The Mea Culpa Thread

[Deleted member 26715]

Put the clocks forward instead of back, or was that back instead of forward? (I can never work it out, why can't they just leave it alone), all I know is when we tried to go shopping nowhere was open as we were early.

 

[ColinJ]

I once turned up for work, opened the office up and got everything ready for the start of the week........onto realise about 30 minutes later that it was a Bank Holida6y Monday and ethe office was closed that day.

Yep - been there, done that, and banged on the door for 15 minutes wondering why nobody would unlock the door to let me in!

Yesterday, I composed a long message to a friend explaining why I was cancelling our get-together today (due to ice on the roads) and then... emailed it to myself!

 

[Dirk]

^^^^^^^

That's odd the way the quote has been corrupted.

 

[Tin Pot]

I once booked a days leave. I then turned up for work on autopilot like a twot. My staff thought that was brilliant.

That farking hilarious

 

[Bazzer]

Had been on a work course requiring me to travel to Birmingham at least one day every week for 12 months. Those of us on the course decided at the end and with exams out of the way, we would have a day/night on the razzle at Blackpool, ( which was conveniently central for travelling for all of us from around the country). I turned up a week early and had to hastily arrange a day in Blackpool for Mrs B and child 2.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Lecturing on two different course modules on two different days on two different sites, days and sites swopped over half way through the term.
I didn't ........... I forgot

 

[Paulus]

I once booked a days leave. I then turned up for work on autopilot like a twot. My staff thought that was brilliant.

I turned up at work at 6.00am on a sunday morning, the weather was freezing and I rode my motorbike in, only to told by the govenor that I was on leave. I had booked the day off and forgotten all about it. Rode home even colder and went back to bed.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Shortly after my kid sister was born I was left babysitting her but had to go down the street to the butcher's. So I got her in the pram, toddled off to the butcher and left her parked outside. Got the sausages and toddled off home. Half an hour later my mum came home and asked if I'd got the sausages.

"Yup" said 16 year old me, showing I could be trusted with tasks.

"Where's your sister?"

You know that panic-filled feeling when your stomach falls out your arse?

Ran down the road and there she was, still outside the butcher's but with an array of cooing women saying how bonny she was. Made it back up the road to find the added bonus of about £5 in silver tucked into the pram

 

[screenman]

Took my son to a 4.45am swim session miles from home, only for him to remember it was cancelled.

 

[pplpilot]

I once flew to Detroit for a 3 day meeting/course a month early...

 

[screenman]

Reported a car nicked from one of my sites, only for the local plod to pop in a few months later to report they have found it. This just happened to be the same place I had parked it when short of space months earlier.

 

[Hacienda71]

Once missed a connecting flight to Gatwick despite having plenty of time to spare. Bought a flight to Heathrow against the advice of the staff on the desk, got on five minutes before it took off via a back door in the terminal, then had a very expensive taxi ride around tbe M25 to Gatwick to make the flight to Sao Paulo.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I once flew to Detroit for a 3 day meeting/course a month early...

Please say it was your plane though.

 

[screenman]

When we bought our first house I spent the first evening stripping wallpaper off of the wall I took out the next day.

 

[Dave 123]

As a student in Reasheath college in Nantwich, 7 or 8 members of my course went off to Manchester to see The Stranglers. A journey of about 30 miles.

They were back in an hour and a half.

The Stranglers HAD played...... the night before.