Dumbest Things Smart People Have Done (r/AskReddit)

what is the stupidest thing you have seen another wise smart person do once I got a call from one of my college professors one of the smartest and friendliest person I know prof can you pick me up at this address thirty miles from his place without public transport me sure how did you end up there prof I went to sell my car to this guy only heard about it but it's fantastic I joined Mensa for the card when I went to Kinko's to laminate it I didn't read the instructions on the wall and the laminate melted to the Machine I had to get the Kinkos guy to open the machine for me but by then the card was bubbling when he scraped it out and saw what it was he laughed he laughed so hard friend is standing in line at Target and has a 9-volt battery and a penny in his pocket the two make contact and naturally the penny gets hot people's the 9-volt out of his pocket and looks at it as if he has never seen this object before he sticks his tongue on it shocks himself pulls it away looks at it does it again pulls it away looks at it and does it a third time the cashier just stared at him like someone let a monkey out of the zoo mine was the stupidest thing I have done it was pretty embarrassing I was leaving my flat and I was talking to a girl on my uni course as I got to the door to exit the building I noticed someone outside and was going to let them come inside before I left after about 6 or 7 seconds of me just standing there the girl asked me what was up and I told her that the person outside must have been having trouble getting inside she then pointed out that it was my reflection my grandfather is a chemical engineer that used to work for Dow handling startup of some of their biggest plants he went on to be an expert in industrial cleanup operations he's a practical genius he also decided it was perfectly acceptable to put stuffing into a plastic bowl and slide it into a 400-degree oven my best friend has a genius-level IQ he was in the top ten of my graduating class and has nearly a 4-0 GPA study in Engineering I once saw him look right down the barrel of a loaded shotgun Professors with all kinds of degrees who've written renowned books slash papers can't figure out how to make a video play on the projector instead of the monitor thought there was 60 cents in a dollar took him a solid couple minutes to figure out that there wasn't after we just sat there laughing at him oh boy I finally have a story for this one one of my mom's best friends growing up has a brother who was absolutely brilliant this is a guy who graduated top of his class got a perfect score on the set and went to and graduated from Harvard I had to get the Kinkos guy to open the machine for me but by then the card was bubbling ordinarily he walks but he decided to drive this one particular time he went to the store got his stuff and proceeded to walk home the next morning he went to get into his car only to discover that it was missing from his driveway so he filed a police report a few days went by and he had to go to the grocery store again he walked like he normally does and found his car exactly where he left it a few days before this is a Harvard Graduate my doctor resident at top university hospital wife constantly misuses the words door and window interchangeably it's a riot please close the door where are you going the door oh [ __ ] I meant the window this is practically daily was at law school with a smart guy we shared a house he wouldn't eat anything up in the microwave if it hadn't been bought as a microwavable product he was convinced that it would get pumped with radiation and he'd be eating radioactive food my boyfriend we did those 90-second microwavable rice packets and I smelled something burning I asked how long did you put the rice in for he said three minutes I told him it was only supposed to be 90 seconds and he looked at me like I was stupid and told me ugly air that's 90 seconds then a few seconds later he turned bright red still make fun of him for it about five years ago I got one of those motion-activated air fresheners and put it on my dresser it wasn't until I got up the next morning that I discovered it was lined up directly at eye level where I got out of bed effectively booby trap my room against myself I have a relative cousin of my aunt what's that who has a doctorate in engineer and made a ton of money in petroleum engineering yet over the years has sent a large fraction of its and Nigerian scammers even more interestingly he started doing this before the internet when they just since mail mail letters to people and has sent it to the same Nigerian family over the decades his way to support Africa I guess but then this man also doesn't believe we landed on the moon or that the Holocaust happened so there's that edit it's my cousin once-removed in-law stop telling me my boss and I were chatting on the phone about some random work issue he told me to call so and so for some reason I told him I needed the number he said hold on I got a look up the number on my phone shuffle sounds [ __ ] where's my phone damn exploded it my phone must have fallen out of my pocket Sanofi [ __ ] well gonna have to call you back once I find it I cracked up until he jokingly yelled don't you tell anyone about this this girl I was kind of seeing at the time asked me if I wanted to watch a movie so we go up to her room she pops an elf and turns to me and asks wait can you watch this since you're Jewish she has a 4-0 GPA and is going to law school next year also when I eventually told her I was a virgin she asked me if I ever had a boner I was 19 a lot of smart people I know are just terrible with money I know people with 4-0 passin high-paying jobs that are borderline bankrupt because they spend every dollar they have trying to keep up with the high rollers who run their company like these are smart people but incredibly insecure as well and that's just a terrible combination this one is about me I'm a senior in engineering being paid to do some fancy research that we hope will easily eradicate third world diseases edit I'm a senior in engineering not a senior engineer excuse my poor phrasing my dad has always managed my finances and never really taught me much I just got a credit card and had a $500 limit spent 492 dollars in a month and got confused when during the next calendar month after the statement my credit card was still being declined I thought the limit reset every month regardless of if you paid your balance it just made sense to me when I called my dad asking why my credit card hadn't reset yet he laughed at me for a solid hour and told all his business partners I laughed it off as being an engineer not a finance person like him but my lack of real-world experience with economics slash money is also sad I'm a living case of why we should have useful life skills classes in high school one time my friends and I were walking around downtown and we were passing through a parking lot one of my friends noticed this and asked is this a car dealership no this is a parking lot so naturally he responded with but why are there cars here took a few minutes of explaining for him to remember that cars do tend to be in parking lots late to the party as usual but I'll shame myself I was going to bake cookies for my 20th year high school reunion but I encountered a problem I explained this problem to my fiance me I was going to make cookies for my reunion but it ended up I couldn't Tim why me well your mom gave me that box of cookie cutters that over 100 cookie cutters and I was going to make cookies in the nine and five shape for the class of 1995 but it didn't come with the number nine it has one through eight but number nine at this point he just stared at me because he thought I had come to a realization on my own which I didn't me what Tim you just have to turn the number six upside down and it's a nine me blank look Tim the number six upside down is the number nine you did realize that didn't you he cracked up when he figured out that I never realized this I have a PhD my sister-in-law is a molecular biologist her level of genius is astounding she put herself through school via scholarships but made pocket money working at Ponderosa one day she was changing the oil in the fryer set the old hot grease tub on the floor and proceeded to step in it she literally cooked her foot it took several skin grafts but mostly looks normal now so whenever someone does something stupid in our family we say they cooked their foot my old lady of seven years just finished up her master's in accounting she roasted a chicken yesterday and as the timer rang I yelled to her remember to use a hot pad to take the lid off the roaster pan because like the pan the lid handle is hot I get a sarcastic Noda back from her I watch from a mirror with a good angle of her as she takes the pan out with two hot pads on the side handles of the pan she then sets the pan on the stovetop puts the hot pans back in the drawer then grabs the handle on the lid of the pan she burned her hand again drop the lid to the floor loudly and then ran to the living room to see if I was laughing I was dumbest smart person I know I love her I travel a lot for work and I'm going to London later this month one of my girlfriend's best friends is Annika Norris saving the lives of premature babies every day and has forgotten more about biology and Anatomy than I've ever known she asked what language they speak in London and if I was going to visit the Eiffel Tower if I got some free time my grandfather has a PhD in computer science one of the early ones he was on the team that developed the fingerprint computer that ended the days of using a magnifying glass to match prints the original computer now lives at the Smithsonian it was snowing out and he said he was grilling steaks I thought he was on the outside porch I looked outside and he was not there I found him in the basement using a huge gas grill it took me several minutes to explain to him why this was not a good idea when I was in high school I was friends with this guy he was pretty smart regularly got A's in his classes after high school he went off to become an electrical engineer or some [ __ ] anyway we were in the cafeteria one day eating lunch when he pulled out a can of soup that was his lunch he opened it and looked at the microwave and said it's fine if I just put it in like this right since he didn't bring a bowl with him being a dick I immediately said yeah it should be no problem at all I do it all the time and he was excited and ran off to go warm up his soup he came back a few minutes later completely disappointed and said you can't put metal in the microwave he was real bummed it almost ruined his day he just learned that right there since there was another guy at the microwave who he told him that it was a bad idea to do it he managed to borrow a bowl from the kitchen staff and it worked out in the end but how the heck do you not know about that that's like the first thing you learn don't put metal in the microwave on top of that he was disturbed by the fact that people would open the microwave when it was beeping you know the beeps that tell you when it's done cooking he thought that it was some sort of radiation cool down warning and that everybody who opened the microwave was going to become mutated because all of that radiation was still in there which doesn't really make sense but that's what he thought so either he was an idiot or he just didn't have a microwave at home which seems crazy to me who doesn't have a microwave even to this day I'm still really sure which it was a girl I went to high school with went to the same university as me she was top five in our graduating class and hasn't gotten lower than a three eight in two years of college including biochemistry and organic chemistry one summer day we were out at a bonfire and she had a hood on because and I quote don't moon Rays make you pale are not seen directly but heard the professor tell these two stories this man is an expert with nanomaterials and just an all-around physics baddest and yet Story one the professor begins watching karate movies and becomes a fan soon he begins to wonder if he can reproduce some of the feats he has seen various martial artists perform on film I'm a physicist he says I can do this so he gets a stack of a few cinder blocks and tries to break them with his fists he shattered almost every bone in that hand story to once his homes water heater stopped heating water I'm a physicist he says I can do this after all he reasons the water heater is just a really big resistor submerged in a tank of water with some plumbing attached to it all why not repair it himself the basement cleanup cost him a few thousand dollars plus the cost of a new water heater and professional installation my father told me a story about his father my grandfather was a brilliant chemical engineer working for Procter and Gamble he actually led the team that figured out how to make liquid tide one day he came home scooped himself some ice cream put chocolate chips on top and put it in the microwave he was surprised that the ice cream melted rather than the chocolate [Music]

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Length: 14min 25sec (865 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2019