Let's just pretend that didn't happen...

I’ve done a lot of silly things in my life, all 33 years of it. I’m usually pretty good about laughing at myself. If I didn’t I’d surely be crying.

When I was young, in like 4th grade, one of my friends and I walked from her house to the town lake/recreational park. It was winter and the lake, Green Lake as it is called, was drained. There was only a small steam cutting through the center of it. We thought it’d be brilliant to walk in the bottom of the lake since we wouldn’t normally get to do that. We walked out, crossed the creek, and then walked the length of it, and crossed again. But we weren’t really paying attention to where we crossed. And we crossed in some quicksand like mud. I lost a sneaker (a TRETORN sneaker – very trendy back in the day *ahem*) and my awesome heart socks were covered in mud. When we reached the other side of the mud pit I had to make the agonizing decision to return to the mud pit to retrieve my shoe or not. I did. I stumbled that time. The mud was everywhere and my friend had to help me out. We walked back to my friend’s house with my holding my shoes and socks out in front of me. The mud weighed like 1,000lbs and I was exhausted. (My friend? She wore a skirt that day. I had on jeans. She won.) Her mother took one look at us on her front porch and started yelling at us about our bad decision, and what was she going to tell my parents. Well we had no reason. It was just dumb to go out in to the lake despite that I can say now that I’ve walked on the bottom of it. I am still connected with this friend on Facebook now after years and years. I am positive she and I would have a good laugh over the image of me carrying my socks home that day. Oh it was a mess…

When I was a little older (13) I thought it’d be super cool to get in a car while my same-age friend drove it. (It belonged to our 18 year old friend.) We were only going to the deli to grab sandwiches and back to the stables where we worked as grooms for a horse trainer. It was only a couple miles. Well we almost crashed. The 18 year old friend had to pull up the parking brake to slow down the car that my same-aged friend lost control of on a downhill. Yeah. DUMBNESS ALL AROUND. We ended up almost in a ditch, thankfully avoiding several cars that we swerved around at breakneck speeds.

Let’s also not talk about the time I was a freshman in college and thought I needed to carry mace with me everywhere and was a little tipsy one night and decided to show my friends that it worked. I was smart and all and sprayed it away from us… in to the wind headed straight back at us. I think about 15 people had breathing trouble for about 10 minutes, myself included. Brilliant, no? I, um, wasn’t friends with them for very long after that.

Ah and pregnancy hormones didn’t do me any favors either. While pregnant with my Bug I really did put the cereal away in the fridge and the milk away in the pantry. And while pregnant with Bear I went to work and realized I had put on two different black sandals that morning. With completely different length heels. I was mortified about that one but everyone in the office thought it was hilarious.

What about you? Can you join my silly club and talk about the air headed things you have done?