I accidentally booked Truro, Canada, instead of the SW of England.

[TheBigFatMermaid]

So, we have to go to Truro in the South West soon, for a weekend, for DDs obsession hobby. So, as usual, we had a good look on Booking.com.I like the lack of paying for cancellation.

I was looking on the app on my phone, DP was looking on his phone. He found a place that was far cheaper than any I could see. He kept on about it, until I asked him the name, googled it and got taken to it via the App. It gave the price in £££, so I booked it. It looked lovely.

The booking confirmation came through and it was in CAD! Took me a while to work out that meant Canadian Dollars. Then I looked and saw it was Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. Lucky I could cancel straight away, but DD thinks it's hilarious, so, well I thought I would share our stupidity with you, so you can have a laugh and maybe make me feel better with similar tales.

[Iputthescrewinthetuna]

I know somebody who wanted to book a return flight to Amsterdam. She booked Amsterdam to England return instead of England to Amsterdam return

[KindergartenKop]

During the heatwave I looked up the weather for my town. The forecast for the following week was 30 degrees every day. I sighed (because I was sick of hot weather) but it didn't actually click that the forecast was for a town in Jamaica with the same name! Luckily it actually got cooler in the UK that week.

[Topseyt]

We moved house about 15 years ago. We only moved a few houses along the road.

A day or two after we had moved in DH decided to nip down to the pub for an hour. When he came back it seems he had forgotten which house we had moved into. He was trying to fit his key into the front door of a neighbouring house (not even the one we had moved out of) and was puzzled about why he couldn't. Said neighbour came to the door and redirected my very red-faced DH to the correct house.

DH wasn't even drunk at the time, so didn't even have that for an excuse. He didn't live it down for quite a long time.

[tinytemper66]

I booked a break with a friend last year. Booked for 4 nights but our flight was the next day! Oops! A mad rush back to the hotel in Madrid to grovel for an extra night's stay! Different room but a bed for the night!

[CakeNinja]

Not places but similar misunderstanding.
Had to go and get a new tyre replaced today due to a slow puncture. Pulled up and spoke to the man in the garage. He confirms which tyre, I say my side and he goes out to have a look. “nearside?” he asks, and I agreed. He finished up and gave me the keys back, surprised but happy he’s got the job done at 5pm on a Friday so he can leave work on time.
Got home, dp goes out to use the car and comes back in quizzically asking which tyre has been replaced. Who knew nearside actually means the very opposite - FARSIDE 🤬 nearside seems to mean the passengers side - who the actual fuck is that near???
I have spent £400 on a new tyre to replace a fucking fine tyre and still have a bastarding slow puncture
I am still quite annoyed, dp has just put the spare on for now and vowed not to let me ever do any kind of basic car maintenance ever again (small victory ).

[NewspP]

We turned up to the registry office to register our daughter’s birth a day early, we were that sleep deprived!

[GottenGottenGotten]

Nearside - nearest to the kerb

I only know this as I used to work in a garage... I would have thought the same not so long ago!

[ThatLibraryMiss]

CakeNinja, nearside is near the side of the road. Offside is in the middle of the road.

[ivykaty44]

Friend of mine rushed to stanstead airport, he was running late for his flight to Lisbon for the weekend away. He could get his barcode to work in the panick, the security chap comes over to try, looks at the barcode and says- mate your flight leaves from Luton in 45 minutes....

That was why the barcode wouldn’t work

[CakeNinja]

But nearside of the road - how can that be the passenger side?! That’s the near side of the KERB - it all makes totally NO SENSE 😤😂
And offside? No, that’s surely the nearside as that’s the side I (as a driver) am nearest to??
Anyway, I am now demanding mechanics nationwide get behind me and start giving things their damn correct names - nearside (drivers side) and farside (opposite side farthest away from the driver) - makes total sense

[MightyAtlantic]

greenelephantscarf I'm glad to hear I'm not the only person to have booked flights the wrong way round! I did realise before I got to the airport, but only just!

[BikeRunSki]

A weel known high street travel agent booked us flight and parking out of one airport, and return flights to a different airport 50 miles away. It took a lot of convincing that we'd like to fly back to where our car would be.


This thread reminds me of a story Richard Bacon told on his radio show once. His dad travelled a lot for work and was a complete scatter brain. I think he was a very clever academic with little common sense! His wife would often take hm, or at east get him organised before he went to the airport, or rush out with tickets/passport etc. One day he had to get himself to the airport by himself as his wife was away. He check he had all his documents, money etc. Got to the right airport in plenty of time. Parked up, opened the boot to get his bags and........ the dog jumped out!

[BikeRunSki]

My student flatmate went to the electricity board to pay our gas bill.... in the days before the internet or digital bills or online banking.

[chillpizza]

We had friends come to visit at a holiday cottage in Newquay. Only they went to Cornwall, the collage was in Wales

[chillpizza]

Cottage not college silly phone.

[Figmentofimagination]

I've turned up to pick up my ASDA clock and collect food shopping a day early (arrived on Saturday, ordered for Sunday). The ASDA staff member couldn't stop laughing about it on the Saturday and the Sunday. Why did he have to work both days!

[JumpingFrogs]

We live about 50 miles from Gatwick. Our house overlooks the motorway. DH had been to Fuertaventura for a week, having parked at Gatwick. When he flew home there were technical difficulties with the plane, so they moved all the passengers onto a flight to Birmingham. They then drove them all on a coach to Gatwick. DH could actually see our house as the coach sailed past it, and he then had to travel in the coach for another hour to collect the car from Gatwick, and then drive for yet another hour to get back home. DH was philosophical about it - he LOVES airports and consoled homself with the fact that he'd added Birmingham to the list of airports he's flown in or out of

[Greenteandchives]

I recently booked front row seats for a show. I felt very smug. When we arrived I was surprised to find that we were actually seated in the very back row. I had looked at the seating plan the wrong way.

[BrieAndChilli]

This wasn’t really our fault but we booked sleeper train tickets from Paris to Nice.
Got to the station and they made an announcement that the train was splitting half way down so to make sure you were in the right half of the train.
Carriages 1-17 were going to x and carriages 19-25 were going to Nice. Checked out tickets and we were in carriage 18!!!!!
Turns out that carriage didn’t exist, luckily they found space for us elsewhere but was a frantic 10 minutes while we tried to converse in French.

[EastMidsGPs]

A club DM was in booked a coach tour - a mystery tour with afternoon tea. Went with her to make up numbers. The destination turned out to be our home area of coastland and the afternoon tea served in my home village teashop - by my cousin!

Instead of wandering the village 'sights' we went and visited my aunt.

[sar302]

On a similar - and obviously much more serious note than all of these - I mistakenly ordered a pizza to Manchester, instead of my home in Milton Keynes the other night. Apparently the postcodes were identical if you leave the K out. The delivery driver called (from Manchester) very confused, and I swore there was no way I could have made a mistake... until I checked the email confirmation. I was so hungry I could have cried. I told him to enjoy my pizza! And reordered. Apparently I could have called customer service to get a refund, but I was too embarrassed!

[BooksAreMyOnlyFriends]

greentea I've done that with cinema tickets. I booked for Star Wars opening night the day they went on sale. Middle back row. Turns out it was actually middle front row, packed cinema, and we came out with neck ache

[FoulMouthedMotherFigure]

DD1, freshly-graduated from university, applied for a job in Rotherham because she rather fancied working and living in a Dutch city with picturesque canals...

[MT2017]

Some of these are my absolute worst nightmare...

Can't believe how lighthearted you are all being

[PutYourBackIntoit]

I got on a train at Norwich station in a rush, going to Liverpool Street. Except whilst somewhere in Leicestershire the train Conductor informed me that my ticket was not valid for the train to Liverpool!!