This Troper once saw someone in his EMT class critically fail several times in the practical section of the test. The poor guy's critical failures:

Giving nitroglycerinmedication to a diabetic who was in the midst of a hypoglycemia episode.other words, they had low blood sugar.

Forgetting C-Spine while using the KED.protect a patient's neck while extracting them from an accident.

I can't remember the rest, but the "victim" said he died 5 times in a row.

...?

This Troper managed to flip three choppers over (upside fucking down) and crash them... in a row on Battlefield Bad Company 2. THREE!

I also drink alot of juice, as a replacement for the 5 cans of soda a day I used to drink. Without fail, I '''will''' spill some, either on me or the floor. Every time.

This Troper I was in second grade, it was recess in KIN, an after school daycare program, that was actually pretty good for daycare standards. There were 3 kids, all of which were in fifth grade. You can see where this was going... I was their ChewToy for the longest time, until one of them crossed the MoralEventHorizon by smashing my head into the concrete sidewalk,then they drag me into the center of the playground, and I prep for the worst.Then, my friend makes a BigDamnHeroes moment, tackling one of them, beating the shit out of him. My other friend followed soon behind, tapping one guy's shoulder and KO'ing him instantly. Then five other kids joined us. It turns out the Kins director was watching the whole thing, and laughing his ass off that 3 fifth graders that were around 5'7 couldn't stand a group of 7 4'3 kids. The end result was a massive MadeOfWin for everyone involved, minus the fifth graders. It only strengthened our bond as a Nakama, now I act as a GadgeteerGenius, as well as the SmartGuy.

This troper once watched a group of idiots kick a ball into a tree, after trying desperately to get things out the end result of things stuck was...

One soccer ball

Three basketballs

Two footballs

A hula-hoop

Two jump ropes

Why they got a hula-hoop and two jump ropes stuck I'll never know...

It's also worth noting that anything they freed would get stuck THE VERY NEXT THROW

This reminds me of a rather funny similar scene in ''I.Q.''.

This troper was talking to one of his friends at school once, when my friend said something I didn't like (don't remember what exactly), so I jokingly said that if he said that again I would break his glasses, to which he responded "dude, you can't break these glasses, they're the bendy kind, watch". He then took off his glasses, started bending them apart at the bridge... AND SNAPPED THEM IN HALF. That was at least 4 years ago and still cracks me up to this day.

On a related note, ThisTroper's best friend was showing off his new flexible glasses at his birthday party (15 or so). After bending them a bit - proving they were, indeed, the flexible variety - he proceeded to accidentally snap them at the nose-bridge. Cue his stunned silence, some laughter, and him just matter-of-factly yelling "Moooom!" while holding up the two halves.

The same thing happened to ThisTroper, except the person who broke the glasses was the saleslady at the glasses store, trying to convince me to buy them.

This troper was playing the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World retro-style game on his Xbox 360 with 2 friends. They were all playing as their own respective characters on the hardest difficulty, when they weren't even all at the highest level. They were on the level where you make your way to the Katayanagi twins to beat them. When they finally got to the twins, the battle started and then abruptly ended... In less than 5 seconds... Because the twins immediately used a dual spinning kick move alongside each other... And they killed each other... Yeah...

I can beat that. They performed their dual spinning kick on me when I was fighting them alone, and while I was critically damaged, they were immediately killed...because they hit me so hard that I ricocheted off of the wall and smacked STRAIGHT INTO THEM AGAIN.

This troper experienced moments of Epic Fail when I play haxxored MAME arcade games ("haxxored" meaning "with cheats activated"):

I was playing a cute Namco puzzler called ''Cosmo Gang the Puzzle''. I set that game up so that I could get star pieces all the time, so that every time I drop a piece, I get 300,000-500,000 pts per drop. Once I reached 9,999,999 pts in a few seconds, I then deactivated the cheats only to find that now my piece is all-black and it kept falling and falling and falling and falling and falling and falling.... It was enough to have my piece MOVE OUTSIDE THE PLAYING GRID, too!!! I wasn't able to enter in my initials and was forced to exit out of my game. Fortunately, I'm part of the "pics or it didn't happen" club, as I screencap/take pictures of every time I reach the Cap of any of my games.

I was also playing ''GigaWing'' with cheats activated, too. Guess what, a few stages later, my game FROZE before it could be able to reach that stage's boss.

I was playing a haxxored game of Senkyu (known as Battle Balls outside of Japan. Yes, I mean Battle Balls...) on VS. COM mode, and I managed to get 99,999,990 pts due to being able to clear the playing grid more. Once I finished the VS. COM mode once and for all, the game saved my score as '''119,990 pts!!!!''' I didn't experience the same problem when I maxed out the score in Practice/ Endless mode, though...

While I was just about finishing a haxxored OutRun (the original arcade version) with max speed (about 996km/h) and infinite time (timer always displays 99 seconds), I was watching as my bonus gets added to my score. The bonus, in case you don't know, is "how many seconds left in the timer times a million". In this case, my bonus SHOULD be 99,000,000 pts, which should be MORE THAN enough to reach the score's {{Cap}}. The game stopped adding my bonus at around 70,000,000-some pts, though. Cue rage. I guess Sega's games fail SIMPLE MULTLIPICATION forever. And to make matters even more epic fail-ish, once I entered in my initials, the game just FROZE there. I tried pushing every button there is on my controller. Didn't work. I'll post some more instances of Epic Fail as a result of haxxoring MAME games here later if I find any. Maybe you could top my video game/scoring/haxxorz Epic Fail experiences, too.

This troper was once drinking a glass of water, and missed his mouth.

You should seek help for your drinking problem.

My aim attempting to get food or drink to my mouth can be iffy. I buy a ''lot'' of stain removal products for my clothes.

This troper has GranTurismo 5, and was racing in an entry-level compact cars event. It was a championship with three races in it. On the final round, the car which this at-the-time points leader and the current race leader, in an underpowered but super-agile car, was driving managed to hit a rumble strip on the inside of a corner too hard, tipped onto the outside and rolled over. By the time the game decided to step in and place the car back on the track right-side up, the whole field had overtaken the leader. Poor driver finished dead last.

For some epic communication fail, see {{Haven}}'s tale on the Princess Bride JBM page.

This troper had a campaign where we pissed off some pyromaniac dwarves who were setting a monastery on fire. The DM had one of the dwarves attack another member of the party with a thrown axe. Two critical failures later, the axe landed on one of the unconscious monks we were supposed to be rescuing (and who had been cloaked with invisibility in an effort to save them)... and split his skull open. Cue {{Cluster F Bomb}}s from the cleric in our group who was a member of the monk's order.

A while back, I posted a YKTTW for EpicFail (this was while EpicFail was "not as epic as it should be", my idea being to add a page like this). I had one example: posting a heartfelt YKTTW entry, with a fairly in-depth description and an over-the-top example situation, and then realising I didn't have any examples to put on.

This Troper keeps telling everybody that he is the embodiment of Epic Fail, and his friends all agree: from basically being clumsy to failing at everything under the sun at least once (including swings, cream soda, and NOT MOVING)

Thank goodness it wasn't anything in the real world (but it still wouldn't be appropriate to put in the VideoGame section), but this troper was playing BatmanArkhamAsylum last night. I got up to the part where returns to the Batcave he built (''[[CrazyPrepared just in case the Joker broke free and started causing mayhem on Arkham Island'').]] Feeling a bit of awe at the situation, I power-walked my way in, admiring the scenery and feeling a sense of great satisfaction when said "On." and powered the place up, complete with sweeping orchestral theme. So I'm power-walking into Batcave, feeling like a total {{badass}}...and then I walked straight off the walkway into the bottomless pit. I managed to recover myself (the game allows Batman to grapple his way back up to the last safe platform if he falls off), but there's no doubt in my mind that the Goddamn Batman falling off a walkway, quickly recovering, and walking onward like a cat who just fell off a table, his own home base, at that!), is a Fail of Epic Proportions.

This troper once lost a game of tic-tac-toe '''to myself''':as in when I was a kid I was practicing by playing both sides and when placing them accidently ended up having the side ''I didn't'' want to win get three in a row.

We have a winner!

Mira-chan loses to herself in Rock, Paper, Scissors, and she has yet to perfect a dance in Step Mania that she choreographed herself. Top ''those''.

HG131 can't win his own Forge World jumping/driving puzzle map.

Sadly the "SuperSmashBros Landmaster Fail" occurred to me in Melee, where both players had one life left in a Stock battle on Corneria, with the opponent having SIGNIFICANTLY more damage (about 100-200 more damage than me who had around 100% damage), with both player characters getting blasted by the same laser from one of the fighters that randomly swoop in, having me die the instant way at the edge of the screen, with the other player dying the long, over the top way. For the record, I was using Roy and the opponent was using Samus, so weight shouldn't have been an issue... Oh and, I was in the middle of my Smash Attack animation to send Samus to Oblivion.

That's nothing. I once watched my brother fight a Giant Falco in Classic single player. The Giant Falco managed to pick up a Smash Ball and activated his Smash special - which summoned a larger-than-normal Landmaster. This would've normally scared most players shitless once it landed, but it turns out the jumbo Landmaster ''fell right through the entire stage to Falco's death'' and gave my brother the win. The kicker was this was the Lylat Cruise stage, which doesn't have an opening in the middle to fall through to your death like Yoshi's Island - the Landmaster seemingly fell through all the normally-solid platforms on that stage. It's hard to say whether this is an epic fail on the part of the AI or Brawl's programmers.

Wow. I was once Sonic the Hedgehog on Bridge of Eldin, three stock, and I did everything I could to make him as fast as possible: Fast motion, Bunny Hood, Curry. So, I was goofing around, when I accidentally ran off the edge of the screen. By then, the bridge had broken, so when I dropped from the life platform, Sonic grabbed the edge, but when I got up, he ran forward, off the screen. He fell from the life platform, but I ended up getting caught under the bridge, and so I died. I tell you, it was seventeen seconds of pure hilarity.

Computers are pretty good at these, despite other certain qualities. Example: Computer1 and Computer2 had a sudden death round, so Computer1 quickly smashed the other up, and taunted. On top of a falling block. He died before Computer2 did.

This troper has beaten a Giant Yoshi in a SSBM Event Match... in LITERALLY LESS THAN A SECOND... because it had walked off the cliff.

This troper once took a CPR certification class. Didn't do so well and had to re-try on the practice dummy. Normal enough, right? Well, there was still air in the dummy's lungs when I re-tried which ended up causing the dummy to EXPLODE. The torso shot across the room and I was left holding the dummy's severed head.

Ahahahaha wow, that just gave me the mental image of a dummy that's MadeOfExplodium. [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~=]

This troper had a high school biology class that seemed to consist mainly of the...lowest denominations of the school (class average score was in the low teens). The teacher was pretty desperate to pass people in this class and get them out of the school. This one time, the teacher put up a transparency of a test on the overhead with the answer key written on it -- ''shortly before giving us the test''. He ''left it up'' for the duration of the test, about twenty minutes. After the test, we were told to trade papers and peer-grade them using the key (''still on the overhead''). I looked at the test given to me by my neighbor. It was completely blank, except for what was written in at the top where the person's name was supposed to go: "i hat bilogy".

This troper believes he now knows a few people that aren't getting credit...or a diploma. You were one of the passing ones, right?

While ice climbing, this troper managed to hit himself in the face with his ice pick, and break his tooth in half.

When this troper was in 8th grade, she ran for student council representative. In order to run, you had to write a paragraph detailing why you should receive this position, what you would do, etc. Since she was the only one in her social studies class to put forth the effort into writing a paragraph, she was running unopposed. ''Unopposed'', mind you. '''''She still lost the election.'''''

Wha... Buh... How does that happen?

That's what I've been trying to figure out for years!

So who won?

Everyone but her?

Did she remember to vote for herself?

This troper's school's band. When I used to play the flute ( I call the Hellwhistle) we were asked to play one part of a song..I was the only one to play the part, I was the quietest one. In the brass section the teacher was trying to show how hard the trombones have practiced "Iron Man".....yes that "Iron Man". He wanted us to play LOUD and he was pumped. "ONE TWO ONE TWO READY GO!!!!.....phh" EPIC FAIL. Another time we just got a new song and we all practiced together once he hit the middle of the song it all fell apart. Sophie said "epic fail" and I played the Fail horn. FAILURE.

This troper was playing Hitman: Blood Money not long ago, on the level where you have to take out the two guys in an opera house. In the game, you were given the option of doing so by replacing a replica WW1 gun with a real WW1 gun. One actor in the opera shoots the target with the prop gun during rehearsal, so switching the guns is a good way to make it seem like an accident happened. Well, I made my way down to the actor's dressing room and switched the guns. I went to the top of the chandelier, and planted an explosive device for dropping it on the victims lover, who was the other target. went down to the main floor to watch the proceedings. Waited. Waited. Waited. *BANG!* ... nothing. I had picked up the prop pistol and ''put it back down.'' So, I went, disguised, back to the dressing room to try again. I got caught, shooting ensued. I said to myself "fuck it, I'm killing everyone!" and proceeded to start massacring ''every single person I came across'' until I was finally shot dead after having run out of bullets, not even hitting my targets.

The barbarian FauxtivationalPoster linked on the main article? That was my story.

Got another one. A friend and I weren't sure whether antidisestablishmentarianism was longer than (whatever his word was; I forget), so he wrote his out on the board and I matched it letter for letter, proving longer by one. Feeling the need to emphasize my victory and already having a marker in my hand, I decided to add, "Bam!" to the end. B-A-B.

Was running a 100 meter dash qualifying race but was 4th in the last leg of the race so I tried for one last boost. I missed the timing and tripped and somehow did a forward roll as I landed on the ground. Best part was of it all was that the two guys just behind me tripped over my leg when I hit the ground. lol.

In a particular forum that has clear post number for each post and no edit button: #QUOTE#'''Post #21 - [someperson]:''' Post #21 is really stupid. #QUOTE#'''Post #22 - [someperson]:''' I mean the post before this one #QUOTE#'''Post #23 - [someperson]:''' Crap, I mena the post above the previous one

A friend of this troper will NeverLiveItDown when it comes to once incident in the Fall of 2009. He called me up when I was at work, and I knew it had to be serious since the only people who call me during work hours are either him or my parents over something important. Once I managed to get him to tell me what was up he asked how to treat food poisoning. My reaction was to ask who he had poisoned, and the answer was himself. With ''spoiled ice cream''. It gets better. Despite not knowing how he managed to spoil it (he insists it was in the freezer the whole time) he refused to go to a hospital, but it eventually passed out of him, leaving him just with indigestion for a few days and endless mocking from me. What sends this incident into EpicFail is the fact that after the first bite of this ice cream he thought it tasted weird and wondered about the ice crystals at the top of the carton, but ''he kept eating it'' and actually ate ''half a gallon of it''. That boy is a serious contender for a Darwin Award considering that he also had some sort of mold growing ''inside his oven'', which is why I never eat at his place.

This troper, with much love, has to nominate his mother here. While absentmindedly sticking her hand into a moving blender was pretty bad, her crowning achievement has to be accidentally publishing an editorial in the Washington Post that condemned a certain minority group as evil and incapable of love. She is in fact a ''member'' of said minority group, but the people writing the hate mail didn't know that.

How do you accidentally publish such an article? Also, I'm going to take a stab at what minority it was. Either gays or Mexicans. Because they're the top two hated minorities in the US.

So I was playing the drums... And I hit one of my cymbals, then the stick bounced out of my hand and hit me in the eye. Ouch.

Happened to this troper's bassist during a rehearsal. His idol is John Entwhistle and he looks like him too: Locked in place with a single face. But for once he decided to have a little fun and headbang. He's placed really close to the drums and hit the crash cymbal ''head-on'' with his nose. So he had to walk around with a cut from it for some weeks.

As a male drummer, this troper can tell you the worst thing you can do is to be practicing on your thighs and miss. Yeah, hitting your own nuts with the tip of a drum stick at full playing speed is... not fun

This troper, who was known as a master wordsmith in her advanced Humanities class (and wrote an acrostic poem that was three pages long in tiny font and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to the max), spelled the word 'strengthen' as 'stregnten' in the school spelling bee in the eighth grade. And dropped out in the second round.

This Troper was playing TeamFortress2, and has two failspy stories, one being that, on 2fort, when we (BLU) had a team of a Scout (me, Gamertag: Plumbum 09), an Engineer, a Soldier and a Medic, a friendly Demoman decloaked in front of me with the Gamertag 'Plumbum 09', and then called me a hacker for knowing he was, in fact, a RED Spy. Also, when playing as Spy, I disguised, used my cloak and all my cunning to get into... our own base.

I was once playing 2fort (also BLU) when we somehow let a RED engineer set up a sentry in the room with OUR intelligence. This was a fail both ways because A: This stalled the game for at least a half hour to get rid of them, and B: BLU proceeded to win the game anyway.

A minor example: this troper is walking to a morning midterm when he decides to get something from a vending machine to snack on, so he places his full coffee cup on the vending machine, puts in the money and selects. Except the thing gets stuck, and the troper starts hitting the vending machine to get it out, seeing it inch out gradually. Except after a few hits the cup of coffee falls off the machine and completely spills while the candy remains firmly lodged. Also, the midterm was for physics, which this troper is majoring in. Context is great for these sort of things.

One of this troper's friends once told him about a D&D campaign about how a female mage had tried to open a door by hitting it with her staff. The staff bounced off the door and hit her, knocking her unconscious.

Yesterday, I caught my ''foot'' in between the frame and the front wheel of my bike when it slipped off the pedal. Next thing I knew I was going over the handlebars. I'm amazed I got away with no broken bones or broken bike... but seriously, who the hell gets their foot stuck in a bike wheel?!

Oh, that's nothing. One time, this troper flew over the handlebars and faceplanted on the asphalt because she somehow managed to get her ''left'' pant leg caught in the gears, which were on the ''right'' side of the bike.

This troper saw an amazing EpicFail while he was travelling in {{Armenia}}. While exploring the capital city of Yerevan, he mistakenly wandered into a HotBlooded nationalist rally held by a very right-wing party hoping to gain ground with the youth. After shouting some slogans, the party leaders then took a wild eagle (the eagle is considered the national symbol of Armenia much like bald eagles in the US) they caught, attached the party flag to its foot, and released it, hoping to get a striking visual out of the opportunity. Unfortunately, the poor eagle finds the flag a bit too heavy...and crashes head-first into a stone wall after taking flight.

Oh, God. I once tried to go home from college and I have noooo idea how I actually managed to get there. I forgot the notebook I needed to write a final essay for a class and ran back for it at the last minute, then realized I didn't have my keys, so I missed the airport shuttle. I then texted my roommate (with the last of my cell phone battery) to ask her to come unlock the room for me. She asked me if I'd locked my keys inside the dorm -- nearly impossible, as the door has an old-fashioned deadbolt, so it would be a perfect example of this trope. I hadn't, but I had locked the door. Hmm. I then got to the bus stop to wait for the next shuttle with tons of time, and at the last minute realized I didn't have my credit card. So I had to ask the shuttle driver to drive me back to my dorm to grab my credit card, and I walked in on my poor, long-suffering roommate... using her laptop topless. WHAT?! (Turned out she was distracted by her inbox while getting dressed.) I grabbed my card and ran back to the shuttle, and once at the airport nearly missed my flight. When I finally got home, I found my key IN MY POCKET. Basically, EVERYTHING which could go wrong, did, and in the stupidest manner possible.

This troper was playing the obscure GBC game ''MetalWalker''. She was ''1 step away'' from a safe building when enemies attacked. They were easy to beat, but a Napalm 2 Capsule dropped in that did 100 damage to the user if they bumped into it. She had 91 max HP. Guess what happened.

Epic fails are simply better by the bunch. The entire graduating class (when I was a sophomore) had to return their diplomas to the school after the graduation to have them corrected. They were designated as ''elementary'' graduates.

At this troper's High School, it's tradition to have beach balls and balloons floating around the graduates as everyone is in line getting their diploma, as much as the faculty try to stop it. This year, there were the beach balls and balloons as usual, but someone managed to sneak in and inflate a life-size male blow-up doll. Classy.

I was playing a fun game of 40k against a friend where, in close combat, I had to defeat his Summoned Greater Daemon. I failed to do this with 600pts. Compared to the daemon's 100pts...yeah. I only removed half of its four wounds. What made this worse is that I WAS ONLY FIGHTING THE DAEMON!

This troper was once in a Dark Heresy campaign with the most useless assassin ever. He could sneak into any location we needed, kill anyone undetected, but never, ''never'' once managed to get out again in the way he wanted. For example, he fell from a monorail causing him to slide down half the side of a hive-city, then had to climb all the way up again. He also managed on a seperate occasion to miss the ''side of said hive from '''point blank range''' ''. (For those who don't know the 40k universe, that means he managed to miss an ''entire hemisphere'' of his field of sight).

This troper participated in a school wide spelling bee back in elementary school. Her word was "world". She began spelling, "World. W-H-O..." Noticing it sounded off, she started again, "World. W-H-O..." After about three more times of this, she said 'screw it!' and finished, "World. W-H-O-R-L-D. World." Needless to say, she was out. In this troper's defense, her main language is Spanish and was still in bilingual classes to learn English at the time. Not to mention that in Spanish, the 'h' is silent. It was still Epic Fail though.

I managed to say "The Tower of London was built in the ''twenteenth'' century" during a test at high school. Twice in a row.

One of This Troper's class mates was doing a paper that was due, at the very last minute. He not only didn't get many (if any) of the questions right. He was penalized for penmanship, not having his name on his paper and leaving questions blank. When he was handed the paper back, he was so astonished he said out loud, "Negative 20?! How the hell is that even possible?!", he said it so loud that you could probably hear it down the hallway. The teacher's score penalties where fairly steep, so it's not really all that surprising. To this day, This troper is not sure if the teacher actually wrote down -20 in her grade book, or if she just wrote down a Zero.

My cousin got "Guitar Hero: World Tour" for Christmas, and when my family went to visit him, every kid who was there played it. One of the songs had me on Bass-Beginner. I hit ZERO notes in the time it took me to fail the whole group. (Needless to say, after that, I was restricted to drums).

That truly is an EpicFail, since Beginner mode can literally be played with one finger. Just one finger.

This Troper rows. While in a two man, one oar per man, boat (called a pair), we managed to flip so quickly that our coach, a veteran rower of 20 years, commented that it was the fastest flip he's ever seen. For reference, the average flip takes about 2 seconds to go from "the point to no return" to "splashdown". Because the coach was following in a motorboat, he let us use his boat to get back in. As I got in first, I said "God knows I am gonna go back in..." before promptly taking a bad step and falling off the boat.

I have to nominate myself for this trope. One day in third grade, the teacher said a local bridge was built in 1866. Take note: 1866. I immediately yelled at the top of my lungs, "my mum was born then!" In actual fact she was born in 1966. The teacher (and I) {{facepalm}}ed. What made it worse was that my mother was actually helping in the adjoining room to clean up the crap everyone made. She walked out, thunderous expression on her face, holding a basket of plastic food, and said, oh-so-calmly, "Implements}} I'm going to murder you with a papaya, earbuds and an AC/DC CD." No kid understood, them being third graders, but I knew very well what my mother was planning to do.

Would this count? I was coming home with a 2-liter of Dr. Pepper my dad sent me out for, when I slipped from ice on the first step from the porch, dropping the Dr. Pepper bottle. It landed on it's cap, which broke. it then flew off, landing in the bushes. Fortunately, it landed neck up, but with most of the soda and bubbles gone.

This troper's friend microwaved an Abba-Zaba candy bar for 45 seconds, against the pressing advice of others. The result was predictable.

This troper once lost to the Hammer Bros in Super Mario RPG. They're the second boss in the game.

The first two Koopa Troopas, anyone? Also, in co-op multiplayer, I (as Mario) and my cousin (as Luigi) had just died at one point in World 7-Fortress, leaving my sister (as the blue Toad) to pop us. She fell off of a platform we needed to control to go up... into the pit at the bottom of that segment.

This Troper played the final mission of Trauma Center Under the Knife 2 against Atheleia (you know, that eyeball on the heart thingie.) I swear, I was winning. Swiftly severing the blood vessels as both doctor and nurse were in their CrowningMomentofAwesome giving their epic speech. I was thinking in how stupid it would be if I failed the last blood vessel. Guess what happened... TWICE!!

This troper is programming an RPG! Yay me! The first fight is a boss battle. Programming oversights in the speed system allowed the boss to take multiple turns in a row. Your first four protagonists' base HP values are 40, 32, 36, and 72. It has 2,000 HP and the most damage you can do with one character in one turn at this point is around sixty. Good luck with that!

To elaborate, the damage formula puts out consistent numbers around 10-20 points every time it attacks. On Easy mode. I still died.

Yay you!

This troper was playing ''The Godfather'' video game just recently, and reached the level where the objective is to sneak into a funeral home of one of the rival families (Tattaglia), kill the henchmen on the main floor, take the elevator to the basement, and kill the man who killed the player's girlfriend. This level was...a little frustrating for me personally, mainly because (if I acted quick enough) I could kill the henchmen on the main floor with almost no difficulty, but I kept getting gunned down by the two men protecting my target in the basement (also, even if I managed to kill him I'd have to start over because there's a specific way you're supposed to kill him). On one of these attempts, I got fed up with trying to shoot at the henchmen protecting my target, and decided to try to kill them using a Molotov. So I take aim, throw...and the Molotov falls down ''just one foot in front of me'' and blows me up. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I have resolved to never join the mafia.

This troper also played this game frequently before she went to college, and also has trouble with Molotovs. She was standing on the outside balcony of a warehouse and saw a bunch of mooks a little way down the road that led to the warehouse and decided to take them all out quickly with a Molotov. She threw it while crouching and the Molotov somehow bounced off the balcony railing and blew up in her face. Worst death ever.

A list of my larger-than-life failures, in reverse chronological order:

On day two of my senior-year AP English class, I was part of a Socratic seminar on "TheGrapesOfWrath." I quite proudly mentioned, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world that Jim Casey his head smashed in by Tom Joad. I didn't speak for three days after that.

During my junior year, Dad and I succeeded in making a beef stew with the taste and texture of cat food. We used but our wits a rickety slow-cooker.

I was practicing volleyball serves in PE. I landed on my feet, somehow fracturing a bone in my right foot in the process. I spent the rest of school, my junior high graduation, and part of summer vacation in a cast and crutches. Eighth grade was a particularly accident-prone year.

A year prior, I chipped a tooth against the edge of a car window by slamming the door. It hit just the tooth. Nothing else. Also on my then-dentist's part as well: He managed to screw up the filling process--TWICE. One powderized after somewhere between six months and a year, the other snapped clean off within weeks. After the second time, my family switched dentistry plans. It worked.

I was a walking case of physical Epic Fail in grade school. A dear friend of mine theorizes this is because I experienced numerous growth spurts during that era (I was 5'2" by the age of 11 and 5'5" by the age of 14), but that doesn't seem enough of a "reason" for continually, without fail, tripping and skinning or cutting my knees and the palms of my hands nearly every week throughout the year. I could trip on a flat surface. I also hated P.E. class because a lot of what we did in them were sports such as flag football or basketball and no one bothered to teach me how to shoot a basket or any of the sports fundamentals (we only concentrated on the rules of the games), so I was always the worst player. I was really pleased about the chance to be a teachers' aide instead of doing P.E. in my 8th grade year and have always hated doing anything that requires physical exertion ever since, in spite of having a sweet P.E. teacher my freshman year of high school.

This Troper's life.

This Troper has up to date: 1) Twisted her wrist while trying to make jam and toast 2) speared her finger with a wooden chopstick by accident in front of her boss 3) Crashed into a tree while cycling slowly 4) Tripped over someone's shoe and sprained her ankle 5) Fallen down a flight of stairs while carrying textbooks 6) Crashed into the front row of desks while running in late during a presentation

A few years ago me and some friends tried to make nitrocellulose in chemistry class, with a small crowd of 7 year old kids watching. You'd think the worst that would happen would be some kind of explosion, but what actually happened was that we filled the entire room with nitrogen dioxide when we tried to light itfor those of you who don't know, nitrogen dioxide is pretty much the definition of DeadlyGas -- brightly coloured, toxic ''and'' corrosive. Luckily no one was hurt (I think it was hot enough that most of it drifted up to the ceiling), but they had to cancel classes in that room for the rest of the day. Of course, the children were too interested in the gas clouds to notice me getting the hell out of there. I'd say they were TooDumbToLive, but really it was my fault for not mentioning the potential danger to anyone.

You got to make nitrocellulose in chem class! Wow. I'd love to try that (toxic NO2 nonwithstanding!).

Recently, my mother and sister engaged in a bit of epic alcoholic drink fail during a family dinner. First, Mom convinced her to split a "Flaming Volcano for two"... and was shocked when she saw them mixing it at the bar: "It actually has ''fire''?! I thought that was just a name!" Neither one was quite sure how to approach drinking it, either, as they were expecting a glass, not... the large bowl-like vessel with a flaming volcano in the middle they actually received. Said drink was also garnished with cherries on plastic sword skewers; my sister promptly attempted to roast the cherries, only to be reminded that oh, yeah... plastic melts. And Mom has a very low tolerance for alcohol, meaning that a few sips left her perfectly plastered, giggling and completely losing her indoor voice.

My sister also once set the stove on fire... while trying to boil water. And then proceeded to call the fire department ''after'' it was put out.

I went to a Five Below with my mother looking for toy Poké Balls for my Pokémon Trainer Halloween costume, but couldn't find any. Eventually I gave up and asked an employee if they sold them. He said yes, then showed us the place where the Poké Balls were...only they turned out to be ''{{Bakugan Battle Brawlers}}'' balls. /facepalm/

This troper went to New York City with her friend and got some water ice. Troper somehow managed to lop off the entire top of her cup of water ice. Her friend attempted to replicate this by tipping her cup to the side...and it didn't work. Troper also managed to splash water out of her water bottle by putting it down on the table and gavew herself a nosebleed just by sneezing. It was obviously not a good day for Troper.

I began and ended my last year at secondary school with two magnificent Epic Fails. '''Day One:''' we had to go to school to get taken to our new classrooms, given our teachers' names, etc. The rendezvous was at 12. I overslept. '''Last Day:''' we were getting our final year certificates and the passes for the University exams. The diploma from the previous level, ESO, was essential. This was an A2-sized card. Somehow, inexplicably, I'd ''lost'' it. I had to ''run'' uphill all the way to school (I was late again), find my mother (who works there, Crowning Moment of Embarrassment) and get her to look for it. We never did find it. (They still gave me the certificate, though.)

On the bright side, this episode consolidated my reputation as a true WalkingDisasterArea.

My sister was making a poster for her club at school and asked me to critique. One of the pieces of paper had bullet points that read "A crowded earth", "Spread of waterborne diseases" and "Struggling third-world citizens" with the header "Crises", and another piece had "NIKA donates all profits by investing organizations who target projects to rid the world of unsafe sanitation" with the header "Our goal". Unfortunately, she accidentally glued "Crises" over the NIKA piece and "Our goal" over the crises.

This troper has cut himself picking up a yogurt container. Not opening it, not playing around with it, just picking it up. I have no idea how.

This troper remember reading in White Dwarf (Games Workshop official WHF/WH41k/LotR paper) about one of the people working at the paper (the editor if I remember it correctly). He had played a game against one of his workmates with his Imperial Guard against the opponents Tyranides. The opponent had chosen a Tyrant (or another big monster) which he focused all his fire on, after two round it had 1 wound left and was killing everything in his fireline a few rounds more and he had lost all his troops and had killed none of the opponents. Epic Fail anyone?

This troper had a friend who managed to fail an invasion in Risk despite outnumbering the enemy army 100-1.

I was trying for an achievement in {{Audiosurf}}, so I plugged Nightwish's "Ghost Love Score" in on Ninja Mono. Nine minutes... maybe more than that, and during the LAST MINUTE (I think. The ending "My love, will be for you," etc. repeated section.) hit a single goddamn grey.

This troper once, at the tender age of 18, attempted to make a frozen pizza. After thirty minutes in the oven and no apparent changes, I was forced to call my father to ask for advice. The problem? I had FORGOTTEN TO TO TAKE THE PIZZA OFF THE CARDBOARD TRAY. The fail did not stop there, as after the pizza was finally done, I attempted to brace it against the back of the oven to pick it up. Turns out there's a gap between the back of the oven and the end of the rack. The pizza slid down the back of the oven and ended up in a pile on the bottom. Another frantic call to dad ensued, who was forced to come over to rescue me from pizza hell.

This Troper once saw a small spider on the table. I don't like spiders, so naturally I reached for my shoe and prepared to crush it. It climbed under the table, so I bobbed my head down for it and smack my head against the table. I was outsmarted by a spider...

This troper once volunteered to be a 'victim' in the local National Guard's Disaster Response drill. My confidence in the ability to survive such an event is now in its proper place. Entertainment we had: #QUOTE# Victims sprawl themselves out over the parking lot of the local stadium and do their best impressions of choking, spasms, delirious agonized screaming, or just plain dead. In 90 degree weather on blacktop, in theatrical makeup to simulate wounds for the triage team. This lasted about half an hour (looking over at the NG trucks, the command center was still being unfolded and the Guardsmen still suiting up-after all, it was simulating a zero notice call. Can't cheat by starting the scenario with everybody all suited up and raring to go!) before somebody in the victim group declared "Guys, the Sarin has killed us all already. Knock it off before heatstroke does too." So we take it easy, slumping over whatever support is available until the NG officer declares it's time for the walking wounded to make their way to the decon tent. Walking wounded? Hell, sir, if we knew we were still able to walk, we woulda mobbed you guys straightaway, howling for help...you know that scene in Robocop, where the goon that drove into the tank of toxic waste bearhugs his buddy? Yeah, you woulda gotten that times a hundred the moment we saw the first ambulance pull up. #QUOTE# Zombie walk to the decon tent, simulating victims that have been blinded by mustard gas, disoriented by nerve gas, just plain shell shocked, take your pick. Fall over a few times on purpose. Notice Guardsman standing like an idiot in the corner. Go OOC and look him straight in the face. "Hey mate, I'm supposed to be all f*cked up here, a little help?"

At this troper's middle school promotion ceremony, some people got bored and started running around the football field in their boxers. Only the students noticed.

During a multiple choice biology test, one of the kids thought he'd be smart and circled all the letters for each question. The teacher asked him why. He said that was to ensure that he got the correct answer. The teacher then said that for every correct answer, he had three wrong ones. He got a negative score and an D- for the grading quarter.

During a middle school spelling bee, this troper misspelled the only word in the entire round that she actually knew.

During a soccer game in high school gym, this troper was distracted and ended up taking a soccer ball to the side of the head for his troubles (a lot of people like to kick the thing as hard as they can). This resulted in a minor concussion (but a major headache).

This troper couldn't find his glasses one morning, after an extended and increasingly frantic search of his headboard, he noticed his vision seemed unusually clear: ''he had already put them on!'' He gets it from his dad, who recently couldn't find a camera he was '''holding in his hand'''.

This troper is prone to similar situations.

HG131 can beat you. I once called my father asking where my cell phone was. On my cell phone.

I went to get something off of my mother's nightstand after she offered to give the item in question to me, and walked into my room. Apparently I have forgotten how to navigate my own home...

No one will believe me when I tell them this, but while playing ''Pokemon Red'', I managed to make my way to Mewtwo with my Master Ball intact, took it down to near-death, threw the Master Ball...and watched helplessly as the damn genetic abomination broke out. Yes, somehow I managed to hit that elusive 1 out of 65536 chance of the Master Ball ''failing''. Ended up wasting almost all of my other Pokeballs trying to get it, afterward.

This troper once read the introduction of a book on Shakespeare's sonnets that said that the editor/author was "A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature" twice, as well as a professor in English. I facepalmed at the irony while trying my hardest not to laugh at the fail.

Sit down, this will take awhile. This troper has a... bit of a impulse problem and when it really starts getting to her, she runs threw her house to alleviate her nerves. Anyway, one day she was at the house of a perspective boyfriend and the symptoms were starting to show. I managed to hold off for most of the afternoon... until my favorite show came on. Before I could comprehend what I was doing and stop myself, I took off down the hall as fast as I could, blasting right past him and his dog. That's not the fail, there's more. By the time I did realize what I was doing, I was two seconds from careening into a wall. Which I did. Knocking over a ball, a coffee table, his cellphone and two picture frames, one of which broke under me. Needless to say, we ain't together.

Once upon a time, this troper shut her bedroom door and went out to go and get herself some pudding. She then made her way back to her bedroom where she walked ''headfirst'' into the door, forgetting that she had locked it. She can't her head around that one. That and there was that time with the toaster...

This troper can beat that one - while doing some warmups inside for Track, the team was jogging laps through the halls. I start jogging backward so I can continue a conversation, and... crack the back of my head against the glass dividers the doors go into.

This troper tends to be a walking Epic Fail; she's run into a wall while going down the stairs, has a tendency to lose her balance just standing on both feet, and accidentally felt up a friend by opening a door.

ThisTroper got his head handed to him in just the ''second'' fight in an RPG. The game in question was ''RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure''.

My dad managed to light Jiffy Pop on fire just by cooking it. The foil began to expand, then went up in flames.

Mom: "Okay, just use the second one."

Dad: "This IS the second one."

This troper managed to break a window trying to kill a bug.

This troper was playing Mario Tennis with her older cousin, who was an avid gamer, imo. He brought three controllers with him, but since no one else wanted to play with us, he decided to play with his foot. At this time, He was way better at this game than I was, since I hadn't been playing videogames very long. Well, we played very hard through out the whole thing. Guess who won. His foot.

This troper once paid over a hundred dollars for one pizza because she forgot how money worked. And not as a little kid; this was about age seventeen.

This One somehow managed to set a bag of popcorn on fire in a microwave. Just to be clear, the plastic wrapping was not on the bag, the inside of the microwave was clean, and she had set it to the exact time and settings she always used for popcorn. Her friend Jason caught and managed to extinguish the fire before it got out of hand. He was hugely amused at this Troper's epic, though innocent and unexplained, failure.

Making Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is simple. Boil macaroni. Wait. Strain macaroni. Add margarine, milk, cheese. I forgot the "strain" part, and am now staring at a bowl of mac and cheese soup. Still tasty, at least.

In fifth grade we had to apply the loose pages of our class tests into our notebooks. Several pupils used glue to glue one sheet on one page of the book. Some of the pages had both sides being written on...

One time, this troper was playing baseball in the backyard of a friend's house. I was batting right handed with no helmet when I hit the ball and the right side of my head. Had a very nice bump after that.

On BatmanArkhamAsylum, this troper was taking out the {{Mooks}} one by one. He was on the last one, and he saw the prompt to glide kick. He does so, and Batman glides off...and lands on the railing. The mook fires point blank multiple times. Cue his first game over screen.

I watched someone fail to make cotton candy balls. Yes, refined sugar, with some mild flavoring, mashed into a ball. This was a After the Seniors Left chemistry lab activity. In the space of an hour this person A) Broke a mortar and pestle, B) Blew out a Bunsen burner and C) Melted two 300 mL beakers. I'd say he was TooDumbToLive, but he was one of the smarter students. LethalChef, maybe?

This Troper once walked into a glass door in my own residence like a stupid bird. At least birds have an excuse of being unfamiliar with glass doors -- this was a door I knew about for years, and I still slammed into it.

Once, my mom was helping me with a little project I was working on, that required the us of super glue. I asked her to open the bottle for me (it was stuck), and upon opening it, she thought it was empty. So, she tried to show me... only for super glue to pour out onto my jeans. But guess what, it gets better! Apparently, along with my jeans getting stuck to my leg, a chemical reaction was apparently happening, HEATING UP MY JEANS. The ultimate end result was a pair of ruined jeans ''and three holes burnt into my leg''.

During High School, I probably had the heaviest bookbag as I tended to carry almost every book since I didn't want to bother with my locker. Well, one day in math class, just as we were getting ready for the bell to leave the room, I slung my backpack over my shoulder, and promptly fell over, desk and all. Gravity is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

An officer in a Latin dance club in college, the other officers and I were assigned families to head at the beginning of the semester for the purposes of hanging out and organizing dance-related outings and whatnot. One day, watching some random people in the club practicing, I introduced myself to one of the members, telling him I didn't think we'd met. He gave me a weird look, saying "Uh...I'm Abel?" A couple seconds of sinking in later, my eyes widened in horror; this guy was in my family. I quickly tried to recall everything I knew about him off the top of my head, and vocally reminded myself he's the guy with two Facebook profiles. Cue his explaining to me one of said profiles was his twin brother's.

Please tell me the other one was named Cain.

This Troper has managed to die in ''TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' in some of the dumbest ways possible. The one that takes the cake? I managed to die in the house in Kakariko Village and I didn't know you were ''supposed'' to leave the house. Maybe if Midna would tell me to leave the house clearly, instead of a vague message. Cue NonStandardGameOver and me dumbfounded. No wonder I suck at this game.

My quest to get a driver's license has had some moments of EpicFail. One I specifically remember is making a turnabout (turning right and backing up the car into a small alley, then turning left and driving away). The good news is, I got it right. The bad news is, I was off the road and onto the grass. This happened while road practicing, not on the actual test, so I didn't fail it (Still, it does count as EpicFail because I was trying to do it without the instructor guiding me).

Another tale of Driving Epic Fail: I'm driving on a long stretch of Kentucky road that was sloping downward. I see a black, white, and furry mass on the road (most likely a dead animal) and try to swerve out of its way. I end up hitting it because my driving instructor somehow knew I was going to hit it when I really wasn't. He then tells me that the animal I hit was a skunk. So, congratulations to me; I hit a dead skunk. Couple days after that, I got my license (which also got a rocky start when I nearly drove on the sidewalk during my road test. I averted disaster, but still, that's no way to start a road test for a 25-year-old who never had a road test in her life).

Once I was playin SuperSmashBros Brawl with my little sisters, I was Mario, and she was {{Kirby}}. she got the final smash, cook kirby-that is, cook your opponent-and SHE jumped into the cooking pot instead of me.

This Troper's friend (who we shall call M) has eating/drinking issues... Drinking issue: Two months ago we are on lunch break, he has this GIANT water bottle he goes to take a drink but the bottle falls a few inches short of his mouth and (thankfully) lands low enough on his pants to not make people think he wet himself...and he had a completely normal expression the whole time to boot! Eating issue: About a year before that, I am eating lunch with another friend (who shall be known as A). She goes to the vending machine and ends up getting an ALREADY OPENED bag of either cheetoes or Doritoes (I forget which bag comes first) we get grossed out, she leaves the bag in the middle of the table and goes and buys the other aforementioned bag. About halfway into lunch, I'm talking to her when this happens: (sees M eating something out of the corner of her eye) Me: Oh My God A look! (Points) A: Oh My God M what are you doing?!? M: Um, eating? A and me alternately: Yeah, a bag of contaminated (insert first bag here) M: What? (A explains about the bag) M: (spits and throws the bag somewhere) WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?! Me and A: (dying of laughter) Did you NOT notice it was already open? M: I thought one of you did it!

Time for a SenseiLeRoof high school chem story! I don't remember what the intended goal of this particular experiment was, mind, but it involved sugar, especially crushing and heating by way of mortar and pestle. Everyone else's experiment worked as directed. My lab partner and I followed the exact same rules with the exact same instruments, but somehow wound up making an insane ultra-glue that held the mortar lid tight. To this day I don't know if that situation was ever undone or repeated. (I thought I had this story somewhere else on-site but I couldn't find it, so here it goeth.)

This Troper has a friend who does this on occasion. The most noticeable moment of all would have to be when he walked into a TV at a Game Store. It was completely in his ability to avoid it, yet he walked head first into it. All it would have taken was to step a little to the left or move his head and he wouldn't have hit it. Somehow he managed otherwise.

This troper remembers seeing somebody playing SteelBattalion for the first time. After watching the opening cutscene of the first mission, where the base the main character is at is attacked and crippled, leaving the main character, who's never even had simulation training with a VT, as the sole protector of the base as he decides to go jump in a VT and fight off the attacking forces single-handedly. The mission ended a few minutes later after the player killed one enemy VT and was then spectacularily shot down without ejecting. This troper considers it a prime example of how FallingIntoTheCockpit would end in real life (it was in fact such an epic fail, the game apparently decided to forgo its infamous "die and your save file is erased" system and give him another shot.)

Trying to headbang with glasses normally results in this. Trust me, I've tried.

Playing Mario Kart 64 on Koopa Troopa Beach - You know the ramp that leads to the tunnel shortcut? I tried to hit it, but I fell off the left side and hit the tree, thus spinning out. Then I realized that somehow, I had accidentally put down a trick block in front of me. So I hit that before I could stop myself. Then Peach put a banana peel in front of me and I hit that when I landed. There was never as much fail in the history of Mario Kart than there was at that moment.

I managed to catch a sewing machine on fire while making pajama pants in 9th grade Home Ec.

This troper once saw "back" spelled "bhasack". How that's even possible is another story...

This troper's gym class recently entered a volleyball unit, and we had to partner up on the first day to practice volleying the ball back and forth. I partnered up with a friend/acquaintance of mine, who knows firsthand that I could probably spend hours bemoaning my lack of athletic skill and just as much time laughing at myself for it. So, naturally, I was doing both of these things as we were playing, and several times, I hit the ball in such a way that it came close to going into the basketball goal. I did not hesitate to point this out to the other girl, who, like me, just sort of laughed it off. When it inevitably ''did'' go into the basketball goal, it wasn't nearly as funny as it would have been had I not mentioned it, but it was still a CrowningMomentOfFunny and no less of an EpicFail. I even had to ask my kid brother if it was a fail or a win, and he said he didn't know.

In ''LeagueOfLegends'', this troper was playing Teemo and Nunu yelled "EpicFail" at me because I got ganked and Teemo can't survive having Nunu, Nocturne, and Warwick all wailing on him at once. Nunu, who is already at around 60 or so health from being poisoned by me proceeds to walk ''headfirst into a mushroom'' that he ''saw me place'' in ''the middle of the lane'' to catch minions.

In a Subway in San Antonio, someone somehow lit the urinal on fire.

This troper once poked his dad in th eye while trying to give him a hug.

This Troper was playing Castlevania III the other day and successfully got hit WITHOUT GETTING KNOCKED BACK!!:D Trevor then miraculously fell toward the pit right before he hit the ground. ON MY LAST LIFE >:^^

This troper once tried CPR for a PDHPE class. I broke the dummy. I don't know how, I was performing CPR and there was a clunk, and then a piece broke off.

That's when you be melodramatic and showy :)

This troper's brother asked him how to make a half boiled egg. Told him to leave it boiling for two minutes. It didn't occur to him to let the water boil over before putting the egg in and got a still raw egg when he cracked it open.

This troper and her male friend in second or third grade left the art room during an after-school art club (I don't remember why), and ended up walking around the school for 15 minutes trying to find the art room again. And neither of us were new to the school.

This troper has a habit of biting holes in the bottoms of plastic water bottles and drinking out of those. One day, she had a water bottle and forgot that there was a hole in the bottom, so she picked it up and unscrewed the lid to take a sip. She noticed water dripping out of the hole in the bottom, and reflexively turned the bottle back upside-down... without putting the lid back on first. Water EVERYWHERE.

This troper once cracked a rib playing frisbee

My friends and I were playing basketball against two of the PE teachers for school (the score was 10-5 by the way--we lost). As the ball came back down one of the teachers and I jumped for the ball. I slapped it away and we ended up both running after it. I don't exactly remember what happened here, but I think the ball flew through the air and hit me in the head. The teacher and I both slapped the ball ''really hard'' and it bounced off the wall and hit me ''again''. I know I have bad luck, but ''C'MON!!''

This troper went to his friends house and ended up coming back with A Broken (and bloody) nose and 11 (My mother counted when she pulled them out) spelks. The sad part is that all of that was by accident and I got the 11 spelks by resting my hand on the fence while on a trampoline.

In addition, once my friend tried to throw a frisbee and I intended to run up to it and catch it. I failed. It curved somehow and hit me in the eye. I had to go home. Jackpot. No Tuesday Afternoon at school.

In English today, this troper kept trying to spell "Whoever" W-O-H-E-V-R-R. Did this about, oh, six times. And I have no excuse; I'm 18 and have an expansive vocabulary :)

So my neighbour had to go out for about two weeks for a volunteer ranger thing. Because her husband (who is in his 40s) never cooked for himself and more or less lived on stuff that never required even the use of a microwave (like cereal, tuna, salads, or sandwiches). So whiel she was gone, she left a bunch of frozen dinners like pizza for him. The first night she's gone,e he puts the pizza in the stove...upside down, and without even unwrapping it.

There have been a few in my lifetime:

Losing balance when helping carry a rather large bass amp... which landed on my face.

Giving myself a paper cut. On the face. During a chemistry exam.

Not realising there were stairs just outside the building I was exiting. Ow.

Tripping over a "wet floor" sign after managing to avoid the wet bit of the floor.

During a pep rally in this troper's Senior year of High School, both I and a classmate from the Cross-Country team were wearing the "tearaway" pants, with buttons down the sides. When our mini-event comes up (5 teams - each of the 4 classes, plus a teacher team competing in a relay race), I tear mine off at the starting line without a problem, revealing the ''very'' short X-Country shorts. Cue my teammate running out into the center of the gym to do so... and having most of the buttons ''not'' separate. He almost fell right on his ass because he tugged at his pants.

Same troper, back in 8th grade, had to have an incisor surgically brought into position (long story). A few weeks later, I'm helping move chairs for a choir/band concert, and 2 of them are stuck together. I, being one of the taller kids there, ask one of the other kids to hold the bottom chair in place while I lift up the top one... with my head directly over the back of the chair. Wound up having a root canal on the tooth that had recently been brought down.

Deleting my Disc 3 ''FinalFantasyVII'' save by accident. I still haven't beaten the game.

@/{{Fishsicles}}, in the midst of constructing his new server box, made the mistake of downloading a 32-bit operating system. For a machine with 16 gigabytes of RAM. As one of my friends put it, "You know what a 32 bit OS does with 16 gigs of RAM? Ignores 12 of them!" I have a feeling that this will be a NeverLiveItDown moment...

Whoever was in charge of making the 2011 yearbook at this troper's school somehow mislabeled our (male) principal as a girl.

This troper once forgot "what makes the 'z' sound". The person she asked also didn't know.