Ugh, I just got goose bumps from the thought.not fun. can you say cheesegrater?
Now I'm a pretty mechanically inclined individual. I'm an engineer, I know my way around cars, I put my own lift on my Jeep. Well I needed to change out brake rotors and pads on my Jeep this summer. Its the first brake job I have done in a long time. So I get the Jeep jacked up, wheels off just fine.
I need to take the rotor off so I start trying to loosen the bolt head on the calipers. I'm putting my back into it and its still not budging. Sure enough I snap the head off the bolt. I get a ride from my friend to NAPA to pick up a new bolt. I get back to the Jeep and get some pliers to get the bolt out. It spins freely.
Sure enough I was twisting the bolt the wrong way. The rest of the bolts came out just fine.
Not exactly "life changing stupid" but stupid.