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I'm your host and producer of this show, Jay Allison.

This week, stories of that most common of human acts, mistakes. From tiny missteps to epic fails,

we at the moth feel our blunders often make for the best stories, because everyone can relate

to screwing up. Our first storyteller is Maxie Jones. He told this at one of our open mic story slam

competitions in Detroit,

where we partner with public radio station WDET. Here's Maxie, live at the Moth.

I was 10 years old, and I was in the playground in the middle of the block where I was growing up.

And there were like monkey bars. There was like this log.

Shut up. This was the 70s. There were these barrels. These barrels were like these big

cylinders like turned on their side.

We're like, you know, kids could hide in them, you can play in them, you can pee in them, whatever.

And I was in the playground playing with this kid, and the kid just like ducked behind one of the barrels,

and he took out a cigarette and he lit it and he looked

at me and said want some i was like no man what you're talking about first of all i was like 10

and secondly we lived right there on the second floor, and my mother could see everything

out of the window.

She wasn't in the window at that moment, but she could be there at any time.

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