10 Foolish Things We've Done--Time To Vote For the Most Foolish!

Our Foolish Things series has come to an end. Hope you enjoyed it and feel very smart. Now it is time to vote. Please cast your vote for the most foolish thing we did in the comment section on this post. Here is the ballot:

Balance That Checkbook

Missing My Bus Stop

How Much Did That Cost?

Check All Your Pockets

"Lost" Cell Phone

Where Does That Pizza Go?

Out With The Garbage

TV Viewing

Locked Keys In Car--Twice

Oh, No, My Car's Been Stolen!

Foolish Things--Where Does the Pizza Go?

Scenario 7: Pizza In the Cupboard
We get pizza for lunch on Sundays and then I put a couple slices in my Tupperware container to take for lunch a Monday. (This is not the stupid part.) Twice now, I mistakenly put the Tupperware container with the pizza back in the cupboard instead of in the refrigerator! I get so angry at myself for letting this delicious pizza go to waste. I'm afraid it won't be any good if it sits out all night. Clearly, my mind was on other things. I was anxious to get to the computer to read my email and do some blogging. See, it's all your fault!
What I learned: I'm still trying to figure it out. How do I focus on what I'm doing in the kitchen? Maybe I should ask Gerard to take care of this task too.

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Foolish Things--"Lost" Cell Phone

Scenario 6: Scenario 6: I Thought I Lost My Cell Phone Coming home on the bus I was going to call Gerard on my cell and discovered it was gone! I quickly ran through me day in my mind thinking how it might have fallen out of my pocket and came up with lunch when I was reading in the library on the couch. I have side pockets in my pants and thought perhaps it had slipped out when I was there. When I got home, I called the night secretaries to check the library for me before looking to see if I even took it that day. Sure enough, there it was on top of the bookcase where I charge it. I never took it that day!
What I learned: Don't panic. Check for things around the house first before assuming they are lost.

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Foolish Things--Check ALL Your Pockets

Scenario 5: Missing The Indians Game
I got free club seat tickets for an Indians game from work and invited a family from my church bowling league to go too because my husband wasn't interested since they weren't playing the Red Sox that day. Anyhow, I gave the mother the three tickets at the bowling alley and I kept one for myself and said I'd just meet them there. I was really looking forward to this because club seats are absolutely the best! You get great seats for watching the game along the first base line AND all the free food you can eat!! YUM, YUM!

So, I take the 40 minute bus ride to the game and when I present my ticket, it's rejected because it has the wrong date on it for a game that was already played. I flip out! I think, wow, why would they give me the wrong tickets. I should have checked them first. I'm so embarrassed and angry so go back to the bus stop and get a bus home. I'm so angry. First thing I do when I get home is call the family to apologize and their son who didn't go answers and tells me they're in there and were wondering where I was. (This is before cell phones and by now it's about an hour and a half into the game.) Then I discover I do have the right ticket for that day's game after all in my other pocket. By then I figure it's too late to go.

It turns out I never threw away my ticket from the previous game that I went to and it was still in my pocket. I pulled that one out by mistake. I never thought to check for the right ticket in my other pockets. What an idiot! Then I'm really mad at myself and just scream, scaring my poor cats. I cried because I felt so stupid and my cats comforted me.

What I Learned: Throw away your old tickets once they've been used.

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Foolish Things--How Much Did That Cost?

Scenario 4: $2,000 for an ad
Paying $2,000 for a tiny little black and white ad in the New York Times for just one day to promote my book was the biggest waste of money that I ever did.
What I learned: Limit spending to $100 or less for book promotion from now on and preferably not until I can make this up. Concentrate on free things to promote my book.

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Foolish Things--Balance That Checkbook!

In honor of April Fools Day, I thought this week would be a good time to share some of our stupid things we do and let you vote for the stupidest one (I'm sure I'll win this!). Gerard and I sometimes feel like we are both idiots. The fact though that we both do stupid things helps us from yelling at the other one when they do something stupid. Feel free to make us feel better by sharing something stupid you've done and what you've learned from it. We all make mistakes, but the important thing is to learn from them and don't make the same mistake twice--We're still working at that part!

Scenario 1: Checkbook Goof
One day I went to bank at lunch to make a deposit and to my surprise, found out there were two overdrafts on our account! The bank teller was extremely nice and waived the $70 in fees since I guess she could see it was a mistake and they never have any problems with my account! After stopping at the post office for stamps, reviewed my checkbook to see what happened. I discovered I had made two stupid mistakes: (1) I miscopied a number when carrying the balance forward to the next page, and (2) I had written the wrong amount for the phone bill I paid online. What I learned: I really must take time to balance my checkbook more frequently!

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