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

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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 also sent my boss to a meeting on the wrong day.

This has sent me slightly hysterical 😂 the thought of your husband bursting in with the balloon following him.

Myself and DH have done this 3 times!
The 1st time we arrived an hour too late for my God daughter’s baptism. Thankfully I’m still a Godparent.
The 2nd we completely missed a concert (The Damned) by a month.
The 3rd we got ready for Michael McIntyre only to realise we were a year too early. Seriously, who sells tickets 18months in advance? lol.
OP you’re not the 1st and definitely won’t be the last.

My parents booked tickets for a new year's eve party at a local posh restaurant, for a big group of family and friends. They turned up, had a welcome drink and a few canapés, then realised they couldn't find their table on the seating plan. They had in fact booked a restaurant with the same name in a completely different part of the country! Apparently this happens often, but the local one was fully booked, so off they went to the village pub for a pint then home well before midnight. At least they'd had some canapés

I booked the right airport, the right parking but then went to the wrong car park and only realised AFTER I’d gone through security. I’d booked meet and greet but went to Pod. I’d also booked the meet and greet a day too early- what can I say, a shit show is a shit show!

luckily Heathrow car parking people are amazing and they cancelled my booking so I didn’t have to pay twice.

Yep booked car in for mot rang and changed for a later date (twice!) then took it into the garage on the date I had arranged the second time and not the latest date. They did the mot didn't say a word. It wasn't until later that I noticed the date on the calendar and mot was booked for the following week!

Wish I had something to add (in a way).

I once planned a camping trip with DH and packed everything. The car was full of stuff. By the time we got to the camping ground I realised I had everything else but forgot the tent! It was a few hours of drive and it was evening in a small town. We had no choice but drove all the way back home.

Dh & I turned up a day late for flights to Fiji. We managed to get on flights the day we arrived at the airport but it was hugely stressful. We lost out on 1 ½ days at a very lovely and expensive island resort.

I've also underestimated how long it took to get to Heathrow and missed a flight to Guernsey where I was meeting friends for a sailing trip round the Channel Islands & France. They sailed without me because they had already hung around Guernsey specifically to pick me up & couldn't wait any longer.

Im fanatical now about being on time for everything.

I'd suggest you all meet up somewhere to celebrate your past mistakes but I have a feeling that a good number of you wouldn't make it ;-)

Only after I very politely asking the GP receptionist how long the wait for my appointment would be, did she tell me that actually it was the next day.
She must have just nodded me through when I told her I was there for a routine midwife appointment. I wonder how long they would have let me sit there. I was quite pregnant and the long sit down was quite welcome.

Arranged for my husband to collect me from the airport 24 hours earlier than I would arrive. I didn't realise until I was about to fly home from the US by which time he had already gone to stay with a friend overnight to be nearer Heathrow (which I didn't know he was doing). This is the days before mobiles. Then I was in the air.

Sat for AGES in the wrong conference room before realising the one I was meant to be was next door. It was a very interesting lecture.

In the early days of budget flights, a colleague going to Brussels was booked on a flight to Charleroi, about 40 miles, twice as far from the destination as the more expensive flights. Refusing to make the same journey again, people from the Belgian office offered to travel, but found themselves at London - Luton Airport. Internet maps have become a godsend.

I've turned up at a hotel for a weekend break a week early. Fuck knows how I managed that,it's not something I've ever done before or since. I was just glad I was a week early and not a week late! It has made me ultra careful now about checking and double checking dates.

i know I’ve done stuff like this but I can’t think of any notable examples right now. I just hate that awful sinking feeling when you realise you’ve fucked up.

We nearly had a moment like this for a family holiday we have coming up - misunderstanding on the family group chat meant my sister and her partner booked the first week of May off work, whereas I’d booked the actual flights and hotel for the last week of May. Luckily realised straight away and they got it sorted, would have been awful if they hadn’t realised until it was nearly time to go and hadn’t been able to get the time off work.

I booked flights to Ireland for a retreat, a long time in advance as they were booked up for ages. It was in December and when I arrived at the airport they pointed out my tickets were for the same dates but in the September! I had no idea how I'd done that and was so upset. It was Aer Lingus and they had space on the flights so they booked me on free of charge. I'll never forget how lovely they were to me when I'd been such an idiot.

I've turned up for my 6 monthly dentist appointment and I didn't have one ,when they investigated further and they found that they had booked it for the following year.

Not me, but my mum once took my son to the wrong nursery. He was around 2 at the time. It was a generic chain with multiple branches. They were as confused as she was 😆
My son still remembers it funnily enough, and it just goes with her personality of just muddling through life

Some years ago, I was meant to be going to a play in the West End with a friend of mine; unfortunately she booked her tickets a month before mine. We both got to see the show, just not at the same time.

My parents went to a concert a day early. They were puzzled that the audience was a lot younger than they expected for the singer they were going to see.... Like OP, they actually got into the auditorium to find someone in 'their' seats :)

We had someone turn up a day early for a job interview. They had to come back again and unsurprisingly didn't get the job.

Not me, but my mum and her friend a good few years ago.
Managed to get good seats for Les Miserables at the concert hall in Perth.
Planned a day of it - got dressed up, travelled to Perth, had a nice pre-theatre meal beforehand.
Turned up to the concert hall and presented their tickets... Bit of confusion - there's no production of Les Miserables. Mum showed the woman in the box office, definitely the right date and time.

It was Perth, Australia 😳

We did the same getting Portsmouth Guildhall and Theatre Royal muddled up. Fortunately due to covid precautions and social distancing the show started late anyway and they let us in (we'd spent ages in the wrong blinking queue!)

I spent my whole childhood going to things either a week early or a week late (sometimes a month out) as my Mum often (still) gets dates muddled.

Couple from my gran: she once got a phone call from the chiropodist asking if she'd forgotten she had an appointment that day. She didn't know what they were talking about, said she'd never had one, gave them a right flea in their ear...a couple of hours later she found the appointment card in her handbag.

Another time she was flying to Hawaii from Australia, changing at New Zealand, but she'd forgotten to change her watch to New Zealand time and thought she had more time to kill before her connection than she actually did - they ended up putting out a final call for her.

I also have an uncle who's managed to turn up at Manchester Airport Premier Inn a night early, and on another occasion he didn't bother to check which terminal his flight was leaving from, so when my grandad was dropping him off and asked him which terminal, he hadn't a clue. I think Grandad just dropped him at the nearest one and it was the wrong one.

My sister and I travelled from Scotland to go to an event at the O2 in London. We chose a hotel that according to Expedia was only 1/2 mile from the venue. "Great", we thought, "we'll be able to walk to the hotel when the event finishes after midnight". When we arrived we discovered the hotel was indeed just half a mile from the O2...on the other side of the Thames as the crow flies. Cost us a fortune to get a taxi at that time in the morning.

Mine was an assessment centre for a civil service job interview, had a presentation prepared and had done an online test, so had already spent quite a lot of time getting ready.

The night before I was putting the paperwork into my bag and noticed I was a day late 🤣

Suppose at least I didn’t actually turn up, that would have been even more mortifying.

I didn’t bother to contact them to attempt to reschedule as given it was a managers job, I reckoned telling them I couldn’t even manage to get the right day would probably put me out of the running!