Mistakes Archives | Page 26 of 43 | Eduardo Briceño
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Dryer adventures

You may have had to be there, but we laughed a lot with this: We bought a used dryer, and then realized that we needed an adapter to plug the 3-prong electric cable to the 4-prong wall outlet.  So we went to home depot and asked for an adapter.  The …

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Don’t use the cable

Allison busted into my home office and said “I need your full attention”.  I figured I was in trouble.  Then she said: “You see this phone-charging cable?  Don’t use it because I just dropped it into the dog’s water bowl.”

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Non-sticky table

We moved into our new home and two of the first things Allison bought were no-stick cooking spray and Endust wood cleaner.  Then she proceeded to clean our whole dining room table with no-stick cooking spray.  It came out very shiny and non-sticky.  (I think it was our friend Deb, …

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Potbelly kindness

Potbelly Dude #1 asked me what I wanted.  I said I wanted a grilled chicken sandwich.  So he put it together and put it in the over.  Potbelly Dude #2 then asked me what I wanted on it, so I told him, he prepared it and gave it to me. …

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Very formal district meeting

I woke up in Baltimore today and was getting dressed for a meeting at a school district when I realized the shirt I was putting on required cufflinks, which I neither had nor found appropriate. (luckily my preference for over-packing once again came to the rescue).

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Landed. Now what?

I landed in Baltimore.  While the plane was taxing, I checked emailed, checked facebook, and then checked what car rental company I had made reservations at.  But I hadn’t made a reservation.  And I also noticed that I didn’t have a hotel room either… Expedia to the rescue. (so amazing!  …

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Wrong seat?

As we’re boarding a plane, a guy went to take his seat and someone else was seating there. They figured out that one of them was in the wrong airplane! 5 minutes later, one of the flight attendants announced: “this flight is going to Baltimore, if you’re John X, please …

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Spot It

Unbeknownst to me, 30 minutes before my flight this morning I was playing Spot It with Hayden and Keira in the South Bay, 45 minutes from the airport. I don’t know why I thought my flight was at 10am when it was at 7:30am. Oops. Extra points: when I got …

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