So I have this strip surge protector that is plugged into the wall right next to my couch

[Maraya1969]

where I play on the laptop and charge my phone. I also have lights plugged one of the outlets. Last night the red light on the surge protector wasn't turning on so I started moving plugs around trying to get it to work but nothing was helping. So because the laptop has a battery and so does the phone I decided to keep the lights on and use the other plug hole in the wall outlet to alternate between filling up the battery on the computer and then the phone. I was a little frantic and irritated because I knew I had to go out and get a new surge protector and I didn't want to let anything loose all its battery power.

So today I was getting ready to go to Home Depot for a new surge protector. I went to where I had left the cords and grabbed the old one that was broken to throw it out. I glanced at it and then realized that I found a new way of being an idiot. Note this:

[dweller]

1. Yeh, that's not going to work

like you want it to …
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✌🏻

[True Dough]

2. You need what's called

a self-generating surge protector!

[MOMFUDSKI]

3. I could do that. Last week my husband cut

through the cord with the electric saw he was using! Not the first time, either. Life is a trip

[DENVERPOPS]

30. The main reason

they now have battery powered tools! LOL

Don't feel bad, anyone on this website has done similar things.

Being in the trades at one time, people would call to tell me a light fixture or table lamp was not working. AND Expecially true of Fluorescent lights. They would say, it still isn't working after changing the light bulb.....I would tell them to try another "New" bulb. they would call back and say it worked. There are so many light bulbs, (lamps) that don't work, even when new, due to poor quality manufacturing...

I once removed an access panel that had 18 bolts.......Regretfully, it didn't allow me to see anything I needed to know to troubleshoot what ever was wrong. I tediously and methodically replaced all 18 bolts, only to look down on the floor to see that I had not installed the cover's gasket...............Duhhhhhhhhh

I call these instances: *Brain Farts*, and they don't have anything to do with getting old........

[lonely bird]

41. IRP

My wife calls three IRPs: Involuntary Rest Periods

[DENVERPOPS]

43. Oh my, LB

that is PRICELESS.............

I nearly sprayed by keyboard and computer with coffee.........You should post a warning in the title before posting things like that.....

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. Don't feel bad! You don't wanna know how long it took me to spot the issue, LOL!

[ret5hd]

5. aaahhh...a perpetual motion machine believer...

i bet you’re a flat earther too!!!

[GreenWave]

13. I inherited this:

It never stops running. Atmosphere I believe.

[SeattleVet]

20. My grandfather had that exact same clock...

it was his retirement gift from the Borden company after he worked there for 40 years.

It's probably still kicking somewhere around the house where my sisters live.

[Lonestarblue]

45. What a beautiful clock!

[grumpyduck]

51. You beat me to it.

Hate it when that happens.

[captain queeg]

6. Oops

[sdfernando]

7. The only way that could work

is if it were a perpetual motion machine.

[LoisB]

8. You are not the only member of that club. I did the exact same thing a couple months ago.

[crud]

9. I think I too...

keep finding new ways to be an idiot. Love your phrasing. LOL

[brewens]

10. You did it! I thought it not possible, but you did it! You topped George on Seinfeld when his date invited him up for

coffee and he said, "nah, it keeps me up." LOL

[Arne]

11. It just needs a little blinker fluid.

[hlthe2b]

12. Well, it is always good to have an extra--so there is that.

[getagrip_already]

14. My son is an electrician....

So far my wife embarrassed herself by asking him to replace a timer on an outside light that went out only to find out that all 6 bulbs in the sconce light were burnt out.

Then I asked him to check to see why the pool pump wasn't getting power and it turned out the entire row of circuit breakers in that box was off (its outside and we were just opening it up). D'uh.

We all have our moments.

[MOMFUDSKI]

15. I have a garage door clicker in my pool bag.

Last week I was stuffing my towel into the bag and I heard the garage door open. Thought it was my husband returning home. No, it wasn’t him. Closed the garage door and went to the pool. We decided maybe someone was driving down the street trying their opener on all garage doors. Got the book out and read everything and I decided I would call the manufacturer to ask about safety. It was only then that I realized I pushed the opener in my pool bag accidentally! Duh

[DENVERPOPS]

31. Same thing with people

who carry their iPhone in their back pants pocket.....I get what are called "Butt Calls" from people all the time......
AND, so do the folks at 911, by the way.......

[MOMFUDSKI]

16. It's a big Club and

we are all members!!! lol

[SarahD]

17. The perpetual motion machine.

A classmate in junior high insisted he was going to build a motor-generator setup that would power itself forever. Even the non-scientific among us knew it was impossible. When we needed a laugh, we would ask him about his perpetual motion machine. Weird part was, he was pretty smart, but he thought he was so smart he could conquer the impossible. I wonder if he's still working on it.

[yonder]

18. Bless you and me and all of us.

[rubbersole]

19. Wow...

..reminds me of the time my college girlfriend told me to go screw myself.

[PatSeg]

21. Okay, I laughed out loud at that one!

Years ago I threw out a curling iron that wasn't coming on after being plugged in for quite some time.

It wasn't until much later that I realized the light switch to that outlet was off and I had thrown away a perfectly good curling iron.

[Pinback]

22. Plug your television set into this

and you’ll have closed-circuit TV!

[peppertree]

23. Describes Republican logic very well though

Would also make a good album cover.

The predicament reminds me a little of Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic:

[richdj25]

24. Have a small electric saw

Which I put a replacement blade on backwards. After cutting a few tree limbs, Kept telling myself somethings not right here. Had to go look at a picture from the manual to figure out the asinine thing I did.

Ass backwards thinking has caught me like this before.

[LiberalFighter]

40. Had to reread it.

[grumpyduck]

52. You put the blade on backwards

when you want to "undo" the limb you cut off.

Didn't the manual tell you that?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. Energy crisis solved!

[AverageOldGuy]

26. Are you positive . . .

. . . that YOU did that?

I mean, do you have a cat? They are sneaky -- really, really sneaky.

[Dem2theMax]

27. I laughed my head off seeing this.

Because this is 100% something I would do. Only it would take me at least a week to figure it out!

[usonian]

28. Not to be a spoilsport, but did you check to see if it has a breaker you can reset, or hidden fuse?

And it looks like the power switch is "on", unless that's the sun hitting it.
If it's lit, then please don't throw it out. Take it to the nearest college with a physics department.
You might get a Nobel Prize.
or a free cup of coffee and bus 🚌 fare home.

[Maraya1969]

39. Now that one I laughed out loud!

[SCantiGOP]

29. This reminds me of a story a banker told me

Someone came in to deposit a check to their account because they had received a notice that their account had a “shortage of available funds.”

[DENVERPOPS]

32. Actually

There are alot of these style surge protectors that are manufactured to be defective and don't even work for surge protection.....

Alot of items today are defective crap or just don't work. The manufacturers know this, and count on you just throwing it away, rather than returning it......

[SWBTATTReg]

33. Ha ha heh!

[BaronChocula]

34. There's a certain type of person

who would still take it down to Home Depot and demand their money back (even though they bought it at Lowe's). We all know some of those.

[aggiesal]

35. Perpetual energy, if that worked. n/t

[Aussie105]

36. When you plug a strip into itself . . .

how do you know the electrons aren't racing around the loop frantically searching for something to power?

Plug a phone charger into it as well, maybe . . . you have discovered free electricity!

(Wife did that and got confused by that too. lol)

[nuxvomica]

37. You need at least two power strips for that

Simply plug each into the other because it's just plain silly to have a power strip plugged into itself.

For weeks, I kept a plug-in light in the downstairs half-bathroom because the overhead light stopped working. I decided to buy a DYI book on fixing fixtures and a thingy to check the voltage. When I finally identified the right circuit breaker and mustered the courage to remove the cover of the switch and test it, everything seemed okay. I checked the bulb again, noticed it was little loose, tightened it, turned the power back on, and voila!

[ThoughtCriminal]

38. My surge protector

came partially charged. Bonus electricity, made in China

[lonely bird]

42. Ah, problem

Won’t run US stuff.

“220,221 whatever it takes”

[ThoughtCriminal]

56. The turbo-encabulator on my interocitor

has an adapter - so no problem.

[lonely bird]

57. Just being silly

Sorry😢

[Niagara]

58. "220, 221 whatever it takes."

I'm putting this in Red Dog's movie quote trivia OP.

[lpbk2713]

44. A complete circuit. It should work.

[Oopsie Daisy]

46. Any residual electricity will keep going around and around. Could become a fire hazard, maybe.

[slightlv]

47. I've done the same dumb thing...

more than once! And you don't want to know how long it took me to figure out what I'd done! (LOL)

Consider yourself in good company!

[Richard D]

48. I think you just discovered . . .

. . . how to create infinite energy!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

49. Best CO2 reduction scheme evaah.

n/t

[dchill]

50. No harm, no foul?

[Sneederbunk]

53. Your prior posts will be re-evaluated.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. If It Had Worked...

...I'd have notified the Nobel Committee on your behalf! : chuckle:
Think of the potential! (Potential; get it?)

[Xavier Breath]

55. Thanks for giving me a good, hearty laugh this afternoon.