Cardigan saga
As a teen, I washed my favorite tee shirt and hung it on the back of a kitchen chair in front of the gas fire to dry. What I failed to do was take my mom's favorite hand-knitted white cardigan OFF the back of the chair first. When I went to check some time later, to my horror, the exposed parts of the cardigan had turned a toasty brown colour.

Panicking, and clearly lacking the power of rational thought, I decided household bleach was the very thing to restore the cardigan to its original colour. Dismayed by the lack of success of this solution, but refusing to be beaten, I went and fetched some white emulsion paint from the shed and started painting over the brown bits.

When viewing the results of my endeavours, a sodden acrid garment which weighed about a stone, I decided that admitting defeat might be the best option after all and I hid the cardigan under a pile of coats under the stairs.

Later that day, I had to admit to my mom that, yes, I had seen her cardie. She pulled it, still dripping, from under the coats and I had to explain what had happened. Luckily, she was too bemused to be angry.
(druidus, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 23:55, 2 replies)

I did something similar
I was going to a job interview, borowed my mothers best black jacket, the reason I was borowing my mothers clothing is because I was jobless and penniless.

I hung the precious jacket on a kitchen chair while brushing hair, didnt want to get stray hairs all over lovely borrowed jacket.

What I didnt relise was under the chair was the washing up basin, which was filled with bleach and water for soaking manky dishcloths. Neither did I relise that also in the basin was the bottom 2 inches of the borowed jacket.

I panicked and coloured in the bleachy jacket with a felt-tip pen, went to the interview reeking of bleach. I didn't get the job and I had to tell my mother I distroyed her best jacket in the process. Fail Fail Fail.
(Free pens 100, 101, 102 is still counting on, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:26, closed)

Haha! That's failing with style!
(druidus, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 1:04, closed)