To celebrate – or commiserate – this year’s Valentine’s Day, Tim has something a little different. Straight from the Cautionary Library of misadventures comes a bumper crop of romantic blunders, featuring super glue, a lost hotel deposit and a very wet explosion. Love, it seems, makes fools of us all.
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Further Reading
This episode of Cautionary Tales relied on the Cautionary Tales library – and specifically The World’s Greatest Mistakes by Nigel Blundell, Epic Fail by Mark Leigh, and two wonderful collections by Stephen Pile: The Book of Heroic Failures and its sequel, The Return of Heroic Failures.
Other sources include the Sydney Morning Herald, the Los Angeles Times, Futility Closet and BookTryst.