Confess your "Gilligan" moment

[Captain Pre-Capsize]

Allow me to begin.

I'm shoveling mulch along the house and snag a wire by my air conditioner. "Hmmm, weird... must be the old underground dog fence wire." So with a quick snip I cut it. Then I looked to see that the other end disappeared into my air conditioner unit. And I just disabled it.

GILLIGAN MOMENT

 

[OldSchoolYoungin]

My washing machine hadn't been spinning out properly. Everything I washed ended up a water and detergent soaked mess. From my research, I was sure the entire transmission was gone. Cost? $200-300 including labor. Not worth it, so I bought a new washing machine. $700.

Turns out the problem was a bad lid switch. Cost? $20 and I could've installed it myself.

 

[OldSchoolYoungin]

Actually, I have two.

My computer has gone haywire lately. At first, I received the dreaded "DISK BOOT FAILURE" message. Feared the worst, so sprung for a brand new hard drive. Same error message. Replaced the power supply unit with a MUCH more powerful one. Same error message. Eventually, I got the system to boot but with limited success. Now wavy, vertical lines plagued my display. Bought a new monitor. Same.

The problem? My power supply's 24 pin connector wasn't properly seated into the motherboard.

 

[Legion]

Bought a brand new coconut telephone. Turns out the version 5 of the coconut telephone was just about to be released. Fail.

 

[jazzman]

I was using one of those heavy-duty hand trucks and needed to turn the handle around to switch from an upright to a flat configuration. But the handle was stuck. So, being a big, strong male, I pulled on it with all I had. After a minute or two of serious exertion, like trying a curl with too much weight on a barbell, it came loose. The Gilligan part? I hit myself in the face with a piece of tubular steel as hard as I could. Broken nose, et cetera.

 

[slugg77]

I was once trapped on an island with two beautiful women. Instead of pursuing either of them, I continually botched all attempts at getting off the island. Stupid me.

 

[RABIDMONKEY]

Ive bought two pucks of modern Williams in the past year

 

[Doc4]

A fat guy hits me on the head with a captain's cap on a regular basis.

 

[Argonaut]

I'm not sure if it qualifies as a "Gilligan" or not, but it was embarrassing. While coaching first base for my sons little league team, a grounder was hit to the infield. The shortstop made a wide throw to first, which was coming right at my head. The first baseman made a valiant effort at the throw, but pulled his foot to make the catch. My line of sight saw the umpire beginning to signal an out, I then turned and ducked the throw that was coming towards my head. I saw the basemans foot come off the bag, and thinking the umpire called our runner out, I yelled "He pulled his foot two feet off the bag!". To which the umpire yelled back, "I know, that's why I called him safe!". After an uncomfortable pause, I yelled back, "Well, good call then, what are you yelling at me for!?" At the top of his voice the umpire yells back, "I thought this was how you wanted to talk!". That was 4 months ago, it's football season now. This past Saturday I was pleading my case to a ref about a penalty on one of our linemen, when from the bleachers comes a loud "He pulled his foot!". The ref asked "What the heck is that supposed to mean?" I just said "She's probably drunk" and dropped the subject.

 

[sk0ttomann]

I signed up for the gentlemanly restraint until christmas 2012, then five minutes later found my birth year and quarter razor on the 'bay...

 

[HLS]

Last year while deer hunting I used gloves for the first time as it was really cold that morning. Deer shows up, I aim, pull the trigger and............BAM the rifle forearm jumps out of my gloved hand and the scope catches me on the eyebrow. I missed of course and the deer just stood there, so I quickly chambered another round, aimed and fired again. Same result, gun forearm jumped out of my gloved hand, scope caught me on the eyebrow, but this time it drew blood. I could feel a warm stream running down my nose. Deer two. Me zero. I no longer use gloves when actually firing.

Jim

 

[Krona Kruiser]

Oh, little Buddy! I have Gilligan moments on a daily basis.