Name a personal Epic Fail.

[Basement Cat]

Like most I've had to contend with mistakes I've made in the past.

One of the Biggest mistakes I ever made was not finishing graduate school--even though I'd taken all the classes I needed to graduate and had the necessary GPA as well. I walked away. Burned out and suffering from what years later was diagnosed as "severe clinical depression."

While it's nice to have an explanation for what was going on in my head at the time I nevertheless ended up with tens of thousands of dollars worth of student loads but no degree--and when I later found out that the credits were still good and I could go back and finish I was too busy taking care of family to devote the time to it.

Then it was too late to go back. Game over. No degree but lots of bills.

After years of struggle I'm finally getting my life turned around and am feeling positive for the first time in a long time.

For this thread I'm looking for EPIC fails...not two bit minor fails. Here you admit to EPIC fails the memory of which makes you cringe. Was it your love life? School? Work?

What's your Epic Fail, my fellow Escapists?


P.S. Dig my new Blinking avatar. You can thank Eleuthera for making my dark avatar creepier by animating it.

P.P.S.S. They're teeth.

 

[shrekfan246]

Well, I'm in love with someone who currently doesn't even live in the same country as me. Does that count?

Also, when I was in my second year of high school, I slipped on a patch of black ice while walking home one day. I dislocated my knee, ended up missing two weeks of school and failed a semester of Accelerated Biology that I had to make up during my senior year.

 

[The Pumpkin Witch]

I got so angry with a ex-boyfriend I that I keyed his car. Unfortunately someone at school saw me do it and reported me. I had to apologize for what I did and pay for the damages (which took me all summer). I almost got in trouble with the police! The jerk wasn't worth the trouble.

 

[Basement Cat]

Oops. I just miss posted. Talk about a minor fail. How embarrassing!

 

[SomeLameStuff]

I got so angry with a ex-boyfriend I used to have that I keyed his car. Unfortunately someone at school saw me do it and reported me. I had to apologize for what I did and pay for the damages (which took me all summer). I almost got in trouble with the police! The jerk wasn't worth the trouble.

Should have just Pumpkined his car. Would have been easier for you I think.

OT: My epic fail was when I was about 10, and I thought I could fly.

It was a very, very, VERY, painful lesson. And expensive!

 

[Shadowstar38]

I fuck a prostitute once. Then I fucking left. And she was a dude. It was awesome.

 

[Dangit2019]

I once passed out at a family party that was going pretty quiet when I fell asleep, but when I woke up, I found that it was the greatest one ever. My older sister got stitches (long story how), and my 9 year old cousin mouthed off at a police officer at Denny's at 3 AM.

And. I. Missed. It. All.

 

[White Lightning]

I fuck a prostitute once. Then I fucking left. And she was a dude. It was awesome.

Go on....

OT: I would have to say my life in general is a pretty epic fail.

 

[Basement Cat]

I fuck a prostitute once. Then I fucking left. And she was a dude. It was awesome.

It was 'awesome'? Just how drunk were you when this happened?!?

 

[Eleuthera]

The most painfull was probably as a kid, when I wanted to see if the carlighter was actually hot, so I pushed in into my thumb.

Financially I also managed to not finish my Uni education despite being really close to finishing (ending me with ~$40K in debt and without a degree)

Romantically I once managed to give a girl the wrong phonenumber, we were in a hurry (her train was coming) so I didn't get hers, but just scribbled mine down quickly. About tow weeks later (after wondering why I hadn't heard anything) I discoverd the number I gave her wasn't actually mine...

And as some of my friends would tell you my number one biggest fail was not going to see a doctor for about 8 months and ending up with stage 4 Hodgekins (Cancer).

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Heh. There was that one time a mate of mine convinced me and another friend to help him with his great plan to swindle money out of the place he worked at. We had both done a couple of microdots. Trying to commit fraud while on acid rarely goes well. Still, I met some interesting people and made a contact while I was doing community service and it got me out of jury service so it wasn't a total washout.

 

[gigastar]

Recently in Planetside 2 a slight misjudgement on altitude on my part while going in for a hot landing at... one of the watchtower facilities, cant remember which, got myself and 10 other people killed when my Galaxy crashlanded into the side of the landing pad rather than on top of it.

 

[lechat]

not quite an epic fail more of a brainfart

was riding a motorcycle when i was younger and needed to spit. done all the physics work in my head (wasn't exactly hard) and figured if i turned my head as i spat the spit would just harmlessly fly backwards leaving me relatively spit free
slight miscalculation i made was forgetting the fact i was wearing a helmet so i proceeded to splatter my faceguard and crash into a tree

 

[Not Matt]

We were cutting down a tree and it fell over and smashed my neighbor?s car. It looked like a soda can somebody had stepped on.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

When I was little(r), I wandered into the kitchen to ask what was for dinner. It smelled rather delicious but I could not identify the smell, so I was curious. My mother had some REO Speedwagon on a decently high volume and so I had to raise my voice to get her attention.

"Hey ma, whatcha cookin for dinner?"

"WHAT?"

*KLANG*

You see, in my hurried curiosity, I failed to notice she was holding the cast iron cooking pan in her hand. As she spun around to see what kid was yakkin' at her, she took the pan with her in her quarter turn. The result: a ringing headache lasted for several days, a slight dent in the back right side of my skull and a wonderful story about me being a dumbass.

But roast beef with garlic, butter and oregano was frickin' AWESOME!

Spoiler: And I know what some of you are thinking

Young male, attempted to think - please forgive this transgression upon the universe.

 

[Angie7F]

I have some awful stories about getting drunk and doing stupid things, but not much stuff I regret.
I have a tendency to climb things when drunk, so I have fallen out of windows, jumped down flights of stairs etc and woke up with a hangover, sprained ankle, scratches and bruises and chunks of meat missing from my hand/ elbow. But I had fun...

 

[Erja_Perttu]

I was only about ten at the time, and no much for thinking. I went backpacking around London with my family, but I didn't get the idea behind backpacking being 'pack as little as possible so it's light enough to carry around all day'. I thought I had to fill up the bag.

So, in the bag went two big books, an alarm clock, a dreamcatcher, a torch and beanie baby.

That was a fun, if a bit tiring, day. The look on my dad's face when we got to the hostel and I started unpacking was hilarious.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Like most I've had to contend with mistakes I've made in the past.

One of the Biggest mistakes I ever made was not finishing graduate school--even though I'd taken all the classes I needed to graduate and had the necessary GPA as well. I walked away. Burned out and suffering from what years later was diagnosed as "severe clinical depression."

While it's nice to have an explanation for what was going on in my head at the time I nevertheless ended up with tens of thousands of dollars worth of student loads but no degree--and when I later found out that the credits were still good and I could go back and finish I was too busy taking care of family to devote the time to it.

Then it was too late to go back. Game over. No degree but lots of bills.

If you finished your degree you would be calling your lack of a family your "epic fail". The "if only..." regrets we have are unbelievable stupid when you think about it.

 

[Vault101]

I am where I am today because of my own failings....

...I dont know how to feel about that

 

[Basement Cat]

If you finished your degree you would be calling your lack of a family your "epic fail". The "if only..." regrets we have are unbelievable stupid when you think about it.

Staving off the possible loss of my family is precisely why I ignored my own career. First my father required home health nursing right up until he died. Then my mother had cancer and I took care of her--pushing her to eat, drink, exercise. If I hadn't been there then there is no question on either of our minds that she would have died. There were others in the family who could have helped but they didn't realize (because they lacked my prior experience with home nursing) that you have to push invalids if they're going to recover.

No, my Fail was in completely dismissing everything else in my life while dealing with these emergencies which lasted for years. I most certainly could have made the time to attend to my finishing my degree but instead I ignored the matter entirely until it was too late.