Most of time, a big mistake at work will probably end in a big fat ugly cry once you get home. The best outcome you can hope for is that your boss simply forgives and forgets. But for one community in a remote part of Scotland, one person's workplace blunder has led to a pretty sweet deal.
After a shopkeeper messed up an order, the island of Sanday in Orkney has become inunddated with Easter eggs. Instead of 80 eggs for the island's tiny population, Sinclair General Stores accidently ordered 80 cases of 80. To save you doing the maths, that's 720 chocolate eggs.
The population of Sanday is 500, so that means that there are officially more Easter eggs than people on the island. It's a chocaholic's dream.
Shop owner Dan Dafydd told BBC Radio Orkney that he felt ‘embarrassment and shame’ over the whole mix up, while his staff ‘were chuckling and finding it very entertaining’.
With way more eggs than he can hope to sell, Dafydd has become the island's answer to Willy Wonka and is raffling off 100 of the tasty treats to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Each ticket costs £1 and all 100 of the chocolatey treats will go to just one winner.
The raffle is also open to people beyond the island and it's up to the lucky victor whether they want to give the eggs away or gorge on every last one themselves.
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