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Oh, I am enjoying these tales... Here's one from me. 

 Last summer, I persuaded my uber-reluctant OH to come camping with me and 2 x DS.  Trying hard to impress him so he would be converted to camping holidays, I erected the tent almost single-handedly.  Unbeknown to me, I must have dragged the flysheet across a sharp stone, and when we finally got in it, there was a large 'L' shaped rip in it .  I smiled and said never mind and  soon fixed it with some gaffa tape I managed to  borrow off another camper. 

 It was raining too, that fine rain that just gets into everything, so that didn't help either.  Then to cap it all, as it got dark, I plugged in the EHU with a nice clip-light bought from Wilkinsons for a couple of quid, thinking we could eat our fish and chips all sat cozy in the tent  in the soft glow of the light.  That was short lived, as our youngest was whiling the time away by throwing a tennis ball up and catching it... you've guessed it... SMASH, the bulb shattered, and we were plunged into darkness.  Well that put the 'tin-hat' on it, and all I had managed to do was prove to DH that his worst reservations about camping were all justified.  He phoned our eldest son and pursuaded him to come and get him.  I was fuming, but I look back at it now, and smile.  I think my efforts to convert him were doomed from the start.  Now I don't bother asking him, I just take off with the 2 x DS and leave him at home.