Have you ever had a Oops Moment?

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Rescuing a library motto

"A few news services picked up a story from Moorestown, New Jersey, where a new public library was unveiled, but its Latin inscription was found to be incorrect. The inscription, “Nos secundus coniecto omnia,” was intended to mean “We confirm all things twice.” It doesn’t really mean that, so reporters were quick to pounce, claiming that the inscription actually means “We second-guess all things.” However, the reporters were wrong too, suggesting that the reporters, like the library construction team, should have confirmed their translation twice. Let’s determine what this Latin text really means, and we’ll see if we can salvage it for our librarian friends".
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"However, they could have spared themselves the cost, and the town could have spared itself the embarrassment, if they had reinterpreted the existing motto as an apt, welcoming message: “I, an agreeable place, bring us all together.”

(NOTE: Officials also plan to change incorrect Roman numerals reflecting the library's founding date from 1653 to 1853).
 

Oh yes, only last week , I text my car cleaner to see if he was free, then accidently pressed the record button, So he heard me say to hubby , “oh I’ve so many jobs to do today” ...
He then replied in a text .. ....” your busy then “ 😂 Oops.......thankgod I wasn’t talking about him 😂😂😂
 
When I was a Cadette in the Girl Scouts we planned a car wash to raise money. I was in charge of making the sign, and I wrote "Cadett" instead of "Cadette" on the sign. I was so embarrassed, and it was too late to fix it.
 
RadishRose said:
How long did you hide in your room after that? Poor kid.
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I was an adult, actually. In my late 20s/early 30s. Coach probably should have pulled me out for a while but it was late in the 4th of 6 games on the 2nd day of a really hot weekend elimination tourney, so everyone was as drained as I was. And we were in 1st place but, thanks to me, we didn't make it to game 6. It was just a really very incredibly stupid mistake, but no one got on me about it for too long. Except myself.
 
Murrmurr said:
I was an adult, actually. In my late 20s/early 30s. Coach probably should have pulled me out for a while but it was late in the 4th of 6 games on the 2nd day of a really hot weekend elimination tourney, so everyone was as drained as I was. And we were in 1st place but, thanks to me, we didn't make it to game 6. It was just a really very incredibly stupid mistake, but no one got on me about it for too long. Except myself.
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I shudder to relate the stupid mistakes I've made!
 
I bought a stock that was not Wells Fargo but had a similar stock symbol and did not realize it until several months later. I sold it at a very small loss.
Another story is when I worked at a catering service I mixed up the sugar and salt cannisters and when our employees laid out the dining tables for a 500 people banquet at my high school. They put sugar on their food and salt in their coffee. I was not fired.
 
Beautiful Oops! By Barney Saltzberg (Oops....must Click arrow to Watch on Youtube!)

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When I was in High School my friends talked me into going to a football game. I hate all sports and have no idea what is going on or how games are played but I went anyway.
The game ended, everyone got up and left and I had no idea who won. I didn't want to appear that dumb so I didn't ask my friends.
My girlfriends got off the bus at their stops and I was the last to get off. Walking to my home a car slowed down and seeing that I was holding pompoms from the game, which I was talked into buying, they asked who won.
Not having the faintest idea, I rudely told them. "if they wanted to know that they should have gone to the game,"
They gave me a nasty look and sped off.
I passed a garbage can and got rid of the pompoms.
I've never been to a game since.
 

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