THE A-Z OF FAILURES

How to be A Failure (Part K)

Making the mistakes so you don’t have to

Image by Gerd Altmann: on Pixabay

I have already shared two of my K failures in other stories: Kangaroo identification and Koans.

Don’t worry, there are more to come.

I was tossing up between Knitting, Knots, Kung-fu and Knowing When To Shut Up. I asked my husband, Roger, for his input, and he suggested Kitchen Skills. I told him to watch out because my Knife skills are excellent.

Photo by author. Look how pleasant the weather was before I left the narrowboat tied up.

Knots. Once when I tied a canal boat to a towpath and went to a nearby pub, my knots failed. They didn’t hold when the wind got up, and I received a call from someone sounding very cross, who was ringing to inform me that the hired narrowboat was loose, gaining speed and heading for a weir.

I don’t do running, but I had to break into a swift trot to rescue it. Vicious swearing was involved.

Knowledge is another arena I fail in. It was 1987 when I joined a group for new mums. It was not long before I was invited to their first social event: a Trivial Pursuit night for couples.