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My stupid mistake and I'm gutted...has anyone else done something similar?

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Punsandroses · 25/02/2024 12:52

Last October I booked theatre tickets for me and DH to see Hamilton and I was so exited.

Unfortunately shortly after that I received a cancer diagnosis, so normal life went put the window ...but I had that to look forward to.

Last night the date finally came round, yeahhh....and both me and DH donned our finery, had a bite to eat, drink in the bar and made our way to our seats.....only to find other people on them! After a bit of confusion we realised we were a week late! The theatre staff were so kind but as it was the last night it was sold out.
So we left totally gutted and down £200.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who has done something so incredibly stupid.....it may make me feel just a tad better!

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GingersOwner26 · 25/02/2024 20:02

AngelinaFibres · 25/02/2024 17:14

My husband signed up as a covid volunteer . Had a phone call to go and pick up several prescription items for a person who was shielding. He was chatting whilst getting his shoes etc. Re checked their address with them. Turned out they were in Hertfordshire we are in Herefordshire. Someone somewhere had mixed the 2 up and sent husbands number to this person. Husband said he probably couldn't do it as it would take about 5 hours to get to them.

Hertfordshire and Herefordshire is a very common one. I can remember when Mum was hiring in Herefordshire, getting calls from people asking if they could get there from Watford, and having conversations with people who hadn't read the job advert properly and were applying from Hertfordshire. Those ones usually withdrew from consideration.

ThePure · 25/02/2024 20:05

How could I have forgotten my very best one

Backpacking in South America with DH many moons ago and very proud of my A level Spanish abilities I asked a taxi driver in Lima to take us to the Museo Larco Herrera which apparently was a 'must see' as per my Lonely Planet guide.

I did think it seemed a suspiciously long way out and rather quiet for a major tourist attraction and I also thought the armed guard on the entrance was a bit forbidding but I put it down to cultural differences . I asked the guy on the gate and he seemed a bit surprised but he went to fetch someone else and we were conducted across a few courtyards and out to the back of this large complex. The person guiding us said it had been a long time since anyone had wanted to see the museum....by this time I had realised there was some error and I was just hoping not to get shot

It turned out that in fact snr Larco Herrera was a generous man who had given his name to a hospital as well as to a museum and so we were shown around the hospital museum. I made some polite noises about odd pieces of surgical equipment and pickled tumours in bottles whilst DH vomited outside. Then we beat a hasty retreat and we never did see the proper museum.

Abeona · 25/02/2024 20:08

Hired a car for a month in New Zealand. Picked it up in Auckland and planned to drop it off in Christchurch. Our planned itinerary was disrupted by roads being closed and bridges being down on the South island. As a result of having to change all our plans I decided to book us flights back to Auckland (and thence home to the UK) from Nelson instead of Christchurch. A friend was sure there was a drop-off branch of the car hire firm at Nelson airport. Turned up a couple of hours before our flight from Nelson to Auckland only to find there was no branch of the car place there and we needed to make a six-hour detour to Christchurch, crossing the Alps...

housethatbuiltme · 25/02/2024 20:11

I don't think I have ever done that but every time I book tickets/experience then I live in constant fear of forgetting and missing it.

Its the kind of thing I could easily do.

RainbowFlutter · 25/02/2024 20:12

@medianewbie
Your post made me laugh out loud

MaryMary6589 · 25/02/2024 20:12

One of my colleagues turned up for a concert a year too early 🤣

Blackcountryexile · 25/02/2024 20:14

@Punsandroses Hamilton will be at Bradford Alhambra theatre this time next year if that's any good for you.

pinkpirlie · 25/02/2024 20:16

I missed my favourite band playing at the Sydney Opera house as I got the date wrong. So annoyed at myself. Same day I got dumped so that just made a bad day even worse.
Laugh about it now though.

AelinGalathynius · 25/02/2024 20:20

I have had so many of these over the years 🫣 Once arrived at Manchester airport, had loads of time until my train, sat having a coffee, reading a book, super relaxed. Turns out that I had my times wrong, I was in fact not early for my train, instead I missed it and it was the last one that would let me get my connecting train home so I ended up having to fork for a hotel that night. Only saving grace was that I wasn’t meant to be at work the next day 🙄

And a recent one, just changed DD to a new swimming school, first lesson went well, she was all excited for the second lesson and I got my times mixed up (somehow thought it was 16:30-17:00 but it was 16:00-16:30) and we got there as they were nearly finished 😬 She was so disappointed and burst into tears as soon as she realised no swimming that day. Mum guilt at it’s finest 🥴

ilovesushi · 25/02/2024 20:21

Took my kids to their Taekwondo exam a week early. DD had immaculate hairsprayed French plaits, both in sparkling uniforms, belts tied perfectly, all moves perfected and terminology memorised. Arrived at the club and instructor tells me they are a week early and it was just regular training. I am usually very on it, so everyone thought it was hilarious. Meant they were well prepped for the following week.

Dibilnik · 25/02/2024 20:22

I booked a hotel room for the wrong year (!).

Hope you're on the mend, OP. Sounds like you've had a lot on your plate, no wonder you got in a muddle. Flowers

IamaRevenant · 25/02/2024 20:25

Punsandroses · 25/02/2024 12:52

Last October I booked theatre tickets for me and DH to see Hamilton and I was so exited.

Unfortunately shortly after that I received a cancer diagnosis, so normal life went put the window ...but I had that to look forward to.

Last night the date finally came round, yeahhh....and both me and DH donned our finery, had a bite to eat, drink in the bar and made our way to our seats.....only to find other people on them! After a bit of confusion we realised we were a week late! The theatre staff were so kind but as it was the last night it was sold out.
So we left totally gutted and down £200.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who has done something so incredibly stupid.....it may make me feel just a tad better!

I had a ticket to see the Pixies (one of my favourite bands) at the Roundhouse in Camden, London on a Friday night. At the time of booking I was single but was meeting some London friends there (coming from Bristol).

However in the meantime I met and got into a very intense relationship very quickly with my now DH (also a very big Pixies fan). Got my dates wrong and thought the gig was on the Saturday. When I woke to loads of missed messages and calls on Sat morning and realised that I'd missed it I pretended to then new DP (who knew I had a ticket for that weekend but not for which day) that I was just sooooo loved up and enjoying his company that I had given my ticket to a friend and was going to stay in Bristol with him. He was SO shocked (and frankly horrified! Though also I think secretly flattered 😅) that I'd miss a gig like that for an evening on the sofa with him!

To this day (6 years later) I still haven't confessed that I actually missed it accidentally and he still sometimes brings it up 😬. We have since been to see them together twice haha

JunieS · 25/02/2024 20:25

Oh my love definitely not alone in this. I've turned up for work on holidays, wrong days/place appointments, birthdays, hotel once...
Also, how after a diagnosis I would have forgotten about it altogether.
Big hug and all the best to you!

PossumintheHouse · 25/02/2024 20:26

Ah OP. I did the exact same thing as you 15 years ago, but I arrived a week early for a concert to see one of my favourite bands! I’d travelled from Edinburgh to London, so it was a right pain in the arse. The venue actually took pity on me and gave me free tickets for the following week. It was an expensive mistake to make! Had to pay for train fare and accommodation twice.

I also once forgot to take my £50 cash out of a cash machine, and the person behind me swiped it. Also lost an expensive and beautiful pair of opal earrings and a ring at my local swimming pool.

BlueGrey1 · 25/02/2024 20:29

I turned up at university to sit an exam years ago……a week late

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 25/02/2024 20:31

Oh it happens. So disappointing though 😑. My husband somehow managed to travel to Belgium and back on our baby daughter's passport after I sent him a photo of his passport (which he'd left at home!) to show to passport control. That was before we left the EU mind.....

Porfirio · 25/02/2024 20:32

When my son started reception class I wasn't familiar with all the children and mums and he was invited to a birthday part in the first week.

It was at Sea Life and we saw the group assembled and ready to walk round so we tagged on and walked round.

Afterwards we went to seating area to have food and presents opened by the boy. Before ours was given, the mother who had organised it came over and asked us who we were as her son didn't know my son.

I had got the wrong day, it was the following week and the children were from a completely different school.

I found it funny but the woman looked appalled so we wished them well and left.

Outside my son thought it was hilarious! I asked him why he didn't tell me he didn't recognise any of the children and he laughed even more!

Oh well it was free trip round Sea Life and I took him for food elsewhere.

marmaladulation · 25/02/2024 20:33

I forgot to send my child to their first day of kindergarten. They rang to ask if he was coming about 10am and I said well no , we are in bed watching "ben and holly". Oops
Also , sent the same child to first day of term a day early.
I may be a bit vague.

LittleGlowingOblong · 25/02/2024 20:34

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a nightmare. There are about 6 venues with the word “Assembly” in them, and another 6 with the word “Underbelly” in them. There must be scores if not hundreds of mix ups every August.

Idontpostmuch · 25/02/2024 20:34

Years ago we'd booked to see stage production of Grease on 31 Dec. We turned up a day late, New Year's Day. We should have realised it wouldn't be on that day. Very stupid. Four disappointed people. Ourselves and 2 DCs. Second Jan was last day but it was fully booked so we couldn't buy more tickets. Everyone does this sometimes. Don't feel embarrassed. Best Wishes for your treatment. Hope you have a quick return to good health. Look after yourself.

nearlymrs · 25/02/2024 20:41

Yes we missed a panto once because we got the date wrong. I noticed when I got the tickets out as we were getting ready to leave.

IamaRevenant · 25/02/2024 20:41

My parents were exceptionally good at forgetting inset days at my primary school. And as there was nowhere really to park they'd just drop and drive off, leaving me alone in the playground until a teacher found me. Even worse this was before mobile phones were common so I'd have to wait for them to get home and pick up the landline voicemail.

On one memorable occasion the folks decided to go out for the day after drop off so I had to sit in the headmaster's office until I was picked up at 3:30pm.

Yellowpingu · 25/02/2024 20:43

I once went on a 4hr round trip to a hospital appointment a whole year early!

madamovaries · 25/02/2024 20:44

user1497787065 · 25/02/2024 13:06

A friend of mine arrived at the O2 for a concert at Wembley

Was about to say I have done this! Got the jubilee line a long way back...

Sunnnybunny72 · 25/02/2024 20:45

Many years ago we rocked up to a hotel on the South Coast ( we are NW) with an eight month old for a few nights stay. We were a week late. It was the height of the summer hols and the only room we could find was a few hundred pounds a night.
We stayed for one, then turned round and headed back home the next day.