# Mistakes that were actually pretty cool

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-that-were-actually-pretty-cool/807501 "2018-01-26T03:43:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-that-were-actually-pretty-cool/807501/1 "2018-01-26T03:43:08Z")

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I have a folder on my desktop named “RWNO”. It was supposed to be named “TEMP” but my fingers were positioned wrong on the keyboard. It looks kinda nifty, though, so I never fixed it.

What mistakes have you made that turned out pretty cool in hindsight?

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-that-were-actually-pretty-cool/807501/2 "2018-01-26T07:14:50Z")

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Don’t tell her, but I accidentally got pregnant with the lil’wrekker. It’s cool because she is the blessing of my life. I have enjoyed every phase of her growth. I dreaded her leaving for college, but this, too, has turned into an adventure for me. And so far, a source of pride. I love my 2 older kids, but she has just been a delight, in every way.

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-that-were-actually-pretty-cool/807501/3 "2018-01-27T07:57:38Z")

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A friend of mine was eating nachos and drinking a glass of Amstel Light. As she manoeuvred a loaded chip from platter to mouth, a couple jalapeño slices fell into her glass. She’s hooked on that now, and has converted several others. They never drink the one without the other. And I gotta say, it does give that otherwise bland beer a nice kick.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-that-were-actually-pretty-cool/807501/4 "2018-01-27T14:27:46Z")

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I was north of Santa Fe and wanted to sleep near Alamosa Colorado to get to the Great Sand Dunes National Park early in the morning. Well, I didn’t (and still don’t) have GPS and there were no signs on the road so I wasn’t sure I was going the right way. I decided to keep going until I saw a road sign, and went up and up through a canyon until I crested a hill and saw [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Gorge#/media/File:Rio_Grande_Gorge_2.jpg) in the distance. I recognized it from pictures so I knew I had mistakenly gone to Taos. So I slept there instead and saw the gorge from the bridge which was great.

The worst part was that I took a wrong right turn in Santa Fe, not Albuquerque, so I couldn’t say “I know I should have taken a left at Albuquerque.”