Every once in a while, someone around us does something so incredibly stupid, you just have to share it. Peter and I have a little tradition where we call eachother and share very funny stories of annonymous people who have done/said things that were not of the highest intelligence.
For an example, in one of my credential classes, we were talking about recycling. The instructor asked us to name a few advantages to recycling plastic. We were all brainstorming things like saving energy, resources, etc, when one of my graduate level classmates rasies his hand and says "If we all recycle plastics then we won't have to cut down as many trees". Huh. Never knew plastic grew on trees! He immediatly realized what he had said (or maybe the laughter of the class gave it away) and laughed along with us - but it made a really good story to call my brother with.
You guys have any good stories that might bring a laugh? I know Peter has some good ones....
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Hello! You're talking to one right now. Today.
One of my friends quietly asked me some months ago if I would like to make a quilted block which depicts a teacup. She was giving the pattern out to a group of us to make a quilt for Loyce, a mutual friend who collects teacups. Loyce is having a birthday next month, and this was planned as a big surprise for her.
I liked the pattern enough to plan to teach it soon to my quilt class. I thought it would be all right to copy it, but to make sure, when I saw Loyce today, it seemed like the perfect time to ask her permission to use it.
Now this is the same Loyce who is supposed to be surprised with the teacup quilt next month. Duh.
I did ask her, and she said she was sure it was all right. I then asked her where she had gotten the pattern. She said she could not remember. Duh again.
A minute later, she came back to where I was standing and asked if I was sure that she was the one who had given it to me, as she couldn't remember doing it. The light dawned on me just in time, and I laughed and said it had been someone else, but thanked her for the permission to use it, anyway. She laughed, too, assuring me that anytime I needed to use a pattern, I should come to her and she would OK it.
Whew!
Well I realize that the big difference between the topic suggested by eesmall and my entry is:
No one but me knew how stupid I was.
That was a close call!! Made for a great story though.
i have something like you Eesmall :).
I remember one story from high school which i´ll never forget i think. We had a geography class and our teacher asked us what are the mineral resources in Africa. first who rised the hand was one very very very clever girl (as she thought she is) and said "fruits"...but that´s not all than before the end of the class the teacher asked what´s the time and someone told him "it´s ten forty" but our very clever girl shouted "no it´s half past ten and ten"........we called her miss fruitclock after this.
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