Last night I asked you: what’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done. And I kicked it off by sharing with you one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done (almost blowing up a gas station when I was in High School.) And now here are some of your responses.
In this edition TPM Reader RB learned how not to take off your sweater while riding your bike on a busy street in San Francisco …
Two stupid stories:
The time in 1997 I was biking down El Camino Real near San Francisco on 4th of July.
Why? Because I left my paycheck at work, and wanted to cash it. Starting in SF, I had a sweater on since it’s foggy and cold there. By the time I got down a few miles south, I was getting too hot. Having seen too many Jackie Chan movies, I decided to take my sweater off without stopping the bike.So I managed to get one arm out, and was transferring my backpack to the other shoulder (yes, this is where it’s really stupid) when it slipped off and got caught in my front wheel. Wheel stopped, slamming me to the ground at high speed on a busy street.
Result: Broken hip.My other stupid story was when I let my college roommate’s frisky snake out to crawl around the appt.
After crawling around my head, it bit me in the eye. No real damage, but later I realize that for a snake – frisky == hungry.But the stupider stories, wow, I don’t want to start.
