1. I Think You Forgot Something

The Job: To smoothly tarmac a new road
The Mess Up: Forgetting to pick up the shovel
The Cost: $500+*

Potholes are a motorist’s arch-nemesis, so when the local authority does finally decide to resurface a road, it’s usually smiles all around. Of course, the job has to be done properly to make sure that it’s not holier than Swiss cheese in a few short years, but surely, professionals know what they’re doing, right? 

Apparently not. In this case, everything went smoothly until some bright spark put down a shovel and forgot to pick it up again. The result was this disaster on an otherwise perfect road. This isn’t something that can be lived down, and it won’t be cheap to fix, either.