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Old 09-17-2010, 07:37 PM
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Arrests, going to be with 10s and waking up w/ 2s. Suspended state of adolescent discontent that lasted way too long. So glad I'm over it. Just wrapped up some lingering court crap from my past that I will learn from, but not dwell on. Just have to laugh at the past, smile and know I'm in a much better place....
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Old 09-17-2010, 07:50 PM
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1. When I was 19 I went over to my friends house to play "beer pong" with shots. 20 shots and hours later, I drove home. I got pulled over for a tail light out. I was in a "zero tolerance" state which means that if I was under 21 and I had ANY alcohol, it was an automatic DUI. By some amazing miracle, the cop ran me for warrants and let me go without even forcing me to lie to the question "Have you had anything to drink tonight?" (and mind you this was at like 1 AM). I estimate the odds of this happening to be like 1 in 10,000.

2. Years later, driving drunk again, the "I'm too drunk to stand up" type of drunk. I have the curb a good check and blow out my tire. I limp to a parking lot - again this is like midnight or 1 AM - and call AAA. "I'm pretty sober, I can act sober," I said to myself. Giggle giggle, snort snort. I don't remember much else besides the guy came and I remember thinking, "****, I'm slurring every word, he knows I'm drunk." And if **I** was thinking **THAT** then it would be abundantly clear to the guy that I was drunk. Also when I was waiting for AAA, I passed out in middle of the parking lot. No one called the cops on me. I estimate the odds of this occurring without getting a DUI to be about 1:50. Seriously why didn't the AAA call the cops on me?

3. Driving drunk out of a VERY busy bar parking lot, I backed into the car in back of me (parked). About 20 people saw it and started jeering and taunting me (they were drunk too). A few hours later, I was at another bar, and I backed up and ... yup, hit another parked car. This is the only time I remember hitting a parked car, and each time I got out to check for damage and there was none.

4. Coming back from a "rave" party in the middle of the desert and having about 40 miles to drive. Drunk, of course. I'm on a rural, paved, two-lane road with a dirt shoulder. I see a cop go the other direction and, out of natural instinct I guess, I begin to follow him in my rear-view to make sure he doesn't turn around. As I'm doing this, I drive onto the shoulder and kick a ton of dust in the air and make a ton of noise. I was probably only a couple hundred yards from the cop. I guess he didn't see me, because I he didn't pull me over and I didn't get a DUI that night.

5. I was at a bar, black out drunk, and decide to drive home. I remember nothing about the ride home. The next day, listening to the radio and nursing a hangover, I hear on the news that a construction worker was killed in a hit-and-run, on a road that was on the path I would have taken back to my apartment, at about the time I would have been there. They gave a car description that didn't really match mine, but that didn't matter - I friggin FREAKED THE **** OUT and ran outside to check my car. There was no visible damage, and I clearly wasn't involved in the accident.

I made the decision to give up driving drunk years before I made the decision to give up drinking - almost entirely as a result of #5 above. After seeing my "resume" above, I honestly think it's about a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance that, to this day, I have never, ever gotten a DUI.
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Old 09-17-2010, 07:54 PM
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1. When I was 19 I went over to my friends house to play "beer pong" with shots. 20 shots and hours later, I drove home. I got pulled over for a tail light out. I was in a "zero tolerance" state which means that if I was under 21 and I had ANY alcohol, it was an automatic DUI. By some amazing miracle, the cop ran me for warrants and let me go without even forcing me to lie to the question "Have you had anything to drink tonight?" (and mind you this was at like 1 AM). I estimate the odds of this happening to be like 1 in 10,000.

2. Years later, driving drunk again, the "I'm too drunk to stand up" type of drunk. I have the curb a good check and blow out my tire. I limp to a parking lot - again this is like midnight or 1 AM - and call AAA. "I'm pretty sober, I can act sober," I said to myself. Giggle giggle, snort snort. I don't remember much else besides the guy came and I remember thinking, "****, I'm slurring every word, he knows I'm drunk." And if **I** was thinking **THAT** then it would be abundantly clear to the guy that I was drunk. Also when I was waiting for AAA, I passed out in middle of the parking lot. No one called the cops on me. I estimate the odds of this occurring without getting a DUI to be about 1:50. Seriously why didn't the AAA call the cops on me?

3. Driving drunk out of a VERY busy bar parking lot, I backed into the car in back of me (parked). About 20 people saw it and started jeering and taunting me (they were drunk too). A few hours later, I was at another bar, and I backed up and ... yup, hit another parked car. This is the only time I remember hitting a parked car, and each time I got out to check for damage and there was none.

4. Coming back from a "rave" party in the middle of the desert and having about 40 miles to drive. Drunk, of course. I'm on a rural, paved, two-lane road with a dirt shoulder. I see a cop go the other direction and, out of natural instinct I guess, I begin to follow him in my rear-view to make sure he doesn't turn around. As I'm doing this, I drive onto the shoulder and kick a ton of dust in the air and make a ton of noise. I was probably only a couple hundred yards from the cop. I guess he didn't see me, because I he didn't pull me over and I didn't get a DUI that night.

5. I was at a bar, black out drunk, and decide to drive home. I remember nothing about the ride home. The next day, listening to the radio and nursing a hangover, I hear on the news that a construction worker was killed in a hit-and-run, on a road that was on the path I would have taken back to my apartment, at about the time I would have been there. They gave a car description that didn't really match mine, but that didn't matter - I friggin FREAKED THE **** OUT and ran outside to check my car. There was no visible damage, and I clearly wasn't involved in the accident.

I made the decision to give up driving drunk years before I made the decision to give up drinking. After seeing my "resume" above, I honestly think it's about a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance that, to this day, I have never, ever gotten a DUI.
God and these were only my driving-related incidents. Anyone want to hear the story about how I was detained at the border one time drunk? Or how I passed out drunk with my face on the dirtiest, most disgusting Greyhound bus bathroom seat you've ever seen?
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Old 09-17-2010, 09:01 PM
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I'd have to say the stupidest thing I ever did was pick up a drink after several years' sobriety. Stayed out for nine years. Just made it back and will have a week sober tomorrow.
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Old 09-17-2010, 09:42 PM
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Old 09-19-2010, 11:20 AM
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I think I have posted there, but here is what I know of to have done that was stupid...I am sure there are more:

1. While in a blackout, hanging with freinds one night I walked into a McDonalds and in a daze was feeling dizzy and grabbed onto a Booth which ripped right out of the wall. I ran away.

2. Drove into the driveway but forgot to open the garage door

3. Crashed into many snowbanks with the car

4. Clotheslined myself (Failed to duck from a low hanging branch) walking to a hockey game with freinds and knocked myself out

5. Got thrown out of said hockey game for being too drunk

6. Tried to sneak through a backyard with freinds late at night and while crawling under someone's deck got "lost" and freaked out making tons of noise

7. Went to leave a party and stepped right off the top at a flight of stairs-it was faster than going down each step, although i felt each step on the way down

8. Was bowling and lost grip of the ball which crashed into the scoring machine

9. Split my pants trying dance in front of a girl I liked at the time

10. And, the penultimate one: Came home all messed up and thoght I was in my room but got into my parents bed while they were sleeping and passed out.
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Old 09-19-2010, 11:39 AM
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There have been many... but the stupidest thing I think I've ever done using happened a couple of years ago, during my relapse (and yes, things do get worse each time).

Anyone who's been there knows about "day 3" and this was a day 3 experience....

Coming down... went to the casino about 45 miles from home. It was a Friday evening, and the hotel fills up fast. Intending to spend a couple of days there, enjoying the pool, jaccuzzi and sauna to detox, we attempted to get a room. Put our name on the waiting list for cancellations, we gambled around for a few hours and checked with the front desk to see if our name had come up and it hadn't. So, we went to a little flea-bag motel down the street to get some much needed sleep.

When we woke up (it was winter) we were starving, so we checked out (it was still dark) at about 6:30. Went to the casino to have breakfast, and were so surprised to find them serving Roast Beef on the breakfast buffet. Strange, but we still didn't get it, until we went to put our name on the will call list again, and they told us they were just getting ready to call us with a room. I didn't remember adding our name to the list for the "new day" and then realized finally, that it was still the same day. No wonder the lady at the little motel looked at me so funny when we checked out!!

We paid for two rooms on the same day!! .... and didn't even know it. Talk about stupid! This one really took the cake for me.
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Old 09-19-2010, 03:48 PM
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I have to agree with CarolD: continuing to drink when I knew I had a problem was the dumbest thing I've ever done. THank God I'm done with all that.
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Old 09-19-2010, 04:10 PM
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Least you said what I should have! I second what you said, that was the stupidest thing I ever did.
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Old 09-19-2010, 05:42 PM
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Oh man so many!

Got kicked out of a heavy metal concert for being too drunk! My friend took me out to the car so I could sleep it off but instead I went to take a **** behind the bands tour buss. By the time I was staggering back I saw the flashing blue lights and they accused me of robbing the bus, I slurred "I PLEAD THE FIFTH!" I spent the night in jail but only on public intoxication charges.

Another time when I was college aged I was trying to walk back to my apartment from a party. Turns out I was about ten miles away and when the cop pulled over he asked me if I knew where I was. Problem was I told him I was in a town 60 miles away... another night in jail.

Those I kind of laugh about now but the ones with me driving so drunk I didn't remember driving the next day are the ones I'm most ashamed about.
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Old 09-19-2010, 06:44 PM
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Old 09-19-2010, 07:07 PM
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Well, there was this one time (in my horrific marriage) that I got totally wasted and had my friend drive me to my husband's job and drop off all of his clothes in the parking lot (they weren't in bags).....At the time, we laughed so hard I almost peed myself.....Yeah, when I got home there wasn't so much laughing.

My daughter was away for the night so I was drinking up a storm....My ex and I were arguing over him smoking in the house, and I thought it would be a good idea to throw his cigarettes out the window....and when he went outside to get them, YUP! I LOCKED HIM OUTSIDE......OMG! I thought that was the funniest thing I ever saw. Him outside in his shorts no shirt holding his cigarettes AND HE HAD NO LIGHTER....whoooo! .....yeah, I got a beatin' for that one.

-after smashing my face into the windshield of my car, and breaking 4 or 5 ribs....I got sober and stayed that way for 13 years
After 13 years I thought it would be a good idea to start up again....I lived an entire year in a perpetual blackout....how I kept both of my jobs is beyond me.

While meeting my boyfriend (who was married of course) at a hotel I ran over the cement thing in the parking lot, ruined my rim and somehow.....LOST MY GLASSES (this was all before even going into the hotel) Blind as a bat without them who knows how I got home....That night I guess I also thought it was a good idea to try and kick box with this fool....I kicked, he caught my leg and twisted it...OMG!!! Pulled hamstrings do not feel good or heal quickly.....so now I had to wear my sunglasses all the time because it was the only prescription pair I had....very attractive at 11pm driving home from work....and limping for about a month.

Which leads to me having another 6 years clean and sober....SO NOW I HAVE THE BRIGHT IDEA to date a man who not only told me he had a problem....he read me the newspaper clipping. He had made the front page of the paper for stealing a cab/mini van full of passengers....the headline read, "We don't know what made this drunken clubber decided to be an aspiring cab driver"....yup took them on a horrifying joy ride for about ten blocks....yep....as you probably can figure out by now, our relationship has gone south.
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Old 09-20-2010, 03:06 PM
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Surfing 15ft waves drunk off my ass 3 days after my kids were born (twins).

Avoiding the hospital when my wife was in there after a c section just so I could go home, be alone and drink till I passed out, instead of being there for my new family.

Alcoholics DO NOT like responsibilities. I'll never forgive myself for those things, but that's why I'm here. day 2 for me.
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Old 09-20-2010, 06:26 PM
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I could share alot stories, but I only remember these ones:

- Totally wasted and trying to flirt with random women (all attemps I miserably failed)
- Arguing with relatives and ordinary people
- Road cage resulting in a fight and police charges
- 3 Dui's (In Brazil you don't get arrested, you just pay a ticket, trully expensive one)
- Absolutely no self esteem since I was looking really nasty with a bloated face and fat due to massive alcohol consumption, I coulnn't never to get laid with ordinary women, I was always wandering into brothels, burning my hard earned money with ugly prostitutes.
- Crashed my car twice
- Argued with a police officer and got my face punched and arrested for 3 days
- I beated the hell out of a prositute and she pressed charges on me, I had to pay about 3k with lawyers

That's all I can remember by now, but there're plenty of these nasty stories in my life. Sobriety now.
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Old 09-20-2010, 10:10 PM
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Surfing 15ft waves drunk off my ass 3 days after my kids were born (twins).

Avoiding the hospital when my wife was in there after a c section just so I could go home, be alone and drink till I passed out, instead of being there for my new family.

Alcoholics DO NOT like responsibilities. I'll never forgive myself for those things, but that's why I'm here. day 2 for me.
Also used to surf big waves drunk, also surfed shark infested baja next to a cannery in Ensenada with locals throwing rocks at us....married with children at the time. (I never thought of these as dumb things until your post)
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Old 09-20-2010, 10:42 PM
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#1- Totalled my car when i smashed in to a car parked on the street in broad day light. I tried driving away and got chased by a vigilante justice squad in a pickup truck that beat the **** out of me until the police got there.

#2- Got in to a fist fight at a party then proceeded to have the police charge me with attempting to incite a riot and assault of a police officer (later dropped to obstruction of justice)

#3- Waking up spooning next to my fiancee at the time, only to find that I had urinated all over both of us.

#4- Walking to the same girls house 5 miles in a foot and a half of snow in five degree weather with tennis shoes and a sweatshirt in a blackout stoop and passing out on the sidewalk in front of her house as i was trying to "fight" the guy she left me for. (had the dog not been barking crazy I probably would not be here today, ironically it was his dog)

#5- Taking a cab home from the bar and keeping the door open but holding it close enough so the interior light came off. When he got three blocks from my house I bolted (because i only had 20 dollars and the fare was seven) and I ended up running slipping on some ice, and bashing my head. As the driver got closer (he was chasing me) I decided to attempt to swan dive over a 7 foot fence and got caught by my pants ripping my pants, boxers, and jacket to shreds (while nearly spearing off my testicle, i have scars on my inside of my leg from it). And I was forced to hide in this random garage until the driver left and had to run home 3 blocks ass naked.To top it off I lost my 20 dollar bill in the process.

#6- Smashing my entire refrigerator to pieces with a carpenters hammer, as well as bashing a door down with it. (dont remember doing it).

#7- Drinking numerous beers with cigarette butts in them because "it cant be worse for you than smoking". (probably true, but still DISGUSTING).

#8- Meeting a girl at the bar, going home with her and while i was on top of her making out slipped on her silk sheets and broke her tooth. She kicked me out and I had another girl picking me up. So a blonde in the same type of car pulls up and I jump in and it is the wrong girl! and she damn near called the police on me.

#9- Having to call a cab because I was at a friends house 1.5 blocks away and I couldn't even make it home but didn't want to sleep there.

#10- Getting in to an argument with my friend in a cab via the phone because another friend had called him from my phone and the guy I was arguing with didn't have my number. It took us 10 minutes to figure out where we were fighting as both of us kept saying "where are you? Im in a cab and Im going to find you". later that night we proceeded to do cocaine and I told him I hope he breaks his knee and doesn't make the nba (he was a highly touted prospect) and sure as heck he fell down a flight of steps, tore his acl and mcl, and has never played since.


It all looks so pathetic, but to see it in writing makes this decision that much more satisfying.
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Old 09-21-2010, 10:40 AM
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I was dating a woman who was way out of my league. I knew it was just a matter of time before she ditched me.

One morning she texts me about how unhappy she is, so I call to comfort her. It turns out we'd broken up on the phone the night before. I had no recollection whatsoever.

I started to seriously reconsider my hedonism. Success and prosperity had always seemed to elude me. Could I turn things around sober?

27 months and counting, one day at a time. Stay tuned.
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Wow.Sobering.
Why would anyone go back?
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Old 09-22-2010, 10:14 PM
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Here's one that's not so funny about my sister.
At the age of 16 she was in a horrible car accident which killed the driver instantly (she was only 17) and my sister had to be airlifted to the hospital to have her scalp sewn back on among other things.....in a coma for many weeks, she had to learn to walk and talk all over again and her short term memory was SHOT...........she still drinks and drives to this day. At the age of 42 she just got her first DUI last year, with a slight possession charge....a little weed never hurt anyone, right?
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Old 09-22-2010, 10:37 PM
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Getting into a relationship with a woman 20 yrs older than me in Rehab which turned into the worst year and a half of my life.

Numerous times breaking and entering into friends/dealers homes

Totaling my brand new car

Running another car into my garage

Stealing a friends car and driving drunk to score dope or driving my car drunk, daily at 8 AM to get more

Smashing an empty liquor bottle over somebody's head

All the times I've ever been arrested

Leaving the 4th treatment center I was in to go on a bender and then showing back up like I had changed my mind after I ran out of money.

Getting pulled off an airplane by Homeland Security for being drunk and disorderly

Sleeping with bartenders so they would give me free drinks or cash advances on my credit card.

Showing up to court for an alcohol related arrest still up and drunk from the previous two days.


Sadly, there's more that are too embarrassing to tell and others I don't even remember.
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