Sometimes, a great man may wage war to pull a nation from slavery or oppression.
Sometimes a great man may work for his whole life to build a device that rockets society into a high tech future.
Sometimes, evrybody knows who you are and what you did because you have done something so mind-bogglingly stupid that the event must be recorded on an eternal slab.
I was just eating cake.
I had cut the slice with a razor sharp, cerrated knife.
Instead of washing a fork, i decided to just eat off the knife.
And then there was a brief moment, where there was a particularly large amount of cake on the kinfe, and I realized that I was sticking this razor sharp tool of shredding pretty deep down my throat.
Calmly, I took it out, not forgetting to clean it of it's cake, and I thought to myself, "Martyr, you could have just killed yourself! Or, at the very least, lost a very useful epiglottis."
So I had to run over to the computer and post it.
The question is:
Have you ever, during a time in your life where you would consider yourself competent, done anything quite so stupid that you could have accidentally killed or seriously wounded yourself for the sake of something like... eating cake with a knife instead of a fork?
(Or did you kill or seriously injure yourself?)
I want to know.