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coopsweb 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".

(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Bond...
James Bond boxset £119.99

Ordered from web and delivered to wrong address due to my illiterate fat fingers.

House holders refused to send it on as P&P would be too much (obviously I'd offered to pay!!!)

Don't pass through Ullapool often.

Positively shocking.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 12:40, 5 replies)
I can sympathise
Due to a combination of fat handedness and general tiredness induced stupidity, I typed in the wrong address to my fed ex account which resulted in an hour long screaming match with the delivery driver about why my incredibly precious, very very unstable biological samples which were being shipped at immense cost were now sat in a depot in Illinois, defrosting.

I'm a liability.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 13:58, closed)
But Ullapool is a great little town!
It's worth the mistake just to give you an excuse to visit surely?
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 14:35, closed)
Ullapool?
I live there and want the boxset!!! Tell me who and I'll bully them for it...
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 15:21, closed)
I was in Ullapool
on my way to Stornoway a couple of winters back. After a snowy journey from Inverness, we arrived at the town boundary, where a sign proclaimed, "Welcome to Ullapool".

My mate Iain, who was driving, said with a wry chuckle, "Aye, ye're fucking welcome to it!"

Also, there's a chippy across from the CalMac pier which has signs up to say "Good fish isn't cheap" and "Cheap fish isn't good".

Fair enough. But theirs was neither good nor cheap.

I love this new reply feature. I can write utter crap and get away with it.

[waits for flak]

(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 15:39, closed)
Buying a Bond boxset
is a waste of money in itself.

As soon as the next film comes out it will render your boxset incomplete and the idividual films stacked next to it will make your shelf look silly.
(, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 11:49, closed)

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