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Guess who just wished their mother-in-law a happy birthday, one day and one MONTH too late?
Favorite flub-up you'd like to share? Got a great story full of so much fail? I will gift every participant one GIF, that made me think of their post, somehow.
Tags: Batman, Facepalm, Fail, GIF, Mother-in-law
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Permalink Reply by Lexi on -
I used to run errands & do chores for my ex's mom when she was out of town like taking care of her pets, cleaning the house, picking up groceries (she'd order them online, i just had to pick them up and put them away at hers) etc. So one day she asked me to drop off a $3000 cheque to the bank so that she could pay her mortgage & bills... Sure, no problem! I planned on dropping past the bank after I'd been the mall since it was on the way to lunch. While at the mall, I needed to use the loo and while in the bathroom my phone went off. I reached into my bag to grab my phone and at the same time the cheque flew into the air and straight into the flushing toilet. oops. I was almost crying when I called her to tell her what happened. She wasn't at all mad at me, but I was so embarrassed about it! She just cancelled the cheque and cashed a new one when she got home later that week.
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Permalink Reply by Erin McCarthy on -
flushing money down the toilet...you oughta be ashamed!
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Permalink Reply by Gina on -
OK, So I worked at a bank. I was a Service Manager, managing the teller line. A teller calls me over for an approval (the computer thinks something looks wrong with the transaction, so a supervisor has to look at it to make sure it's OK).
I look at the check, the customer's bank account, his ID, all with his name on it. I look up at him to talk to him for a second, and I say,
"OH, MY GOSH! I KNOW YOU!!!"*thinking he looked like a guy I knew in high school.
Never mind that I was across town, more than an hour from where we went to school together, and I just looked at every. piece. of fricking identification that had his name all over it. A name I did not, by the way, recognize at all. A name that did not belong to the person I knew in high school.
So, after this random stranger, whom I have never seen before looks at me like I am a crazy person, I hang my head in shame, approve the transaction (it really was fine, just routine stuff), and walk away.
There wasn't really anything to say after that.
*The bold font and the caps lock may make you think I yelled this phrase. And I totally did. It was quite the show stopper. I thought I had been reunited with a long-lost friend, after all.
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Permalink Reply by Gina on
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This actually is a perfect depiction of exactly what I needed right after it happened.
Thank you.
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Permalink Reply by Erin McCarthy on
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Permalink Reply by Rocket on -
I can't think of any, just because I am just lame all around, I can't distinguish one fail from another. (I think that sentence was a fail of its own). :p
Regardless, this thread is pure genius. (Disregard the oxymoron).
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Permalink Reply by Sweeney on -
My school does this "Excellence in Student Life" awards thing at the end of every school year and it's a huge deal. At the end of my senior year I won one, largely for helping to recruit new freshman / be a good team builder and all of that good stuff. Basically, we were an event planning organization and I was rewarded for being good for morale, rather than actual functional contributions to our events..
Our last event of the year was a movie on the quad, a few days after this big award business. I showed up about 15 minutes late for build, to find that only the advisor was there. I was not a films chair, so this wasn't even my event. She and I built the screen, found the pillows, the popcorn machine, the tables - legit set up the entire event. While we were waiting I found an email from a friend in the organization (who had a class, and thus, a valid reason to be late, unlike pretty much everyone else in the org) and sent him this:
"Oh. So. Alyssa showed at 7:30 and so did Tom. Cool, Tom, thanks for
arriving at your event after Cameron and I did everything. (You can't
see it but I just did the splooge in your face gesture)."Two minutes later I received a text from another friend that said, "Did you mean to send that out to the entire listserv?"
Yep. Building team morale like a pro.
And this is why reply-to-all just shouldn't exist.
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Permalink Reply by Erin McCarthy on
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Wow, 'splooge in your face' gesture was a thing at your school. I'm impressed.
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