Have You Ever Messed Up With The Best Intentions?

[Nicolette]

Okay...I am in the sh*t. With the best intentions this morning I thought I would do a female version of vacuuming and get the little nozzle out around the office for the stray staples etc.

Well.....I then decided to dust and wiped over the router and speaker with a cloth - didn't move a thing. Seems things are against me right now as somehow I knocked out all the internet and now am in the bad books!!! :rolleyes:

Just to top it off...a cyclist ran into the back of our new car last week and then I scratched a rim...I think I need to go hide. :crazy:

 

[Farine]

Erm, um... yeah! I've done this. It's unclear if hearing about someone else's awkward moments will improve yours, but hey! Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

It seemed prudent of me to clean the area around his desk that had gotten six inches deep with receipts, old cigarette boxes, tiny crumbs and left over fast food wrappers. Unbeknownst to me, there was a post it note. This post it note had the activation code for the operation system that he wanted to install. He wasn't worried about finding the original box because he knew he had the post it note near his computer. Hm... we did find it. I had to go BACK through the trash and look for a tiny orange piece of paper.

To complete the story was the illustrious ending:
"And that is why I don't move things around my COMPUTER!!!!!!"
*bows*

 

[Nicolette]

:wink:

. It's unclear if hearing about someone else's awkward moments will improve yours, but hey! Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Hi Farine...the thought was to share our stuff ups to have a laugh and make each other feel better

 

[anni]

Hahaha! Yes, and Farine, at least you don't throw things away! Our computer areas are SO cluttered I'll just haul off and have a good binge. Then my husband, who appears to have some psychic connection to every scrap of crumpled, scrawled on paper will say 'Babe, have you seen xyz?'. He of course knows exactly where xyz went, even if I wasn't wearing the deer in the headlights face.

I don't know how to dust anything around the whole internet/computer/router area without knocking out the dam internet so am kind of forbidden.

You lot are hysterical. :)

 

[Grama-Herc]

While I appreciate the concept of sharing space with another person, or trying to help and of course the "deer in headlights" impression, it is really bad when you do this to Yourself!!!!!!!!

 

[Farine]

When you have small, mobile units.. aka children.. the game gets ever so much more interesting. Somehow, I'm responsible for what they do too. SInce they are presumably cleaning their room and therefore not paying attention, I shall tell a small tale on them.

My oldest, now 11, decided to 'help' by making breakfast for her sister. Since it was to be a surprise and I was still sleeping, she got out the eggs and bread to make toast. However, she is a perfectionist. So when the egg yolk got broken.. it was discarded. The next one broke too. *toss*.. and the next one *toss* Finally, the last few eggs worked. Good. They had breakfast.

I got up in the morning to see nine broken eggs in the trash bin.

*clicks the send button quickly so they don't see this post!!!*

 

[amethist]

I am always picking pieces of paper and letter up, holding the ones I need to keep in my hand. Then throw them away, without thinking. Just did that the other week, I was supposed to keep a new letter that confirmed how much benefit's my husband is getting now, but kept the old one and threw the new one away.

Not sure how I'm going to tell him, he thinks I have put it away safe, too safe to find. So now I have to try and get a copy, as we need it to apply for something else.

Not only that I now have to explain some how, why one of the benefits has not come through yet, because I threw it away.

Amethist

 

[Deleted member 541]

Nicolette, you have just explained most of my life... LOL!!!!!!!!! I have the good intentions, but it always turns to shit.....

 

[blackemerald1]

Yep been there and done that! The most damage I did however was simply to sit down. I was in a large department store and 9 months pregnant, my cousin was with me and well I was sooo tired, my legs ached so I saw a beautiful plumped up lounge which was for sale of course and decided to go and sit on it. I thought nobody would mind afterall, nobody buys a lounge without sitting in them first. Though I did not have a dollar on me, I reasoned the shop attendents would not know that. So I plonked myself, perhaps a bit too heavily on it, suddenly it took off backwards, knocking down beautiful crystal ware, vases & flowers & small tables and mirrors and well lets just say a lot more. Attendents ran from everywhere, I was um just speechless, I didn't know it had rollers on it. Oooooh the noise of the breaking glasses as the damage continued to topple art, kitchen ware, the lounge stopped but the devastation behind me kept crashing down, my cousin came running as did the rest of the multi-story building occupants (I am exagerating here but it felt like it). So, as the Manager made his way towards me with a ruthless look on his face, I thought now is a good time to have a bad contraction, I should have won an Academy award. They almost called the ambulance but I rolled off the couch onto the floor and 'gratefully' accepted a hand up and shuffled out....mentioning that maybe I was in labour. Well apart from the utter silence from the crowd, everyone disapeared at the notion of baby coming NOW..... I truly did thousands of dollars of damage lol and had my son THREE weeks later. Does that count for good intentions gone wrong?
Blackemerald1

 

[Nicolette]

I have the good intentions, but it always turns to shit.....

Funny (in the nicest sense) Wendy ;)

 

[rjtransient]

Unbeknownst to me, there was a post it note. This post it note had the activation code

Heh heh. I like this thread.

I've been called 'Midas in reverse'.

Um, I've caused a few power failures. I guess there's also the incident from May 2009. I finally finished organizing my music collection and moving it into a new folder. 22,000 files, a lot of it ripped from vinyl or CDs that I'd long since given to the Salvation Army. I'd been using that same computer since... maybe 2003, so I had quite the collection. I was thinking, "This stuff is pretty outdated. I don't listen to most of these groups anymore. I feel like deleting everything and starting over."

The next day, I decided to defragment the hard drive and get rid of unnecessary programs. I uninstalled RealPlayer, which was clogging up the CPU. Then the screen froze. Ctrl-Alt-Delete: nothing. I pulled the power cord and rebooted in Safe Mode. Then I went to System Restore to reset the computer to an earlier time point. When Windows loaded, nothing froze, but my music folder was missing (because I'd recently renamed it).

I rebooted again in Safe Mode. I navigated to System Restore. Popup window: System Restore has been disabled. Would you like to enable it?

I phoned a data recovery technician. He came over with his software, toyed around a bit, and commented (45 minutes later), "There is something seriously wrong with your C: drive."

Half an hour later: "I will not allow myself to be beaten by a machine!"

We eventually managed to get a few of my files back. And I did say that I had been thinking about deleting everything and starting over. . . I had plenty of free hard drive space after that!

 

[anni]

I didn't keep thanking people just bcause I'm laughing way too hard, a good belly laugh has been therapeutic this morning of all mornings, so thanks!!! This thread is awesome, everyone. Good Lord, GH, doing it to yourself- I was in hysterics. RJ, if there's such a thing as little dam poltergeist they are alive and well and have taken up abode in computers where they've never had so much fun ever on the planet!