Okay, not so much a poll as a chance to 'fess-up about those stupid things you do that are both embarassing and funny, and give you a wry chuckle too

I'm always doing things that qualify for this. One occured this evening. I had unpacked my guitar and sat down to play casually, wanting to settle my mind because I was trying to continue writing a story but my brain was too hyper and was flitting all over the place.

I strummed the guitar and it sounded oddly flat. I had restrung it last week so I assumed the strings had stretched some and it had gone flat. That said, it sounded way off. I started tightening the 6th string but it didn't seem to be helping so I tried the 5th string - no, no good. I wondered if the strings had somehow slipped out of their groves in the bridge or something but no, they looked okay too.

I tried again but no improvement and besides, I was worried I'd snap the strings they were so far out of tune.

I put the guitar back in the case whilst I grabbed the electronic tuner and then felt like one total spaz when I realised I'd tucked the plectrums between the strings on the neck!

I have a bad habit of misplacing stuff. That seems to be the most common occurence. Also, I tend to misunderstand people. That can lead to some problems.

I win this award weekly with every problem set. Sometimes I spend 5 minutes tearing my hair out because I dropped a constant from one line to another. Oh, and for my last problem set, I erased my answers to one of the problems for a very odd reason I still don't understand. The answers were correct, too, but I lost points anyway because they'd, well, been erased.

I dunno anything about guitars, Tristan, so I can't say how spazzic the whole thing really was. I don't think I've done anything really idiotic with musical instruments, but that might because I only play flute and piano, and it's a bit hard to mess those up.

It's possible, believe me! Guess who once bought a MIDI keyboard and couldn't work out how to get it to make sounds until he realised it was just an input controller and needed a MIDI synth to make any sound

I also remember when playing the trumpet somehow getting the mouthpiece mixed up with one from my friend's Trombone and wondering why suddenly it didn't fit

lol, for some reason that reminds me of something that happened when I was (very) young. I convinced my mom that I want to bake a pie. So we bought what I thought was a pie, but was actually only a pie crust. We baked the thing, and I was flabbergasted that it didn't magically become a pie like what was shown on the cover... Traumatized for life, I was.

Hmmm, well I recently had one unfortunate little mishap. In all fairness it wasn't completely my fault. Anyone know that song "Love song" by Sara Bareilles? Well it came on the radio, and whenever a song I like comes on the radio I text a bit of it to my other phone line so that I'll remember to check it out later. Well that song came on, but I was driving and it was raining, so I asked my friend, who was with me, to use my phone and text it to my other.

So he does...only he makes a little goof - perhaps because he wasn't used to using my phone - and he ends up texting to a real person instead of my phone. Unfortunately the person he texted it to was someone who had a crush on me that I was trying to let down gently. And unfortunately all he texted was:

"I'm not going to write you a love song"



Worse, I didn't even know it had happened until the guy sent back:

"WHAT?!? Why would you say that?"


Yeah, screwed with the guy's head pretty bad

Yep, that sure is right up there!

It made me groan reading that, I can just imagine it

Oh good lord, that must have sucked something fierce.
Alright, my biggest oops was with my second girlfriend. It's kinda funny, since I was supposed to go out with her brother, or so I thought. My best friend had set us up and I thought she was a he. So, there I am, waiting for this 'guy' to come around when suddenly a girl sits down across from me and says "Your picture isn't quite correct with your looks," causing me to look at her with a 'WTF?' expression on my face.
I finally asked her who she was and she told me, and I told her that I had expected a guy, and she said told me if that's what I wanted, she would leave. She would have to if I hadn't sat on her lap and said that I was quite happy either way.
We stayed together for nearly a year before she had to move. But my oopsies with that was sounding like a bitc during the initial conversation. I was so glad that she gave me a chance after that.