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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FORMER TRAIN DRIVERNot me but a local part-time labour councellor who was also a train driver. One day coming up to a West Lothian railway station he had an hour to wait while he had his lunch. He wandered into a field and ate his sarnies - sadly for him his parked (? does one park a train?) train was too close to the level crossing that blocked the main road. For an hour no car could get over a very busy main albeit rural road - tailbacks, bad tempers and the soon after sacking of said train driver.
He became a full time councillor after that. We do indeed get the politicians we deserve....
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 14:10, Reply)
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