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Have you ever turned up on the wrong day for something?

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PatPhelansRedVan · 05/10/2018 20:06

I have just been turned away from a show. The lady on the door scanned my ticket and it made a buzz noise and a big red X came up...my ticket is for NEXT FRIDAY. Ffs. Such a Muppet. Was looking forward to it as well!

She did point out at least I'm a week early not late!

Anyone done similar?

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AlpineButterfly · 05/10/2018 20:29

Turned up at a hotel a week early. Luckily they managed to find us a room as we'd travelled three hours to get there!

ProfYaffle · 05/10/2018 20:31

Not me but a candidate in a recruitment process at work. It was a senior role, events went over 2 days with stake holder dinner in the evening etc.

He turned up a week early

Was mortified, wouldn't look anyone in the face, scuttled off and didn't turn up for the real event.

TubeTop · 05/10/2018 20:32

Yes, channel tunnel to get back from France! A day late! So embarrassing. Luckily they only charged us £13 for 2 adults and car to convert our ticket and get on the train.

TubeTop · 05/10/2018 20:37

@ChicagoLil I did that to my mum! I told her the date I was leaving Thailand but the pick up in England was the next day but I didn't realise. and then I text her to say I was "at baggage". I meant dropping off, she thought i was at baggage reclaim. She ended up getting Manchester airport police to check flight records for me but I was still in Bangkok airport. Also she'd come to pick me up at 6am.

PurpleMac · 05/10/2018 20:38

Nope but I turned up to the wrong court for our adoption celebration hearing - I should have been at another court 45 minutes away. Along with all of my friends and family but so did both Social Workers - we had gone to 'Court "X" Family Court', but upon reading the invitation in more detail, we realised it was 'Court "X" Family Court, sitting at Court Y".

Luckily our SWs were bang on it and managed to convince Court Y to wait for us whilst we rushed to the other end of the county. Phew.

Jojoanna · 05/10/2018 20:41

A show - week early
An interview - 2 weeks early

Destinysdaughter · 05/10/2018 20:47

Yes. A few years ago I travelled around India for 4 months. I’d been in Goa and a friend from the UK was coming to visit me in Pune. I made sure I got to the airport in time ( a 2 hour journey ) only to be told by the armed soldier outside the airport I’d had to show my ticket to,that I’d arrived a whole day early!

I sat down, had a fag and thought bloody hell, what do I do now? So I found a taxi driver that spoke English and asked him to take me somewhere. So he drove me to the capital city of Goa, where, to cut a long story short, I met some fabulous people who took me to a wine tasting festival where there was a stage show including African dancers and a beauty pageant, and I went on a motorbike for the first time on my life! I bloody loved India, every day was an adventure...

dobbythedoggy · 05/10/2018 20:47

Turned up for ds' appointment with his neurologist a month early. Lucky as she had a last minute cancellation and was able to slot ds into that slot and offer his to someone else. We just played in the playroom as childcare had already been arranged for my oldest while we waited for his notes to arrive and for the free appointment time.

Turned up a week late for dd's booster jabs. Managed to miss the appointment another couple of times due to ds being poorly. One of the lovely nurses fitted us in there and then when I turned up to rebook for the 4th time.

Went to work when I had holiday booked off. Endded up covering for someone who had been signed off instead of using the week to do boring jobs at home.

Also once got dressed for school at 2am. My sister was poorly. I heard everyone up so got ready for school and ate breakfast downstairs before being sent back to bed.

Walkacrossthesand · 05/10/2018 20:48

Bust a gut (driving to latest collection box etc) to get cousins birthday card into post for her March birthday. Which was actually in April.
Arrived a day late for GP appointment. On correct day in my diary, wrong day in my head.

Moreisnnogedag · 05/10/2018 20:49

Work. I’d forgotten I’d booked a day’s annual leave. I have an hour and a half commute away!! Converted it to a day’s work and took the annual leave another. Got ribbed about it for ages...

onewayoflife · 05/10/2018 20:50

Turned up for a transatlantic flight home a day late. And absolutely no flights out that day with space (big event on in smallish city). Managed to get on one the next day at ridiculous cost then had to pay for a hotel for the night, which cost another small fortune due to aforementioned event.

user1494055864 · 05/10/2018 20:52

Right day and time for the hairdressers, but a month late.
Yesterday I cancelled a blood test appointment for Monday, which I thought I couldn't make, as instead of going after the school run, I had to take my dd somewhere else for a school trip and wouldn't be back in time - but her school trip is on Tuesday and now I can't get another appointment til November!

Kemer2018 · 05/10/2018 20:56

Yes. I was pregnant and really wanted to visit the chelsea flower show.
My mum came along, train and tube. Got off at the right tube station and asked a paper vendor where the show was. They looked baffled.....and said it's next month
So we climbed st. Pauls instead....heavily pregnant 12 years ago.
I never did get there.

stabbybitch · 05/10/2018 20:57

We missed 3 days of our holiday this year as I thought it was Monday to Monday but it was actually Saturday to Saturday! I was absolutely gutted & took myself to the bath for a cry we only do uk holidays so it wasn't to much to sort for travelling but i saved so bloody hard for that holiday & I really fucked me off!

earlybirdhasanap · 05/10/2018 21:04

Oh and how could I forget the time I turned up for my nursing degree interview a week early. I'd taken time off work, got dressed for an interview, booked train tickets and travelled to another city .
I did get into the university. The next week when I did it all again the right week.

viccat · 05/10/2018 21:04

Yes a vet appointment with my cat. I had misunderstood the receptionist when booking - weekday and time were correct, just a week early! The vet made time to see us anyway which was great. I felt embarrassed about it though because I'm usually very good at being on time everywhere.

SheepyFun · 05/10/2018 21:08

Let's just say that I now know our local library isn't open on Tuesdays. Though thankfully a rather cheaper discovery than some of those above!

JustBecauseYouAreUniqueDoesNot · 05/10/2018 21:10

Twice.

First, I had tickets to an art exhibition.. we turned up 2 months late. It was such a shit exhibition with no-one there that they let us in anyway.

Second, had a medical appointment, which I had forgotten about and was running about 15 minutes late for. Rushed out of work, broke my garage door in my frenzy of lateness and turned up to find the appointment was for the previous day.

buckingfrolicks · 05/10/2018 21:13

Yep. Ferry to france. That was an unexpected 24 hours in Bournemouth with my Toddler DCs

Clevs · 05/10/2018 21:16

I went to pick my parents up from Heathrow airport on the day they returned from Australia. They were due in about 5am and it is a 2 hour drive so I had a few hours sleep on the sofa before leaving home at 2am.

Armed with their flight details I stood in Arrivals and awaited their return. As soon as their flight showed as landed on the screens I looked out for them. A steady stream of passengers came through but there was no sign of my parents. Perhaps their baggage hadn't come round on the carousel? Perhaps the people coming through weren't from their flight?

I waited. And waited. And waited. People stopped coming through. Then their flight disappeared off the screen and then another plane load of passengers started to stream through, all reuniting with their families. By this point it was about 7am. Two hours after they were supposed to have landed. Hmmmm.

I went to the airline customer services desk and explained the situation. However, due to data protection the lady behind the desk couldn't tell me anything. I said that I'd driven two hours to get there, they hadn't arrived, I'd not heard from them, mum's mobile just went through to voicemail and I just wanted to know if they got on the flight. She reiterated that she couldn't give any information out. I told her that I could give any personal details about my parents that she needed to know to prove that I was who I said I was. All she said then was "I suggest if you come back at the same time tomorrow you may find your parents".

I was there a day early, exhausted from driving through the night and facing a longer drive home due to it now being morning rush hour. I rang my brother and told him the situation and he said just to come back home. So I did, fighting the tiredness. I went to bed for the day when I got in (which actually set me up well for a nightshift that night) and when I got up mid-afternoon I spoke to my brother again who had managed to get hold of our parents and had spoken to a very apologetic mum who admitted she'd given us the wrong day because it was a night flight and she'd given us the day they'd taken off and not the time they were due to land, which were two different days.

My brother then went back to Heathrow the following morning as I was unable to due to working a nightshift. Mum kindly reimbursed my petrol and parking expenses!

Givemestrengthorgin · 05/10/2018 21:24

I went into my DS's nursery to collect him after work. I thought the nursery teacher gave me an odd look but I went in and chatted for a wee minute before she asked if I was collecting a child for a friend. Penny dropped that my son wasn't at that nursery that day but at the other end of town at the private nursery he went to one day a week.

BonnieF · 05/10/2018 21:31

Eurostar to Paris with DP for a birthday treat day out. The main event was planned to be a visit to the Musée D’Orsay to see the impressionist masterpieces. So we get the Metro from the Gare du Nord, walk along the Seine to the museum. It seems oddly quiet.... we then get to the door to find the museum is ‘fermé le Lundi’.

Only in France...

EeeSheWasThin · 05/10/2018 21:31

I arranged to meet friends at a big country show except I’d got the dates wrong, I got a call from my friend while I was on the way saying “It’s next week you prat”. Very embarrassed as they’d driven quite a long way and arrived to find nothing there. They took it very well.

PrivateParkin · 05/10/2018 21:33

I turned up exactly one week early for my friend's 6th birthday party. It was at her house, one Saturday in January 1982, which I think was one of the coldest winters on record.

My mum, little sister and I trudged across town through the snow and freezing cold, only to discover we had the wrong day. I remember it vividly because we'd been walking for ages (probably about 20-30 mins, with hindsight) and then when we got to my friend's house, her mum just said: "oh it's next week!" and shut the door in our faces!! My mum had trekked across town in the snow with a five year old and a toddler!! Even at that age i remember being I

Tbh I still feel annoyed about it now!

Mercedes519 · 05/10/2018 21:40

At least you were early! I was taking DD to school and met the head who said “we missed you at parents evening yesterday” I looked at her blankly and said it was today. Nope, would have been 24 hours late

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