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

[Batinthehouse]

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!

When I do this the poor person usually seems really nice and kind of joins in with a wave back or
A hello or whatever. It’s only when I walk away that I realise I’ve been wrong/stupid.

When someone does it to me I’m not sure I’m as effusive in return

Pre-covid, I watched a small theatre group production in our town. The next day, I saw the lead man in the local post office. He was bend over looking at the shelves.

I lent down and said 'Your performance last night was fantastic. I enjoyed it so much, I'm bringing my sister with me next week'

Not only did a strange man stand up and stare, but everyone in the post office queue also!

I jumped in my friends car and put my seat belt on, yabbering away.... nope , not her car. She was parked behind pissing herself laughing.
I was with the same friend in a pub garden, I saw a guy I knew as I was going in to use the the loo. On the way back out I goosed him, except it wasn't him, it was a guy in almost identical clothing standing in the same place 🙄🤣
The guy I thought it was found this highly amusing....

I have spent 5 years waving at a bloke who drives an identical car to my sister. Sometimes, he waved back.

I still drive past him frequently, but he must wonder what he's done to make me fall out with him since she changed her car a few months ago and have trained myself not to wave at the old car.

A friend of mine was shopping with her Dh he was looking at something so she went off to grab a bottle of wine when she came back she slapped him on the arse and said “I’ve got us something fruity for later” only to realize when he turned round it wasn’t her Dh but a complete stranger who luckily saw the funny side

I beeped and waved at my friend's son, except it was him so I was then the weirdo who beeps at young teenage boys.
He's 22 now and still laughs at me for it.

Wasn't him ffs!

I’m always doing stupid things like this. I was once following the boss up the stairs at work and he said hi so I said hi back. He was then talking about his dog which I thought was very strange and I was like oh I hope your dog is alright. For some reason I carried on following him, he then asked what was for tea and I told him what I was making, finding this very confusing until he turned around to ask what I was doing that I realised he was on his phone 🙈 I said a quick sorry and scuttled away

DH parked in the dark underground car park at supermarket whilst I nipped in for a few bits. As I approached the car I could see my 'DH' stretched out across the front seat having a nap. I pulled the door open quickly and shouted 'BUSTED YOU LAZY BASTARD'. At which point a complete (sleepy) stranger scrambled up, looking terrified. About 5 rows down my DH stood outside of the car waving 'Over here'

Many years ago when I used to get the bus home from school with a friend, we stopped off at the newsagents. We were browsing comics and I saw one for the Incredible Hulk with the Hulk's likeness on the front. Being a puerile teen, I tugged at friend's sleeve and said "Look, there's you" only to turn and find a completely strange woman glaring down at me. Exit at great speed.

on the way to picking up kids I waved & shouted at my friend "Hi Oliver!!!"
he looked at me, random dude.

now I wouldn't even have thought about it, but as I was turning into next road I realised he was walking suspiciously towards the school and because of parking issues it was likely that he'd catch up to me as I was getting out.

and of course that happened, so I just looked at him and sorta laughing I said "I'm so sorry I yelled at you, I thought you were a friend of mine, you look just like him!"
he laughed and said "no worries, I don't know why I looked, my name is not Oliver!"

🤣🤣
we actually then introduced ourselves and carried on chatting all the way to school gates.

Many years ago I worked in Knightsbridge next to Harrods and as I was having a smoke on the pavement, my mate pulled up in a Ferrari!
My response was “holy fuck Rob, where did you steal the motor from?!” He laughed and said he was borrowing it for the day and did I want a ride.
Then I looked closer and realised it was JK from Jamiroquai.
Stammered out “sorry, I thought you were my mate Rob!” - he just laughed and said “I get that a lot” and drove away.

@AmyDudley

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.

I’m sorry - but that did make me laugh

@Hidehi4

I’m always doing stupid things like this. I was once following the boss up the stairs at work and he said hi so I said hi back. He was then talking about his dog which I thought was very strange and I was like oh I hope your dog is alright. For some reason I carried on following him, he then asked what was for tea and I told him what I was making, finding this very confusing until he turned around to ask what I was doing that I realised he was on his phone 🙈 I said a quick sorry and scuttled away

Oh no

@ThisCollie - that has tickled me so much! For some reason, you are Miranda Hart in this little sketch in my head

I'm terrible with faces. I'll often be an hour into a film with DH and I'll suddenly go 'I've seen him in something before...has he been in something before?' and he'll just turn to me wearly and say 'It's Robert DeNiro...'

When I was about 10 in the supermarket, I picked up a multipack of crisps and hid them in the trolley, hoping that by the time we got to the check out the element of surprise would make DM give in. The element of surprise was, in fact, looking up to see a slightly bemused couple observing me burying a pack of crisps in their trolley. I didn't even take them out, not sure why, I just sidled away as we exchanged a look.