People Share The Biggest Mistakes Of Their Lives
We all make mistakes. We're only human, after all. If we're lucky, a mistake might lead to nothing more than some embarrassment and an absolutely hilarious story—but of course, that isn't always the case.
Sometimes, a tiny error can completely blow up in your face, and all you can do is face the music. From the silly to the terrifying to the tragic, read on for the internet's best stories of when things go awry.
1. Talk About a Hot Ride
Worked at Circuit City circa 2005 installing car audio. One of my co-workers put a satellite radio in a brand-new BMW but apparently wired something wrong and the car burned to the ground. Oops!
2. Koala Love
My mum cut out an article in our local newspaper, then phoned me up to say that she had seen me in the paper and will show it to me when I see her next.
Turns out she cut-out a picture of DAVE GROHL holding a koala at a zoo and thought it was me.
3. Dearest Ex Wife
I used to work at a call center for a popular gift company. This one couple calls up and says "we need to cancel our order!" I look it up, and tell them UPS already has the order to deliver it. They tell me, "You don't understand. We are sending this to our son and his wife. We accidentally put his ex wife's name on the card. It will ruin Christmas if they receive this gift!!!" I was finally able to call UPS and get them to not deliver the package. Not my screw up, but dang.
4. Someone’s Work Performance Smells Fishy
I worked in a salmon processing plant in Alaska. There was a dude in his mid-20s who had worked there before, so they assigned him to run the holding tanks. The tanks were two huge (like three stories tall) tanks that stored the fish from the boats.
One day, the dude thought he had drained both tanks of all the fish, so they called it a day.
We didn't work with fresh fish for two days, when we got back it smelt like death. Turns out he hadn't drained one of the tanks, so the fish sat in lukewarm water for three days. He destroyed about 500,000 lbs of salmon.
After that, he worked in the gutting section.
