:angel:Just wonderin...there must be a criteria as to which type of mistake it is. Im sure I have done my share. I dont think its an exclusive club. Maybe there needs to be a rating scale. Like 1 to 10. 1 being just your run of the mill stupidity while 10 would get your name in the hall of fame. Maybe we could run a poll or a contest. Just wonderin...:teeth:
oldrk, There's no real criteria. I ran a thread quite a while back encouraging members to submit their own. I don't own "Stupid Mistakes"--it's an idea I resurrected from the early 70s. Perhaps here at TB I have some informal clout about numbering them. I grant others a number in my own personal system according to the nature of the mistake, and how well someone describes it. I'd hate to formalize it beyond that. It's supposed to be fun! I think a rating system might make it less fun?
Forgeting to tighten the lid on a jar of paint before shaking it. A mistake or oversite perhaps. Watching it run and drip off your hand, and then shaking it again. A stupid mistake. Trying to get the glue to come out of a clogged tip due to not putting the tip cover back on can be summed up as a mistake, or omission. However trying to squeeze the devil out of the tube without taking the time to run a short wire down the tip, thus unclogging it, and managing a high pressure jet of glue who knows where, and on what, can be summed up as a stupid mistake.
Not understanding the instructions on the side of a can of spray paint is stupid. Trying to open the same can with a knife is a stupid mistake. Whoooops
A mistake can be fixed and is usually no big deal.:embarassed: A stupid mistake is something that includes blood, pain and hours of cleaning up.......:zip: Not to mention one mad, mad wife.......:angry:
A mistake is some thing my wife does. A stupid mistake is some thing I do. If ya don't beleive me, ask her. inch
I tend to think that the mistakes that are stupid are the ones that could have easily been avoided and then they become Lessons Learned.
Unless you are me. Then stupid mistakes breed more stupid mistakes. I was such a good lesson learner in high school and college that I forgot how, and became the community idiot!:angel:
I think a mistake becomes a stupid mistake when the packaging specifically warned against it. If it's that obvious and you did it anyway, that's stupid. Oh, and when you make the same mistake the second time, that's stupid. 20 years ago I was working in a gas station and heard a guy explode his bike tire by adding too much air. So I went to see what was up and watched him explode the second tire, moments after the first. And I thought, "Why did he even bother airing up the other tire? The bike's not even rideable with one flat. What good does airimg it up do?"
