tell me about a time you failed at life.

laurenpm

In high school I slipped and fell on ice in front of the main building where everyone would hang out before class started.  I had a huge backpack on and I couldn't get back up so I just wiggled around like a turtle on it's shell.  Epic fail.  

midgetthemighty

Thought of another one.

I'm pretty tiny, so my friends dared me see if I could fit in one of those baby swings with the legs. I fit, I just couldn't get back out.

mob2689

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: tell me about a time you failed at life. : haha yes. CANE. and MPH.
Posted by LDYGTR13[/QUOTE]
I understood LDY :) It's sad that I read it in the context you meant it in! LOL

Beachy730

Haha LDY that's what I figured, but just checking.  

Ciaram22

I fell up the stairs at a high school football game. I smacked my nose on the concrete stairs in the grandstands and got blood on my rented $700 marching band uniform.

RobotLegs

I failed my drivers test the first time because I ran a stop sign.  Apparently, that's an automatic fail.

And stupid injury related, I fell down the stairs at a club in front of a bajillion people.  Oh!  I also fell down the stairs at a crowded movie theater- it was "Twilight" and all the teenagers laughed at me   I BROKE MY FOOT YOU JERKS!

louisvillebride21

Lets see, where to begin...

I was trying to fix my bed frame because H was coming over and we would break the bed during sessy time. I dropped everything and it ripped off my pinky finger nail mostly. Spent the night in the ER cause my mom convinced me it would get infected and make my finger fall off.

I got hit in the head and got a concussion from a water balloon fight

I almost broke  my nose twice in 30 seconds by people opening doors right in front of me and me running into them

Birdie1483

This past holiday season a couple that we are friendly with (because of having mutal couple friends) invited us to a NYE party. We'll call them the H's. They sent me a FB message, along with a bunch of other people, with the details of the party.

Well I was in another FB message convo with my friend L (who is how we met the H's) and I meant to tell her that we'd probably only go to the H's party if L and her husband, along with a few other of our couple friends went as well. Turns out I'd sent that message in the wrong FB message thread and had sent it to the H's, along with everyone else and their mom.

I felt HORRIBLE! I always try to be careful with the interwebs, but I definitely failed there.

Rosie109

I failed my learners permit test 5 times.

ggirl2001

I also have a habit of spilling things. My friend got a brand new couch. I spilled red wine on it. I was on her computer. I spilled a beer on it. I was eating ramen noodles at same friend's house, spilled it on myself. I was moving a candle that was just blown out. spilled the wax on myself. All of these occured at the same person's house. it is now the running joke that I am not allowed liquids at her house.

Learox87

when I was in middle school, I was taking a test and there was this guy who I had a crush on who kept looking at me and smiling. I was so excited! After the class, I met my best friend in the hallway, and she gasped and quickly dragged me to the ladies room. Turns out a pen had exploded ALL OVER my face, and I hadn't even noticed!!! I thought he was flirting with me, but he was laughing at me! Major fail.

mkrupar

I failed my driver's test the first time. I "failed to yield to oncomming traffic." No lady, that truck turned out of the drive the exact same time I did. She aborted the test because that's an automatic failure. Sadly I passed the maneuverability portion, which is the portion most people fail.

cengle

We had some work being done to our house when I was in high school, so we had one of those big blue dumpsters in front of the house--right next to the driveway. I wasn't paying attention one day, and backed right into it, really hard. Then, when I pulled forward, it ripped the entire bumper off my car. My boyfriend, his brother, and my brother were all in the car with me when it happened. My dad, rather than being angry with me, laughed at me.

I also must say that I'm glad that I'm not the only klutzy one around here.

crfische

OH ALEIGH. It's ok friend! IT IS OK. Is there a time period you have to wait before you can retest.

I didn't tell anyone when I was taking my licensing exams. Not even my mother. Because I didn't want to have to deal with having to tell people if I didn't pass them.

BUT ANYWAY, this one time? I was spinning around in a circle with my friend? And I fell? And a broke my arm.

Also, this one time? I teed off, and my ball HIT THE GARBAGE CAN and ended up BEHIND ME. That was awesome.

Oh OH OH! I used to have this pattern of opening a bottle of wine and SOMEHOW the cork always went INSIDE the wine. I still don't know how I managed that one.

Oh, and several times when I first moved to Fargo I found myself driving the wrong way down one way streets.

quirky75

I'm glad I'm not the only one to fail math. In college I took a somewhat basic math course and had to drop it because I fell asleep in EVERY class and had no idea what to do on a test. It wasn't even my earliest class of the day, it was at 2 PM! All I remember is I had a professor who always wore bow ties and had a big mustache and he just rambled on and on about odds using playing card examples. I had to retake the class over the summer.

Injury-related: I tore cartilage in my shoulder trying to help pull our kitchen table open to put a leaf in it and make it bigger. I had to have surgery to fix it. I had to take a few of my finals the next semester, piano and guitar (music major), because of it. My mom was so mad at me for hurting myself doing something pretty harmless...

AllAboutTheBenjamin

I failed my driver's test twice, too.

The first time, I rolled through a red light.  In my defense, I was turning right on red... but yeah, you gotta stop.

The second time was even better.  I turned the wrong way onto a four-lane highway, right as we were leaving the DMV.  The instructor immediately said "Uh, yeah, you can actually kill someone by making this mistake, so, we're going to have to go back."

I'm a better driver today.  Promise.

musicalsunlight

I'm sorry you missed that point Aleigh--but at least you know that you are so close it is very likely you will pass next time!

My failure story, that i am still kinda embarassed about:

-I had to take intro to psych statistics 3 times before I passed. The first time I dropped out right before the final because I knew I was going to flat out fail and didn't want to deal with taking it. The 2nd time, I still did all the HW and labs, did just fine on those, but tanked on the tests. I got a D or something like that. The 3rd time, I took it during the summer and had a grad student teaching who actually knew how to teach. I finally managed to pass with a B, which replaced the D on my transcript. Still though, it was a class most people had NO trouble with, so I felt bad about it.

LesPaul

I failed the CPA exam.  Six times.  Apparently it's the seventh time that's the charm.

LauraJune87

On the first day of 3rd grade, I managed to get my arm stuck in between the railing and the wall - I was leaning against the railing while we were waiting to go back to the classroom from lunch and my arm slipped down in between and I couldn't get it back out.  They had to saw off part of the railing in order to free me....

Another time (just a few weeks ago), I managed to get some pretty serious 2nd degree burns from cheese.  After a long day at work, FI made cheese queso in the crockpot.  I leaned back and caught the cord of the crockpot with my foot and knocked it over, so that spilled all over me and my new laptop...Of course, my first priority was to save the laptop (which is thankfully okay!!) and so my leg got pretty badly burned....

achiduck

I failed second-sememster first-year skills class when I was in University. Twice.

EDIT: I was in the music program and I just couldn't develop that inner ear enough to pass.

SilverLining1

My failure stories: 

First, in 3rd grade, I was testing out my new fishing rod, and thought it would be a great idea to try casting it out of sliding glass doors on the second floor of my house. A deck was being built, but it wasn't there yet. So I cast the rod, and fell out of the doors head first. I was in a body brace from my hips to my chin with casts on both arms. The kids at school named a new playground game after me. They called it "zombie".

The second was in eighth grade. I heard Santa coming down the street on a fire truck, so I ran out to see him. I tripped on my pants and landed on my shoulder. I snapped my humerus in half and had ot have it in a sling for months.

I hope you feel better. Good luck next time!

anayajami

I have been nothing but a failure since I met my FI. We met at work, he was my immediate supervisor. We hid it pretty well for about 6 months then everyone started gossiping. One snipy lil b*itch wanted to call corporate and get him fired, so I decided to quit. Well that was November of last year. I say I'm looking for a job but so far I haven't found one. I actually like being a stay at home mom. I have two kids ages 8 and 9. Well he has lots of bills and so far I haven't contributed anything to them..I feel awful, I've never been like this. I promise myself and him that things are going to be different soon and I will be more productive.

larzhope

in high school I totaled my car turning into the high school.... I was "that girl" that backed traffic up for miles.  and the accident was totally my fault, turning left on yellow assuming on-coming truck would stop (he didnt).

Most recently, i was at a team meeting, had to pee so went into the ladies restroom... except for woops it was the mens, and I didn't put two and two together until I saw a man in the stall (wtf were there no urinals is what I'd like to know) and of course it was a co-worker that I knew...