# Your Costliest Mistake? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525 "2003-06-26T15:03:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/41 "2003-06-28T21:15:33Z")
Not selling all my shares and options in the company I work for when the stock peaked. I would have grossed over $500,000. :smack: :smack: :smack: The stock is now at about 1/8th the value, but it was even lower about 6 months ago, so is on the upswing. Many of my friends got laid off back then and were forced to exercise and sell their options at the stocks historic low. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/42 "2003-06-28T22:00:07Z")
**Laughing** , my old roommate was one of the first employees of Amazon. He hung onto his (massive amounts of) stock all … the … way … down. He’s still got it, at least, so there’s still hope! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/43 "2003-06-28T23:39:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*Being the quickest sperm. \*\* Having or being? ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/44 "2003-06-29T00:11:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by masonite \* > \*\ ***Laughing** , my old roommate was one of the first employees of Amazon. He hung onto his (massive amounts of) stock all … the … way … down. He’s still got it, at least, so there’s still hope! \*\* Yes, that’s what I keep telling myself: there’s still hope, there’s still hope. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/45 "2003-06-29T00:43:20Z")
Don’t feel so bad if you still have the stock- To me I view things like stocks as only valued in $$ when they are actually sold/excersised/whatever. My costliest mistake? Taking a wrong turn on the way to getting my photo ID for work, and winding up getting in a car accident, deemed my fault (long story). Had to replace the car, and combined with increased insurance costs, is costing me about $6,980. My mother, being the saint she is, loaned me a sizable sum (5 thousand) to help replace the car. However, as of this post, I still currently owe her $4,000. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lorinada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/46 "2003-06-29T01:11:19Z")
Relying on the _Today Sponge_. Should have learned my lesson the first time when I had to go to the ER to have it removed because it had _turned around_. And no, the sex was _not_ that good! ---
**Author:** ![Govindha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@Govindha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Govindha)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/47 "2003-06-29T01:19:46Z")
Between smoking crack, a dwi conviction and a violent crime in which I was also convicted I’d say It’s all been rather costly. I’ve learned that asaulting people with pipes is wrong, driving drunk is bad and wasting money on a 3minute high to only get a life time of craving is dumb. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/48 "2003-06-29T18:39:15Z")
**Lobsang** , how do you know you weren’t the egg ??? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stranger\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@The\_Stranger\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stranger_1)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/49 "2003-06-29T19:19:22Z")
Rode $250 large worth of a tech stock down to $14,000 before I bailed. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/50 "2003-06-29T19:22:10Z")
Not believing the president of the company (as he was preparing to bail out) that I absolutely needed to get everything they promised me in writing, because the new management would lie and steal from me without batting an eye. I didn’t listen. I am now sorry. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/51 "2003-06-30T03:00:48Z")
My ex-boyfriend. Spent about a thousand bucks in total visiting him during the time that we were dating (it was a long-distance relationship). You know, plane/train tickets, transportation to the airport, money to spend while I was there, etc. A good 130 which was spent on plane tickets I never used. The relationship ended up ending quite brutally for me. I know, a single K isn’t that much compared to some of the other people in this thread…but at the time I was an 18 year-old college student. It was a lot of money for me. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525/52 "2003-06-30T05:14:55Z")
Listening to my dad (a stock broker), and actually acting on his advice. Sold some of the best-ever performing stock that I’d held for a long time, incurring $12K of capital gains taxes. Invest the money in a “can’t miss” stock recommended by pop. Lose over $75K in one year. Have to fight asking my dad “and you do this for a LIVING?” every time I talk to him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-costliest-mistake/184525.md?page=2)