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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Expensive ChampagneFriend of mine from work took his good wife away on a weekend in Paris. He ordered them a bottle of £70 champers which he thought was a bargain. It was only when he remarked how good value the coffee was at 50p a go that she pointed out that he had his maths wrong and the coffee was actually £5. The light bulb went on and he realised that his bargain £70 bottle had just cost him £700! He did say that he wondered why two waiters had come to the room when the bottle arrived...
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ouchit may not be huge amounts of money, but I know my personal pocket couldn't take a beating like that
painful
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 16:02,
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!I wouldn't be able to enjoy the champagne.
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 16:22,
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