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To ask you about big fuck ups you’ve made

56 replies

Cod · 11/08/2024 18:04

Lost passports / wrong texts/ unprotected sex

we are HERE for you! Everyone makes mistakes - share yours in this judgment free (stares) space.

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merrywidow · 11/08/2024 20:10

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

OldTinHat · 11/08/2024 20:10

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.

HarliLane · 11/08/2024 20:11

OldTinHat · 11/08/2024 20:10

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.

That made me really laugh!

Wakemeup17 · 11/08/2024 20:20

OldTinHat · 11/08/2024 20:10

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.

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

peasepudding · 11/08/2024 20:28

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

CountessWindyBottom · 11/08/2024 20:34

Cod · 11/08/2024 18:06

Oh I posted about a party once

And the person saw it. Was BADDD

Do tell......

Sounds to me like your mining for content for something.

MissMoan · 11/08/2024 20:38

Tarquina · 11/08/2024 20:08

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.

@Tarquina so very sorry you had to deal with this. I am so glad you managed to free yourself from his awfulness. Hugs

Nextdoor55 · 11/08/2024 20:57

I had a party in the 1980's & it got out of control. Ended up on the local news because someone had thrown the toilet out of the window 😂 they didn't have much to report in them days.
I also once took a wee behind a car in a pub car park (was very dark) car drove off 😂 whoops

Nextdoor55 · 11/08/2024 21:03

Oh & left the water on for a bath, only noticed when it was coming through the ceiling where I was sat painting nails.
We claimed for new ceiling etc on insurance. Then low & behold within two weeks I did it again. Haven't done it since though.

Original poster
Cod · 11/08/2024 21:19

@CountessWindyBottom I’m not mining for content. I read that thread about somebody who had not got a passport to go on holiday holiday and people were talking about the fuck ups they had done.

OP posts:
CountessWindyBottom · 11/08/2024 21:42

Cod · 11/08/2024 21:19

@CountessWindyBottom I’m not mining for content. I read that thread about somebody who had not got a passport to go on holiday holiday and people were talking about the fuck ups they had done.

What's your story about the party?

Tarquina · 12/08/2024 00:59

I have another one that was really scary.

I put six eggs on to boil at 6am Sunday morning whilst getting ready to go swimming.

An hour later, in the pool, I suddenly remembered the eggs. You never saw anyone swim so fast to the edge, climb out and run to the locker room. I was literally shaking with panic, certain that my house was on fire and my three housemates probably dead.

Phoned boyfriend, who had a house-key. He dashed from his bed to his motorbike and sped to my house like a rocket. ONLY TO FIND a housemate had got up early, found the eggs boiling like crazy and me nowhere to be found, and had switched off the gas!

FerreroFan · 12/08/2024 22:08

Tarquina · 11/08/2024 20:08

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.

Well done for getting out of that situation. It sounds terrifying!

PandaChopChop · 12/08/2024 22:20

ExH bought a new car. I took the children on holiday in the first week of owning it. Scraped the front bumper on a large rock in a car park (that I knew was there and purposely tried to avoid!)

Recently bought a new (to me) car. Had stuff strapped onto roof. Forgot about it. Went under a low barrier........ stuff wrecked. Nice gouge down the middle of the car roof.

Many of mine involve new cars actually (although I have never once had an accident involving anyone else)... maybe there's a theme there 🙄

Bettedaviseyes111 · 12/08/2024 22:25

Ha! It’s nice to have a lighthearted thread for once.

I have made many a fuck up but most recent was driving into the front of my parents house yesterday… I don’t think they were impressed with the damaged bricks … bad times 😂

planAplanB · 12/08/2024 22:27

Lost a whole bunch of mock GCSE exam papers.

CobaltQueen · 12/08/2024 22:31

Also accidentally set off a fire alarm. Was demonstrating to a child I was with how you would press it (So hovered my hand over it) and it must have a sensitive sensor as it rang and a whole leisure centre had to be evacuated.

brightonrock123456789 · 12/08/2024 22:31

I have adhd and forgot to goto a dear friends wedding last week as I hadn’t written it down

Punkrockprincess · 12/08/2024 22:45

Tisfortired · 11/08/2024 19:49

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…

But did the creases drop out the dress?

lifeuniverseeverything · 12/08/2024 23:00

Work in HR. A very senior leader in the organisation thought he was underpaid. He raised a complaint about this every 6 months or so resulting in us having to provide all the external market data and the internal comparator data that proved he was in fact well paid.

By the 4th time of doing this I was grumpy. The emails were between myself and the HR manager supporting him. He had a very unusual name so I typed it into the cc box to check the spelling, then went into detail about how this was a waste of time, he needed to be managed better, he was in fact slightly overpaid and someone needed to have a frank conversation with him before I wasted any more time. I may have used the word "whiny".

Obv I pressed send with him cc'd in.

I RAN to his admin to ask her to delete it but he'd opened it by then. Got a nominal bollocking from my boss who was trying not to laugh and we never heard from Mr entitled again!

Outthereandcold · 12/08/2024 23:03

Huge amounts, but none that I would share with the op

Outthereandcold · 12/08/2024 23:03

Wake up folks…. See it before much

Blackcats7 · 12/08/2024 23:09

I have made so many mistakes but one that was very annoying but at least not life changing was that when I moved into my present home. The previous owners had “kindly” left all sorts of tat they thought I might like. I got rid of it all and amongst the truly bizarre clown ornaments etc were several little freestanding plastic boxes which showed the temperature.
I thought they were just some weird thing the old owners had liked and sent them to the charity shop with the rest of the stuff.
When winter arrived I could not work out how to turn the central heating on and it was then I found out that the system worked with these little remote sensor boxes so I had got rid of a vital part of the controls. I had to track down and buy replacements before I could warm the house up.
I was so cross with myself.

ArdMhaca · 12/08/2024 23:14

Forgot to renew house insurance.

also forgot to extinguish a candle in my kitchen and off I went to bed. Woken by smoke alarms.

was an expensive mistake albeit could have been a lot worse

ILoveToCleanSaidNooneEver · 12/08/2024 23:17

When pissed, I once updated my Facebook profile to tell all my friends and family that they were a bunch of c for eating animals. I still stand by my comment, but I deleted Facebook and decided it wasn't the correct platform for me 🤣.