‘What is the stupidest thing you’ve done because of tiredness?’ – 25 gloriously dumb acts by people who really needed some sleep
13.
‘Woke up in the middle of the night. Wanted a drink of water from a two litre bottle that was right there. Didn’t want to get out from under the covers. Ended up tipping the whole thing over my head. Promptly fell back asleep. Woke up two hours later freezing cold on a wet mattress.’
–blu3teeth
14.
‘I made a packed lunch for two of my kids on the weekend. Muscle memory is a thing.’
–parmenion85
15.
‘During COVID I was working from home and every morning around 9:30 we have our morning stand-ups to discuss what we had going on for the day. I’d start work at 9, but because nobody would know, I usually just set my alarm for 9, and I’d take 10-15 minutes to get going. Meant I got more sleep.
Well on that particular day I must not have got enough sleep, because I snoozed my alarm until 09:25 at which point I forced myself up. I trudged down stairs, bleary eyed, sat down at my desk, and fired up the MS Teams call that requested for me to join.
Meeting started, camera came on, I put on a chipper voice saying ‘Morning everyone’ to silence. Turns out, I’d forgotten to put a shirt on. So all you could see was my pasty white gnasty gnorks on screen, and my audience was several stunned members of staff from HR… Mortifying. Luckily not everyone had joined the meeting yet, so the full team didn’t get a look at my naked upper half (or lower half for that matter). I like to think the poor women on that call who did see it take it to their grave.’
–Alundra828
16.
‘I once fell asleep on a train home and ended up 40 miles from home after last train with no money, and no credit in my phone and no one to contact in the town. Was a long night.’
–Guilty_Hour4451
17.
‘Brushed my teeth with ibuprofen gel once.’
–Iam_aGoldenGod
18.
‘I had a sandwich in one hand and my phone in the other. Bit my phone and nearly threw the sandwich on the sofa.’
–lime-enthusiast
19.
‘Forgot to put my work shirt on and nearly pinned my name badge through my nipple.’
–Tommann45
20.
‘I hid my iPad at 3am in the house somewhere before going on a work trip, because I had a dream we got burgled just before I woke up. I was so impressed with where I hid it, thinking ‘any burglars will never find this’.
It’s five months later, and I also have never found it. I used to use it almost daily for work. I was too tired and didn’t make a note of where we hid it. My house is tiny. Maybe burglars did come?! Such an idiot lol, I can’t bring myself to buy another even though I need it.’
–General_Ignoranse
21.
‘Answered the iron.’
–MonsieurGump
22.
‘I get scared of vegetables when I’m tired. One time I was cooking at like 9pm or something, then the broccoli freaked me out and i had to throw it away.’
–testfjfj
23.
‘The first night I brought my newborn home we’d gone to bed. I was so exhausted and she was crying and crying, after a while when the crying didn’t stop my sister came in to check if we needed anything and I was sitting topless on the bed breast-feeding a teddy bear while my poor baby was screaming her lungs out in the cot beside us.’
–purplepumpkins21
24.
‘Put two contact lenses in one eye. It took me until lunchtime and one terrible headache to realise.’
–Sea_Watercress_1583
25.
‘I signed into work as ‘Melissa’. My name isn’t Melissa.’
–Familiar-Hunter6052
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