"Whoops, I made a mistake" - confess here

[grizzlym]

This thread is for mistakes, frack-ups and general failing.

We've all done it. Tell us your best stories here. Can be you or 'someone' you know, heard of etc.

When my old man first started to cook he thought that pasta was ready when the water had all but evaporated. When your 40kg Labrador-vacuum cleaner ran the other way when confronted with a quivering plate of irradiated pasta, you knew it was a fail of epic proportions.

 

[Dinsdale]

heh - mine is a Supercoach FAIL !!
I forgot to reactivate my collingwood players after their bye a couple of weeks ago, failed dismally, then I traded Goddard last week and he played a blinder!!

Another competition I'll never win!

 

[savagelunchbox]

heh - mine is a Supercoach FAIL !!
I forgot to reactivate my collingwood players after their bye a couple of weeks ago, failed dismally, then I traded Goddard last week and he played a blinder!!

Another competition I'll never win!

HAHA i did that too with Goddard. Also traded out Robbie Gray too. What do they do? Both go and put in season high scores. FFS when a 2200 score was average for the weekend i got a manage a nice high 1930.

 

[kenneje]

This was just a massive and unbelievable fail on my behalf. I am a complete newbie here at bigfooty, and before you write me off as a joke of an individual or a complete nuff-nuff, take note of the fact that it was 2am, I had just returned from an end of school term party/was slightly intoxicated and hadn't slept the night before due to a Chemistry prac write up that needed handing in.

So my house has those lights which are built into the ceiling. I dunno, Mum and Dad thought they were pretty clever buying them....
And what you do to connect the globe to power, is insert a little chord hanging down form the socket into the bottom (or top I suppose) and push the globe in and twist until it is in place.
The electrician did a shitty job of installing them, so the chord is constantly disconnecting from the globe thus not generating any power.

Dad very kindly picked me up from the party and I was a bit of a nuisance in the car. Very loud, told stories and I believe at one stage tried to climb from the back seat into the front seat...

Once I got home and began to realise just how much of a ******** I was being, I thought of ways to make up for my shenanigans.

I decided that the globe in the bathroom needed fixing, and not just a temporary fix.


What I did was...come up with the ingenious idea that if I sticky taped the chord hanging from the socket to the light globe, it would stay in place and the next time father went to fix the light, he would see the sticky tape and say 'I wonder who thought of this genius idea. I am foolish for not having thought of this already. I give up my house and my possessions to my son Jeremy as he is much smarter and better looking than I am'.

I turned the power off so I wouldn't get a lazy 240v shock. Tore off a piece of sticky tape and implemented 'operation Mr. Fix it'.

Feeling quite satisfied with my handy work, I believe I walked down to the kitchen to heat myself up some Pizza (i have no recollection of this, but their was ham and pineapple all over the floor in the morning, so I can only assume)...

I'm pretty sure I then contemplated going to bed, but decided to brush my teeth.

Re-entering the bathroom, I of course turned on the light.

Went to the toilet, WASHED MY HANDS, and then begun to brush my teeth.

I began to hear this sort of bubbling/hissing sound, but passed it off as a ghost.

Near completion of brushing, the hissing sound gets louder and all of a sudden their is a huge crash in the sink.

The globe has fallen out of the roof and smashed all over the bathroom sink and jumped onto the floor and on my hipster cardigan.

I freak out and attempt to leave the room.

Doing so, I step on a huge bit of glass and and stumble to the floor.

This is when I give up and go to sleep.

(I did get the piece of glass out and disinfect it with Savlon).

The next morning I wake up to my Mum yelling at my sister for causing this huge mess in the bathroom and she forces her to make my dad breakfast in bed (it is his birthday).

I owned up to it all after the Hawks vs St. Kilda game (was on such a high, no punishment for an act of vandalism was going to get me down), and have paid for it ever since, both Literally and figuratively. I owe the parents money for effing up the entirety of the light socket (I used more sticky tape than I imagined, and as a result of it heating up so much, it bubbled and ****ed the entire chord...) and my sister has been giving me shit and not letting me use her smoothie machine ever since.

I made a promise with my Mum and Dad that I will never try to help them whilst intoxicated.

 

[Fevola99]

How old is your sister?

 

[Arkadia]

You venture out to the world of the Sugarmarket (Supermarket) with your three siblings, you load up the trolley with all the goodies your wife has asked you to buy plus more sugar products the kids beg you to buy. You proceed to the check-out counter with the trolley full and the kids hanging from it.

You start to unload the sugar food onto the conveyor with the help of the kids who have no regard for the fragile stuff (eggs). You get half way into your trolley when you reach for the pocket and presto "Where is my wallet". Oh no, i have forgotten my wallet at home. Ring the wife, "Honey can you check to see if i have left my wallet in the bedroom", "Yes! you idiot", she replies.

Turn around to the sales assistant, "Whoops i have made a mistake, i forgot my wallet at home"....."but don't worry the Mrs will be here soon with my wallet"...an embarrassing scene of the highest order.

 

[grizzlym]

I told my ex that, 'you're right in your own mind, honey; I'm right in real life'. I wore something heavy and blunt after that.

 

[grizzlym]

This was just a massive and unbelievable fail on my behalf. I am a complete newbie here at bigfooty, and before you write me off as a joke of an individual or a complete nuff-nuff, take note of the fact that it was 2am, I had just returned from an end of school term party/was slightly intoxicated and hadn't slept the night before due to a Chemistry prac write up that needed handing in.

So my house has those lights which are built into the ceiling. I dunno, Mum and Dad thought they were pretty clever buying them....
And what you do to connect the globe to power, is insert a little chord hanging down form the socket into the bottom (or top I suppose) and push the globe in and twist until it is in place.
The electrician did a shitty job of installing them, so the chord is constantly disconnecting from the globe thus not generating any power.

Dad very kindly picked me up from the party and I was a bit of a nuisance in the car. Very loud, told stories and I believe at one stage tried to climb from the back seat into the front seat...

Once I got home and began to realise just how much of a ******** I was being, I thought of ways to make up for my shenanigans.

I decided that the globe in the bathroom needed fixing, and not just a temporary fix.


What I did was...come up with the ingenious idea that if I sticky taped the chord hanging from the socket to the light globe, it would stay in place and the next time father went to fix the light, he would see the sticky tape and say 'I wonder who thought of this genius idea. I am foolish for not having thought of this already. I give up my house and my possessions to my son Jeremy as he is much smarter and better looking than I am'.

I turned the power off so I wouldn't get a lazy 240v shock. Tore off a piece of sticky tape and implemented 'operation Mr. Fix it'.

Feeling quite satisfied with my handy work, I believe I walked down to the kitchen to heat myself up some Pizza (i have no recollection of this, but their was ham and pineapple all over the floor in the morning, so I can only assume)...

I'm pretty sure I then contemplated going to bed, but decided to brush my teeth.

Re-entering the bathroom, I of course turned on the light.

Went to the toilet, WASHED MY HANDS, and then begun to brush my teeth.

I began to hear this sort of bubbling/hissing sound, but passed it off as a ghost.

Near completion of brushing, the hissing sound gets louder and all of a sudden their is a huge crash in the sink.

The globe has fallen out of the roof and smashed all over the bathroom sink and jumped onto the floor and on my hipster cardigan.

I freak out and attempt to leave the room.

Doing so, I step on a huge bit of glass and and stumble to the floor.

This is when I give up and go to sleep.

(I did get the piece of glass out and disinfect it with Savlon).

The next morning I wake up to my Mum yelling at my sister for causing this huge mess in the bathroom and she forces her to make my dad breakfast in bed (it is his birthday).

I owned up to it all after the Hawks vs St. Kilda game (was on such a high, no punishment for an act of vandalism was going to get me down), and have paid for it ever since, both Literally and figuratively. I owe the parents money for effing up the entirety of the light socket (I used more sticky tape than I imagined, and as a result of it heating up so much, it bubbled and ****ed the entire chord...) and my sister has been giving me shit and not letting me use her smoothie machine ever since.

I made a promise with my Mum and Dad that I will never try to help them whilst intoxicated.

Nice. If it's any consolation my old man does stuff like that. Still.

I have a hideous story about him cleaning a toilet. But later.

Anyway, I enjoyed your anecdote and it just reafirms that alcohol does make us smarter. And cold, sober reality is just crap.

 

[Arkadia]

I told my ex that, 'you're right in your own mind, honey; I'm right in real life'. I wore something heavy and blunt after that.

Care to elaborate what you wore.........

 

[grizzlym]

Some kind of hippy buddha statue thing made of metal. It hurt, but it was worth it.

 

[Arkadia]

Some kind of hippy buddha statue thing made of metal. It hurt, but it was worth it.

Oooohhhhh!!! sounds painful, you tell some great life experiences grizz........

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I pressed 'reply' instead of 'forward' once. Ouch.

 

[Henry Jr]

I pressed 'reply' instead of 'forward' once. Ouch.

Thought you might have put your 'Lowden' bet down in this thread Eeek

 

[Messenger]

I sat on my son's arm and broke it a couple of years back.

Accidents happen of course, but what was embarrassing was that it was diagnosed at my place of employment, by my employer.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Called out the wrong name once.

 

[Sixpence]

I'm never wrong! I thought i was once, but i was mistaken.

 

[obscura]

Called out the wrong name once.

is that you mr demetriou?

 

[MinerBoy]

I thought I made a mistake once but I was wrong.

Edit: beaten by Sixpence.