Asha Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 I want a topic on mistakes. We all make them, right? So what's the biggest mistake you've made at work, or in your private life? What were the consequences, how did you get over it, and how did you learn from it for the future?
DB11 Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 I once gave a penalty that player reaction and going over it again in my head told me that it was never a penalty. In the same game I then didn't give that team a stonewall penalty to try and even it up. The remainder of the game went by very slowly, my credibility had been ruined and every decision I gave was being challenged and met with dissent from both sides. I learnt that when refereeing two wrongs don't make a right and I have since never tried to even up a bad decision. This occurred in my first year of being a referee.
David Guiza Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 When I was about 16/17, me and a couple of mates set off a fire extinguisher at a gig in Sumo on Braunstone Gate. No idea why; ended up being locked in the owners room with two of the biggest blokes i've ever seen and threatened with the police until we paid £200 for a replacement. Looking back i'm fairly certain it would cost nowhere near that, but quarralling the price of a fire extinguisher wasn't top of our priorities at the time. Paid the £200 and I've since completed a law degree and work in the legal field, a reformed man .
bovril Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 I joined young CAMRA at Uni and went to one meeting, it was a bunch of weirdos in trench coats talking about the 'Underworld' films.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 The woman of my dreams basically turned up at my house completely unexpectedly and in a roundabout awkward way asked me out, and then in a roundabout awkward way I completely failed to do anything with it. In some ways the most exciting thing that ever happened to me, and in others the biggest disaster. This was a LONG time ago
johnny the fox Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 I want a topic on mistakes. We all make them, right? So what's the biggest mistake you've made at work, or in your private life? What were the consequences, how did you get over it, and how did you learn from it for the future? I stood as a guarantor for somebodies loan, cost me nearly three grand. one of many mistakes.
Nalis Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 Don't know if defined as a mistake or not but I moved from Northern Ireland to Dublin about 5 and a half year ago for a job and fast realised that it was the first time in my life I needed to make an effort to make friends. Got lazy and didn't do anything about it and just relied on housemates and workmates who were nice but weren't the type I could go for a drink with or talk shit to. I really disliked the place as a result and just got into a rut of not bothering to socialise in Dublin or make an effort, and took the easy way out and just kept going back to Northern Ireland to hang out with my existing friends instead of embracing this new exciting city. Only did something about 3 years into it and moved to a new area of Dublin more suited to who I am, join a couple of common interest clubs (pool clubs, etc), and a more social house which I needed at the time and everything changed for the better. Ended up moving to London for work about 6 months later and took on board my experiences of Dublin and settled a lot quicker as a result.
Footballwipe Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 The biggest cringe mistake of my life was when I was 13. We were talking about a moral dilemma. Who do you save in a fire a baby or an old man in a wheelchair if you could only save one. I put my hand up to say you should save the baby because the man is old. Instead, inexplicably, and to this day I don't know why, my mouth came out with "save the baby because the man is in a wheelchair." Cue the most popular girl in my year going absolutely ballistic because her sister was in a wheelchair. Again, why I said that I'll never know because the wheelchair made no difference to me at the time. I felt utterly humiliated and embarrassed. Deservedly so. Definitely (sort of) learnt to engage brain properly before opening mouth in a public place. Made plenty of more personal mistakes in the more recent years but any anonymity I have on here would be put at risk listing them. Love these type of threads though!
Mike Oxlong Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 Getting a girl too drunk when she'd come round to mine to watch some filth.
Alf Bentley Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 Getting a girl too drunk when she'd come round to mine to watch some filth. I'm sure Muttley snickered when you wrote that...
Mike Oxlong Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 I'm sure Muttley snickered when you wrote that... Ha ha! I was hoping to be more Dick Dastardly. At the moment putting my fly hole trunks on back to front is about as exciting as it gets
kingcarr21 Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 Fancied the pants off this girl at school. We were really good friends and used to meet up after school. Me being a very shy lad i never made a move. Group of us met up one weekend and she brought a friend along. She was quite fit and seemed to really like me. Ended up getting with her mate. Then go on to find out that the girl i really liked was gonna ask me out that night but her friend ruined it and she hated me after that. Oh well. I made another mistake which i didnt realise until after id done it. Been friends with a girl for years but always saw her as a friend and never looked at her in a sexual way as we had grew up together. After GCSE's we went to Leicester College and got quite close. I liked her but didnt think she felt the same way. During this time another girl had been texting me but it wasnt anything serious. Anyway it was my cousins 18th Birthday party and this other girl had said im gonna find a quiet spot for us tonight. I didnt think anything of it and i spent the whole night with the girl i was going college with. She was sat on my knee when i get a tap on my shoulder from behind a curtain. I get up and go behind curtain to find the other girl. We have a touch and a feel. I go back to my seat to find the girl who i actually liked with a face of thunder. It was at this very moment i realised that she felt the same way about me. Couple of weeks later and after us texting eachother our feelings i asked her out. That was 11 years ago. She is now my wife and we have 2 beautiful children together. Now the funniest thing about it is the girl who i was with behind the curtain is now a lesbian. So whenever this story comes up in conversation my wife always likes to say that i made her turn into a lesbian.
Unabomber Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 Turning down a taxi ride with Pearson to the ground as I wanted to go to the pub.
ousefox Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 I turned down an offer at Durham to go to Newcastle for some reason. Hated uni at Newcastle and left after a year to go to Sheffield. Worked out well as I love uni here, but still wonder how different I'll turn out for making that decision.
Kinowe Soorie Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 Turning down a taxi ride with Pearson to the ground as I wanted to go to the pub. James?
Kinowe Soorie Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 James? Can't believe I wasted my 500th post on that!?
bovril Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 My old man said be a Spurs fan.... but I chose Leicester instead. That wasn't a mistake though, probably the best decision of my life.
Kinowe Soorie Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 My old man said be a Spurs fan.... but I chose Leicester instead. That wasn't a mistake though, probably the best decision of my life. My old man said be a Forest fan... Didn't really!! He's a Leicester fan also
ScouseFox Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 My old man said be a Spurs fan.... but I chose Leicester instead. That wasn't a mistake though, probably the best decision of my life. haha i was coming in here to say supporting leicester when i could've been a liverpool fan but shit happens dont it
Unabomber Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 James? Can't believe I wasted my 500th post on that!?
Kinowe Soorie Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 Pissing about at school. Should have just put me on a building site aged 11.
Guest Kopfkino Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 I turned down an offer at Durham to go to Newcastle for some reason. Hated uni at Newcastle and left after a year to go to Sheffield. Worked out well as I love uni here, but still wonder how different I'll turn out for making that decision. What posessed you to turn down Durham for Newcastle?
MooseBreath Posted 3 March 2015 Posted 3 March 2015 No mistakes really. Plenty of decisions which I might have made differently with the benefit of hindsight, but if a decisions seems correct at the moment you make it then I ain't gonna be having no regrets you feel me?
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