From 1999 until 2000, about 1 year, I worked for a local tugboat company as a deckhand. One of my responsibilities was to make dinner but I also made breakfast and lunch as I found this made my life on the tugboat much easier. The other staff consisted of the Captain, Engineer and First Mate. All 3 of them loved sweets so I always made lots of hand made pies, cakes and cookies during my shift. One day, I announced to everybody that I would make banana bread as we had a lot of extra bananas that were starting to go brown. That night when I made the banana bread I forgot to either put one of the ingredients in or I put too much of something in by mistake. Instead of the bread coming out big and fluffy, it was very long, not very tall and very chewy. I kind of panicked because I promised everybody the banana bread. What I ended up doing was cutting the banana bread, which actually looked like a log roll, and drilled a hole in the middle. Next, there was a big can of chocolate frosting that I wanted to get rid of so I filled the hole with the frosting and then covered the rest of the bread with the frosting. After I did that I made some heavy whip cream and made a big mound on the top and finally put lots of chocolate chips and cherries on top! I put it in the refrigerator and went to bed thinking that everybody would be mad! The next morning when I woke up I checked the refrigerator and the banana bread was gone! I checked the garbage can because I thought it got thrown away! The Captain came down into the galley and told me that everybody loved it and not only that but they wanted me to make it again! The problem was, I didn’t know the mistake that I made to get the same result. After that I made banana bread many times and the other staff always liked it but they also said that it didn’t compare to the first time I made it!