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Ok, I'll bite. I've just come out of university and I'm looking for a job in web design.

The first one looked cool; three days a week, making some systems like one to play a video of a lecture and advance the lecture slides as the video goes on. I went to the interview, aced it, got the job. But, I only met one guy, and I was a bit scared that it would turn out to be a scam of some sort.
He was meeting with the guys filming the lectures, in a city quite a long way away from where I live. He rang me to offer me the job, and I accepted, but he wanted to drive me to the meeting. I didn't want to get in a car with someone I'd met less than a week ago, so I declined and said I'd rather take the train. He offered to pay and said he'd get the details of the meeting to me.
A few days pass, and I haven't heard anything from him. The day before the meeting I send him off an email; still no response. The guy is terrible at getting in touch.
So, since he hadn't said I shouldn't go, on Wednesday I went to the meeting anyway. Researched the name he'd mentioned and the time he'd said, got on the train and turned up. He looked surprised to see me, and there was another web developer there. The meeting went fine, and I went home, asking that he contact me before or on Friday.
On Tuesday, I get an email explaining that he appreciated my caution in not getting in a car with a stranger, but that he wanted to discuss the website with me on the way down; instead of telling me not to go, he brought the second choice for the job in the car. He said he was impressed with my initiative, and hoped there'd be opportunity to work with me in the future.

TL;DR: Fired from a job before I got it, because I wouldn't get in a car with a stranger, and showed impressive initiative.

The second job , I didn't have much of an idea what it was; the website was a property investment site, so I assumed it was a small business. The interview was on the outskirts of a closer city, but still one it would take two hours to reach, by train and on foot. I set off just a little bit late, and saw my train leave the station just as I arrived in it.
Well, that wasn't such a big deal; I bought my ticket, and caught the next train: a faster train that left 20 minutes later but arrived 5 minutes after the first. When I arrived, I had to walk to another station in the city to catch my next train. I managed to walk almost a quarter of a mile in the wrong direction before finding a signpost and realising I'd walked straight past the station.
By this point it was approaching the actual time for my interview, so I phoned and told them I was going to be late. I caught a train, got to the town, and started walking. I then looked at my map and managed to convince myself I was walking in the wrong direction along the road, so I turned back and walked as far in the other direction past the station. Then I realised that I had been going the right way in the first place, so set off back and finally arrived, only half an hour late.
The interview went find, and I was more than qualified for what they needed... but I didn't get the job, and I'm pretty sure it was because of that string of fail. I can't believe that twice I would have been on time, and twice I made mistakes and wasn't.

TL;DR: Work out you route properly before you go to an interview, and leave enough time to get ready beforehand.

On the plus side, whenever I go into the city for these things I buy a dozen krispy kreme donuts to share with my girlfriend when I get home, so we'll see if I get fat or hired first.