I've made a few mistakes in my day

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The discussion centers around the challenges of submitting brain teasers, particularly in the context of boredom and frustration after a long workday in Arizona's heat. A user reflects on a recent submission that was criticized for having multiple answers and a grammatical error. The user identifies a specific mistake related to the timing of submissions, realizing that they incorrectly claimed to have submitted one teaser a day before the other when both were submitted on the same day. This revelation leads to a question about whether they ultimately arrived at the correct answer to the brain teaser. The conversation highlights the complexities of crafting brain teasers and the potential for misunderstandings in their interpretation.
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It's easy to make mistakes when you are bored and miserable. Especially after a long day at work here in the hot Arizona sun. Yesterday I submitted a brain teaser and was quickly told that it had multiple answers and was grammatically incorrect. I only see one mistake, not two. What is it?
 
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Also not uniquely answerable. There several ways that one mistake or omission could have made this the way it is. Only you know which one is the real mistake...

Waitaminnit! Did you just edit that post?
 
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Why are you bored and miserable?
 
I think it may be the grammatical error, which generated the extra answers?
 
Nope none of those are the correct answer. to THIS brainteaser.
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If you look at the times these brainteasers were submitted and convert to Arizona time you see that they were submitted on the same day. So my mistake is in claiming I wrote one a day before the other.
 
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got you on that one, didn't I.
 
OK, so did I (eventually) get the right answer?
 

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