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Just waved at my friend... but it was actually a random bloke

66 replies

Batinthehouse · 17/06/2021 19:19

Am mortified, I was looking out of the window and saw my neighbour, waved at him, he stopped, smiled and waved back, then I realised it wasn't my neighbour at all Think I'd better make an appointment for specsavers... And hope I never see the random bloke again!

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AliceSprings123 · 17/06/2021 21:02

I was hurrying during my lunch hour from work. Saw my friend looking in a clothes shop window, so groped her bum and whispered "want a naughty lady, dearie?"
As I said it I was thinking "friend doesn't have a suit like that, friend doesn't have shoes like that, friend's hair is longer than that", but hey!Blush

CornishTiger · 17/06/2021 21:09

I went up to a bloke and asked him how is. A real close friend of mine. It wasn’t her partner. It looks exactly like him just shorter.

They both haven’t let me forget that for a while.

Florhalsf · 17/06/2021 21:12

@Ahwig

My son was a life guard and when I went swimming he would often be there sitting on a tall chair. I saw him and went over and tickled his feet as it was the only bit I could reach and said hi. Was slightly embarrassed to see my son walking over to me in hysterics obviously not the young man in the tall chair. I booked laser eye surgery quite soon after this
@Ahwig 😂😂😂😂
JesusInTheCabbageVan · 17/06/2021 21:14

@ThisCollie

I saw (pre Covid) my best friend coming out of the hairdresser's. I ran up, clapped her on the back and cheerfully said: "just had a haircut?" Then I realised it wasn't her... and just carried on my way without saying anything else!
Love this Grin

I'm forever passing people who are just starting a phone conversation. So they say 'Hello!' I assume they know me from somewhere and go 'Oh, HI!' Then have to pretend I m just talking to the dog.

Iwantamarshmallowman · 17/06/2021 21:18

Today I waved at my friend who is a driving instructor not realising I was actually waving at an examiner giving a test in my friends car.. he waved back.

30degreesandmeltinghere · 17/06/2021 21:28

Many years ago my relative lived a good drive away. We needed 2 cars to get there but 1 was off the road... Relatives friend owned a taxi company.. The dh was coming for a few of the dc... At the time George was due a car pulled up. No Taxi sign but assumed it still to be George... Dd got in the back seat and started fastening ds's seat belt on.
It was a man waiting for his dw.....
Grin
Poor bloke not sure what he thought of 2 x dc getting into the back of his car!!
Dd was so mad at me!! Still reminds me and it was over 20 years ago!!

EnfieldRes · 17/06/2021 21:29

@TaraR2020 I don't know about Facebook blindness, but probably, I never can recognise small pictures on there either!

MarshaBradyo · 17/06/2021 21:30

Before I decided to wear glasses full time I’d wave at random people thinking they were someone else. They’d sometimes turn out to be different sex / ethnicity as they got closer. I really needed glasses

HerRoyalNotness · 17/06/2021 21:32

I walked up to who I though war my old boss at an event with a big smile, but realised in the last 5’feet it wasn’t him and had to do a u turn. In my défense I saw his name on an envelope when I arrived so did expect to see him there.

Someone at the water park said hello to me this week, I said hello back but had no clue who it was. Hopefully no one I actually know as I got home and rinsed my swimmers and realised belatedly the bottoms were looking a little bare Blush

AColdDuncanGoodhew · 17/06/2021 21:33

I work in theatre (as in operations, not the stage) and a few weeks ago was taking a patient to ICU. I seen my friend up ahead and he moved into a wee space so I could get by, I said “thanks pal!” then realised that actually it wasn’t my friend but a consultant I haven’t met yet (who probably thinks i’m a right twat).

Mortified.

GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy · 17/06/2021 21:36

I did this while driving once. Thought I saw my friends DP while driving out my estate. Its wasn't him so I ducked down out of sheer embarrassment and hit the curb. A bad day all round!

Patty101 · 17/06/2021 22:07

Love some of these.

A few weeks ago I bumped into someone who used to be in my year at school. I said hello, and started making random small talk about his son that was with him, as my son looked a similar age.

Wasn't until later that day when I was racking my brain trying to remember his name, that I realised it wasn't somebody I used to go to school with but somebody out of Hollyoaks! I was cringing all night thinking about it.

TaraR2020 · 18/06/2021 00:41

@EnfieldRes lol that was supposed to say Face Blindness! Grin its a thing!

tappitytaptap · 18/06/2021 01:04

@MarshaBradyo

Before I decided to wear glasses full time I’d wave at random people thinking they were someone else. They’d sometimes turn out to be different sex / ethnicity as they got closer. I really needed glasses
I used to do this occasionally too… I do usually wear glasses or contacts but a few times have ventured out without them. I also tried to wave down a lorry thinking it was a bus 🙈. I don’t go out of the house without wearing one or the other now!
MistySkiesAfterRain · 18/06/2021 07:28

I approached Jon Richardson at Edinburgh Festival in a 'oh my god hey! Not seen you in you years kind of way'. I'd had a glass of wine so my actions preceding my brain. Cue blank face.

Me (slow dawning realisation I do not know this man) 'Hey, how are you doing?'
Him 'Do I know you?'
Me 'I'm sorry I thought you were someone else' (back away to my friendship group)
His friend 'Who are you, his long lost cousin?'

MistySkiesAfterRain · 18/06/2021 07:28

It was the Edinburgh Cringe Festival that night!

glitterndirt · 18/06/2021 13:36

DFIL is no longer with us but when alive was a keen cyclist, a few years ago we saw him when driving so I wound down my window when overtaking him & shouted something along the lines of 'get out the road you stupid idiot!!!' Cue DH promptly realising it was not his DF at all!!! Thank god we are in a car that can get away at speed....but oh no we reach a set of traffic lights which promptly went red so had to stop, cyclist pulled exactly next to us giving us evils whilst I sunk lower and lower down my seat...Blush

espressoontap · 19/06/2021 11:17

I've just remembered one which I blotted out of my mind. My sister and I call each other names when we see each other, saw her in town and walked up behind her, put my hand on her shoulder and said 'alright, knobhead' - it wasn't my sister Blush I was mortified. The girl fortunately saw the funny side when she saw the horror on my face.

Souther · 19/06/2021 11:30

Yesterday morning.

I've got a viewing for a house booked. I turn up 10 minutes early and am waiting in the car and see the estate agent park up ahead of me.
She waves at me and is getting some papers from her car.
I wave very enthusiastically huge smile on my face and get out of my car to meet her.
She walks into a neighbouring house and doesnt come out again. I quietly get back into my car and wait for the actual estate agent to turn up.

Eminybob · 19/06/2021 11:49

I watched my MIL get into a random car parked near mine when I was waiting to pick her up. Literally got in and put the seatbelt on before realising it wasn’t me.
The poor woman who was driving, knowing my MIL she would have been gabbing on to herself and not noticed until the woman said something. I could do nothing but sit and watch it was hilarious.

AmyDudley · 19/06/2021 13:17

My XH used to be terrible for mis identifying people. Once we were waiting in the car to pick up DS - 6ft, red hair, beard, heavy build.
'Oh look there's DS' shouts XH. He was pointing at a tiny Chinese woman who was walking on crutches.

After we were divorced he was taking DD out somewhere and on the way home apparently pointed to a tallish woman with blonde hair down to her waist, aged in her twenties and said 'oh look there's Mum shall we give her a lift?' I am in my fifties, five foot two with short dark hair.

AntiHop · 19/06/2021 13:18

I've done this many times

SinkGirl · 19/06/2021 13:21

I did this once - I was in a record shop and I did a big hello wave and face to someone I knew. Except I didn’t know him, it was Richard Ayoade. Looked at me like I was bonkers and carried on walking.

amusedbush · 19/06/2021 13:26

I tried to get into the wrong car in my local Tesco carpark a few weeks ago. It was a totally different car but a similar colour and parked a couple of spaces from mine.

What’s worse is there was a woman in the driver’s seat and I was dressed in black leggings and a black hoodie, like a burglar. Poor woman probably thought she was being carjacked Blush

CorvusPurpureus · 19/06/2021 13:31

I cannoned into someone who I was sure was a mate once many years ago in a shopping arcade in Leeds. Big lass, long black hair: definitely, I was convinced, a regular at the local alternative clubs I used to frequent at the time.

We had quite a nice 'anyway how ARE you? Haven't seen you for ages!' chat after I had apologised for nearly flattening her, with me trying to remember her name...Louise? Lucy? Lizzie?

...after we'd gone our separate ways, agreeing cheerily that we really must catch up properly soon, I realised that she was Lisa Riley, who was starring in Emmerdale at the time.