Prompted from my thread about harsh racing conditions, what predicaments have you gotten into in general life?  In particular, things that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time until things started to go pearshaped.     

In my own case, I immediately think of my days when I was spending more time rockclimbing than I was spending at school.  I was at least as obsessed and committed a climber as I was later in life as a cyclist.

Probably one of the first obvious ones for this thread is - deciding that the weather was too bad to climb anything 'serious' and so instead deciding to go and solo a very long easy climb.  "Solo" meaning climbing alone and without ropes.  Anyway, about 150m off the group the drizzle turned to outright rain and I had the joy of spending the evening sleeping on a 3ft ledge 150m off the ground on a night that dropped to about 5C.  Fun!   Like the topic suggests, it seemed completely reasonable at the start to assume that I would have finished the climb well before the weather came in - but it weren't!

Pair of bibs for men that someone thought were a good idea at the time  ;D

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