Pulling a Cristan...??!

Last Monday I had a few people I needed to take a treat to: one was my friend Andrea, because she let us come and pick tonz of apples a few weeks ago, and the second was my friend Heather that just moved into our neighborhood and had just had her baby. So, I decided to make this yummy pumpkin bread recipe that I had found on the Internet a few weeks before. I had not originally wrote the recipe down the first time I made it because I didn't know if I would like it. After we ate it and it tasted as good as Great Harvest I went back and wrote the recipe down. Anyways, I got my recipe card out and followed it. Now my first red flag should have been that when I poured the batter into the pans it was THICK like cookie dough(the time before it was runny). I just thought that I might have written a different recipe down then the one I tried before so I continued to bake the bread and out came this: Only I didn't know it was quite this bad because I didn't cut into it. The bread did not rise at all! But since I had already told them I was coming I wraped the bread up and put a bow on them. I did tell them it was a new recipie and that I didn't know why it didn't raise. Andrea was excited and said that they would be eating it for family night.
The next morning I went to have a slice and found that it looked so nasty when I cut into it! It looked like a raw can of pumpkin. But then I thought, "I but it still tastes good." Was I ever wrong! If you look closely you can see where I spit it out(on top of the loaf).
Well to say the least I was freaking out that I had delivered this bread!!! How embarrassing! I immediately got to texting and tried to explain what had happened. Andrea said that her family ate it(I think she was lying), and Heather said they hadn't tried it(and I know why). I told them I would replace it in 2 hrs.! I then had to figure out what had happened.
I followed the recipe I wrote down exactly-so that wasn't the problem. I got on line and found that I had COMPLETELY written down the recipe down WRONG. I put 2/3 cups sugar when it called for 3 cups and I didn't put any water in when it called for 1 cup and I didn't put any baking soda when it called for 2 tsp. The second batch came out MUCH better!
So has anything like this happened to you before? Well, I hope not...So next time you are taking something to someone else, taste it-don't pull a Cristan:)