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Ever felt really daft?.......

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I started distance learning through a large state university to get my master's degree 20 years after finishing my bachelor's at a smaller local university. There was a lot of technology to learn at once and I was a little overwhelmed. My second semester, I had trouble doing the online registration. I kept getting the message that I was ineligible for the course that I was trying to register for. I contacted the representative of the college in which I was enrolled and she said the college had changed its name since I registered and it was possible that I hadn't been switched correctly. I called the registration office who said my category was fine and hung up on me. I sent a request to the help desk and the girl was nice, but couldn't figure out why I was having problems. Finally, I posted on the advising bulletin board. I was fuming that no one would help me so I decided to try it again myself. There were five little boxes on the registration form and the course numbers were five digits long so I had been putting one digit per box. I decided to try putting the whole number in one box and, voila, success! The other boxes were for additional courses so you could register for up to five classes at once! I was so embarrassed that I hadn't figured it out sooner- especially since I had obviously done it right my first semester! Fine master's material I was! I quietly deleted my help request. Honestly, though, they could have had a more informative error message in their system! I managed to do it right every semester after that! :?

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Ok, here's my embarrassing story. About 15 years ago, OH and I were travelling back to Stockholm from one of the outer islands by ferry. We arrived at the quay in Stockholm at around 11 pm. There were loads of people in a rush to disembark and the quayside was very crowded. I turned sharp left off the boat but there was some slow moving pedestrian in my way so I stepped smartly to the left to go round him....and fell 10 feet straight into the harbour!! :oops: my only defence is: well it was very dark!

 

At least the cold water cooled my burning face! I had to travel across the city in soaking wet clothes.

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