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[VanIslander]

i've done three today alone:

1. After seeing a Korean man jump the queue with his daughter at Baskin-Robbins I inform the clerk loudly "I'm next" and as I'm served I turned to the queue jumpers to bask in my triumphant moment of justice only to see the little girl has down's syndrome and her father actually looks like a really kind guy, just Korean in his habits of barging in. I felt real stupid.

2. I forgot my umbrella and bought the largest one at the nearest shop after a downpour began without consideration of quality (there was a huge selection, and you don't necessarily get what you pay for when it comes to Chinese knockoffs), getting an 8000 won Pierre somethingorother the handle of which broke off an hour later, some tips kept coming off the ends and after going in and out of a half dozen shops it doesn't close anymore, except by manual pushing down from the wet outer side, holding it like that until the wrap is put on. A stupid waste of eight thou.

3. I bought the entire second season of The Closer tv drama without having yet seen any of the first season dvd set, sitting for months on my shelf. But the lead actress won a Golden Globe this year for it, so it can't be all bad? Stupid reason.

[DRAMA OVERKILL]

A few years ago I walked into an early morning class with my fly down (of course, I was unaware). The students (middle school girls and guys) were unusually quiet, a few were giggling. One student asks to leave the room, and I give my permission. One minute later my Korean co-worker comes to the door, peeps in and says "Uh... How can I say??? Uh... Zip it up?" My god, how embarrassing and stupid! Since then, I am much more careful!

[LuckyNomad]

I've hit the wrong button on the ATM machine a few times and ended up with 300,000 won in my pocket.

[jajdude]

Are these really your ideas of stupid things you've done? Jesus, they sound very normal, not really dumb. Now if you want some stories of truly stupid behavior, ....well, I can supply them.

{Surely, dear sir, you jest, suffocating the truth, and merely offer a sanitised online moral nonsense version of supposed dumbness. }

[mt01ap]

I saw D-war

[just another day]

[Newbie]

My first time in a Sauna:

Walk into the men's room. Get butt naked in the locker room. Come out and look left; not sure what I see. Look right and there are some tinted revolving doors. "Revolving doors are always fun!". Walk through and see about 30 ajummas/little kids sitting on the floor doing the jimjilbang thing. Somehow they all managed to look up at me. I was pretty smooth, though. Just kept right on swinging through the doors. When I got back to the "man's" side, the little old dude working there was killing himself laughing.

[merkurix]

This might not seem stupid but it still left me a bit red-faced.
Long ago when I worked at a public high school in Bundang, I had to go to E-mart to buy a pair of sandals. I found a pair, but it looked girly, so I wanted to ask the guy on the counter (while gesturing to the sandal's I was holding) for their men's styles. But with my utmost rudimentary Korean I asked the nearest floor guy (while holding up the sandals) "Namja issoyo?" The guy gave me an icy and confused stare and asked me to clarify. My Korean friend who was with me immediately jumped in to my rescue before I hurt myself any further and asked the proper question. I then asked her "Did I say that right?" But she said, "You just asked him if he has a man"

[Treefarmer]

i was really stupid last night

i think i insulted half the people who i hang out with, i also got myear pierced with a safety pin

[IncognitoHFX]

One morning I went into work and it was pouring rain. I had a break a few hours later and I assumed that it was still pouring rain, having not looked outside since I got to work.

So I walked outside and immediately opened my umbrella. I got about half a block then realized no one else had umbrellas, so I closed it and looked up. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, It was really hot outside too. A bunch of young girls laughed at me. It sucked.

[princess]

[Treefarmer]

[princess]

[Col.Brandon]

My first week in Korea I bought a 2-litre plastic bottle of water at the supermarket so I could make some coffee. It cost me 3,000 won which I thought was a bit pricey, but hell I was in Asia now, right? I got home and topped up the coffee percolator and switched it on. Soon the aroma of freshly-brewed coffee was wafting through my apartment - ahhh!

When I went to savour my first sip I was surprised to find it tasted awful. My room mate came home shortly afterwards and informed me that I'd spent 3,000 won on a bottle of soju!

[IncognitoHFX]