Thread: I need an idiotic situation

So I get assigned a topic for my weekly "Show not Tell", a writing piece my English teacher assigns, and the whole objective is to show the audiance whats happening not to tell them.

Example: I get assigned the sentence "He ate like a pig." so I write: "the three hundred pound man reached for the onion rings. He opened his mouth and crammed the greasy rings into his mouth. The succulent fat dribbled down his chin and got tangled in the man's thick beard..." and so on for about a page.

My topic this week is “I was an Imbecile- an Idiot” and I have no idea where to start. Can someone help me by sharing some idiotic things you've done or sharing something someone else has done? It would very helpful.

This should help:

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I woke up the other morning to find my floor crawling with what looked like maggots. The night before it had been storming heavily, so after cleaning them up for an hour, I came to the angry conclusion that they must have washed in under the front door of my house during the rain (I checked my own trashcan first- which was devoid of the little blighters). I called my super and told her they needed to attach a rubber flap to the front door to make sure this never happened again. I was mad.

Later that evening, I came home and found some more little white maggotty things crawling around. I lifted the straw mat next to my door to continue cleaning - still pissed at my poor fortune when I realised the little worms were crawling OUT of the mat. My mat. I realised that one of the tiny moths that are always landing on the mat must have laid eggs and the 'maggots' were in fact catepillars. However, at this point, my super had already arranged for the maintenance guy to come over and attach the flap.

I had to stand there while the maintenance guy looked my solid-metal, clearly water-impenetrable door over and tried to attach the stupid flap, all the while sticking to my story that they must have come in to the house, because I certainly don't have any dirty, rotting, egg-infested furniture in my house, no-siree.... And yes, I felt like an idiot.