14 Compelling Examples of How Human Stupidity Seems to Know No Limits

Reckless decisions, of course, can lead to unpredictable outcomes. However, sometimes they can have the expected consequences: for example, you think that it will be okay to congratulate a friend on her pregnancy, but why not imagine that she could just be overweight. Likewise, it makes sense to assume that if we hold a cactus in our hands, it will take us some time to get the thorns off our fingers. Anyway, it’s always good to think before you act.

We, from incredible.club, we selected stories of users who first did something thoughtless and only later felt the “pencil drop”. Follow!

When I was 6 years old, my sister and I tore my grandmother’s bill in half, thinking we’d end up with two different bills. When Grandma got home, I proudly told her that I had “doubled” her money. © Vibin Baburajan / QuoraI needed to change money. I entered a car wash, where there were automatic teller machines, which exchanged bills for coins. I thought it would be okay to receive coins, but the machine gave me the amount I needed in tokens to use for car wash only. Nobody needs to do a 3.5 hour wash? © Gomelskiy25 / Pikabu When I was about 13, I was hospitalized with suspected appendicitis. A nurse took me into a private room, gave me a razor and said, “Just shave for now.” I didn’t understand why, but I did as they asked. I shaved and then went to see the doctor. Appendicitis was not identified, and I was able to return home. It was only after a while that I realized how stupid I had been. © Podslushano — They’re Talking About You / VK

“I thought only fizzy drinks exploded in the freezer. I made jams, poured them into pretty bottles, put them in the fridge and…”

This happened to me at summer camp. I grabbed an orange from the canteen and put it in the freezer overnight. When I took it out the next day, it was frozen and hard. I decided to try to break it: after all, what else could I do? Then a brilliant idea occurred to me. I started throwing it against the wall, over and over, until it finally cracked. But that wasn’t all, the orange ended up creating a huge crack in the wall. Fortunately, no one noticed my “crime” until the end of my stay. Even so, I spent the rest of the week extremely worried. © Garrick Kung / QuoraI once had a senior at school who promised to spank me after school. I left school, and he followed me. I managed to run faster, reached the door of my building, opened it, but then the boy shouted from afar: “Friend, can you hold the door?” And I, polite boy that I am, held the door for him. © Palata № 6 / VK The faucet in our apartment started to leak, and I determined that it was the siphon. I found a bucket, put it under the sink, and disconnected the water pipe. The part had accumulated water, which drained into the bucket. Before I proceeded to glue the damaged siphon and reconnect the pipe, I simply grabbed the bucket and poured all the water down the sink. © John J. Henderson / Quora

“I would love to blame it on lack of sleep, full-time work and side-study. However, like a true fool, I blame the makers of this electric kettle for the misleading design.”

There was a power cut in the city. It was around 6pm, and it was pretty dark. I fiddled with my phone for two hours and then put it on the table while I ate. When I was done, I forgot where I had left it and started frantically looking for it. I didn’t even notice when I picked it up and turned on the flashlight. About 10 minutes passed before I realized that I was looking for my cell phone with my cell phone in my hand. © Antriksh Sinha / QuoraI convinced my parents to plant a money tree for me because I thought it was a source of money. I really thought grades grew on her. © Raghav Khanna / QuoraI met a girl last week. Cuddles here and there, walks in the park, flowers. So yesterday, after we left the movie, she invited me over to her house, and we did. The next morning I needed to go to the bathroom and found it necessary to use the freshener before opening the door. Well, there it was! I took the lid off, freshened the air… but soon a strange and rather uncomfortable smell came.
I came out of the bathroom and asked, “What is that weird air freshener in your bathroom?”
She: “What do you mean? I don’t have an air freshener.”
Me: “So what’s that jar in the sink?”
Her: “That’s hairspray!” © Zafhoz / Pikabu

My husband was packing his suitcase for a trip to Europe. With all seriousness on his face, he asked if he needed a passport. In the same way, I replied: “If you intend to cross the border, then you must, if not, then no”. Still looking lost, he said, “So, do I need to take it or not? Can you answer it right?!” He is a grown man, guys, how do I live with him? © Palata № 6 / VKI ordered a phone case: half leather, half shiny. It arrived with a scratch on the shiny part. Well, whatever, the old one was no longer usable. As usual, I left a review on the store page: “Fast delivery, but it arrived with scratches on the shiny surface, hence three stars.” Today, on the third day, I took the cell phone out of the bag and noticed that there was a protective film on the shiny part that was starting to come off. She was so well glued, I didn’t even notice. Underneath it, there was no scratch! © kybo3 / PikabuWe had a cactus at home. He stayed in the corner, and my mother watered him daily. Everyone told me not to touch him as I might look like a hedgehog. But one night when my mother was working on the computer, I found myself standing in front of the cactus. I looked around and, out of curiosity, decided to touch him, with my hand fully open. I don’t know if it’s worth saying what happened afterwards: I left jumping and screaming through the house, with several “needles” in my hand. © Lara Novakov / Quora

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