The A to Z of Failures

How to Be a Failure (Part D)

Making the mistakes so you don’t have to

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Success is next to useless. It teaches you so little, and your ego is apt to get out of control. Journey with me to the land of Failure. It is full of benefits: you learn stuff, you learn resilience, and you learn to laugh at yourself. Plus, you won’t need to invest in brightly-coloured trousers to tame your ego. It’s a win-win.

Directions and destinations

My husband Roger inspired this section. I was going to go with Dating, but he pointed out that I am more of a failure in the arena of directions and destinations. He would say that, of course, because I dated him, and we don’t want anyone thinking that was a failure, now do we? (Subscribe now, so you don’t miss Part M for Marriage).

Roger has spent the entire week reminding me of my numerous D failures. Bless him.

• The time I took him to Venice for a romantic weekend, and we ended up in Vienna. I’m still trying to figure that one out myself.
• The time he was backing out of a driveway onto a busy road, and my direction: “No cars coming”, was misconstrued with disastrous consequences. We had a bit of an argument about Punctuation. I had clearly said, “No! Car’s coming,” indicating he should…