Carelessness

Refer to the Collins Cobuild Dictionary, 'carelessness' means that you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.

From the two incidents happened in UK, I realised how careless I am. (not to mention those happened in Malaysia)

On the boxing day, I bought a trench coat and a purple t-shirt at Debenhams. Whilst the cashier was folding the trench coat and put it into the bag, I was taking out my debit card. With a smile from her, I didn't check the items she put into the bag. On the same day, I noticed she missed out my purple t-shirt. I went back to Debenhams, it was closed. I asked and called the customer service, the only thing I could do was to back to the shop on the next day. Unexpectedly, I got my t-shirt back.

The second incident happened today. When I was putting the items into the shopping bag at Tesco, I left my La Senza bag at the next empty counter. It took me so long to recall whether I left it in bus or Tesco or somewhere else. Till now, I'm not sure whether I could get my stuff back. Crying.. Why am I so careless? T.T

When you were driving, did you carelessly knock another car or some other things that cause an accident occurred? Or because of your carelessness, you missed the correct route to your destination?

While you are eating the fish, did you carelessly swallow the fish bone?

During an examination, did you ever make a careless mistake?

Because of your carelessness, did you hurt someone physically?

In a conversation, did you carelessly offended someone?

When you were walking, did you fell down carelessly?

Carelessness could cause many negative and unwanted things.

How can we overcome it? Just be careful...