Funny True Stories About People Making Things Worse
There is a special kind of human confidence that appears right before disaster. You can hear it in phrases like “I’ve got this,” “watch this,” “it’ll only take a second,” and the most legally dangerous sentence in the English language, “how hard can it be?” The funniest true stories are rarely about the first mistake. Anyone can spill coffee, lock themselves out, send a text to the wrong person, or lie to a child about where hamsters go when they retire. The real comedy
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There is a special kind of human confidence that appears right before disaster. You can hear it in phrases like “I’ve got this,” “watch this,” “it’ll only take a second,” and the most legally dangerous sentence in the English language, “how hard can it be?” The funniest true stories are rarely about the first mistake. Anyone can spill coffee, lock themselves out, send a text to the wrong person, or lie to a child about where hamsters go when they retire. The real comedy
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