The "I am officially stupid" thread. (edited)

[Sucker_dad]

We have all done something that, after the fact, we're thinking "well that was stupid". I want to hear those stories. I see the threads about them on occasion and thought it would be entertaining and maybe educationalfor others to find them all in one place. The two things that immediately come to my mind are when I was using Mini Protanks and I went to change tanks but left the bottom on my ego and dumped all the juice in my lap. Also when I first started building coils on an RDA, I went to adjust the coil and purposefully fired it while my finger was still on it.

Let's hear your "stupid" moments and let's keep it clean please.

 

[Dj tank]

I had a 50 ml bottle of unicorn blood and was filling my pro tank about eye level. It's thick juice and it wasn't coming out well so I squeezed harder and the dropper tip came off with a huge wave of 16 mg juice that shot right into both eyes. Not just a splash...I mean like eyelids full of unicorn that I had to squish out. I ran to the sink and flushed them, had bloodshot eyes like you've never seen,had a massive headache/buzz the rest of the day, and slept 14 hours that night. In retrospect I probably should have stopped at urgicare... . But I lived...and learned some respect.

Needless to say I never fill tanks at eye level anymore. .

 

[HauntedMyst]

I was standing up on my motorcycle riding a wheelie when my Genesis opened up in my pocket and I crashed. Man, did I feel like an idiot.

 

[Submaniac]

^^ so sorry to hear. As a biker I hate to see anything about a biker crashing. But from the video, you were wearing gear and that's what it's for.

As for my ......ed incident (I posted about it on another forum), I added menthol to a premixed juice (ordinarily I wear gloves when dealing with nicotine, but not when it's just menthol), went to pee, menthol was on hands that subsequently got on d**k. Menthol on that part of your body is really really unpleasant.

 

[Bramble]

Changing out a wick on a clearomizer coil head, forgot to put the rubber gasket back on the "chimney" part. Put the coil head back on the clearo, filled it with juice, which then made a mess everywhere and prevented any vaping from happening.

OK anyone could make that mistake when they are new. The embarrassing part? I have done this more than once.

 

[Huckleberried]

1. Pushed the Home button on my phone 3 times to turn it on. Giggled.

2. Popped open a blister pack in my purse for a piece of gum without looking. Oops, it's an emergency coil head. No bubbles blown, never found my gum.

3. Couldn't figure out for the LIFE of me why my newly built and checked coil head wouldn't work! After several expletives and opening it up........ oops forgot to wick it.

I'm sure there'll be a number 4 soon enough.

 

[Mikey6]

Went to take a vape off my kraken but forgot to put the cap on after admiring my fresh new build. Got a nice hot micro coil to the lip. Sweet little blister that was a little embarrassing to explain.

Sent by thumb smashing my Note II.

 

[wheelie]

I was standing up on my motorcycle riding a wheelie when my Genesis opened up in my pocket and I crashed. Man, did I feel like an idiot.

I was not even their! Besides I am not that kinda guy. But seriously crashes suck!

 

[minitater]

Bought myself a lava tube as a back up for my MVP2. Wife saw it and now I'm using one of her 600mah ego batteries as a backup.

BTW after seeing the motorcycle wreck photo I quit feeling sorry for myself.

wt

 

[bruiser]

I topped off a LR carto, running at 10 watts, took a vape, and got a hot surprise. Forgot to put the drip tip on.

 

[_JB_]

I was rewicking a coil with cotton and had the battery attached to use as a handle. When I was about done and very happy with my job my finger hit the fire button, the battery was still on, so my work went up in flames.

 

[spaceballsrules]

This is a non-vaping related snafu I commiteed about 15 years ago.

I went to set the timer on my microwave for a frozen pizza I had in the oven. I didn't realize it, but I had actually turned the microwave oven itself on. It ran empty for about 5 minutes before I realized that it was running empty. Immediately turned it off and unplugged it, but the microwave was scorching hot to the touch. Luckily, it had not blown up, and after letting it cool, it still worked. By far, the dumbest friggin thing I have ever done.

 

[Vermonster13]

I opened this thread.











J/K

 

[Zealous]

I was filling a tank one time & had just filled the little bottle I use to fill it up. So I set the bottle down for second, screwed everything together on the Kayfun & went to fill it up. I picked up the bottle & it was empty so I was like, wth, thinking I didn't actually fill the bottle up yet. Nope, I filled it....and then tipped it over while doing something else & didn't know it. Spilled 10ml juice all over & in between the couch. Not life threatening but definitely annoying. Now I always make sure I put the cap back on before I do anything else.

 

[Mostwasted]

Was at work and vaping on my mech in between tearing apart the scavenger pumps. Was in a hurry to get them done because they were going out that morning. Finished the job, after pulling them out the acid bath and cleaning them. I loaded everything up on the pallets took a quick vape then shoved the mech in my pocket. I jumped up on the forklift and was heading to shipping and receiving when my pocket got extremely hot. I forgot to tighten the locking ring... Now my mech has a nice discolored ring on the firing button. My exact words "You ****ing ......"

 

[lladnar550]

1. Tested the resistance of a newly built coil on my Russian with my provari mini. After adding the cotton wick, but before adding a few drops of liquid to it... Didn't notice that I had burnt the wick inside of the coil until after I put it back in the Russian and added juice... Burnt cotton just doesn't taste well. Wasted a full tank of premium juice.
2. Torched a piece of flat ribbon kanthal a little to long to remove the springiness. Melted Kanthal sticks to skin.... (Actually have done this too many times. Took me a while to figure out exactly how fast to move the torch. On the positive side, my desk's finish can now be called distressed.)

 

[zanthious]

i was using burnt carts for like 8 months and just thinking it was me and refusing to go back to cigs, then i realized i was priming them incorrectly. IF someone tops that i will be surprised.

 

[Zach904]

Went to take a vape off my kraken but forgot to put the cap on after admiring my fresh new build. Got a nice hot micro coil to the lip. Sweet little blister that was a little embarrassing to explain.

Sent by thumb smashing my Note II.

I just did this last week lol.. I was distracted, left cap off my kayfun during drip mode and burnt a nice little hole into my upper lip. Glad to see im not alone. The mark is still visible

 

[Sucker_dad]

One thing I've done a couple of times is drip much for the wick to absorb and then lay down in bed. When I vape in bed my whole PV is upside down and I get a mouthful of Juice.

 

[Nikkita6]

We have all done something that, after the fact, we're thinking "well that was stupid". I want to hear those stories. I see the threads about them on occasion and thought it would be entertaining and maybe educationalfor others to find them all in one place. The two things that immediately come to my mind are when I was using Mini Protanks and I went to change tanks but left the bottom on my ego and dumped all the juice in my lap. Also when I first started building coils on an RDA, I went to adjust the coil and purposefully fired it while my finger was still on it.

Let's hear your "stupid" moments and let's keep it clean please.

Well, I have nothing to add as you have already covered mine, except it was tweezers, and not my fingers ... Now of course I know better, I just failed do better in that moment.