Can everyone please share some of their worst failures?

I once got into the wrong car on my way out of the mall and my brother & his girlfriend saw it.

Well, assuming this was at work - keep in mind that no matter how good we do at our job, it is never enough anyways. Even if you had passed, they would then expect 100% more effort for like a 3% pay raise, so you are better off not passing.

If it was a college test - the class and the books often do not seem to coincide with what is on the test. So that is not your fault.

Also, most people do not talk about their failures in life, we hear only the good news. So trust me, you are not the first.

But for my failure in life - same boat as @contrails except just a little younger.

One thing that is we*rd in life - when we have dreams or trying to do something, everyone says we cannot do it because we are not smart enough, don't have the right schooling, don't know the right people, or whatever.
But THEN when we finally give up, people suddenly try to encourage us to do good.

I remember I came 29/30 in a PE class

It was awful. The school uniform was this short short skirt and regulation school undies I always forgot.

To clarify I would forget to wear the school regulation undies, not underwear altogether.

Although once I did wear my shoes on the wrong feet, left on right and vice versa, all the way to school. That was a 2k walk. A train. And a bus. I'm ADD so don't have great body awareness.

Anyway, so I'm all upset and telling my friend about how much I suxed at physical things, and how uncoordinated I am and how I came 29th out of 30.

"I came 30th," she said, making me bad at social interactions AND sport.

I once almost hopped into the back of a police car thinking it was a taxi. I was inebriated at the time.

What about reaching 60 years of age with no savings and no retirement plan? You at least have plenty of time to correct course and get things right. My whole life has been a complete and unmitigated failure, I wish that "failing an exam" was all I had to feel bad about.

I fail at 98% of everything I attempt. But I haven’t given up yet so that’s something.

Adding oil to the engine during an oil change and not putting the drain plug in. $$$ synthetic oil all over the pavement.
It only took once for that lesson.

This isn't exactly a failure but when I went to Bali a monkey jumped down and tried to eat my hair. I'm guessing because it's so wiry it looked like straw 🤣😂🤣

Enjoy...

My friend was on a job worth $60,000 and was laid off. He got a council job and the first week he backed the council car and trailer into another car and got fired. Led to him getting a job where he was earning over $100,000

So it's funny how life works

losing\layoff my job after 24 years with same company. a blessing in disguise

When I was in college I sent in my notes instead of my finished essay and got a letter from the college warning me about plagiarism.

I failed to impress anyone on SW with my expertise on a most important question that has plagued mankind since the stone age.