Inequality

This thread is about mistakes: How you made them, what you did to fix them and how you make sure you will never do them again.

The title comes from my memories of trying to cut a pie into equal slices... Then I get to the last slice and realize I have messed up terribly, and I'll either get one huge slice or two tiny slices for the last cut. (Fixed that by just cutting it in half, then cutting each half in half, etc.)

Last night I whipped up some no-bake chocolate cheesecake (no-bake, but not from a mix - I used real cream cheese, cocoa, etc.) and used it as icing for an industrial size pan of brownies.

But...

Just as I was trying to get to sleep last night, I realized I FORGOT TO PUT SUGAR in it!

Okay. Okay, no problem. I scraped the icing off, which was really an awful lot of scraping for that size pan, and dumped it back in the mixing bowl. Then I heated the mixing bowl over a stove eye, stirring until it was at least not solid any more. Then I added powdered sugar, re-whipped, re-poured and re-spread it.

(Unfortunately there is no part here about making sure I will never make that mistake again. I have no idea how to safeguard against this kind of thing.)

Nobody will ever know. At least not at church, which is where these are going. YOU won't tell them.

So what mistakes have you made, how did you fix them and how did you make sure it will never happen again?

Ever notice how I often announce very clearly at the top of the first post what this thread is about? Ever notice how some people don't even read it?

I am now taking bets on how many people will make posts about racial stuff.

1-3 people at 7 to 2. 4-6 people at 1 to 1. 7-9 people at 3 to 8. (That's the list of betting odds, for those who don't do betting.)

Write "sugar" on a post it note, stick it on the wall above the sink so you see it a lot? Next time you whip this up it will come to your remembrance?
Now, about a racial/ethnic message...... What goes Clip-clop, clip clop, bang bang bang, clip clop clip clop? A drive by shooting in an Amish community.
blessings

Why is sugar white? It's racist of course. The natural color of sugar is more brownish, but whites turned it white... draw your own conclusions...

I've made so many mistakes during my life... many haven't been fixed I just try not to repeat them. Thankfully Jesus has forgiven me, and continues to forgive me when I blunder.

I married without really knowing my spouse. Back then I didn't have the experience to know that not everyone is basically good. I can only blame myself today for all I've experienced over the years from our wedding day to today. I know that none of us are "good", but when I say good I'm speaking from a human perspective.

I once lived in a farm house in the middle of an orchard. I was a kid, 17 or maybe 18 years old at the time. I got the insane idea to throw a big party. There was a live band. Someone stole a sailboat and filled it with ice and beer. A nearby radio station mentioned the massive number of cars parked on the side of the rural road and shared that there must be a party nearby. That led to massive numbers of additional people showing up. Windows got broken. The irrigation system was damaged. A couple of orange trees were destroyed. Someone stole my keys that were clipped to my bib overalls. To this day I'm embarrassed by my stupidity when I think about that night. I lost a friend I was sharing the house with, or who was sharing it with me. I got immediately evicted. Apparently police came but chose not to enter the property because the crowd was just to large and they didn't have the manpower. Thankfully they didn't come for me the next day. My life became a little more sober after that. Thankfully I found Christ during my 19th year.

When I was in elementary school I stole some candy from a store while with some friends who encouraged that behavior. I'd of never thought to do anything like that on my own. When I was older I went to every business I could think of that I had wronged and paid restitution.

That's enough about me, what about you?

Some of the most entertaining threads we've ever had have been clear bait-and-switches -- when some people can't be bothered to read the first post, but feels some kind of compulsive need to answer anyways after only reading the title.

I mean, reading a first post to see what a thread is actually about? Ain't nobody got time for that! (But yet there's plenty of time to make a passionate answer.)

I make plenty of mistakes. And I try to take precautions not to repeat them, but inevitably... I seem to make the same mistakes over and over again (setting containers just a LITTLE too far on the edge of a counter, staying up too late reading and paying for it the next day, etc.)

But I'm not here to talk about that.

I'm here to make my contribution to complaining about inequality!!! WHY IS IT THAT SO MANY OF THE PRODUCTS I NEED AT THE GROCERY STORE ARE ON THE TOP SHELF?

This is inequality against short people, and I demand that it stop!!!

Someone shouldn't need to be 6'2" in order to buy things at the grocery store, I tell ya!

I will not stop complaining until these mass examples of vertical inequality are remedied!! (Or until a tall person volunteers to go grocery shopping with me.) Grr!

During the hot and humid summer last year, I made the mistake of flinging an open jar of coconut oil I was holding on to. I found out it was really hard to clean off the linoleum. While I was cleaning it up, I was actually shining the floor.

How I make mistakes: clicking on threads started by 2 certain members who shall remain nameless, but for the sake of discussion I will say that I am seouly searching for a wild cat who hangs around here.

What I did to fix them: who says I've fixed those mistakes? Heck, who says I even want to? Sometimes mistakes can turn into a good thing; like one time I was making some sort of peanut brittle or similar candy from scratch and totally missed the stage it needed to reach before moving on (something like that wildcat here mentioning forgetting to add sugar). Well, I thought I would fix it by running the steps again and trying to catch where I had messed up, but instead of fixing the problem it completely changed the candy that was being made. Because I had cooked the candy a second time it somehow never reached the temp for the stage it needed to be and I ended up with some soft, chewy thing like an old fashioned caramel instead of hard and crunchy like peanut brittle. The best part, I was going to toss the whole thing and start again but my husband stopped me and said it tasted great and to just use this boo-boo instead. The person it was gifted too LOVED it and this big batch of candy was gone before the end of the visit! Now if I could just figure out what the mistake was and redo it.

How will I make sure I will never do it again? Like I'm going to stop clicking on certain persons threads?
Okay, okay! I'll never click on them again


HEY LOOK! A thread about cheese!
*GG clicks away to the cheesiest thread...
https://christianchat.com/christian-family-forum/lets-make-the-cheesiest-thread-in-the-world.218006/

Yea, I thought I made a mistake once, but, alas, I found out I was wrong.

stinkin' or 'mistaken' thinkin'? lol ♫ 😇 ↑

I've started the coffee machine without coffee. No big deal but it is when you don't have time to wait for it.

Today I made a terrible mistake.

I came to this thread thinking it was about deep political or cultural world-changing issues...
only to discover it's really about pie.

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I'm here for the pie...

(I hope it's apple!)

You made another mistake. It's really about brownies. Specifically the chocolate cheesecake I used for icing. That is, if no bake cheesecake can be considered real cheesecake...

It's real at my house

Lol!

I've heard there's a support group/intervention for that...

However, I can't tell you what kind of a success rate it has.

I mean, I've been saying I need an intervention for Lynx's sarcasm (and vocabulary!) for years...

And now I'm at a point where I subjected to it almost every day (along with regular trips to Google to look up the meaning of half the words he uses.)

I just found out I made another mistake.

That thing tonight that I was making the brownies for, that is next Friday, not tonight.

I sliced the brownies, put a lid on the pan and stuck it in the freezer. I will set it out in the fridge to thaw next Thursday morning, probably.

This is completely my own fault. The dates are on the church calendar. I can't blame anybody except myself for this particular mistake.

Let's talk about DEI hires in the US government. Supposedly based on iniquity. Nah, just kidding. Love cheesecake by the way. You're the man!

Eat the brownies now. Make another batch later. Or not.

Well I didn't freeze ALL of them...

What? It was a very large batch. It could stand to miss a few.

Exactly. You should feel no guilt on nibbling on a few of the brownies. Go for it.