To ask you about big fuck ups you’ve made

Do tell......

Sounds to me like your mining for content for something.

Was a producer/director. Lost two tapes I had filmed (the cost of a crew day is quite substantial and it was the most interesting footage of the programme). That was not fun

Many lost passports/keys over the years.

A more boring one. Ignored a leak on the front step for so long that the whole thing subsided with £££ consequences

Can you not just remove them? Sorry, I have no clue how they work.

That made me really laugh!

Having a fwb situation with a guy at work (both single). He thought it would be fun for me to have remote controlled beads.

It was fun.

Until it wasn't!

He turned the damn things on and forgot to turn them off. I was writhing around in the office, he was on the shop floor and couldn't hear me phoning him to squeak to turn it off. The bloody bastard! He was suitably shamed afterwards.

I worked in a huge west end pharmacy which had various add on businesses in consulting areas. Can't say what treatment I was doing at the time but I managed to set fire alarm off and the whole building was evacuated - about 60 people plus customers

The worst fuck up I ever made in my entire life was when I sold my house in order to start up a property renovation business with my new boyfriend. The deal was I would buy a dilapidated house and he would do all the work to renovate it, then we would sell it and split the profits half and half.

What happened in practice was that once the house was completely internally demolished and he had me at his mercy, he began to steal from me, abuse me, and when I complained he became physically violent. He had me trapped for five years. I was living in a nightmare. it was like being held hostage.

At one point things were so bad I literally ran to the police station and begged them to lock me up in a cell, because it was the only place I felt safe from his violence. I only managed to escape from his clutches through a miracle.

I would never ever ever get involved with a man financially again.

Pocket dialed an ex whilst having a quickie against a door with new bf...

Oh, loads!😂

Decided to clean my ivory piano keys with a powder cleaner. All very shiny…until I played and each key stayed pressed down, clogged with damp powder!
Dad had to strip down the piano, take out every key so that we could wash each, dry and replace.

Stupidly I agreed to an illicate date, in a pub, with a married neighbour. He drove me home.
I had a favourite necklace that I wore permanently.
When I woke, at home, the next day, the necklace was GONE from my neck.
The necklace was my initials!
Absolute, cold panic.
Didn't know neighbours phone number, couldn't ring his house. Rang a friend of his at work, I vaguely knew him (met him once) and had to explain in a very bizarre call.
He quite rightly refused to pass on neighbours number, but did say that he would try and get him to call me.
He did!

Necklace found in his car and before his wife had found it!
Stopped me in my tracks!

Arranging a Y6, end of SATs school trip, I planned in great detail, including checking where we could eat that provided halal food.
NANDO’s - fab, easy, in the city centre.
Great time had by all, parents delighted. Kids happy.
However, unbeknown to me, not all NANDO’s branches sell halal food. Parents realised.
I had a lot of explaining to do.

Infidelity in many relationships especially when younger. Learnt some rough lessons and worked through a lot of self-hatred.

DP left something really naughty at my place so I texted him to let him know what I was doing with it. Trouble is it was my sister I texted….. 😱😂

Oh yeah, and anything to do with my love life 🤣

Just recently had to reorganise a big meeting online last minute. I did such a good job getting in touch with everyone and sorting. However I forgot to let one person and that person was, of course, the person travelling the furthest. They rang me asking to be let into the building. Still feel so guilty. They were lovely about it though, which somehow made it worse 😅

Getting married when I didnt want to

When I was in my first year of uni and in student halls, I had a dress in a kind of crepey material that I wanted to wear that night. My aunt advised that if I turn the shower on and hang it in there the steam will make the creases drop out.

Great. I hung the dress on the back of the bathroom door and turned the shower on. Went back to my room (which was next door) and inadvertently fell asleep. Unfortunately the plug had been in the bath and the shower had filled the bath, flooded the whole bathroom and bottom floor of the halls. Not only that but it was a city centre halls and my room was on top of a Barclays Bank and the water had started to drip into the bank.

Not my finest moment and I still cringe when I think about it! I had to ring the maintenance team for the flats and explain how it had happened… luckily no irreversible damage was done and I wasn’t fined or anything…

Cod? Actual Cod?

The single biggest mistake I ever made was moving in with my ex.

First marriage.
And second.

Not doing it again - although one resulted in my fantastic DS.

I was a bored receptionist and decided to use cleaning wipes to clean my switchboard.

Turns out I wiped the 9 button three times in a row...which I only found out about when three fire engines came screaming into the car park of the large manufacturing plant I worked at.

That was fun.

Added a £12.5m charge instead of a payment to an account at work.
luckily i noticed straight away but no doubt it will be picked up by audit 😂

I worked for a garage and managed to order the wrong car. I owned up before it arrived but it no doubt was a costly mistake. I was asked to leave but I was relieved as I bloody hated the job and the awful people

Flooded someone's garden.

I worked for a company that did remote garden watering via a web linked irrigation system. Usually there would be several 'valves' one waters the back beds, one the vegetable garden, one tops up the fountain etc.obviousky this was an expensive service and the garden in question was an estate.

It wasn't my normal job to work on this system and I was asked one day to update one of our clients accounts watering areas. Well long story short I swapped two of the valves (because I didn't know how it worked) and the fountain overflowed with a few thousand liters of water while one of the main beds got basically nothing. The client was away so this happened daily for a week or so during July so the plants were half dead and the rest of the garden was a lake.

If you are reading this former boss, I'm still really sorry. And appreciate how no-one bollocked me (somehow). I'm doing good working on my own business and staying away from people and any similar responsibility 😊.

Many many many years ago I gave all the wage cheques (cheques. That's how long ago it was) out without them having been signed. 🤦.

Filled them in, put them in the envelopes, sent them out.
None were signed. (It wasn't me who had to sign them btw. I had to make sure they were signed. )
It was horrendous all round.