What is a decision or action you made, despite it being clearly stupid?

Started smoking cigarettes when I was 16.

I was perfectly aware how shitty the tobacco industry is, how addictive nicotine is, all its harmful effects, and how gross of a money sink it is. I did it anyway because I thought it looked relaxing.

I rented a moving truck, to be driven 400 miles away. When I got the into the truck for the first time outside of the store, I noticed it the console said low tire pressure on one tire. I said “oh, I’m not messing with it now, probably just needs to be topped off” and drove away. Then it was fine for a couple days as I loaded the truck, then once I finished loading and left… I filled the tire up… it kept going low as I drove, though. So I had to stop 5-6 times in the next 250 miles and top it off. Finally I inspected it and there was a tear around the fill valve. This was in a very remote area of a freeway, basically the middle of nowhere, 60 miles in either direction to a town bigger than like 500 people. I stopped safely at a rest stop but it ended up taking the truck company’s roadside assistance 10 hours to fully get me back on the road. Then they ended up charging me for an extra day at the return site, giving me this huge run around on the phone, and I had to file a credit card chargeback for the extra day (thankfully, it was successful).

So obviously I should have told the rental place immediately “wtf this truck says it has a low tire” or at the very least, gone back before I left.

My wife was a Girl Scout leader and every year, after cookie season, she would have leftovers that went unsold and just sat in the garage until she decided to get rid of them.

It's so easy to eat an entire box of Girl Scout cookies when there are dozens more in the garage.

For this reason, I'm glad my daughter quit Girl Scouts.

i intentionally became an alcoholic for like 5 years, during which i was not sober for a single minute (not even to sleep)

i had been drinking casually for half a decade before that but i made the conscious choice to attempt a slow suicide by alcohol abuse

i was like 17 or so

I quit my job without any plan at all on what I was going to do next. I was the sole IT worker for an SMB and had been for the past decade. I was burned out, exhausted, and jaded.

Now I'm going back to school, so I guess it wasn't the WORST decision. I definitely could've handled it better, though.

I let the right-wing MAGA chuds in my biological family come to my wedding.

I did do a smart thing within that stupid decision: it was an alcohol-free wedding. That made them fuck off after a short while to go get drunk somewhere else and everyone I actually cared about and loved stayed all day and well into the sunset.

I still maintain my boycott of Amazon over the one-click patent.

It's a hassle to buy stuff online without using Amazon. The patent expired years ago. Probably no other person is still boycotting them over it (not that it was ever an effective boycott in the first place). But I just can't bring myself to buy from them.

Buying speed from a dealer who was advertising on Craigslist. It all went fine, but that doesn't stop it from being a bad idea.

Here’s the reply I was expecting to see and didn’t:

Continuing to live another day… and I keep doing it for some reason.