Cyborg Ninja

I hate people who never admit they made a mistake. I had an ex like this. I shared a secret with him, and he ended up telling someone else. I confronted him about it, and he said "Well you never told me not to tell anyone." It was not ambiguous material. Quite disgusting to see such behavior in an adult. And the worst thing is, he prided himself on his obnoxious self-righteousness.

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Daniel_

Just for the record, what was the secret?

My biggest mistake? Probably my first wife...

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Crack

Recently, while installing a NAS in the tiny little cramped server room, I pulled a cat-5 cable, and brought down the entire network at my work. I didn't "fess up" to shit.. haha, must have been a power failure...

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*Nikki*

Crack there is no way in hell I would have "fessed up" to that either!!

I guess the biggest mistake I have made professionally was I realized one day at work that for weeks I had been double vaccinating cats with Distemper rather then giving them a Distemper AND a Rabies. Someone put the vials in the wrong place and I never checked to make sure I had the right ones. I did fess up to it. Man was that a big deal!! Imagine telling people you vaccinated their pets WRONG and had to re-do it!!

Martian

A minute ago I grabbed an Asus instead of an Emin, which would have been embarrassing if there'd been anyone around to hear. That's the only mistake I can come up with at the moment; I don't dwell on these things.

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Willravel

2by2.net was a massive mistake. Back in my more innocent years, I was naive to what multi level marketing and pyramid schemes were.

I was deliberately lied to about the nature of the business, ended up paying $300 to start working form them and the first thing they asked for was a list of the phone numbers of everyone I knew. I stalled on that point, but they still convinced me to recruit other people into the 'business'. My handler, the person who brought me in, was brainwashed thoroughly and because I was surrounded by other brainwashed people it was difficult to tell. I knew something was wrong, but couldn't put my finger on it.

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inBOIL

I changed the water in my fishbowl and forgot to dechlorinate the new water. I went back and saw my fish lying on its side on the bottom. Luckily he recovered after I fixed the mistake.

Plan9

Jesus H. Christ:

*claps hands over face* Aaah, I died for the sins of all humanity!

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When I was in Afghanistan... I kept telling my squad leader that I didn't have this particular hand grenade. Whole damn year I'd forgotten about the thing. The last day of the deployment... I found that crafty sumbitch in one of my backpacks next to some girly magazines and a meatloaf MRE. Hahaha! Kaboom!

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Daniel_

A handgrenade in your backpack?

Was it armed?

** runs to the hills **

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Cyborg Ninja

Interesting stories, but I'm talking about fessing up once you've been caught instead of trying to place blame on the person you wronged.

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Willravel

I take responsibility for my actions.

pig

so is this thread an exhortation for other members to step forward and make their mea culpas, or a rant about your ex? saying 'i'm sorry' is so powerful; you no longer can be controlled by your guilt.

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Menoman

When I make a mistake I'll let you guys know.

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analog

I will always admit to something I've done. It would have to be something of literal life and death consequences to not admit to it. Few people will believe that, as it seems to be human nature to deceive/lie and to then cover it up and not admit to it.

That being said, this has nothing to do with things that would implicate others. I hold the secrets of another person as tightly as they do.

When it concerns me personally, however, I'm an open book. A great feeling in life is knowing that there's nothing to hide. I've done just as many bad things as anyone else, and I feel just as bad or disgraced for them as anyone else- but they don't own me. No information owns me.

QuasiMondo

Was at a cell site that sits on top of a retirement home. Door too the roof has a big warning: DOOR IS ALARMED. I don't bother to call the super, and I'm curious to see if the alarm really works. Most sites have the door alarm, but the batteries in them are dead.

I give it a slight tap. So far so good. I try a bit more, nothing. A little bit more and the most ear-splitting shriek comes from the alarm. So I did the most wrongest thing I could do.

I ran.

Head nurse comes running out, thinking some old person with Alzheimer's wandered onto the roof, I act like I'm looking for the maintenance man. Police arrive. Fire department arrives later. Big scene, accountability check for all residents, the whole time I stay mum about the whole thing.

Lucklyy for me, it wasn't one of my regular sites, and I haven't been back there since.

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ngdawg

Once you've been caught, only stupidity and/or total oblivion to one's own actions would have one not fess up. Only Alzheimer's patients and babies are exempt.

I understand what you're asking..like the physical abuser who says he had no choice because he/she was made to hit.
Situations may cause one to react less than stellarly, but blaming it on someone else is a sure sign of arrested development.

ItWasMe

I was going to say that I always admit my mistakes, but then I remembered this one time...it was also in my journal....

Years ago, when I was still married to my ex-husband, I used to like him. I decided to make him breakfast in bed one morning. I padded into the kitchen quietly while he was sleeping and got a pot of coffee started. I grabbed two eggs out of the carton and put them on the counter. Heaved the iron pan onto the stove and turned it on. Oiled pan. Reached for the eggs. They weren't there. I looked up and down that counter for them. Nothing. I double checked the carton, and there were two missing (there had been a full dozen). So I hadn't dreamt taking them out. I checked the floor to see if they'd rolled off the counter. Nope. There was nothing on the floor...except...his army boots. Sitting upright. Below the edge of the counter, where the eggs had been.

I leaned over the boots and peered into the first one. Everything looked ok. I looked in the second one. Yep, there they were. Broken. I picked up the boot and dumped the contents into the garbage. After wiping the inside of the boot with a paper towel, it still felt kind of sticky.

I glanced at the kitchen doorway to make sure I wasn't being watched. Filling the boot with nice, hot soapy water in the kitchen sink, I scrubbed it with an SOS pad thoroughly. Twice. I couldn't seem to get it dry enough, though. It still felt a bit slimy and, well, WET on the inside. Maybe he wouldn't notice.

After finishing his breakfast that I eventually cooked, my ex husband sat down to put on his boots. He had to head out the door to work. At the army. Soon. He put on one boot. Didn't wince or anything. Laced it up. So far so good. It was when he put the second boot on that we ran into a bit of a 'snag.' He closed his eyes and stood up. The boot made an interesting noise when he took a step.

"Any idea why my boot is wet?" he asked me.

I had a 'kitkat' moment and shoved the rest of my toast into my mouth. I shrugged my shoulders. "Must have been the cat," I said. And I headed towards the shower.

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I bake cookies just so I can lick the bowl. ~ ItWasMe

Plan9

HAHAHAH... excellent!

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genuinegirly

ItWasMe, that story made me laugh!!

Seems a quick, "Hey, my fault, I'm sorry," makes things run much smoother in just about any situation.

Didn't see this reality so clearly until this semester. One of the guys on the study abroad, every time something goes wrong, he stands up and details how he might be responsible. He always manages to make some of the most frustrating moments into something to laugh about.

"Arg. No more spoons. I really wanted a spoon for my soup. I'm so hungry!"
"Sorry, man, I was sitting by the dock eating my cereal the other morning and I think I may have left one out there. Dude, I'm so sorry. Don't know where it could be."

Then another of our guys stands up and confesses something completely bogus, "Oh, wow! You needed those? I built a fort out of them yesterday in the sand a mile down the road. It was low tide then. I'm sure they're gone now."

Turns into a laughing riot of increasingly extreme confessions of imagined sins. Good fun.

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Cyborg Ninja

That's hilarious, Genuinegirly. Very creative. This is off-topic, but it's another joke among friends. Sometimes we'll make a fake (or real) quote and assign some well-known person to it. Like... "I hate myself and I want to die" - Jesus

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