What is the dumbist social mistake you have ever made?

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Another stupid thing I did once was to try and be self-effacing while having the opposite effect.

This is paraphrased.

OP: That's really good.
Me: Thanks.
OP: Yeah, I really like it.
Me: Thanks, I've done much better though.

I siad 'I've done much better though' to mean 'it's not really all that good' but instead it came out as meaning 'and I can do *even better*!'

This happened when I was in grade 8. After school one day, the people on my bus were all called down to the gym because our bus would be late, because our bus driver (Lisa) had gotten in an accident but she was ok. I was surprised because our bus driver is a very good driver, but it was winter and I later found out that ice was responsible. Eventually a supply bus driver showed up and took us home. On the way home we drove past the scene of the accident. Our regular bus was in the ditch, and there was a green car on the road that was beaten up pretty bad. Several people said "oh my god" when the saw the car.
The next day on the bus, a girl sitting behind me was crying. Her friend was sitting next to her, comforting her. They were talking about the accident, and for some reason I thought she was crying because of Lisa (who hurt her ankle). The girl was talking about how it was "nobody's fault" and I (not knowing that ice was responsible) said "No. Lisa is a great driver. It was the fault of whoever was in the green car". I got yelled at, but I didn't know why. I later found out that her mother was in the green car and she had broken her ribs. I felt pretty bad...

You know how write a letter to let it all out and then burn it because it was a big mistake. Well I composed an email like that and sent it instead of deleting and have felt awkward around her for the past two years. That's just the beginning... Since April 1st 2006 I have been very attracted to her from seeing her in a different way at a dance. I can't talk to her, can barely keep my eyes off her and get very nervous and have embarrassed myself to her a few good times in the past two years. That email is something I regret very much. I was making excuses to myself and probably saying stupid things and I can't take it back. I hoped since school was almost over and they had already taken our laptops back that she wouldn't check her email, but she did and there are some more embarrassing details.

That one sticks in my mind the most, but I have probably done some mean and stupid thins that our also embarrassing. People may think that I should be embarrassed waking up at 4:50am to run around the neighborhood in my underwear for 30min with a friend who is not in such good shape.

There was a pajama day at school recently, which was unfair because I sleep in only a pair of boxer shorts and that was not allowed. So I wore long ski underwear (like fully body underarmour) with a pair of boxer shorts over the ski underwear. That should have been embarrassing, but it was very fun and some little kid called me gay. Other than that I was asked for a yearbook picture and called sexy and creative. I was said to look like a super hero and a naked shadow. Randomness can be fun and rewarding. In almost any other school that would have been embarrassing

I just remembered the last embarrassing thing that happened to me and I almost got arrested. I was running on the levee at 1am and was interrogated by a cop because I was wearing cargo shorts, out after curfew, and underage. He let me go because it was Christmas. I only lied a little bit, and this guy was not the fat donut eater. He looked like a marine or something. ramble ramble ramble

This was back a good ten years, I was 15 or so.
My best friend(at the time) and I were at Wildwood Beach, NJ, and wandering around on the boardwalk. We ended up in line for food and in front of us was a girl who we'd seen earlier in the day smiling at us.

Clearly, it was time for me to step forward and sweep her off her feet!
I was about to say something when my friend decided I was taking a bit too long and did the logical thing: reached around me and tapped her on the shoulder, then turned around and pretended he didn't know me.

Whatever plan I had in mind thrown into ruin, I stuttered a second, but decided not to waste the moment...I'd say something charming and win the day! So I bust this one out:

"Hi your name's Rob, what's mine?"

...yeah.

I really like your one, JimmyJazz I would have picked you.

Two of mine come to mind:

I went regularly to the convenience store late at night and the clerk recognized me after a few weeks.
Clerk: So where are you from?
Me: New Zealand. Where are you from?
Clerk: Palestine.
Me: I didn't think that was a country.
Clerk: *looks embarrassed* not really
Me: *flees*

I didn't even mean that he should have answered with a real country, I was just ignorant and curious about Palestine...

And I'm not sure if this is social or not.. but it's pretty damn funny now I think back: I was on holiday in San Francisco with my family, on the golden gate bridge. My mother and brother wanted to go all the way to the other side on foot, and I was tired from walking around so much, so I said I'd wait in the middle and meet them on the way back. My feet were really sore from sightseeing, and there was scaffolding all around and under that bit of the bridge, so I hopped up and sat on the side of the bridge. I figured I was safe - if I fell (and I never fall anyway), I'd go about 1m onto the scaffolding and be able to climb back up.
So I sat happily and swung my legs and listened to music on an MP3 player... until a Policeman tapped me on the shoulder. I got the fright of my life - While I was looking out over the bay, they'd closed 3 lanes of the bridge and gotten in a huge team of cops and psych people in to talk me out of jumping.. and I just wanted to rest my legs. I nearly got arrested for lack of being able to explain what I was doing up there cos I was so shocked and forgot how to say things for a while.
Thankfully I managed to answer the easier questions, they took account of my accent and backwards birth-date-giving and believed I was an ignorant tourist, and the bridge was open and the swarms of cops gone before my family got back...

When I was like in 12 I was at this family reunion thing at the carlton house. We was all sitting at a big table and where giving we had a draw to give out gifts. When it finally got to me I had to come to a decision to either choose a hair pick or some kitchenware stuff like plates. I looked and tugged on my mom shirt whispering to her what should i choose. But she didn't say anything. So I made a decision and chose the hair pick. Everybody then started giggling cuz I chose a hair pick but I had a close cut.

Many examples from school.

I got sick of this kid who was shouting abuse at me. I picked him up by the neck and threw him. That could have ended REALLY badly.

Joking around and laughing when one of my schoolfriends (no longer, I don't speak to anyone I went to school with) told us his grandpa had died.

Too many more too count but those are some of the worst.

Eek, I don't really want to recount any more.

I had to be carried out of a fancy dress party when I was little because people were annoying me and I felt horrible about being there. Still remember that was so embarrasing

This year at my friend's graduation party I was going around proclaiming that the Mountain Dew was stale. My mom wanted to tell me to be quiet but she didn't. So I said it more than once. The person who spent ALL that time perparing the meal and drinks probably wanted to tell me "if you think it's stale don't drink it! "

~Phantom~

oh god... in 6th grade i was invited to my best friends birthday sleepover. this was when i was still going through some therapy for aspergers and i was still a little ackward, but was over my temper tantrums from hell.

well, my mom couldnt drive me there so her mom had to come pick me up, and when we got into the garage and i got out, i was used to garages smelling like gasoline because my grandpa was a mechanic and rode harly davidson motorcycles (biker ftw) and so i said
"omg this is not how a garage is supposed to smell!"
and it mustve sounded like such a horrible insult, but i meant to say that i just want used to the absense of gasoline smell and i ended up staying a few more days than was planned. i kept asking if i could stay another night, not realizing my friends mom probably wanted my freeloading rear outta the house, cause she politely said i could stay if i wanted (such a nice lady) and so i did and i still feel so guilty about the whole ordeal >_<

the next year my friend had another birthday sleepover, but i wasnt invited. she said something about peoples houses smelling different and that being why her mom didnt want me back

The dumbest mistake I ever made was being open about my religious beliefs.

Answer back to the teacher and say "f**k you" at the end. I went and got a deetention.