I Pepper Ghosted Myself!

[Gemini Cricket]

blueerica has already heard this story because I was IMing her at the time but here goes:

Last night, I was on my laptop IMing and I heard a noise outside near my front window. My living room was pretty dark, but there was a light in a corner next to the window shining on me. So I went to my window, which has vertical blinds, and opened the blinds. And there staring at me, floating about the hedges in the area outside my apartment was a floating ghost. I jumped. A half second later, I realized it was me staring at me.

lol! Hysterical.
:D

[NirvanaMan]

Dork. :)

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

What a dork! HAHAHA!

(Not laughing at you, just your reflection!)

[Nephythys]

*snort* that's great! :)

[CoasterMatt]

DORK!! :D

:cheers:

[AllyOops!]

Aww! That's just one of the many reasons that I love you, GC! :)

If it makes you feel any better, my greatest moment was pouring a huge pot of boiling water and pasta into a strainer- and I was holding the strainer by the bottom, balancing it. You can imagine how my hand felt after that. :blush:

[Capt Jack]

yeah....gonna have to go with 'dork' on this one as well.

nothin' personal
;)

[CoasterMatt]

I have many tales to top the 'dorkiness' of that - consider yourself a dork amongst many other dorks...

[katiesue]

What Matt said.

[BarTopDancer]

I was making chicken noodle soup. So when it was done I took the pot and poured the contents into a strainer. Bye bye soup.

Or how about the time when I was making mac and cheese. And drained everything... right down the drain.

[innerSpaceman]

... to which I will add "fraidy cat."











(not to be confused with one of Lisa's pets)

[blueerica]

I'm a pepper ghoster, too! But I already told you my story, GC.

(Let's just say late-nite Unsolved Mysteries when you're 12 doesn't help when you're passing the sliding glass door...)

[Gemini Cricket]

I've also done this:
Had a glass of water in my left hand, someone asked me what time it was and I dumped the glass of water into my own lap.
:D

[Gemini Cricket]

Here's another bad one:
I have a Big Gulp in my hand. Without looking at my drink, I decide to take a sip of my drink. My mouth searches and searches for a straw and I forgot that I didn't put one in.
Very embarassing.
:D

[alphabassettgrrl]

That's ok- I like dorks. :) I've had my moments but I've forgotten them. I'll post when something pops up from the murky recesses of my mind. :)

[libraryvixen]

GD.. I've done the water thing before... Most of my stories involve falling over because I'm so clumsy.

Last week, at work, I was talking to some co-workers. We were all doing our own thing when... I fell off my rolling chair. I went straight down, but my arse managed to push the chair away. That's all my co-workers saw... the chair rolling away and no me to be seen.

A couple days ago when I got into work, I went to disarm the alarm.. and failed. It was loud and I couldn't get it to stop. It finally stopped when my boss showed up and canceled it (using the stop code that I tried to use)

[AllyOops!]

To make y'all feel better..

*The above-mentioned "strainer incident".

*Tripping on my Dad's hose (GARDEN hose, you freaks :p ) and actually ripping the entire unit, attached to a metal spindle, along with concrete, out of the wall.

*Once, in my Dad's garage, my purse caught on something. Instead of turning around and seeing what my purse handle had caught on, I kept blindly yanking harder and harder each time to free the handles. It was stuck on my Dad's SHOTGUN which was rocking back and forth violently from my purse pulling. The shotgun was attached to the back of his police motorcycle.

*Actually beginning to ask my boyfriend where the "any" key was on the laptop when the words "press any key" appeared on the screen. Thankfully, I caught myself.

How ass-backwards can one girl be? That's the question we're all asking ourselves today.

[katiesue]

I have zillions but from just this weekend. Walking over to the 5K start trying to get the girls awake and excited. I turn around so I'm waking backwards and immediately back into a bench which hits me right behind the knees causing me to fall backward flat onto the bench. But it was quite graceful.

[Gemini Cricket]

I fell once onstage. During a speech for classroom president in grade school. I think I won because everyone laughed at me falling. :D

Once during a performance of "Fiddler on the Roof", I totally blanked on the lyrics to my solo song. "Miracle of Miracles" just went right out of my head. The orchestra leader clued me in. I was mortified but it worked with the bumbling character (Motel the Tailor) that I was playing... I still get an adrenaline rush when I think about that flub. :blush:

[Prudence]

I have always been the very model of grace and decorum.

[MouseWife]

Ooo!! Oooo!! **raises hand in GC's defense** I know!!

GC was freaking out because his house is haunted....don't you have to haunted toilet?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

But have you ever HatBoxGhosted yourself?

Heehee, can't mojo you. :)

[lindyhop]

Years ago there was a work-related dinner at this restaurant on a boat that used to be in Newport Beach (the Princess Louise?). The banquet room was at the bottom of the stairs. The boat shifted a little in the water as I walked down the stairs and I made my grand entrance by falling into the room.

[Not Afraid]

One of my clients has a 6 foot tall painted statue of an Indian Chief in their entryway. EVERY time I open the door, I get a start. I will never get used to him being there.

[Babette]

I jumped thinking there was a bug crawling across my couch. I was sitting legs straight out and laptop on lap. Turns out it wasn't a bug, but my toe wiggling over the top of the screen. :rolleyes:

[Mousey Girl]

when I lived with The Old People, it was out in the middle of no where. I was watching Arachniphobia...in the dark. It was at the point where the spiders were jumping out of everywhere. Something crawled across the back of my arm. I don't think I have ever screamed that loud while watching a movie.

[swanie]

I have zillions but from just this weekend. Walking over to the 5K start trying to get the girls awake and excited. I turn around so I'm waking backwards and immediately back into a bench which hits me right behind the knees causing me to fall backward flat onto the bench. But it was quite graceful.

I got to witness this one :D Madzer wouldn't walk anywhere close to her after the fall. Nothing more embarassing to a tweener than mom doing prat falls in public.

Of course, none of us warned her that she was about to fall over backwards because we couldn't believe she didn't see the HUGE stone bench that had been right in front of her eyes.

But, that's why we love katiesue. She always makes us look good :evil:

[RStar]

Here's another bad one:
I have a Big Gulp in my hand. Without looking at my drink, I decide to take a sip of my drink. My mouth searches and searches for a straw and I forgot that I didn't put one in.
Very embarassing.
:D

Once, I went to take a drink of soda and forgot I had a straw in it and stuck it up my nose. At least I was alone.....

I've done the same thing at the window, truth be told.

Why is it called Pepper Ghost?

[wendybeth]

I love the internet: Pepper's ghost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_Ghost)

[Morrigoon]

Okay, so have any of you ever been snorkeling, and tried to pet a fish?
... I still have the scar to prove it.


One time, when I was leaving work (at McCarran Airport in Vegas), I was driving up Tropicana (goes across the end of the runway in a very darkish stretch). Anyway, my a/c didn't work in that car, so I always drove around with the driver (runway) side window open. I hear this sound coming at me, and it sounded for all the world like a Mac truck trying to run me down. I couldn't see a thing in my rear view, but I could hear it coming closer, and at one point it sounded practically on top of me - so much so that I actually swerved!

... And it was about then that the Cessna finally passed over me and into view on the runway.

[Kevy Baby]

One time, in band camp...

[RStar]

Okay, so have any of you ever been snorkeling, and tried to pet a fish?
... I still have the scar to prove it.


One time, when I was leaving work (at McCarran Airport in Vegas), I was driving up Tropicana (goes across the end of the runway in a very darkish stretch). Anyway, my a/c didn't work in that car, so I always drove around with the driver (runway) side window open. I hear this sound coming at me, and it sounded for all the world like a Mac truck trying to run me down. I couldn't see a thing in my rear view, but I could hear it coming closer, and at one point it sounded practically on top of me - so much so that I actually swerved!

... And it was about then that the Cessna finally passed over me and into view on the runway.
Wow! What a story! I can't believe you lived in Vegas with out air conditioning in your car!!:eek:

[RStar]

I love the internet: Pepper's ghost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_Ghost)

Oh, I knew I had heard it before! From The Haunted Mansion! Thanks!

[lindyhop]

One time, when I was leaving work (at McCarran Airport in Vegas), I was driving up Tropicana (goes across the end of the runway in a very darkish stretch). Anyway, my a/c didn't work in that car, so I always drove around with the driver (runway) side window open. I hear this sound coming at me, and it sounded for all the world like a Mac truck trying to run me down. I couldn't see a thing in my rear view, but I could hear it coming closer, and at one point it sounded practically on top of me - so much so that I actually swerved!

... And it was about then that the Cessna finally passed over me and into view on the runway.

I experienced something similar once driving on Lakewood Blvd which runs underneath the runway of the Long Beach Airport. I was convinced the loud noise I heard was my car's engine about to explode or something. Then I drove out of the tunnel and saw the plane taking off above me.

[mousepod]

The summer I turned 13, I was eating spaghetti on an airplane. I turned away for a moment to talk to my sister, and when I looked back, something was pushing up through the center of my bowl. I panicked (nowhere to run) before I realized that it was the fork that I had left deep in the pasta.

[lashbear]

Once during a performance of "Fiddler on the Roof", I totally blanked on the lyrics to my solo song. "Miracle of Miracles" :blush:


"Blunder of blunders,
Ridicule of ridicules,
God took a Cricket by the hand,
Blanked out his mind then
ridicules of ridicules
helped by leader of the band"

[Gemini Cricket]

"Blunder of blunders,
Ridicule of ridicules,
God took a Cricket by the hand,
Blanked out his mind then
ridicules of ridicules
helped by leader of the band"
LOL!
:D

[AllyOops!]

I love reading this Thread, because I know I'm not completely alone! I have more doozies that I just remembered. And they weren't commited by just me. My Dad would kill me for outing him like this, but fortunately, his occured umpteen years ago:

*He once ripped open a steamed bag of peas. With his teeth. You can imagine how his face felt.

*He snipped a wire. While it was still plugged in. The whole house lost power & the scissors melted.

I think where we tend to go wrong is with the fact that we both have zero patience. So, instead of taking a second to think things through and then act, we just get all irritated and impulsive because GOD FORBID we wait more then 2 seconds for anything.

*I once fried bacon. In denim short-shorts. Naturally, grease popped, splattered and hit my upper thigh. Golly, I sure had a nice welt for awhile.

*I know that you can't microwave metal. However, one morning, years ago, I decided to heat up a silver metal Starbucks carafe in the microwave. I checked it completely- nowhere did it say "Do not place in microwave" (probably because they assume even the most ass-backward jackhole should know this). I placed it inside, shut the door, pressed the minute buttons and POOF! The entire inside of the microwave went up in flames. I had to drag my now late boyfriend out of the shower to extinguish it. I've also attempted to microwave foil butter packets. Don't do it.

*I once threw my unnecessary mail into my fireplace. What faster way to rid myself of it? However, I threw in windowed envelopes. It resulted in the most vile plastic burning smell. My neighbors were in my front yard, concerned there was a house fire.

Aw! That just reminded me of the time my late boyfriend turned up the gas super psycho-high in the fireplace. He lit a long match, tossed it in and KABLAMMO! Flames flew past the screen and singed our Christmas stockings. The flames reached well above the mantle. I screamed and then died laughing. Why, I don't know, considering one of my greatest fears is fire. How ironic that many of my past follies revolve around accidentally igniting objects? :(