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<h2>&quot;To err is human,&quot; but to fill a dishwasher with shampoo instead of dish soap and come home to a bubble paradise? To nail in screws and wonder why the door keeps coming off the hinges? To forget your passport on your honeymoon? Some mistakes haunt us for years.</h2><p>So, when a<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/st5iwk/whats_your_biggest_i_fucked_up_moment/"> Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;What&rsquo;s your biggest &#39;I f*cked up&#39; moment?&quot; people were ready to share the mistakes they wish they had thought through before diving into disaster.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was a bank teller working drive through and I had a fat stack of cash in an envelope (roughly $3,000ish) that I had set aside because I needed my manager to take it to the vault because I was over the max amount allowed to keep in the drawer at any time.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;m just going through the motions and some guy was doing a cash withdrawal and while I was on auto-pilot I sent back his tube with the envelope containing $3000 instead of the few hundred he was withdrawing. Worst part was I didn&rsquo;t realize this until about 15 minutes and 10 or so transactions later.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I immediately called my manager and just said &ldquo;I f*cked up big time&rdquo;. I couldn&rsquo;t even remember which account it was on so I had no idea who to call or who he was. He could have kept that money and we would have never known.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Luckily he was a good Samaritan and came back into the branch and asked for the manager saying &ldquo;I believe there was a mistake, I was given way too much money but I noticed it wasn&rsquo;t taken out of my account. I don&rsquo;t want your teller fired over this!&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Issue was resolved in under an hour and I&rsquo;m forever thankful that guy was a good person and came back to return the money. - HallucinationOtters</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was in 7th grade, my parents woke me up from bed and took me to the guest room where they proceeded to show me what &rdquo;History&rdquo; on the computer was. - D4rks1id3</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>I read a manifest wrong and pumped the wrong chemical down an oil well and literally ruined a brand new well worth about 4 million. They had to abandon it. -Sillyak</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>Me and my brother sprinted on a pedestrian crossing and got hit by a car about 7 years ago, I realized that I had f*cked up when I noticed I was flying through the air - Guillaume_Hertzog</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>In my 20s while working at Home Depot, I walked by an aisle full of pallets of doors. As soon as I casually walked by, all of the doors came crashing down. Pallets and all.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>No one knows how it happened but I&#39;m pretty sure I was the one that put the pallets there a few days prior. Damages were in the thousands. Luckily no one was hurt, but I still think about all of the booby-traps I left in that place - Jetix_MK3</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>Our very-old blender started smoking when I was using it, so I frantically unplugged it at the wall and started taking it apart. It was when I heard the whirring and felt the blade go through my finger tip that I realized that in my panic I had instead unplugged the toaster from the socket next to it. - taversham</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>Happened when I was about 7, chased my brother inside the house and as I yanked the front door open, my big toe was caught and completely ripped open between my toes. Bro said I went silent and face turned white, then he looked down and saw all the blood on our deck.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>He was a great big bro, scooped me up and set me down on some stairs with a towel, then ran to get mom and dad. 1 emergency trip later and I&#39;m all stitched up having had to almost amputate my toe all bc Im an idiot - TheZoomingMonkey</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>One year we purchased a new house. For Christmas that year, I decided I would buy a ton of things we needed off the &quot;for the house&quot; to do list. And then proceeded to gift them to my wife for her Christmas gifts. A clothing iron, blender, pots and pans, etc. you get it.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Never again. - ksozay</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Embarrassing or dangerous mistakes can make anyone question all of their choices in life, but it&#39;s important to remember that everyone has royally messed up at least one...</h2><p>Whether it&#39;s on the job, in a relationship, or completely alone, a truly idiotic mistake can at least make for a good dinner party story. Shout out to the time I worked at Quizno&#39;s in high school and served prime rib as roast beef for two full years.</p><p>Did you think those soap bars were free samples of cupcakes in the mall and take a bite of suds? Did you accidentally hit reply all to an email gossiping about the original sender and now the entire office knows your true feelings?</p><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was in high school and after a football game had some friends come over for a fire. We couldn&rsquo;t get the wood lit so someone had the bright idea of getting out the gasoline. As I pour some gas onto the barely lit fire, the fire travels up the stream of gas into the gas can.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I go into a full blown panic as I hold this now flamethrower that may or may not explode in my hand. So I had the genius idea of tossing the gas can into my pool that was near by.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Little did I know that gas floats on water, so now my pool looks like the gates of hell and next thing I know the liner is burnt to a crisp and water goes everywhere.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>My friends look at me amazed that I caught water on fire. Everyone ended up leaving and I went and got laid one last time before my mom murdered me. - RaccoonNew113</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I went to a job interview after working a 12 hour shift and when asked &quot;what&#39;s my biggest weakness or flaw.&quot; I said without thinking &quot;I&#39;m a pervert.&quot; The woman interviewing me just paused and asked me another question and then ended the interview. I didn&#39;t get the job. - Successful-Maize9200</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I didn&rsquo;t go to the dentist for five years out of sheer laziness. Five cavities, one pulled tooth, one full tooth implant and a root canal later&hellip;&hellip;I regret that decision. - Dust_Parts</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>I once accidentally created an infinite network loop on my college campus&#39; network and crashed the entire school&#39;s internet. This was during my certification program as a Cisco Certified Networking Administrator. - BlackTemplar2154</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>Many moons ago husband was making dinner and came into the living room while the oven was preheating. As we watched TV an explosion rocked the kitchen. The casserole dish had exploded sending deadly shards everywhere. It was on the burner that he mistakenly turned on instead of the oven - mr-dillbugs-cole</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>My ex left her panties at my house a few months before I started dating my current girlfriend and when I found them I thought they were my current&rsquo;s.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Needless to say when I handed her the panties like &ldquo;hey you left these!&rdquo; with a smile on my face and she told me they weren&rsquo;t hers, my heart dropped like an anvil.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>She was definitely pissed off for a few days but we&rsquo;re fine now. - PyroIrish</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>I almost killed my dog an hour after adopting her. I had just brought her home and took her for our first walk. I&#39;ve owned dogs before so I wasn&#39;t particularly stressed and we had bought a few collars for her ahead of time so I tried them on and went with the one that fit the best.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The walk was fine until we ended up beside a busy road with no street lights. She was getting riled, wanting to chase the cars, which I obviously wouldn&#39;t let her do. She looked back at me for a moment, and then in one fluid motion, slipped her collar and sprinted out onto the street chasing cars.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I&#39;ve never felt as helpless as watching her stand in the darkest part of the road with cars doing 60mph rapidly approaching. They would have 0 chance to see her and I had about 30 seconds before they got there. I ran after her but every time I approached she just ran away, thinking it was a game. I had this rising nausea as I was sure I was about to watch my dog die.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I did the only thing I could think of: I ran full sprint away from her. She saw me running and chased me all the way back to the sidewalk. When she got there I just hugged her and stayed there until I caught my breath. She&#39;s fine and we walk her with a harness now, but that was far and away the worst feeling of my life. To this day I get flashbacks about it and my hands are sweaty just typing this out. - Now-Kiss</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>One summer at my grandparents house in the Colorado mountains I was playing with fireworks alone. And being around 10 or so I wasn&#39;t exactly responsible. I ended up lighting one of those bouncing spinning things and threw it off the hill onto the gravel road. It went crazy shooting sparks everywhere then bounced off the road and down a hill.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I rushed down after it and found that every place it hopped it had lit a fire. Each one already about knee high (dry pine needles). I luckily was smart enough to stomp each one out. To this day I always think about what would&#39;ve happened if I didn&#39;t go down the hill after it. - TheOrionNebula</p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Not me, but my towns mayor told an EMT to kill herself during the aftermath of a budget meeting (right in front of me). The regret that washed over his face when he realized it was still streaming to YouTube for the town to see was priceless. - Drinking-Ducks</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 people share the moment they realized they made a huge mistake.

&quot;To err is human,&quot; but to fill a dishwasher with shampoo instead of dish soap and come home to a bubble paradise? To nail in screws and wonder why the door keeps coming off the hinges? To forget your passport on your honeymoon? Some mistakes haunt us for years.So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What&rsquo;s your biggest &#39;I f*cked up&#39; moment?&quot; people were ready to share the mistakes they wish they had thought through before diving into disaster.1. I was a bank teller working drive through and I had a fat stack of cash in an envelope (roughly $3,000ish) that I had set aside because I needed my manager to take it to the vault because I was over the max amount allowed to keep in the drawer at any time.   I&rsquo;m just going through the motions and some guy was doing a cash withdrawal and while I was on auto-pilot I sent back his tube with the envelope containing $3000 instead of the few hundred he was withdrawing. Worst part was I didn&rsquo;t realize this until about 15 minutes and 10 or so transactions later.   I immediately called my manager and just said &ldquo;I f*cked up big time&rdquo;. I couldn&rsquo;t even remember which account it was on so I had no idea who to call or who he was. He could have kept that money and we would have never known.   Luckily he was a good Samaritan and came back into the branch and asked for the manager saying &ldquo;I believe there was a mistake, I was given way too much money but I noticed it wasn&rsquo;t taken out of my account. I don&rsquo;t want your teller fired over this!&rdquo;   Issue was resolved in under an hour and I&rsquo;m forever thankful that guy was a good person and came back to return the money. - HallucinationOtters 2. When I was in 7th grade, my parents woke me up from bed and took me to the guest room where they proceeded to show me what &rdquo;History&rdquo; on the computer was. - D4rks1id3 3. I read a manifest wrong and pumped the wrong chemical down an oil well and literally ruined a brand new well worth about 4 million. They had to abandon it. -Sillyak 4. Me and my brother sprinted on a pedestrian crossing and got hit by a car about 7 years ago, I realized that I had f*cked up when I noticed I was flying through the air - Guillaume_Hertzog 5. In my 20s while working at Home Depot, I walked by an aisle full of pallets of doors. As soon as I casually walked by, all of the doors came crashing down. Pallets and all.   No one knows how it happened but I&#39;m pretty sure I was the one that put the pallets there a few days prior. Damages were in the thousands. Luckily no one was hurt, but I still think about all of the booby-traps I left in that place - Jetix_MK3 6. Our very-old blender started smoking when I was using it, so I frantically unplugged it at the wall and started taking it apart. It was when I heard the whirring and felt the blade go through my finger tip that I realized that in my panic I had instead unplugged the toaster from the socket next to it. - taversham 7. Happened when I was about 7, chased my brother inside the house and as I yanked the front door open, my big toe was caught and completely ripped open between my toes. Bro said I went silent and face turned white, then he looked down and saw all the blood on our deck.   He was a great big bro, scooped me up and set me down on some stairs with a towel, then ran to get mom and dad. 1 emergency trip later and I&#39;m all stitched up having had to almost amputate my toe all bc Im an idiot - TheZoomingMonkey 9. One year we purchased a new house. For Christmas that year, I decided I would buy a ton of things we needed off the &quot;for the house&quot; to do list. And then proceeded to gift them to my wife for her Christmas gifts. A clothing iron, blender, pots and pans, etc. you get it.   Never again. - ksozay Embarrassing or dangerous mistakes can make anyone question all of their choices in life, but it&#39;s important to remember that everyone has royally messed up at least one...Whether it&#39;s on the job, in a relationship, or completely alone, a truly idiotic mistake can at least make for a good dinner party story. Shout out to the time I worked at Quizno&#39;s in high school and served prime rib as roast beef for two full years.Did you think those soap bars were free samples of cupcakes in the mall and take a bite of suds? Did you accidentally hit reply all to an email gossiping about the original sender and now the entire office knows your true feelings?10. I was in high school and after a football game had some friends come over for a fire. We couldn&rsquo;t get the wood lit so someone had the bright idea of getting out the gasoline. As I pour some gas onto the barely lit fire, the fire travels up the stream of gas into the gas can.   I go into a full blown panic as I hold this now flamethrower that may or may not explode in my hand. So I had the genius idea of tossing the gas can into my pool that was near by.   Little did I know that gas floats on water, so now my pool looks like the gates of hell and next thing I know the liner is burnt to a crisp and water goes everywhere.   My friends look at me amazed that I caught water on fire. Everyone ended up leaving and I went and got laid one last time before my mom murdered me. - RaccoonNew113 11. I went to a job interview after working a 12 hour shift and when asked &quot;what&#39;s my biggest weakness or flaw.&quot; I said without thinking &quot;I&#39;m a pervert.&quot; The woman interviewing me just paused and asked me another question and then ended the interview. I didn&#39;t get the job. - Successful-Maize9200 12. I didn&rsquo;t go to the dentist for five years out of sheer laziness. Five cavities, one pulled tooth, one full tooth implant and a root canal later&hellip;&hellip;I regret that decision. - Dust_Parts 13. I once accidentally created an infinite network loop on my college campus&#39; network and crashed the entire school&#39;s internet. This was during my certification program as a Cisco Certified Networking Administrator. - BlackTemplar2154 14. Many moons ago husband was making dinner and came into the living room while the oven was preheating. As we watched TV an explosion rocked the kitchen. The casserole dish had exploded sending deadly shards everywhere. It was on the burner that he mistakenly turned on instead of the oven - mr-dillbugs-cole 15. My ex left her panties at my house a few months before I started dating my current girlfriend and when I found them I thought they were my current&rsquo;s.   Needless to say when I handed her the panties like &ldquo;hey you left these!&rdquo; with a smile on my face and she told me they weren&rsquo;t hers, my heart dropped like an anvil.   She was definitely pissed off for a few days but we&rsquo;re fine now. - PyroIrish 16. I almost killed my dog an hour after adopting her. I had just brought her home and took her for our first walk. I&#39;ve owned dogs before so I wasn&#39;t particularly stressed and we had bought a few collars for her ahead of time so I tried them on and went with the one that fit the best.   The walk was fine until we ended up beside a busy road with no street lights. She was getting riled, wanting to chase the cars, which I obviously wouldn&#39;t let her do. She looked back at me for a moment, and then in one fluid motion, slipped her collar and sprinted out onto the street chasing cars.   I&#39;ve never felt as helpless as watching her stand in the darkest part of the road with cars doing 60mph rapidly approaching. They would have 0 chance to see her and I had about 30 seconds before they got there. I ran after her but every time I approached she just ran away, thinking it was a game. I had this rising nausea as I was sure I was about to watch my dog die.   I did the only thing I could think of: I ran full sprint away from her. She saw me running and chased me all the way back to the sidewalk. When she got there I just hugged her and stayed there until I caught my breath. She&#39;s fine and we walk her with a harness now, but that was far and away the worst feeling of my life. To this day I get flashbacks about it and my hands are sweaty just typing this out. - Now-Kiss 17. One summer at my grandparents house in the Colorado mountains I was playing with fireworks alone. And being around 10 or so I wasn&#39;t exactly responsible. I ended up lighting one of those bouncing spinning things and threw it off the hill onto the gravel road. It went crazy shooting sparks everywhere then bounced off the road and down a hill.   I rushed down after it and found that every place it hopped it had lit a fire. Each one already about knee high (dry pine needles). I luckily was smart enough to stomp each one out. To this day I always think about what would&#39;ve happened if I didn&#39;t go down the hill after it. - TheOrionNebula 18. Not me, but my towns mayor told an EMT to kill herself during the aftermath of a budget meeting (right in front of me). The regret that washed over his face when he realized it was still streaming to YouTube for the town to see was priceless. - Drinking-Ducks 

&quot;To err is human,&quot; but to fill a dishwasher with shampoo instead of dish soap and come home to a bubble paradise? To nail in screws and wonder why the door keeps coming off the hinges? To forget your passport on your honeymoon?...