I'm clever really.

Okay, we all have these "genius" days, where problem solving is the easiest thing in the world, and you feel like every notion to enter your noggin is some kind of revolutionary concept that people will be talking about in years to come as a changing point in history. However, these 'brilliant' ideas usually turn out to be pretty terrible ideas in disguise. I, personally, am actually really good at dreaming up these corkers of ideas, and they usually leave me with an overwhelming feeling of wonder. "With ideas like this, how on Earth am I still alive?".

It can be any kind of idea, like a way of stopping the bad connectivity with the on-the-wall plug socket by using sellotape;


Which is something you won't do twice...

Or thinking that because your cat's been out in a rainstorm, that a hairdryer is the sensible option.

Which is probably something you would do twice, purely as revenge.

OR, putting a new lightbulb in with the switch 'on' so that you can tell if the bulb's actually working at the time.

Ultimately you realise that yes, the bulb is in full working order, but now you have visions of coloured blobs and you lack any kind of finger-print identity. Not really worth it.
.... unless you're a super-criminal.

Or opting to carry 25 glasses all stacked up in an incredible tower when glass-collecting at the bar you work at in order to save doing two trips.


Consequence: lots of sweeping.

My most, most stupid idea this week was to test whether blue cheese is mouldy or not. Now, a fun-fact is that I am reasonably allergic to Penicillin. Apparently all kinds of crazy things can happen if I ingest some, but luckily I have never been allowed to, as I had a breaction to Amoxycillin which is like mild Penicillin. Doctors aren't really 'risk-takers' with that kind of thing.
But anyway, it is common knowledge that penicillin is made from Penicillium fungi, which is basically mould... Can you see where my clever idea stemmed from?

As it turned out, despite only biting a pea-sized amount of cheese off the block, I felt sick for about an hour, and developed a rather attractive rash that lasted well until the next morning.
Well done Sam.
Though I did in fact prove that it is simply mouldy cheese.

These are all seemingly good ideas in face value (with the exception of the genuinely stupid cheese incident), but obviously not in terms of actuality.
You'd think though, that after 19 years of doing incredibly stupid things, I'd have learnt that some things should be thought through slightly more thoroughly before being acted upon. But no. I clearly just enjoy living dangerously.

I like to think of it as being "ridiculously optimistic".