Definitely done the drive side crank on the wrong side before, and that was after I figured out a bottom bracket issue for that same friend just a minute earlier.

Icy Hot cream and some Sensodyne toothpaste tubes look nearly identical and are the same size. The Icy Hot made it onto my toothbrush and I stopped just short of my mouth (disaster) wondering why the texture was off... It was time to go to bed. And get a new toothbrush...

Hey, I still use that stuff. It's good stuff and they still make it!

But I did a similar thing recently. I have a tin of beard balm, and a tin of pomade. The tins look very different, and the products inside feel different. That did not stop me from smearing a fingerfull of pomade into my beard this weekend. I had just gotten out of the shower. I shrugged and moved on. My beard was sticky and weird all day, though.

I use it too, but I picked up the habit from my grandpa. You have probably noticed the new packaging lately. They are trying to market it to younger guys I guess. I still love the stuff.

Man, that would scroll your nurd, kind of like the guy back in high school that mistook the tube of Cramer Atomic Balm for his crotch rot/rash ointment. Its a really hot acting muscle cream, think Ben-Gay on steroids. Put that stuff on his scrotum and crotch, to took it about a minute to begin its reaction, unfortunately water tends to make it worse too. Jumping in the shower was his second mistake.

Yep, the hipster packaging was disconcerting at first. But when they switched from the old 60s tube's graphics to the first white, black and red it bothered me. The plastic tube is chintzy, I liked the old metal tubes. The new stuff is just noise to me now. As long as it works to the tune of, "A little dab'l do ya", I am fine. But, I never could get the part where its "She'll love to run her fingers through yer hair" Mainly I am happy that my entire fur covering is still plentiful and intact. It is getting really gray though.

Bill

anyone else pull up to a McDonald's drive thru garbage can & wait for someone to take your order?

I seem to do boneheaded stuff all the time with cabling. Missing guides, ferrules, and/or all manor of installing stuff in the wrong order but not realizing it until I have cinched down the fixing bolt and can't get the dang thing to shift right.

Oh! and that one time I cranked on the crank arm remover so hard it pulled the threads out of the crank arm. Huh, I wonder why... Oh, forgot to remove the crank arm bolt.

There is also the classic installing the crank arms so that they both point the same way. It's gonna be a little difficult to pedal that way...

That sounds potentially life-altering (depending on what these "places" were).

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one, but I have to admit I just got off a 72 hour shift at work with little sleep. I probably shouldn't have been working on bikes, or anything.

For some reason, the Resolve brand laundry stain remover spray and the Resolve brand carpet stain remover spray are both in the same cabinet in my basement. I can tell you from experience that the carpet spray does a lousy job on stains on my shirts...

My bonehead stunt of the week was, fortunately, a near-miss. I rode up to a stop sign at a t-intersection, did a mini track stand, looked both ways, all clear, and started to go. Then I heard a familiar sound of fast-moving carbon fiber, so I stopped. Almost got t-boned by a ninja rider in all-black kit on an all-black bike coming fast in the shade under the big trees. It would have been my fault. Glad it ended ok.

After a long day of driving with our two small children we made camp and I prepared a quick pasta dinner for us. It wasn't until my son took his first ravenous bite that we discovered that I had cooked the jar of hot salsa instead of the jar of pasta sauce with mushrooms... That was over twenty years ago and the family still likes to bring up the subject whenever I'm cooking pasta with tomato sauce!
Brent