Dumb and Dumber

What's something you've done that was just Godamighty stupid?

Whoo, what a week. I’m all in. (OK, you folks are smart enough to know I’m softening you up for a short post. Well, why should I deny it? Every day I type my fingers to the bone, and what do I get for it? A steady income and the approbation of like-minded, highly intelligent people! Not the groupies, parasites, and outrageously outsized royalties my delusions of grandeur have led me to expect! I could have stuck with one of those stupid corporate jobs I stumbled upon in my near-youth but no, I thought myself a Priest of Art, and so turned away from easy money and threw myself wine-drunk upon the mercy of the Muses, but when I woke up they’d gone through my pockets and left rude notes scrawled in lipstick on my mirror. Curses and Bruno-Ganz-in-Downfall-gesticulations!)

Here’s an idea for our usual Fun Friday frolic that you might like and yet be tempted to abstain from — because it can be slightly painful, especially if you have any kind of narcissistic streak, as I do. But like a lot of things that wound our self-image, it can actually be very funny.

The prompt is this: What is the stupidest thing you’ve ever done that you can bear to admit?