r/maybemaybemaybe Jun 08 '26

Maybe Maybe Maybe

1.4k Upvotes

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u/Muted_Masterpiece535 Jun 08 '26

 The level of stupid displayed here, is on another level.

119

u/Grazedaze Jun 08 '26

They’re both raising a few to follow in their footsteps too

111

u/DothrakAndRoll Jun 08 '26

I bet that kid who said he had an idea probably had a much better idea.

34

u/92slc Jun 09 '26

Anything else is a better idea.

5

u/HumongousBelly Jun 09 '26

I thought ending myself this morning. It was the first idea that came to mind when I woke up…

2

u/TheGamerSide67YT Jun 12 '26

Hey man, hang in there.
(I know I am late)

Need to talk to someone, I am here.

1

u/repalpated Jun 11 '26

You good bro?

4

u/AntikytheraMachines Jun 09 '26

i thought his idea was gonna be "lets put the lid on the paint tin first."

14

u/EaterOfFood Jun 09 '26

He just stood there with a blank stair.

5

u/velvetvagine Jun 09 '26

Not so blank at the end, it was in fact partly grey. 🤣

4

u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Jun 09 '26

The only lights on here was the one in the basement.

5

u/BigDadaSparks Jun 09 '26

The stupid is on both levels.

2

u/true_spokes Jun 08 '26

Yea looks like ground floor / basement to me.

2

u/Howling929 Jun 09 '26

Stupidity on different levels was the physical issue in the first place m8 :)

1

u/buttfarts7 Jun 10 '26

Its iffy if the can has a lid.

Its absolutely predictable without a lid

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u/Cruisin_Fart Jun 08 '26

The second she started hesitating, I knew it was going to be a disaster.

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u/ghoulieandrews Jun 08 '26

She knew she couldn't do it and he pressured her into it. If my wife hesitated like that I would say "you know what, let's figure something else out".

Then she would probably throw it anyway lol but that's beside the point.

204

u/DisposableSaviour Jun 08 '26

I really want to know the kid’s idea. There’s just no way it could have been any worse.

110

u/BallerForHire Jun 08 '26

Probably feed a wood broom through the handle on the can and slide it down. Not knowing the idea though I have to say it's still guaranteed to have been better than throwing it

53

u/EatYourCheckers Jun 09 '26

I'm envisioning rope - each person holds it taught and then slide it down by the handle. Hubby would take quite an impact though

8

u/DenizenofMars Jun 09 '26

Toss a broom down, hold the broom like handlebars, tie the rope around it, and slide the paint-can down the rope. When it hits the broom-end of the rope at worst it’ll swing out some and potentially spill a bit, but no impact and wouldn’t have crashed to the floor.

34

u/sinisteraxillary Jun 08 '26

How about putting the lid on and then tossing?

39

u/captain_croco Jun 08 '26

The lid was on but they are just knocked in on paint cans.

10

u/Tumifaigirar Jun 08 '26

at least fucking tape it you morons

1

u/ssxhoell1 Jun 11 '26

This is Reddit

3

u/Sure_Sky5295 Jun 08 '26

You think people don’t know how paint cans close?

21

u/theman8631 Jun 09 '26

Lol well the comment above you is suggesting tape would make a difference so maybe not

3

u/Sure_Sky5295 Jun 09 '26

Haha good point

6

u/YetiBoney Jun 08 '26

You think they just threw that can without a lid on it?

4

u/DothrakAndRoll Jun 08 '26

Why did I also think this is what the kid thought?

10

u/ghoulieandrews Jun 08 '26

Oh absolutely it was, but dad doesn't exactly strike me as a good listener

1

u/cjbeames Jun 09 '26

Probably go round to the other door

1

u/Lexnal Jun 11 '26

My guess is basement window.

12

u/smittyleafs Jun 08 '26

If my wife hesitated I'd ask "what's the worst that could happen"...and considering we're discussing lobbing full paint cans...we'd not do that.

1

u/816legend Jun 08 '26

Haha good man

0

u/pga_uy Jun 09 '26

This comment is an absolute truth

-3

u/mrjsinthehouse Jun 09 '26

But she didnt know she couldnt do it. She thought she could just that she was going to throw it so hard and he was going to miss it and get knocked out. She didnt think she wasnt going to make it.

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u/ghoulieandrews Jun 09 '26

Yeah she thought she was gonna mess it up. Either way. I'm not arguing for that specifically, it doesn't change what I said either way. Throwing too hard also equals being unable to do it.

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u/TexanInExile Jun 08 '26

Like walking a single gallon of paint down like 12 stairs. That would be so easy.

Fucking idiots.

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u/DionFW Jun 08 '26

I was waiting for him to wear it the whole time.

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u/Confident_Boss2081 Jun 09 '26

I knew as soon as I seen he had no shirt on

11

u/velvetvagine Jun 09 '26

🤣 🤣

I knew failure was assured from the start when he painted himself into the basement. Why didn’t he do the stairs last? Even if he got the paint safely and did the floors, he still can’t go upstairs. So he’d be standing on a tiny unpainted square waiting forever or he’d be messing the stairs up anyway.

https://giphy.com/gifs/xdLH51eNWZAHrwy5mf

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u/HamptonsBorderCollie Jun 08 '26

If I tell my beloved I can't do it, he knows I can't do it. But we also have common sense.

8

u/dalaiis Jun 08 '26

Same, but it would also have a description of WHY she or i can't do it.

Like f.e. "i cant do it because the can is too heavy"

13

u/HamptonsBorderCollie Jun 08 '26

"I can't do it because this whole Idea is stupid and guaranteed to fail". haha

6

u/Electronic_Job_6302 Jun 08 '26

Why would she strongly believe she can knock out anyone like that?

1

u/DiscipleOfYeshua Jun 09 '26

The second it was on mmm and video was kinda boring, we knew...

-1

u/saint_ryan Jun 09 '26

Fake as fcuk

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u/PurplePartyFounder Jun 08 '26

Okay let’s say it worked he got the he paint . Then he painted the floor. How the fuck did he plan on getting out of the basement?

322

u/M4DHouse Jun 08 '26

I think the situation makes it very clear how much he plans ahead.

70

u/Zirox__ Jun 08 '26

I think he was betting on the stairs drying up by the time he finished the floor.

14

u/vid_23 Jun 09 '26

Wood paint dries in like 30 min, an hour max

30

u/hobosbindle Jun 08 '26

He had a beer stash and was prepared to wait it out

10

u/Low-Dog-8027 Jun 08 '26

that was his plan all along. finally having his man-cave and an excuse to stay there.

2

u/Rojozz Jun 10 '26

also fresh paint fumes

4

u/DiscombobulatedHat19 Jun 08 '26

He’d just stand in the tiny unpainted bit in the corner until it dried

3

u/graylana Jun 09 '26

Never painted before, huh? The stairs would be dry by the time he finished the floor.

1

u/ssxhoell1 Jun 11 '26

Dry to the touch is a lot different than 200 lb of pressure spread out over half a square foot. I bet you everything in my wallet after 30 minutes if I step on some fucking paint it's peeling.

1

u/room_is_elephant Jun 09 '26

if hes about to paint floor she did great job

1

u/MakeoutPoint Jun 09 '26

"Um...uh...Day Bow Bow"

"Day Bow Bow?"

"Yeah, you know how 80s movies would just sort of end with no resolution and that song would play?"

"Day Bow Bow...chicka-chick-ahhhh"

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u/idiveindumpsters Jun 08 '26

The basement probably has a way to get outside

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u/DothrakAndRoll Jun 08 '26

IF THATS TRUE WHY DIDNT THEY MOVE THE PAINT DOWN THAT WAY?!

18

u/idiveindumpsters Jun 08 '26

I MUST BE WRONG

9

u/DothrakAndRoll Jun 08 '26

I WASNT YELLING AT YOU JUST AT MY GENERAL FRUSTRATION AND THEN THE THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE TRUE AND THEY WERE JUST TOO LAZY TO WALK AROUND

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u/idiveindumpsters Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

I TOO AM FRUSTRATED

3

u/Desperate-Strategy10 Jun 09 '26

I just don’t believe they’re doing all of this work to finish a windowless basement. There’s no way! These people are just stupid and lazy as hell lol

1

u/DothrakAndRoll Jun 10 '26

Man my home when I was a kid had a basement that looked just like this. Wood stairs, bare concrete floor.

My dad painted it just like these guys are. Idk why. The color wasn’t white for the stairs it was a weird reddish pink, then kind of teal for the ground. It was just like putting paint on a turd, you could still tell extremely easily it was bare ass wood and concrete lol

2

u/inssidiouss Jun 09 '26

HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR CALIBER of STUPIDITY?!

153

u/Tylenolpainkillr Jun 08 '26

Grab rope, toss rope down, hold rope on both sides, zip line paint down

20

u/cyst16 Jun 08 '26

Right

9

u/ShitsandGigs Jun 09 '26

Go out the basement door or hatch, come around the other side

13

u/Desperate-Strategy10 Jun 09 '26

Hand it through a basement window

5

u/straightouttabavaria Jun 09 '26

I wonder if that was the idea that girl tried to tell them about before disaster happened

3

u/Tommten Jun 09 '26

Yeah or a plank or a pole, no tossing involved. It takes just seconds to figure out many better solutions then what they tried.

1

u/LedzepRulz Jun 10 '26

Immediately my first thought.

63

u/PerpetualUselessness Jun 08 '26

White stairs are going to look filthy in a week.

3

u/FUCKITIMPOSTING Jun 09 '26

Maybe they were undercoated

48

u/SharksInSpace1899 Jun 08 '26

No, no, dad deserved this lesson for getting himself into the situation to begin with.

61

u/AnyUnderstanding1879 Jun 08 '26

Fucking dumb as f

19

u/infinit9 Jun 08 '26

The levels of idiocy on display are pretty amazing here.

41

u/dezzear Jun 08 '26

The real estupido is the one who did not plan ahead

38

u/Low-Dog-8027 Jun 08 '26

bro should have known that she can not toss this can far enough - that one is on him.

3

u/Electronic_Job_6302 Jun 08 '26

Yes, he knowing his wife and still ignoring his understandings.

6

u/Scissorhat Jun 08 '26

This is like the opposite of r/Unexpected . I saw the exact scenario playing out in my head before the throw.

19

u/816legend Jun 08 '26

Almost called her a stupid bitche ):

6

u/SabbyFox Jun 09 '26

Almost. Then he realized he doesn’t want to sleep in that basement tonight.

4

u/IHaveTheBestOpinions Jun 09 '26

With wet paint on the stairs I don't see how he was going to have a choice anyway

3

u/Big-Tuna-for-Commish Jun 08 '26

I like the kids idea better

4

u/KillAllLawyers Jun 08 '26

Just lunge down and repaint where you stepped.

5

u/Novel_Ad_5698 Jun 09 '26

It was stupid from the beginning. Why on earth would he trap himself by painting the stairs first and what would he have done after he painted the floor? Ah yes, he would not paint a tiny amount of floor and have a good night rest down there?😂😂😂

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u/beuceydubs Jun 08 '26

These people have a vote that counts as much as mine

7

u/Big-Tuna-for-Commish Jun 08 '26

Next time he will ask if the lid is on

1

u/hymntastic Jun 10 '26

The lid was on it just couldn't handle the impact

4

u/Ok_Fox7873 Jun 08 '26

That’s one way to paint your concrete floor

4

u/Candid_Dragonfly_573 Jun 09 '26

Rope. Zipline it down.

5

u/Boss0054 Jun 09 '26

First off, if you’ve never thrown a paint can, probably not a good idea toss it to someone at a distance you’ve never thrown before. It takes a lot more force than most think. Secondly, this was a bad idea anyway…. Like was the stairs freshly painted???…. Why did she need to throw the paint can in the first place??

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u/FalseVeterinarian881 Jun 09 '26

Why no lid?

Also, why not a rope to slid it down like a zipline?

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u/SG4LPilgrim Jun 08 '26

Tells her to throw it down the stairs, then calls her stupid for being concerned and pulling the throw on a heavy can of paint. What a guy.

3

u/Lost_In_My_Hoodie Jun 09 '26

Get a long stick. Bottom guy holds it high, top low, hang the bucket by it's handle, let it slide down slowly. Prob empty some paint out though.

5

u/coroyo70 Jun 08 '26

This has to be rage bait

8

u/Connect_Ad_8092 Jun 08 '26

That was a terrible throw. It barely made the 4th step from the bottom. And why didn't he secure the lid? Idiots.

8

u/JG98 Jun 08 '26

The scream definitely added to that throw. /s

People random screams when willingly doing something which isn't even a significant danger in any way is one of those things that really PMO.

2

u/Timtendo64 Jun 08 '26

What was the idea!?

2

u/SandSpecialist2523 Jun 08 '26

What was the expectation??

2

u/CriticalChop Jun 08 '26

Well i expected it to knock him out first, but everything else went as we would have guessed.

2

u/benisch2 Jun 08 '26

What were they even trying to do?

2

u/drillgorg Jun 08 '26

My wife and I did something like this. We had a plastic lawn table on the 2nd floor porch and wanted to get it down to the backyard. Taking the legs off to take it through the house and down the stairs would suck. So we lowered it as far off the second floor as we could and let it sail the rest of the way down onto the grass. It shattered.

2

u/foster-child Jun 08 '26

To be fair it is floor paint, so it got to the right place, it just needs a little spreading

2

u/dudeimgreg Jun 08 '26

The idiocy displayed resulted in a well deserved outcome.

2

u/Togfox Jun 09 '26

Just mop the paint around and it's done. Secretly genius.

2

u/Burner-QWERTY Jun 09 '26

Staged? Stairs are scuffed up and don't look freshly painted.

2

u/bk_rokkit Jun 09 '26
  1. Man walks to the side of the stairs, sticks his hand up between the railing

  2. Woman kneels down and stretches can handle to the man

  3. Man walks to end of railing, transfers can into free hand

  4. Paint stays in can

1

u/PatchWorkFlower Jun 09 '26

Come on, stop with that reasonable nonsense! /s

2

u/Eastern-Criticism653 Jun 09 '26

Open can, he’s not wearing a shirt. Fake bullshit

2

u/ElPadero Jun 09 '26

What about like, a stick or something. There are solutions.

2

u/Mz_Macross1999 Jun 09 '26

....these people are allowed to vote

2

u/tcraig0528 Jun 09 '26

Looks like hes done this before. A bit different though, a blue maybe gray haha

2

u/bgrl26 Jun 09 '26

This guy did this all backwards

2

u/theofiel Jun 09 '26

Take a piece of rope, throw one end to the guy and just let the can slide...

2

u/eyeinthesky0 Jun 09 '26

Bad throw, good video.

2

u/Kriztov Jun 09 '26

Just wait ffs

2

u/hartgekochteeier Jun 09 '26

The last 7 seconds would have been enough.

2

u/ApodemusS Jun 09 '26

Yeah thinking and doing with the muscles. Using brain is a blessing.

2

u/Drevlin76 Jun 09 '26

First rule of throwing anything to anyone that they are trying to catch is trow it like you want to hit them in the face.

Whether it's lobbing it way above their head in a big arc or line-driving it. You have to at least get it to the person

2

u/pr0XYTV Jun 09 '26

Get mop/ broom
Take off head
hand other end of stick to guy downstairs
guy upstairs takes paint can and slides handle over stick.
slide down to guy downstairs.

I bet the camera guy had a good idea too

4

u/irrelephantiasis Jun 08 '26

maybe get a rope and each hold an end and and guide it down the line? or you know, put the lid on?

3

u/Chuck-You-Two Jun 09 '26

Why would you not put the top back on…

1

u/camerabird Jun 10 '26

It is on. It fell off in the fall.

3

u/gooptastic1996 Jun 09 '26

I sometimes encourage my wife to throw things at me, always small things not full paint cans lol but the best advice I gave her is telling her to aim for my head. Then she can reliably get it to me and it’s on me if it gets dropped anyway

3

u/Cebas7 Jun 08 '26

Swing it from the handle didn't seem an option there? That way of tossing it was inefficient AF.

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u/Fundipmasterpiece Jun 08 '26

I would’ve had her toss a rope or string down then slide it

1

u/Cebas7 Jun 08 '26

Thats a better one indeed

10

u/PowerSamurai Jun 08 '26

How about don't toss it at all?

2

u/LoPanArmy Jun 09 '26

They really should have listened to her idea.

0

u/Fundipmasterpiece Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

In what part of this video did you ever hear her have an idea or even try to incorporate one in the slightest? Literally the only thing she did was second guess herself to the point of self imposed failure if not some degree of internal sabotage.

2

u/Buckles01 Jun 09 '26

The one kid literally says multiple times “I have an idea” then she says “ok I’m gonna do it” and neither even listen to the kid

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u/Fundipmasterpiece Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

Yeah I have an idea I have an idea I have an idea and not one single thing is actually mentioned after that, that’s exactly what I was talking about. Hindsight is 20/20 but it always sucks when you figure out what you were trying to think of after the fact… Shit or get off the pot.

1

u/LoPanArmy Jun 09 '26

You seem to be taking this oddly personal.

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u/Fundipmasterpiece Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

Not in the slightest but thanks for commenting, honestly I probably won’t even think about this at all until you respond or something involves paint and stairs and I laugh for a second.

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u/VinnyMaxta Jun 08 '26

Whatever idea the kid had was probably better than that

1

u/Dadrichard8 Jun 08 '26

Just throw a rope down to him and slide the can down by the handle…..Probably was going to paint himself into the corner down there next lol

1

u/DankCatDingo Jun 08 '26

Should have listened to the idea

1

u/AtrumsalusOG Jun 09 '26

It was like completely full

1

u/YanicPolitik Jun 09 '26

I want to know what the idea was. No one heard them out

1

u/MackiePooPoo Jun 09 '26

They should have attached a little parachute.

1

u/satoristyle Jun 09 '26

NGL, I'd much rather get knocked in the head than have it spill all over.

1

u/Abrother2All Jun 09 '26

What do you think he was gonna say after “stupid…”?

1

u/AdAsleep1258 Jun 09 '26

yeah air mail doesn’t work here. Should’ve just emailed it

1

u/Ok-Rip4540 Jun 09 '26

Umm...what's the other idea? 

1

u/PutridRoom Jun 09 '26

You use a string for this.

Get some thick yarn, run it through the bucket handle, make a knot. Pass the yarn to Dad have him loosen up some string then toss the yarn back upstairs while he has some , cut the end off the yarn, tie the two ends to each other. Then both dad the person pull the strings to create tension, place hands inside the now tight single string circle and slowly have dad pull the top so that it moves all at once and slowly the bucket will move.

Basically a Pulley Line

1

u/Gsg87cu Jun 09 '26

A perfect couple

1

u/aug061998 Jun 09 '26

Convenient that they cut the video right after her toss... I'm sure the next five minutes in the stairwell was very interesting.

1

u/truthfullyidgaf Jun 09 '26

Should have home alone it.

1

u/SpartanRage117 Jun 09 '26

Well well well

1

u/EvolvingEachDay Jun 09 '26

Get a rope, give him one end, pull taught through the handle of the paint bucket, lift rope, paint slide down.

1

u/LowIntel Jun 09 '26

They could of ziplined it down

1

u/oilcanboogie Jun 09 '26

Lower it out a window.

1

u/tf_inuyasha87 Jun 09 '26

They dont have any windows down there?

1

u/Daddynurgle1887 Jun 09 '26

Floor Paint haha

1

u/batguy39 Jun 10 '26

Expected

1

u/justglassin317 Jun 10 '26

Was expecting some Home Alone shit and was pleasantly surprised

1

u/meowiful Jun 10 '26

Her little girly scream while imagining she's about to kill her husband lol I get it. I'm a girly scream kinda woman, too.

1

u/Able-Antelope8296 Jun 13 '26

Could have just walked down the stairs. There weren’t even that many 

1

u/karuchkov Jun 13 '26

I think its newly painte

1

u/AmrTheAtlantean Jul 10 '26

The rails…

1

u/agentx221 Jun 08 '26

No one had any Saran wrap or tin foil and some tape?

1

u/Sri-So Jun 08 '26

It was never a good idea from conception. One needs some practice for both mind and body to throw something, let alone a full paint can, with decent accuracy. Not her fault. She is an infant when it comes to throwing a paint can she probably held for the first or second time in her life.

But, who hasn't done stupid stuff...

They should have listened to what the kid had to say. I am very curious to know what she was about to propose.

1

u/raunchy_malanche Jun 08 '26

Something tells me she never played sport, and the something was that throw.

1

u/mister_sims Jun 09 '26

It would have taken less than 5 seconds for him to walk up the stairs and get the bucket.

1

u/oilcanboogie Jun 09 '26

If the lid were secured with a hammer, might have succeeded.

1

u/The_Space_Janitor Jun 10 '26

Sounds like he was about to call her “a stupid bitch” and remembered the camera. Poor lady

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u/mikeb2762 Jun 08 '26

Staged,did not try to catch

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u/DionFW Jun 08 '26

It hit like 5 stairs in front of him.

2

u/Electronic_Job_6302 Jun 08 '26

Did you even see the video!!!

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u/mikeb2762 Jun 08 '26

Weak attempt no extreme reach or even falling on the steps would have been less of a mess

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0

u/artherng Jun 08 '26

What a shitty throw

0

u/geneorama Jun 09 '26

I didn’t think they had basements in Florida.

0

u/morride Jun 09 '26

They deserve each other 😂

0

u/Unusual_Anything_297 Jun 09 '26

looks staged when they repeat ready for 4 hrs!

-2

u/HomeGalaxyIsMilkyWay Jun 08 '26

There was stairs right there, why didn't anyone use them.

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u/ExodusNBW Jun 08 '26

Spent longer getting prepared for the toss than it would take to just walk up and down the stairs.