Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Not meBut I went to New York about ten years ago with a few friends. It happened to be the first time any of us had been to America and we were enjoying ourselves in the various restaurants and clubs of an evening, and one such night we caught a taxi back to our hotel afterwards.
As the guy took us up to the aforementioned hotel, it also came to paying up time. Charlie offered to foot the bill, and promptly did so. 10 dollars for the ride wasn't much after all.
It was about three seconds after the taxi drove off that Charlie realised he had paid with a hundred dollar bill, not a ten. Those damn American notes all looked so similar. The worst thing is he had even tipped the guy as well.
With another hundred.
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 17:43, 2 replies)
DesignThey kind of look the same if you ignore the pictures writing and numbers, well the size is the same and they are mostly green I suppose.
(, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 21:04, closed)
Absolutely.However being a tourist, and used to money that looks completely different which is even a different size, suddenly thrust into dealing with notes which are (were - they've changed now I understand) all the same colour, same size, and same style was poor Charlie's downfall.
(, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 21:36, closed)
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