Ok , i do not think this one counts as stupid, but slightly embarassing. My agency is a not-for-profit and we were holding a conference for about 400 people, with national and international attendees. To keep cost down, we had begged and borrowed audio-visual, and laptop computers. Since i know more technical stuff than most of the people i work with I was made the tech person and trouble shooter. The presenter brought their own equipment, laptop and LCD projector, i checked with her and she said she has all the directions and review them with her staff before leaving. So i went to the next rooms to check on them. So she starts and the images are upside down, they come and get me. The room had about a 100 people, never saw a machine like she was using. i tried what you would normally do, did not work, so i turned the projector upside down and that righted the picture.. i said "well i guess we need to think outside the box", there was some applause and laughing" (it was a conference on changing the culture of nursing homes). Told my boss what happened he laughed, than i told him what group it was and he said the president of our company is in that room and alot of the board of directors

About 4 hours later the President of my company comes looking for me and says i was in that room, and you turned the projector upside down and said think outside the box! (mind you i had only been employeed there about 3 months) . I said I could not think of anything to fix the problem in a timely matter . She said good job!thats what the conference is all about "thinking outside the box!! and walked away... so for the last 2 days i was known as Outside the box guy!! by half the people there...

A few years latter someone apporached me at a conference i was attending on the other coast and said 'outside the box?" and we started laughing...

boy just think what could have happend if i had been wearing the Kilt!!!!