When Stupid Things Happen to Intelligent People...

[Boerseun]

Laughed my proverbial donkey off yesterday.

 

Got a call from my dad, from the library. So what, you may ask. Good question. Thing is, he was inside the library, and it was after five. Five PM, that is. And they lock the doors at five.

 

Okay - I'm still laughing. What happened was, my dad had to go, and had to go real damn fast. Now you know why they call it "Curry in a Hurry". So, had had to go when he was in the library. So he went. In the library's loo. At the exact time when the librarians were checking that there weren't anybody left in the library - and they simply didn't check the men's loo.

 

Any case - to cut a long story short, my dad came out to find himself locked up with a few thousand books. At the very least, he wouldn't have been bored over the weekend. So he phoned me to look up the fire brigade's number in the phonebook, seeing as the fire brigade has keys to all public buildings in my town. So I did. And they said "No, we don't have the keys for the library, they replaced the lock a few weeks ago and haven't delivered duplicate keys to us yet." So, I phoned my dad again to tell him the bad news, that we might have to break a window or something. And he told me that he tripped the motion sensors, and that the rapid response team was outside the glass door, with their guns aimed at him! They got the alarm triggered at ye olde security shoppe, and they thought my dad was a robber! How exactly do you explain your presence there?

 

But - in any case, I thought that at least someone in charge knew that my dad was locked up and there wasn't anything more that I could do, so, case closed and problem solved, and I went on with the rest of my evening, laughing my arse off.

 

Is this the end of the story? Hell no! Phoned my dad about four hours later. We're talkin' 9pm here. I phoned him for something completely unrelated, and he said he unfortunately couldn't help me, because he's still in the library! They couldn't track down the librarian who went off with the keys, and they didn't want to break the glass door out, 'cause none of the security guys nor my dad wanted to take responsibility for having an open library through the wee hours of the morning! It was shortly before ten when they finally tracked the librarian down.

 

My dad was fuming, but he couldn't blame anybody!

 

Moral - never eat curry before going to the library.

 

Any other stories of utter stupidity out there?

[Jay-qu]

:eek: :)

 

Thats a classic story!

 

Im sure I can dig up a story.. but I might struggle to top that one ;)

[Qfwfq]

Well I'm always doin' stupid things so I must be a genius! :lol:

 

The very last one was a wasted effort for the past day or so, trying to find where a problem was. Just after lunch break I realized I was barking up the wrong tree!

 

I kept adding printf calls, trying to trace what was going wrong in a call to m_inverse, no changes at all. When I finally put return 0 right at the beginning of it and still saw no difference, I began to ponder it over a bit... :doh: it wasn't even the right one to work on, but zm_inverse instead and it wasn't getting called anyway because I had also missed something else!

 

Just yet another daily stupid thing. B)