If you tried to get into the wrong car today...

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...then saw a teenager sat in the back seat which made you realise it wasn't your car - my DD thought it was hilarious
Hope you found your car!

I was once sitting in a supermarket car park waiting for my sister.
A lady approached the car opened the back door put several bags of shopping on the back seats while asking herself wtf dd's car seat was doing there.
She opened the passengers to get in and saw me sitting laughing.
Her husband was parked across from me watching the whole thing. He did come over and get the bags out of my car.

I often used to try to unlock the wrong car in the morning. To be fair one of my neighbours had the exact same car with a nearly identical numberplate so it was easily done!

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I once went into the wrong Paris apartment and went upstairs when we were staying and I was 10. Oops. Puzzled homeowners.

That just reminded me of a time when I was living in halls. My flat was on the top floor. I came home one day and walked up the stairs to the top floor, turned left, went into my flat (no-one ever locked the front doors) and then wondered why so many people that I didn't know particularly well were in my kitchen. I just started chatting away to them, in my head thinking when can I go off to my room for some peace and where are my flatmates, till it dawned on me that I'd gone into the wrong flat. I was obviously lost in my own world and had gone into the flat beneath mine. I have no idea if the other people realised, I think I just said something about better be getting back and then left.

I had a very unusual coloured car and never bothered noticing where I'd parked as I was normally the only one of that colour. Came out of the supermarket and of course tried to open the wrong car, only noticing as I gradually realised the belongings in the car didn't belong to me. Gigging to myself, I went to my car but lo and behold, exactly the same thing happened. There were three of my cars colour. What were the chances of getting two wrong when I'd never even got one wrong before?

My dm twice tried to get into the wrong car. The second time she thought the key (30 years ago so turn in lock) had stopped working and was getting quite worried when she looked up and saw the bemused person sitting in the driver's seat.

I did this once. I’d met a friend for coffee at this health wellness / yoga place.

When we’d finished, I rushed across the car park, opened the door & sat down. I was just about to shut the door when I looked across to the central panel to realise there were all sort of odd stuff, sunglasses, hair bobbles, all stuff that I didn’t recognise. Wheew...I’ve never jumped out of a car so quickly! In my defence the car was almost identical to mine, but a completely different brand.

As an absent minded teen waiting for a lift I've got into the back of the wrong car at least twice. Didn't even notice until the driver pointed it out to me!

I have done this outside Tesco before - not only was the driver not dh, it was a well known sportsperson who looked horrified.

My Mum did this years ago, me and her other daughter were sat in the back of the car and my poor Mum was shaking when she got into our car... she had to wait and apologise to the Father of the other 2 girls in the identical car when he came out of the supermarket! 😂

i’ve done this before. ran out the shop into the rain and practically dived into what i thought was my friend’s car, proceeded to shake myself like a wet dog, and then looked across to the driver’s seat to see a middle aged man and not my friend. it wasn’t even the same type of car, just vaguely the same colour. i’ve also walked into the wrong house. i somehow forgot which house my friend lived in, walked into the neighbour’s house instead, and burst into the living room clutching two bottles of wine and saying ‘i’m here to fuck shit up.’ it was actually the house of an elderly couple who were sat watching tv and having their dinner. i think i could probably have won an award for the amount of times someone has ever said sorry that night!

So many absent minded people
That poor elderly couple @sunshineandshowers21 - what an entrance to make!!

I called a locksmith once because I couldn't unlock my car. It wasn't my car. I was in the wrong car park and a car like mine just happened to be parked in a similar space to where I parked in my car park.

As a teenager I tried to get into my dads car after an exam at school. Couldn’t work out why the key would not work and then spotted the sun roof, which his car did not have. Realised that I never parked that close to school either!

I also got into a colleagues car by mistake in our work car park. Had to go and tell her that her car was unlocked and explain how I knew this. Fortunately she thought it was funny!

I once rushed out of a supermarket and hopped into what I thought was our car. I sat there waiting for DH to start the engine and turned to look at him only to find it was a v bemused man. I’d even done up my seat belt! Mortified!

Sort of similar story.......
My DF drove my DM to the shops one day, it was pouring with rain and whilst in the shop my DM got talking to a neighbour who offered her a lift home, she accepted the lift, forgetting my DF was sat in the car park...

DH did this parked in town, did some shopping, got back to his “car” the car didn’t open with the fob, he thought the battery had gone, tried to open the door with the key, no luck either, then realised his car was parked two cars down! He was really embarrassed.

When we were sharing the car, one day I went out to get in the car, no car on the drive, I thought the car may have been stolen. Rang DH at work, you did bring the car home last night didn’t you, he couldn’t remember! It was still parked on the seafront!

at how common it is.

I did it when I was in a hire car at a service station.

The hire cars are usually boring white or grey medium sized cars that get lost in a sea of other similar cars in car parks and I'd come out of the services with my coffee and lunch so was carrying slightly too much stuff that I was trying not to drop and what I thought was the car I had driven there in was refusing to open.

It was only after I had put my coffee and sandwich on the roof of a stranger's car so I could get a better grip on my keys that I realised it wasn't my car at all.

I also thought my car had been stolen after a hospital appointment, because it wasn't where I left it.

It was only after I'd spent ages searching the car park but fortunately before ringing the police or anyone else (but this was years ago before the days of mobile phones) that I realised I was looking in the wrong car park.

A lady tried to take my trolley in the supermarket yesterday, complete with my baby in the baby seat, while our trollies were parked one behind the other in the veg aisle. She was absolutely mortified!

These are hilarious. I'm really laughing. This has totally brightened my day.

Was selling our small flat and had an open viewing every Sunday. Me and the cat used to go and sit out of the way in the car with the Sunday newspapers. So, one Sunday, off we go. Opened car with key, sat down, let cat loose to scramble about the seats, poured a cuppa from my flask and was happily munching on a choccie biscuit when I thought that the inside of the car looked - unusually - very clean. Yep, same colour and make but clearly someone's else's car. Never exited a car so quickly. Hope the owner didn't notice the biscuit crumbs and cat smell!

I've done this before - so embarrassing! I've also had a woman hop into my passenger seat and ask me to take her home. She thought I was a taxi 🙄

I once wandered around the supermarket car park looking desperately for my car which was nowhere to be seen. Phoned DH in tears saying my car had been stolen only to be told it was safely on the driveway at home and I’d taken his car to the shop. Spend half an hour looking for the wrong car!

About 15 years ago my husband and I were going for a night out, it was pouring rain so we had ordered a cab. I was watching out of the window, as I didn't want the driver to have to get out his car to ring the doorbell. I saw a car, shouted hubby and we ran outside to get in. As we opened the doors, I thought it a bit odd as the guy had stuff all over the seats, but he quickly cleared everything and we told him our destination.

Upon arrival we asked how much we owed him and his reply was 'how much do you normally pay.' Thought this a bit odd but agreed on a price and said good night.

About 20 mins later I got a call from the taxi company telling me the taxi was waiting outside my house and when questioned they were adamant they had not sent anyone earlier. We had jumped in the back of a random car which happened to be parked outside our house!

This happened to me 2 years ago

Id arranged for my dad to pick me up from the village centre

So the car was waiting, i sat in the passenger seat, looked at the man in the driving seat and said ‘you’re not my dad’

I also said ‘he’s picking me up to go out for the afternoon’ and the man said, jokingly, ‘ thats no problem where shall we go’ 😀