Embarrassing Blunders

LOLz .... oh dear, how funny! I have done innumerable dumb things in my life; I guess we all do, so please don't suffer for it. ;) But I don't understand how the book was marked as "in" if it was still with you. The library I am a member of follows a primitive method of tracking books. There are no computers. But the sour-faced librarian has a pile of huge books, and each member has a number, and each member is given a couple of pages in one of these huge books. I don't understand how that fellow manages so many books. He can easily purchase a computer, but no, he doesn't do that. He purchases a TV instead to watch matches. Ok, to get back to the book tracking system, Sour Face has given special numbers to each book, and if I borrow a book, he writes the number and title of the book carefully, and if I am late in returning it he sends me a card. When I finally go to return it, he fines me. Sour Face knows exactly who has taken which book. Now how come Tomi didn't know you still have the book? Didn't she make a record of it somewhere? She must have made a note somewhere that zigzagbuddha has borrowed Osho Zen Tarot Deck ages ago and not returned it. ;) LOLz

lol..you aren't the only fool!! A couple of months back I was at my son's school to buy his set of black and white shoes. We didn't get the black in his size and so got the white pair...and they didn't make a bill then because they said I could pay when I got the black pair for him. When I went to buy the black pair...it was really crowded....and I had a toddler to take care of. I remember telling the man at the counter to make a bill out for the white pair too....and paid him the amount written on the reciept. A couple of times last month, my son came home telling me that the manager at school has been telling him that he hasn't paid for the white shoes....and I kept getting angry and telling him that we did pay for it. Last week, I even called up the manager to clear up this matter and to tell him that I had paid...and to please not keep telling our son that we didn't pay. I work at the same school(at a different campus) and told him that I would produce the reciept if he didn't believe me. He said that wasn't necessary.....he hadn't spoken to the people who sold the shoes and he remembered giving me the white pair and not taking payment. I said fine and let things be. Today, I was clearing ut one of my shelves and came across the reciept. I checked it and found out that I had NOT paid for the white pair. Even though I had told them, the person writing the bill didn't enter it and I didn't check it when I paid. I am so embarassed because everyone at school knows me as an organized and prompt person (especially when it comes to money)and I was very angry when the manager kept insisting that I hadn't paid. I'm sure he could tell from my tone though I wasn't yelling. I will definitely pay the money now....but my reputation of prompt payment is at stake here:(

Heehee..snicker, snicker. Well one good thing came of this incident, since it's on record that you returned the deck you could keep them....LOL. Nope unfortunately I had the opposite happen to me. I had taken a bunch of magazines out from the library AND returned them on time...I can actually look up my libraries website especially if I want to order something interlibrary loan. When I looked on my account it said those magazines were OVRDUE and that I HADN'T returned them yet..like WRF? It used to be when you returned books, mags, anything you had to wait on a nice LONG line and have them personally scanned by a librarian that they were returned and even got a receipt..they changed all that and instead you just drop them off in a bin...so either those mags just weren't scanned by a librarian or someone helped themself to them..don't ask how long I had to clear that up...in the meantime I was being charged fees for everyday they were "over-due"

RFLMAO, zigzag and no I am not laughing at you but with you! Oh, I could tell you some Tarot Deck stories, but I think I'd better not. Yours is hilarious, though. Sometimes a deck know who it belongs to. Sometimes these things have a mind of their own! Take care, Ann

I'll tell you straight off...my life is a series of embarrassing brainfarts, punctuated by some lucid moments. Too many to number. I do know that I would drop the subject, keep the deck and make an anonymous donation to the library.

Well Just admit that you were wrong on your part and learn from it. By Making that embarrassing experience into a learning one then you would see it as something that has helped you grow as a person not as a shameful experience that you can't live through.

Yeah I would have kept the cards too. It's too far gone now to fess up I think! Just out of curiosity though, what will you do if Tomi gets an attack of the guilts and goes and buys another set of these cards for the library?

No problem, that happens to most of us! Go back to the library, accept the mistake, ask for forgiveness and forget about it. You don't have to dwell on it, it's not the end of the world, lol!

Dear zigzag, You are really zigzag. Do not feel ill, these are the normal dumbs in life which every body commits and it happens to all some where and some time. Take it casually. Do not be pasimistic. Be optimistic and just give a call to Library to not to waste time making search it was u who forget and things would be normal later or sooner. Be courageous and go ahead with life. have a nice day.

Fantastic, maybe not as bad as when I walked into Gym class in the 3rd grade having forgot to put my gym shorts on, lucky I still wore underwear then, or I could have gotten in a lot of trouble, and embarrassed the rest of the class. Everyone does this from time to time. Worry not dear one. Not that you are worrying anymore.