I convinced my mom to let me get a cat and then I completely forgot to pick it up.

When I was 14 my family went on a week long vacation. Before we left, I asked my mom if I could foster a cat from the local animal shelter because they needed someone to keep it for the week while the regular foster owner was out of town. My mom said it was okay as long as I took care of it while it was at our house. I said of course I would and we agreed on it.<br><br>The day we left for vacation, I completely forgot about it. I didn't think about it at all until a few days later when the foster owner called me asking where I was and why I hadn't picked up the cat yet. I was so embarrassed, I didn't know what to say. I told her I had gotten sick and had to go out of town with my family to visit a relative. She asked me if I could still pick it up that week and I told her that I couldn't. She was pretty pissed off at me because obviously I wasn't actually sick, and I felt terrible.<br><br>That was about 6 years ago and I still use the same number. Every once in a while the shelter or her will call me asking about my application to adopt a pet or telling me that they have found an animal that fits what I was looking for. They always ask me if I'm the boy who was supposed to foster the cat and backed out last minute. I'm always like "yes that was me, I'm really sorry". I still feel bad and it was a shit thing to do.