Category: Brushes with Stupidity

Okay, I’ve written a number of stories about what I perceived to be stupid acts by other people, so it’s about time I told a story about my own act of stupidity. This happened back before I met Laura, when I was between girlfriends and “on the prowl.” I went out with a couple friends […]

Once again, I’d like to start this story off by saying that Dan is a friend of mine. Also, I don’t consider what he did as stupid, in fact, Dan’s not stupid by any means. Furthermore, this isn’t the first time this has happenned, but if I posted the first story under “Brushes with Stupidity”, […]

Let me start this story off by saying that Ruthie is a very good friend of mine.  I don’t really consider what happened as stupid, but I just can’t ever let her live it down. That’s understood between us.  Even after treating me as she has, we still remain friends. In fact, she still sends […]

Every few months, I would go out with a couple friends from work, Chris(tine) and Diana.  We usually go out to dinner after work, and sometimes catch a movie also.  This time, however, after dinner, we decided to rent a movie and go back to Chris’ house since her husband was out of town. We […]

The company I worked for used to have an annual off-site meeting.  One year we had it at Longwood Gardens, which is a local attraction featuring – what else – gardens; big, beautiful gardens.  The plan was to have our meeting in the morning, have lunch at the garden’s restaurant, then enjoy the gardens for […]

In the community where I once lived, there is a particular movie theater that had these little handicap “corrals.” The disabled were kept in these corrals during the movie, so they didn’t get in anyone’s way or bother anyone.  They were basically little walled-in areas at the back of each theater with no seats (presumably, […]

One day I was at the mall with a friend of mine doing a little shopping.  We were in a department store, and my friend was checking out the clothes racks while I waited.  The racks were pretty closely packed together, making it very difficult to get between them, so I just waited in the […]

When I was out at Craig Hospital in Colorado doing my rehab, they used to encourage us to go on little excursions around town.  One favorite place to go was the Denver Mall.  On one such excursion, I was at the mall with my parents and some old friends of theirs from back home, who […]