What is the dumbest thing that your brother, father, husband, boyfriend did?

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I have a wealth of dumb things my dad did during his life time. Many of them still have me giggling even though he's been gone nearly 25 years. When gas powered lawn mowers first came out, he had the motor running and asked my Mom to hold the handle, while he stuck his fingers underneith while the blades were turning. Of course his fingers got twacked and they bled like crazy. I remember it so vividly because I was so excited that I could find the fingers and take them to show and tell. I was five at the time and it was "pre" reattachment surgery. Well nothing would do but we had to rush him to the nearest military hospital (40 miles away) in 110 degree heat. Dad went into the ER and was there several hours while all of us sat in the car waiting. When he came out of the ER, he was sporting...two bandaides! I was so disappointed. We lived in a house with an attached garage. It had a manually pull down door. Everyday Dad would go out as he was going to work, grab the wire support to the door, stand under it and pull it streight down and brain himself with the door. I couldn't help it, I had to laugh because everyday (even the day we totally moved out of the house) he crowned himself! While we were living in that same house, dear old dad decided to do some wiring in the garage. He called me and asked me to pull the wire through the spot he had pushed it through. He neglected to tell me it was hot. I got a bad shock and of course he thought it was funny. Well I was fifteen at the time and you don't get your kids mad at you. A week later I was going in the house and noticed out of the corner of my eye that dad was on a step stool with his finger in the light socket...I casually reached over and flipped the switch. He always claimed he couldn't dance...he sure did a great job that day!! It's near the end of my college semester and I have finals next week, but I decided that I need to have some fun...I've told dumb stories about myself, so I felt I should share about some of my other family members...Oh, and the lawn mower story...it turns out that one of my aunts did the same thing. My mom and I found out quite by accident when she was in the area and we went to visit her. We told the dad story, which she didn't find very funny, and then she showed us that she did a better job of being dumb..she lost the tip of a finger. (Mom and I laughed all the way home..it tended to run in my dad's side of the family!)