It’s Not How We Fall, It’s How We Get Back Up

In the classic use of the passive voice, mistakes were made.

The other day I posted this OTC Sly Moore gallery, and it was noted in the comments that there was an egregious error with the review.

I neglected to include the blaster as an accessory that came with the figure. I am in the midst of cataloging and organizing my collection, and I had completed the part of the line that runs from 1995-2005. As such, Sly Moore was already entered into my spreadsheet, but I utterly missed the blaster as being included, so I didn't even know that I needed to be looking for it.

I have a separate bin of unidentified accessories, assuming as I progress, I'll match up the orphaned accessories with their proper figure. I would have been left with that blaster at the end of my project and might never have realized it belonged to Ms. Moore. So the revelation ended up solving a problem that I didn't even realize I had.

The gallery is now corrected, so we can all die in peace.

It was a humbling experience, and I can only take that feedback and try to do better next time. It made me wonder about my very place in this universe. So I figured this would be a good springboard for a Day of Uninspired Miscellany on Banthaskull about how our mistakes not only impact how we perceive ourselves, but how they affect the lives of those around us.

What was the biggest collecting mistake you ever made?

To help some of you out, if you collect, or collected, 6" figures at any point, there's your answer.

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