My Stupidity (a little late)

Stupid things I did on my day off last week:

1. Clean the bathroom
This would not ordinarily be a stupid thing to do, except that I forgot to change my pants beforehand. So there is now a large orange bleach spot on my favorite green capri pants. Sigh.

2. Break my roommate's car.
This was a slightly larger piece of idiocy. Julia was supposed to head off to New Mexico that afternoon, so I waved goodbye to her as she pulled out of the driveway. Since she was gone, it shouldn't have been a problem for Paul to park there when he came over. However, a few hours later, we got back from our walk to see Julia's car back in the driveway, with the back end a bit crunched. She had gotten hit by a DTE truck on her way out of town and had to postpone her trip for a few days. But now Paul had to go to work, and his car was blocked in. Not wanting to bother Julia, I grabbed her spare key and went out to move the car, like I always do. It was rush hour, and there was a ton of construction going on, so it was really hard to find a moment to back out. We finally managed to block traffic and get Paul out of there, but in order to get back in the driveway, I had to make a really tight left turn. Normally I just go over the corner of the lawn a bit. Except that we're having work done on our house, so where the lawn used to be, there is now a 3 foot hole. The right front wheel went over the edge and stayed there. Luckily, I was out of the street, but I was stuck at this crazy angle across the sidewalk. About a billion people watched me do this, and I was sincerely hoping that Julia wasn't home. I had to call a tow truck to come and jack up the car and get it back on the driveway. And since it wasn't my car, insurance didn't cover it. I was so paranoid about my driveway that I walked to my dance class that night. The next day when I came home from work, there was an orange fence around the hole. Better late than never, but I really could have used it about 24 hours previously.