Dumbest things you've ever done more than once

[Dichotomy]

Marriage doesn't count.

Post the thing you look back in your life repeatedly, not just once, that could have your life in minutes or seconds.

Me?  Bull riding (or falling off of spectacularly).

I got it in my head to get my PRCA card and hit as many local shows as I could.  Ate a lot of dirt for a year or so I met a particularly ill tempered one that I had no business getting on. After being slammed into the gate, getting hung up, and touring the entire arena a couple of times while attempting to untangle myself from the angry bovine, a fine fellow managed to get me loose.  And my retirement began. 

[bagrat]

turning down sex...the fear of being another one of those people in high school with kids was terrifying.
It was probably a good thing though, as the chick got soo angry she would tell me she was gonna hang me from meat hooks (what a nutbar eh) shortly after I found out  she was bi, which had me kicking myself even more as I would sometimes see her in school being "walked" by her girlfriend wearing a leash and collar(yes we are still talking about a person) and she was into some crazy stuff as you can tell by now. The other told me she wanted to rape me....I was a youngster and this made me feel kind of awkward.  Sometimes I still wonder what could have been though

also going to work drunk is pretty bad too...still trying to figure out how I never got fired for doing this at least once a week

[MrRiplEy[H]]

turning down sex...the fear of being another one of those people in high school with kids was terrifying.

Wow I didn't think this was humanly possible for a man! 

Well ok I did it once too but it was a drunk co-worker and old enough to be my mother. So that doesn't count probably?

My dumbest thing that I've done more than once is definately speeding and risky passes on road. Especially when I was young I drove like a maniac and in retrospect I'm glad I survived those times (better yet, never caused an accident). Nowadays I follow the speed limits only with the exception of passing 18-wheelers where sometimes you just need to gun it a little. But one pass like that with a patrol coming on opposite lane and it's bye bye license and bye bye job.

[AAJagerX]

Wheelies on motorcycles...  Two fairly painful incidents.

[EskimoJoe]

I've been biting my fingernails for six to eight years now 

[bagrat]

Wow I didn't think this was humanly possible for a man!  

Edit Edit.

now i'm not talkin bout turnin down some ugly girls, im talkin bout good lookin chicks who had I not been thinking about the worst case scenario otherwise woulda have been super down for.

[Ack-Ack]

Marriage doesn't count.

Post the thing you look back in your life repeatedly, not just once, that could have your life in minutes or seconds.

Me?  Bull riding (or falling off of spectacularly).

I got it in my head to get my PRCA card and hit as many local shows as I could.  Ate a lot of dirt for a year or so I met a particularly ill tempered one that I had no business getting on. After being slammed into the gate, getting hung up, and touring the entire arena a couple of times while attempting to untangle myself from the angry bovine, a fine fellow managed to get me loose.  And my retirement began. 

Skateboarding the El Cortez Hotel pool in San Diego about 10 years ago.  It's a nice tear drop shaped bowl with split gutters and coping that sticks out about half a foot, with a nice smooth transition that goes slightly beyond vertical as you approach the split gutter.  It's a pure front side line bowl, hardly any good backside lines and as a goofy foot, I am more comfortable skating backside than frontside.  After a nightmare commando infiltration into El Cortez (had to scale a 15ft wall, run across a roof and then jump down a series of electical boxes to get to the bottom), we got to the pool and suited up to take our rides.  I took a fast frontside line to pop up on the coping for a little smithy grind over the light but was way too fast and when I did a small pop to get on the coping, I ended up launching out of the pool about 5ft above the pool deck and came straight back down in the deep end, which is 15ft and landed on my shoulder, seperating it.  After I recovered from it and finished physical therapy for it, I went back to El Cortez and tried the same line and again was too fast and again got caught on the spit gutter but this time I didn't launch out of the pool and back into it, I just flew off like a bullet into the pool wall, smacking my head and getting a concusion and then kind of bounced off and landed in the deep end again but I had put both my hands out to break my fall,  snapped both wrist and got a real bad cut when one of the wrist guards I was wearing snapped on impact and a piece of the guard got stuck in my wrist.

Quit skating after that, at 30 I was too old to keep getting hurt like that.  Now I only putt around on my long board to get smokes from the gas station on the corner.

ack-ack

[Dichotomy]

ummm ouch?

[fbWldcat]

Well, I haven't done it twice yet, but right now I'm participating in "No Shave November" which is as the name implies, a thing where no guys (some girls  ) don't shave for the entire month of November. My first year of actually being interested enough to do it. Should be called "Itchy Face Month." Jeez.... Seriously though, I don't know if I'll do this next year, it is so aggravating.

Oh yeah, I can honestly say that to my knowledge, I have never done something stupid twice, I am a very quick learner.

[stealth]

This is the perfect thread for me. Well lets see I touched one of the bug zappers and my arm went numb for days. I touched a really hot pan from the stove, it marked me for life. Went sledding, with a hole between the legs. I payed for dinner and a movie. Ran into a tree plus a mailbox, running. I ordered a hamburger with out cheese. Redd a book that was for women. I said hey dude to a girl. Fly was open. Had to stop my cousin from saying bomb in an airport(FAILED). Forgot to get my Mom a gift for Christmas.

    Many, many more. Probably the worst one was, getting into a car while my sister was driving.

[BiPoLaR]

same married woman 2 times. 2nd story window and hubby came home early both times. HEY!! i was only 20.

[L0nGb0w]

Buying a new motorcycle (Crotch Rocket) when I was 18 just after high school graduation.  My first bike ever and I almost died many times.  If that isn't bad enough, after having it for a couple seasons I started doing wheelies regularly out of stoplights and on freeway entrance ramps.  Glad I sold it and when I get back into the motorcycle scene I'll be going for a touring bike or small cruiser.

[Rash]

jumping off a 80' cliff, I thought I just "did it wrong" the first time.


Rash

p.s. it was into water.

[Larry]

turning down sex...the fear of being another one of those people in high school with kids was terrifying.

He said dumbest not smartest things. I'm just glad I was that 'dumb' growing up. 

[mechanic]

Nice one AKAK, didnt know you ever skated. I got a skate one too.
Mildly fractured my left wrist and elbow going to fast down a hill and getting the wobbles till it threw me off. Cut my head open too but didnt notice till on the way to hospital. Then two weeks later while wearing a plaster cast I fell off a handrail when the board slid out from under me, landed on the rail on my back and fell over backwards and quite badly fractured my right wrist trying to protect my left one. Absolutely retarded. The casualty staff already knew me by name from my childhood and they just laughed at me the second time and gave me another cast. I was 16 and had to get my mum to wipe my butt for 2 weeks.