Your Worst Ever Plan

Daemos · 09-03-2012 12:01AM #1

You know those plans that make perfect sense when you think of them, but then you actually try to do it and it fails utterly and completely? We've all had them. What's your worst?

One that springs to mind for me was an utter failure on every level. I was cold, so decided to go out for some soup to bring home and heat up. While I was walking, I remembered I couldn't go into my kitchen because it was booked up for the night by my flatmates. And I couldn't go to the pub because there weren't any matches on. So I just went for a longer walk so as not to make it a pointless journey.

Basically, I tried to prevent myself being cold by going for a long walk in the cold

ygolometsipe · 09-03-2012 12:04AM

life.

Foghladh · 09-03-2012 12:06AM

Daemos wrote: »

And I couldn't go to the pub because there weren't any matches on

And you couldn't just go to the pub and have a pint?

El Guapo! · 09-03-2012 12:12AM

Your friends "booked" the kitchen?!?!

Wtf sort of place do you live in man???

Doc · 09-03-2012 12:13AM

Daemos wrote: »

I was cold, so decided to go out for some soup to bring home and heat up. While I was walking, I remembered I couldn't go into my kitchen because it was booked up for the night by my flatmates.

So you couldn’t walk into the kitchen and put some soup in the microwave walk out and come back in 2min because your flatmates had "booked" the kitchen? What kind of mad rules do you have in your home?

"No food for you today I’ve booked the kitchen."

"Sorry you’ll have to go to McDonalds to take that sh1t I’ve booked the bathroom for the night."

AlmightyCushion · 09-03-2012 12:13AM

You were cold so you went to buy food? You should have just put on a jumper or got a blanket.

idunnoshur · 09-03-2012 12:14AM

When I threw petrol into the stove at home in an attempt to get the fire going again. I moved the petrol in an empty crisp wrapper and it managed to spill all over the front of the stove. I them decided to burn the petrol off it and in the process singed the **** out of my hair.

It really wasn't a good idea.

hairyprincess · 09-03-2012 12:15AM

I'm more of a 'fly by the seat of my pants' kinda gal rather than a planner

Daemos · 09-03-2012 12:16AM

Dean09 wrote: »

Your friends "booked" the kitchen?!?!
Wtf sort of place do you live in man???

It was Valentine's Day. I saw candles. I didn't ask any questions after that

longhalloween · 09-03-2012 12:17AM

That reminds me of the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

micropig · 09-03-2012 12:17AM

"Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"

"The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!

Sindri · 09-03-2012 12:20AM

Leaving school to become a writer. :rolleyes:

I can tell you my articles have (not yet) been published in PlayBoy.

That really was a pretty **** plan.

Inspired by cheap wine and an inflated sense of my intellectual superiority over everyone else.

09-03-2012 12:22AM

Daemos wrote: »

Dean09 wrote: »

Your friends "booked" the kitchen?!?!
Wtf sort of place do you live in man???

It was Valentine's Day. I saw candles. I didn't ask any questions after that

But it was soup ? Two mins max ! Not like u wanted to prepare a medival banquet .

If i had wanted soup and was only going to take two mins woud of gone in to the booked kitchen even if they were doing it doggy style on the table.

Where do u live in this house under the stairs ?

cloud493 · 09-03-2012 12:23AM

In year 11, me and a few friends thought we could take a scenic route by walking to school, when the bus was delayed cos of ice or something. Wasn't necessarily a bad plan, till someone slipped over and hurt his knee on an icy hill :mad:

44leto · 09-03-2012 12:26AM

All those life plans that ended up on the Boulevard of broken dreams. But that is life.

I suppose leaving college to work in my chosen field and continue the course at night, you as in me incredible stupid cnut.

Daemos · 09-03-2012 12:28AM

Rey Inexpensive Prism wrote: »

But it was soup ? Two mins max ! Not like u wanted to prepare a medival banquet .

If i had wanted soup and was only going to take two mins woud of gone in to the booked kitchen even if they were doing it doggy style on the table.

Somehow I doubt they'd see it that way

Cianos · 09-03-2012 12:28AM

Daemos wrote: »

It was Valentine's Day. I saw candles. I didn't ask any questions after that

In fairness that's the only situation where booking the kitchen is okay. It's gone from you living with assholes and you being a tool to you living with normals and you being sound.

John Doe1 · 09-03-2012 12:54AM

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and thats how i lost my job as an architect

44leto · 09-03-2012 12:56AM

John Doe1 wrote: »

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and thats how i lost my job as an architect

HUH

Like what did you do wrong,???a little tweaking and you would have the Sydney opera house.

No-one ever follows their plans anyway.

Damokc · 09-03-2012 01:00AM

I think OP can ad this thread to his list of failed plans:D Booking a kitchen? Crazy horse stuff!

grindle · 09-03-2012 01:19AM

Not caring about anything - being a nihilistic little shït - I left school, missed out on college and sent myself down the road toward retail management.
More a story of NOT planning, if anything, but to be fair, I was certain I'd have died by now.
Nowadays, I'm procrastination's bitch, trying to fit music and coding in between a girlfriend and a job. At least I haven't lumbered myself with kids, or them with me.

Poxyshamrock · 09-03-2012 01:55AM

Dropping out of college to repeat my LC.

09-03-2012 03:29AM

Buying a house in 1989 in the UK, 30% price collapse within 5 years.
Eventually sold it for the same as I paid taking inflation into account.
Should have waited a few more years before jumping in.

Alan 1990 · 09-03-2012 04:42AM

The big freeze a couple of years ago, we were snowed in lived up a big hill..house was freezing ran out of home heating oil couldnt get any to deliver so went to light the fire only to realise I had no firelighters but I had petrol......... Anyway didn't exactly go to plan but did work.. Not sure if it was worth the hassle though. Improvise adapt and overcome.

Alan 1990 · 09-03-2012 04:42AM

The big freeze a couple of years ago, we were snowed in lived up a big hill..house was freezing ran out of home heating oil couldnt get any to deliver so went to light the fire only to realise I had no firelighters but I had petrol......... Anyway didn't exactly go to plan but did work.. Not sure if it was worth the hassle though. Improvise adapt and overcome.

tvercetti · 09-03-2012 04:46AM

When your internet is down, you have the great idea of googling whats wrong

When the power is out and you can't watch tv, you turn on the playstation for a game instead

keithclancy · 09-03-2012 09:18AM

You flush the jax and the water sits right under the rim,

Then it goes down half way, you flush it again and dumps float out all over the place.

talkinyite · 09-03-2012 09:44AM

To go camping in the wicklow mountains with a few mates and crates of dutch gold when I was a kid... ended up getting chased by a farmer with a pitchfork and had to walk back to Dublin in the pitchdark.

im invisible · 09-03-2012 11:05AM

The best laid plans of mice and men...

sbsquarepants · 09-03-2012 11:14AM

Good few years ago I was refused entry into a seedy nightclub on the grounds of being drunk and very visibly under the influence of mdma, so i had an "ingenius" brainwave - i jumped into a taxi, went home, changed my clothes while the taxi waited outside, went back to same shítty nightclub - was close enough to where i live so about 25 minutes after the first refusal, only to be told "do you think your getting in now cos you have a new shirt on?"

Walked back down stairs dejected and the taxi man beeped me and dropped me home for free - he knew full well i wouldn't be succesfull!
Had a good laugh with him on the way home about the sheer stupidity of the plan!!

El Weirdo · 09-03-2012 11:22AM

idunnoshur wrote: »

When I threw petrol into the stove at home in an attempt to get the fire going again. I moved the petrol in an empty crisp wrapper and it managed to spill all over the front of the stove. I them decided to burn the petrol off it and in the process singed the **** out of my hair.

It really wasn't a good idea.

Still, at least you got the shit out of your hair.

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