20 mistakes every woman should make (at least once)

Note: This was taken from the article I read in the September 2004 issue of Glamour magazine.

1 – Wake up next to a strange man, whose name you’re only able to make a hazy, ballpark guess at…Shane? Sean?

Fortunately, I do remember… (0)

2 – Have an embarrassing claustrophobic freak-out in a tanning booth.

Whew, good thing I don’t need more tanning than I already have! (0)

3 – Throw a transparent Monday sickie when your boss knows full well you’ve just been on a dirty weekend.

Well, it wasn’t a sickie that I pulled… (1)

4 – Think you could look like SJP in a tutu. (Just burn it, eh?)

Shux! Mine doesn’t fit me anymore! (0)

5 – Succumb to a store card at the till just to get the 20% off, knowing it’ll fleece you in interest.

20%??? They just offered me 10% so I didn’t get one!!! (0)

6 – Join the gym and spend a fortune kitting yourself out with Nike gear, then never set foot in the place again.

Should I even mention my good collection of gym bags? (1)

7 – Wear an itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny-nearly-got-you-arrested bikini.

Boo-hoo…they didn’t arrest me. *sniff* (0.5 – half point for wearing?)

8 – Have thick, stripy highlights. You were thinking vintage Geri, but ended up as Corrie’s Janice Battersby.

Janice who? (0)

9 – Suffer a full, albeit brief, relationship with an idiot because he looked so perfect in a pair of Calvins.

Mmmm….(1)

10 – Believe you can master rollerblading. Or surfing. Or anything best left to teenage dudes.

Well, he got me into it! He even bought me my own pair! (1)

11 – Consume a cocktail with a name along the lines of ‘Death, and Quickly’ at a dodgy beach bar…

As long as it has got vodka in it! (1)

12 – …before snogging something with tattoos at same dodgy beach bar.

With too much vodka…how could I even tell if they have tattoos or not? (0)

13 – Attempt some erotic pole dancing – around the lamp-post.

*zip mouth* (1)

14 – Catch the bridal bouquet right in front of your blanching bloke.

Ah, no…I disappear when this part comes up. (0)

15 – Believe that a pair of tights/special sponge/knobbly wooden thing can cure you of cellulite.

What? There is a pair of tights/special sponge/knobbly wooden thing? (0)

16 – Be forced to write off an entire city for life, thanks for a heinously raucous hen weekend.

Who would even remember? (0)

17 – Insist your friend helps you stick to your diet – then hate her for it.

Sorry, I don’t do diets. (0)

18 – Have an upmarket beauty treatment that proved so painful you still have nightmares about it and wake in the night sweating.

Nope. (0)

19 – Keep a no-holds-barred, toe-curlingly embarrasing diary.

Like a weblog? (1)

20 – Fleetingly fancy Gordon Ramsay.

Yaiks! (0)

7.5 in total for me….hmmm, I think I need to make more effort.

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