Post a misadventure

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Post an amusing incident followed by failure (amusing to you and initiated by you and affecting you) that occurred to you.



Testing random number generation on a computer resulted in filling up over 40% of the hard drive with random, difficult-to-remove junk through negligence.

I ran a vulnerability scan against my server that is so aggressive it succeeded crippling it. It was the Nessus scanner that can include DoS tests. I knew this was a possibility, but this is the first time I saw a server crumble under this scan.

I pulled a specific push door for at least the eighth time this month.

I was watching video fails (mainly people falling/getting hurt) and ended up falling out of my chair and hitting my head on the desk as I spun around to get someone to watch them with me.

I fell asleep during P.E./Gym class several days ago.

I watched a couple girls trip during rugby, laughed, and fell on my butt. -_-

I was sneaking into lecture and thought my clicker was gone when it was simply deep inside another backpack pocket.

I got the Birmingham Museum of Art in an uproar by doing that. I was trying to get into the hallway where the restrooms were and pushed on the door and it wouldn't open. There was a guard nearby, so I asked her why the door was locked and pushed again to demonstrate. She said she didn't know, called someone on her radio, and a woman in a suit with a lot of keys came up. And pulled on the door, which swung right open.


But as for my misadventure, I saw a filmstrip in 4th grade about either electricity, water, or lightbulbs--don't remember which. the only thng I remembered from the filmstrip was "a single drop of water can blacken 100 lightbulbs." I started wondering what 100 drops of water would do to one lightbulb....

After school but before my mom got home, I found the plant mister, put some water in it, took off a lampshade and sprayed the lightbulb. But it didn't occur to me to turn off the lamp first, so it burst open and the filament was flaming up and nearly caught the curtains on fire before I got it unplugged.

When I was still in high school, I managed to fall asleep during chorus class . . . while both standing and singing!

I forgot what this one person and I were conversing about, but I remember being asked a question and trying to answer it sarcastically, and the person replied sarcastically back. I, however, did not catch on to their sarcasm, paused, and said, "You know I'm being sarcastic right?"

They replied with, "Yeah, I know. So was I."

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