Sometimes I do drastically stupid things; It’s difficult, because on paper I am a honestly intelligent human.
However, the problems emerge when I am distracted with thinking about something else that is pressing in my life as well as go on autopilot, and under these conditions, I’m bound to make stupid mistakes as well as look like a total idiot… This is precisely what happened recently when I spent the night at a friend’s house for the holiday, then my family plans had fallen through, so I had nothing in store for the cheery seasonal holidays; Luckily, my best neighbor invited me to her family’s holiday celebration as well as I was filled with hot as well as fuzzy feelings knowing that I had anywhere to be for the big afternoon.
I truly wanted to be a positive asset to their holiday celebration. That’s why, when I was hanging out at the family home, I stupidly threw wood logs onto their fireplace separate from thinking. I was seeing the dancing flames in the elegant fireplace hearth, when I noticed that they were starting to peter out. I often tend to the fire at my family’s holiday, so I decided to do the same thing here. I did not want to petrify anyone in my friends family, so I situated a stack of fresh firewood next to the fireplace as well as carefully positioned some new fuel into the flames. I thought it was odd that the wood wasn’t catching fire in this delightful heating source, but continued trying to stoke the flame anyways, and eventually, my neighbor walked into the room as well as gave me a odd look as she noticed me stooped over the fireplace, then with some problem in her voice, she asked if I realized that it was a gas fireplace, not a real wood burning hearth. In that bad moment, I felt like an absolute idiot as my associate and I carefully pulled to the real wood out of the electric fireplace. Luckily her family didn’t notice.