where he got the 10volt battery pack to find that he stole it from the science room.

so to breif what i wrote..
manga stealing
apple fight
flaming pizza boxes
suspention

[Tenshi no Rakumei]

I have run into the side of a parked car, Run into a dor, run into a wall, slipped on dry ground, tripped over my feet 37 times in one day, run into my closet door(walk in closet) even though the closet was open, picked up a knife by the vlade and sliced my hand, and the stupidest......

picked up a hot pot that had boiling water in it with my bare hands, causing me to drop it and splash it on my feet, further causing my to stumble back and step on the cat, making him scratch my lags into shreads with one extra deep cut, that made me jump back again, slip on the water on the floor, land in the wrong way and break my arm in the fall.

So in short, i needed sticthes, a cast, and bandages and pain medication for my almost burned, skin-pealing-off foot.

[Kurorakuda]

When I was 10 I was playing around with a box of sewing needles and left them scattered on the floor. After a while, I forgot about it, and when I jumped onto the floor to lay down, I got stabbed by 57 needles. I was lucky they didn't hit any vital or important organs.

[otaku]

the other day i screwed up when drawing a straight line with a ruler. tow days later i finally drew a staight line and i was happy that everyone clapped in my class becuase every time i had to have some one help me draw the straight line

and also when i was 11 i was runnimg bare foot out side when playing with some friends and i stepped on a nail and it went straight through my foot. i had to take these big ass pills to help heal the infection and get a tetna shot.

when i was little i was playing with my friends in a park and i kicked the ball so far that it went into the parking lot and knocked over a harley

(if your dumb enough you can join my club" )

[Zushio]

Originally posted by Nigredo
Ummm... waiting too long for what? Can you be a bit more specific?

No, but let me assure you, it possibly the stupidest thing I've done in recent memory, and frankly I don't want to talk about it.

And I don't know if this counts, but I occasionally walk down the streets of my city barefoot durning summer. I've only been cut twice.

[LinaInverse0015]

stupid things I've done:
Held a bet with a friend that I could watch of The Slayers and Evangelion series, (All three of the Slayers series and The Eva series, and All the movies from both series)

I DID IT!... I missed two days of school and I was starving but I did It

[Sophie]

I talked to this guy on the Internet a billion Times, and then When I SEE HIM AT TODAYS TOURNY I totally avoid him..... WOAH IS MEEEEEEE, oh well. Another day, Another Forensics Tourny.

[Human_Fighter]

Originally posted by LinaInverse0015
stupid things I've done:
Held a bet with a friend that I could watch of The Slayers and Evangelion series, (All three of the Slayers series and The Eva series, and All the movies from both series)

I DID IT!... I missed two days of school and I was starving but I did It

Don't you see something wrong with that...

[Zee'd]

how about mistaking a salesman as a friend and inviting him into the house. Man, was i shocked... and i believe he thinks he have walked into the twlight zone (what? a person nice to salesmen??)

[LinaInverse0015]

Originally posted by Human_Fighter
Don't you see something wrong with that...


Well I missed two days becuase I wanted too.... And becuase after watching so much TV i needed sleep.... Second stupidest thing was unwilling eat a month old jelly bun

[MissMiaka]

Stupidest moment-
I was dared to flip out of my chair duning a class, I did do it but my skirt got caught and the the class got a peep show... does that also count as most emabarssing moment?

[Tamanegi Sensei]

Originally posted by MissMiaka
Stupidest moment-
I was dared to flip out of my chair duning a class, I did do it but my skirt got caught and the the class got a peep show... does that also count as most emabarssing moment?

Yes and no, you did it for popularity, but in result made an embarassment for yourself. Not to mention some fan service. However, that clumsyness is just tame compared in real life. For me, when I was in PI (the Philipines) on a really cheap ass date, I was askin her if she would like to go see a movie, but at the last minute, she said that she hates movies, and I ended up wastin 1000 piso (20 bucks) on her anyway. I also bought another Sum41 Does This look Infected CD, but it was of plastic coaster value. I'm never goin back there again!

[EWStan]

I don't know my own telephone number. I feel kind of dumb whenever I have to give it to someone, and I have to go look in my cell phone or Palm Pilot because I can't remember it. I know remembering your phone number is something they teach you about in pre-school, but I've been in my campus apartment for only a semester. It's not like I ever call myself.

[Shiva]

Originally posted by -=Moonlight=-
No, but let me assure you, it possibly the stupidest thing I've done in recent memory, and frankly I don't want to talk about it.



I'm curious now! I've waited in a line for a long time to purchase something... realised it wasn't a line when the group of people in front of me walked away and saw the real long line next to me.

Doorway stories: many years ago I was trying to to stop my baby sister from crying so I put her on my shoulders to bounce her around in an effort to cheer her up. Heard my parents come down the driveway and was so happy to unload the crying bub that I ran through the doorway while she was still on my shoulders then *BAM*... surprised she didn't get concussed...

And I am the clutz of clutzes... I think I've done so many embarassing things that my brain conveniently deletes them from memory until discussion of events raises them up again.

[Liegenschonheit]

Lets see. One night I had been drinking a little bit, and was playing with my cats and a bit of ribbon. My roommate (Deosvx) said it would be funny if we tied the cats together with it. Now, a little tipsy, I thought the cats would play with the ribbon and roll around on the floor together in cute kitty play. So I tied one end of the ribbon to each of the cat's back legs, and as soon as it was on they freaked out. One went running toward the bedroom and the other bolted the opposite direction, pulling the ribbon tight and further scaring them. They were wailing and screaming and I tried to grab one of the cats to get the ribbon off. She dug her teeth and claws into my hands and leg, creating nice deep bloody gashes.
By the time I got the ribbon off, I (and my clothes, and the carpet, and the cat) was covered in my own blood and crying hysterically because I had (unintentionally) done something so cruel.
Lesson learned : NEVER EVER listen to Deos.

[Eek]

Originally posted by EWStan
I don't know my own telephone number. I feel kind of dumb whenever I have to give it to someone, and I have to go look in my cell phone or Palm Pilot because I can't remember it. I know remembering your phone number is something they teach you about in pre-school, but I've been in my campus apartment for only a semester. It's not like I ever call myself.
The same things goes for me. I cannot remember my own cell phone number, but that is mostly because I never call myself. If I am not going to be calling myself anytime soon, why should I be learning my own number? If someone else needs the number, I will just look it up in my personal phonebook and give it to them.
Originally posted by Liegenschonheit
Lesson learned : NEVER EVER listen to Deos.
Do not worry; in the IRC chatroom, no one does. ;)

Anyways, my stupid thing that I have done was riding a four-wheeler while wearing a pair of shorts. My friend and I were driving around in the woods behind his house when he went around a corner and stopped a mere 20 feet ahead. Meanwhile, I come whipping around the corner and suddenly figure out that I was going to rear-end him. So being the inexperienced four-wheeler driver that I am, I slammed on both brakes... and went flying over the handlebars. I came to a crashing halt on the ground and the four-wheeler slammed right onto me and then rolled off. As a result, a nice chunk of skin got carved out of the inside of my right leg next to my knee cap. It took a full three months for the injury to heal, and I still have a massive scar and a big indentation in my skin. Luckily, I did not break any bones or get any muscle or ligaments ripped out. :D

[Skuldchan]

Ive done too many stupid things to count, Im a total ditz. Other then the fact that I trip over my shoes constantly (I wear 3 inch platforms because Im pretty short, only 5'2") 3 things stand out in my mind.

1)When I was 5 I wanted to see just what would happen if the elevator door closed on my arm. I did and it hurt like hell. For 4 floors I was screamming because I couldnt get my arm out of the elevator, luckily nothing got hurt or broken.
2)Some time ago this year in the morning I was dressed up (for my stupid academy) and eating my instant noodles in the car. When the school bus came I got out of the car but I tripped on a rock, so I fell. I was on both of my knees and one hand (amazingly I still had a hold of my instant noodles), now while my friends are laughing at me my dad, rolls down his window and starts shouting out jokes like "Have a nice trip" and other stuff along those lines. And because I got dirt on my dress clothes, my teacher didnt give me my full credit.
3)And the biggest one is when my dad was teaching me how to drive. He told me to brake but instead of bread I accedentally hit the gas and ran into a light pole. Luckily no one got hurt.

[soundchazer]

I still have the scar in my chin from trying to shave when I was 4.

[Basketball Jesus]

Hmmmmm..... let's see here. Once I was cooking at a friends house and I was holding a really sharp knife and I went, "I'm feeling really stressed out right now." Naturally my friends wanted me away from the knives for the rest of the evening.

[Phantoma101]

I have shoplifted... That was fairly dumb...

[Azazis]

Originally posted by Phantoma101
I have shoplifted... That was fairly dumb...

Only if you get caught X)

Being a human being makes me do stupid things all the time :3
Picked the wrong education. Showed up drunk at class with my mates ^^;.Sleeping way to late only to regret it the next morning. Used to pick fights with guys way bigger then me -.- ( not hard to find =p ) and I always get the wrong affect with girls.

[JaQuais J.]

The stupidest thing I have ever done was when I went outa town to Kansas city with my football team and forgot my helmet and jersay at home, I had to go buy another helmet and wear a plain white T-shirt when every one else was wearing gold and maroon over my gear. I only got to make it to half time. My whole team was so mad at me. I no they wanted to kick my ass. We lost that game 40 somethin to zip. I was so embarrest , alot of my family was their. I felt like crap.

[Mr Apple Glass]

Thee most stupid thing I've done in my life:

I stole a lot from a supermarket I used to work in, I mean boxes full of stuff...the manager p*ssed me off one too many times so I stole a sh*t load of stuff from the backdoor (stupid reason, lookin back).
I had a friend pick me up afterwork, I'd hid a load of stuff out in the nearby backdoor hedges...I must have taken about £400 worth of gear; mostly booze (I'm talking malt whiskeys and champagne etc.) smokes (at least 1000 fags), boxes pringles and boxes marsbars.

It's so stupid due to the fact that I could have been caught and given a criminal record.....and all because a manager pushed his luck calling me names. The good bit was the manager being suspected of stealing the stuff and he was made to sweat.....in the coming months the assistant manager was caught stealing some stuff, they (the company security staff) pinned everything I stole on him...he was a d*ck too, so I see it as justice, for the sh*t they gave me came back a hell'ava lot more on them.

I DO NOT recommend stealing though, esspecially for similar reasons to mine....of all the stuff I stole, I took most of it to parties and dished it out (another criminal record for me, supplying stolen goods, doh!)...all I kept was a bottle of jack D and some smokes....

I was a stupid kid who could have f*cked everything up....my words of advise DO NOT STEAL, ever.

[The Macaque]

I've done a lot of stupid things when I've been drunk (besides fighting and puking). Stuff that nearly killed me. Woke up in a pool of my own puke, cut off the power chord to my stereos with a regular table knife, slept in a pile of snow during winter, and other weird adventures I've had out in the city during night time.

Probably the most stupid thing I've done would be the time I got wasted at a friends birthday party, after drinking a good 7dl of vodka in 1,5 hours. I puked all over his house, including his mother's library books, all the shoes in the hallway, his parents' bed and their livingroom carpet. -_-;; This was at age 19 however, and time has definately healed all the scars.

[Mira]

Man oh man. You people are stupid :P (just kidding)

I can't even think of a suitable story. I've been such a classic dumb blond my whole life that it is really hard to think of just ONE story. And it's really hard to think of ONE story I would'n't be too mortified to tell! I would say many of them involved alcohol in my High School/College days. I have no tolerance to speak of and get really stupid really fast.

My stupid story- interviewing for a summer workstudy job on campus. interviewer was a quadraplegic guy who had fairly deformed hands. He kinda freaked me out a bit all the while having my respect and sympathy. It was at the School of Social Work and I was a student in the program so I needed to be sensitive. So I just got over it. Or so I thought.

The interview went well. Until the end. I stood up to leave and thanked him for his time. He said they'd be calling me and sort of put his hand out to shake my hand (or so I thought). I totally froze because his hand was basically a fist with like a pinky sticking out of it. I looked at his assistant with what must have been alarm. I shook the pinky and turned to leave wondering about the confused look on his face.

The man says, "I wanted to take that copy of your resume not shake hands" I was SO embarrassed about that. Shaking his hand made us BOTH uncomfortable. I was SOOOO stupid. And he just should of asked for the resume 'cause I could see no way I could "hand" it to him. Argh! I still feel stupid. I reacted like he was a leper or something. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!

Though, I did get offered the job anyway I just couldn't accept it I was that silly with embarrassment (and I found one that paid better). ;)

mira

[Toshiro]

Probably one of the stupidest things ive done is, in the midst of "messing" around with my Bokken (Wooden Sword) while talking on the phone hit my self, really really hard on my knee, hurt like hell for two days when I walked on it, sucked I had to work that day too, but ice pack helped :D

Other then that, "stupid friends are dangerous" (Sanjuro) I try to keep my self away from getting close friends :p

I do a lot of stupid stuff, esp while driving, training, and in the kitchen, I have the scars and fingertip to prove it.

[Mr Apple Glass]

Originally posted by The Macaque
Probably the most stupid thing I've done would be the time I got wasted at a friends birthday party, after drinking a good 7dl of vodka in 1,5 hours. I puked all over his house, including his mother's library books, all the shoes in the hallway, his parents' bed and their livingroom carpet. -_-;; This was at age 19 however, and time has definately healed all the scars.

Loving your work fella ;)

Ahh 19 is the age for it; around the same age at a party, I was running up someone's stairs to the toilet after chuggin down 9 cans of stella...on the way up I bumped into someone...stupid wooden banister wasn't too strong, I fell through it and onto the hall carpet where I procceded to huey my spew everywhere..(later I found out a loyal friend tried to save my ass by attempting to secure the banister in place with some toothpaste, he'd been at the stella too)
Thankfully I managed to leg it before the house owners came home, I believe the daughter never held a party again (or at least one I was invited to :confused: )

[Basketball Jesus]

Those are all nothing compared to my number 1 act of stupidity. Try wearing a Yankees jacket and cap to the middle of Boston, only a few days after the Red Sox lost to the Yankees in their bid to go to the World Series. I'm surprised I'm still alive after that.

[Nigredo]

Originally posted by Mr Apple Glass

Ahh 19 is the age for it...

I just so happen to be 19... 'nuff said.

[ExInferis]

I think the most stupidest thing I did was the time when I and few of my friends decided to pick up some hockey girls! They have their match in this university hockey court. The university was so big that we got lost and wonder around the place like fools!! We went to a couple of court but there aint any people around. We ask some of the students there but most of them dont even noe where the hockey court is and some of them even make us even more lost!! One of the woman who give us direction didnt even noe which bus for us to take!! She made up her mind and when we got on the bus it didnt even pass by any court!! Instead it lead us stright to a train station where we had enought of serching and went home. But that didnt stop us from trying again!! We went back the next day and lucky us we found it!! Damn those chicks are hot!! :)

[Yurika Star]

Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to many things to remember when i've been drunk ^_^

[Go go gadget tables]

[EMY23-23]

This past February break I went up to Tremblant in Canada for a snowboarding trip. The drinking age there is 18, but I'm only 16, so the night before I went into the Village and bought myself a fake ID. Well needless to say it worked and the first night there I drank so much that my friend thought that I was gonna die at any second. The big problem was though that the bar was about one mile downhill from my hotel. I don't remember but my friend said that it took us 2 and 1/2 hours to make it back to his room where I passed out.

[yam_83]

My father had a van (Carvan '92)and I used to borrow it to go cruising during shooltime. One day I dropped off a friend of mine at school.
he was sitting in the back and he opened the sliding door to get out.
Before he had a chance to close the door well, I was already pulling away. Next thing you know the door comes crashing down to the floor!
There weren't many students there at the time, but there was a small construction crew nearby working on a new part of the school.They saw the whole thing.
Lucky they were around though, 'cause I ended up asking them for help, with their tools and all. We had to hammer the door back into its sliding mechanism thing.

[mamimi_kawaii]

not too long ago... at my friend emmys house... we got really bored and at like two in the moring we started techno dancing and lyp syncing to Motion City Soundtrack and Hellogoodbye. I can't say it was the stupidest thing I've ever done... but we sure did look stupid. Lol.

And this other time, Anita and I were fighting like hobos over a pink-dyed P.E. shirt cause we were bored waiting for P.E. to start. At one point, I don't know what I did, but I nearly fell flat on mah face. It was hilarious.

Another time, I was walking backwards out of class cause I was saying something to Lloyd, and I wasnt paying attention, and there was a girl standing smack in the middle of the doorway. I wasnt paying attention, as I said, and I put my hand out to push the door open and.... got a handful of her boob. Oh it was not pleasant... and my face was like O.O "Oh my god!!! I'm sooo sorry, I didnt see you there, thought you were the door!" Ugh.

[Phate]

Shaving your chest hair is most definitely not a good idea. Jesus Christ. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-crying.gif




Oh, and being horribly drunk on IRC. Good times.






Necro'd http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-v.gif

[Tyrdium]

Shaving your chest hair is most definitely not a good idea. Jesus Christ. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-crying.gifOf course it's a bad idea! Makes you look less like the sexiest man evar.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3025/nsna01ij2.jpg

[Phate]

Don't compare me to him. I don't stand a chance. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-smith.gif

[PsychoSaiya-jin]

At least you only shaved your chest hair....

[C0MPL3X]

Try using scissors psj

[Phate]

At least you only shaved your chest hair....
Who said it was only? That isn't particulaly fun either. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-v.gif




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-smith.gif

[Grasshopper]

I was hanging out with my brother and one of his friends near our school when I was pretty young. His friend suggested that I throw a rock at the window of our music teacher's trailer. So I did. It completely shattered the window and I took off running. The stupidest part of it was when I told a couple of my friends about it the next day. The sons of bitches ratted me out but I didn't get in too much trouble.

[Two-twenty]

Shaving your chest hair is most definitely not a good idea. Jesus Christ.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-crying.gif

I shaved my back hair. With an electric shaver. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v486/Twotwenty/pwnonk.gif

Other stupid things include:

- When I was a kid I used to run in the house. My parents would always tell me to stop because I was likely to fall and hurt myself. Of course, I paid no attention and one day I tripped over my own feet and fell. Any other kid would put his hands out to brace himself but not not me! BAM! Right on the chin. Apparently the skin on the end of your chin is too thin to be held together by stiches so the doctor had to put a massive clip-thing on it with an even bigger bandaid to cover it.

3 weeks later, it healed. I get home. *run* *run* run* *slip* *BAM*. Back to the doctors.

- More recently, last year when I lived at my old house I was going home from a night out in the city. As it turned out I'd missed the final train and with no money for a taxi I decided walking home would be a good idea. This is stupid because:
a) I was really drunk
b) Only a week before another guy had been bashed and robbed about the same time of night in the area I was going to walk through
c) It took 3 freaking hours
d) I had to get up and go to work at 9am the next day.

Very, very stupid.

[mamimi_kawaii]

Nice. I have more idiotic things to share now.
This one's my mother's fault, really: Once, at a concert, we had general admission, meaning we got seats instead of front stage access. But, we got there really early, so we were able to sneak into the front area, on the grass. But at once point half way through the show, we decided to go back up the stairs real quick, God knows why, and my mom ran into a particularly pissed off hispanic woman. She got knocked off her rocker, per se, and the mexican woman walked away unscathed. I decided to lead her up out of the stadium area to speak with a security officer about it, and then we weren't allowed back into the front area and had to watch from general admission areas.
So that was all just one dumb situation.

Another time, at another concert, I forgot my hair tie. I know, it sounds so trivial. But no; you see, my hair curls. And by the time the show was over, I practically had an afro. Yikes.

At that same concert, I nearly got to meet the band. See, it was last year, and I looked pretty young. One of the guards asked if it was my first concert, and it wasn't, but I almost didn't tell him that. Yet, I did, with adding it was my first front stage concert nonetheless. After it was all said and done, my mom pointed out that I probably could have gotten backstage if I had said it was my first concert, on account of the guy gave me the actual stage list of songs they had taped on one of the speakers for the band to remember the order of the songs, just for me saying it was my first front row concert.

And le grande finale, my stupidest moment yet. It was back when I went to church every sunday, and Youth Group every Wednesday or something like that. I was wearing my favourite skirt, but I had forgotten that I had lost a few pounds and it didn't fit so well anymore. So at about halfway through Youth group, I was running down one of the isles towards everyone, and next thing I know, my skirt is at my knees. Ohhh how embarrassing. I thought I was going to die, right there in front of everyone. Ugh...