Tweeters have been sharing the stupid things they can admit to on a public forum – 23 of the best/worst

13.

I work for the govt. I called IT support once to unblock an email. He unblocked it. It was a video of a naked woman washing a car from the perspective of the driver. I was shaking with embarrassment- I couldn't close it quickly enough. Mortified doesn't cut it. 10 yrs on, dying

— Anita Athi (@nitabooathi) August 17, 2022

14.

Went to the national archives, took hundreds of photos. At some point I’d accidentally flipped to the front camera and about 25 of the photos were just variations of this: pic.twitter.com/6xQvJQZlwy

— Dr Fi Bowler (@FionaBowler) August 17, 2022

15.

I once accidentally projected my nudes instead of my presentation onto a cinema-size screen in a full auditorium at a conference where I was a keynote speaker.

— Hugh Smithson-Wright (@HRWright) August 17, 2022

16.

aah, the time I sent the front page of Guardian Weekly to print sites in London, New York and Sydney with a typo in the splash head. Three of us had signed off on it, but it was my fault because I released the page. And I had to phone all the sites and get them to stop the run.

— Kate Bevan 🇺🇦 (@katebevan) August 17, 2022

17.

i once got a Nespresso engineer out who said I'd just forgotten to switch it on

— Matthew Gwyther (@MatthewGwyther) August 17, 2022

18.

I threw my passport in the bin as I left the plane.

— Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 (@arthistorynews) August 17, 2022

19.

Reporting on two court stories in one day in previous job – got headshots mixed up, man actually accused of minor offence was pictured being accused of sexual crimes. Fun!

— Jon Brady (@jonbradyphoto) August 17, 2022

20.

Couldn't get an aftershave spray to work, so I held it up to my eyes to see what the problem was and pressed the nozzle again.

— Tom Freeman (@SnoozeInBrief) August 17, 2022

21.

I jumped into a creek chasing a frisbee and forgot about the iPhone and very expensive vape thing in my pocket. About a 1000 bucks of broken electronics for a 10 dollar frisbee.

— John Bear (@johnbearwithme) August 17, 2022

22.

Boiled kettle. Spooned some coffee into cafetiere. Poured the hot water into the coffee can.

— Andy Horton (@fechtbuch) August 17, 2022

23.

I was carrying an egg in one hand and a dish cloth in the other, intending to put the egg away and wipe out a cupboard. I thought I’d throw the cloth into the cupboard on my way to the egg box, but no, I straight up threw the egg into the cupboard.

— Naith Payton 🏳️‍🌈⚽️ (@qbnaith) August 17, 2022

To make Sathnam feel better, hopefully, Donald H Taylor shared this anecdote about another author.

TE Lawrence left the manuscript for The Seven Pillars of Wisdom at Reading Station and had to re-write it.

Clarification: I am not TE Lawrence

— Donald H Taylor (@DonaldHTaylor) August 17, 2022

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