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!

A battle weary mind, full of the cares and worries that have been lugged around for the past year, has full permission to ‘get it wrong’. Give yourself a hug and cut yourself enormous slack, OP.
As for my own ‘hamster falls of wheel’ moments in life, well, how long have you got? 😁
Put it this way, you had drinks and wore your finery with your favourite person/partner in crime. You raised a glass to getting through a tough year. Personally, I think your evening sounds perfect! It’s definitely unforgettable! 😆💐💐💐

I once went to a Christening. Running late, barrelled into back pew of Church, with my own squalling infant in arms,
H carrying our brightly wrapped gift & tacky floating helium balloon etc.
Cue me spotting the coffin at the front & all the other mourners. We were a week early. At least the balloon had a Cross on it. SO embarrassing.

Sorry, I know it’s very inappropriate but this has really made me chuckle!

Opposite way round..once cooked a very involved cooking dishes for meal with visitors …they were late…was going to call them and then double checked…date was the next week.🤷🏼‍♀️🤦‍♀️

they had a lot less fancy meal the week after in terms of prep time🤣🤣🤣🤣

I did at very well for the 4 days after the intitial cooking 😉

I once had to cancel a hospital appointment at fairly short notice and was really pleased to get a replacement date which was only a few months later. I turned up on that date and (after a lot more faffing around than you'd imagine) was told I was a year early

My gran arranged a trip from Scotland to London for all the local pensioners a bus load of them travelled all the way to London got to the theatre only to find out they had tickets for the previous week

I was on holiday in Australia, due to fly back the day after next. Busily planning the next day's activities to make the most of our final day, made arrangements to head over to St Kilda, barbecue in the evening, some afternoon shopping for souvenirs.

Then I mentally counted over the days, and realised that we flew the next day. As in tomorrow. Cue lots of hasty packing and sorting and cancelling of arrangements and a desperate dash to buy last minute gifts to take back. But I was SO RELIEVED that I double checked that date, it would have been a very expensive mistake to turn up at the airport a day late and one that I couldn't afford. And the checking was purely accidental, because I was going back over what we'd done each day and realised that the number of days we'd been there was the same number of days as our holiday.

There were some seats available at Birmingham for 31st August when I booked the other night, if that's any help?

I turned up with my daughter at the hospital for her orthodontic appointment the other week (year 10, taken out of school for the appointment) and was told right time, right date but wrong hospital 🙄 so had to rearrange.

My mum and her friends went to the wrong funeral. When they were finally able to leave they couldn’t stop laughing and knew their friend (whose funeral they were supposed to have been at) would’ve found it hilarious 😆

I did that too - a London show, Had paid extra for a better seat as well. Realised a couple of weeks later when show was finished and was really upset with myself.

Have also forgotten dentist & osteopath appointments and turned up a week early for a dinner with friends (embarrassingly, the staff member on reception recognised me the week later!)

I rigorously use multiple calendars now including a massive physical one of the wall in the kitchen, and I set alarms in my phone the day before and 2 hours before all appointments and travel plans.

ExH once booked flights to completely the wrong Spanish city for a short break. I noticed when he sent me the email confirmation. It wasn't somewhere we wanted to go so just added to the cost to book to the correct destination so not the cheap and cheerful holiday we'd planned.

You are clearly not alone OP and have a better excuse than most as well

Studying with the OU, and last minute cramming, I mean revision for an in-person Exam/Final Assessment the following day. Or so I thought.....

For some reason, I checked the venue information; a city about 20 miles from my chosen study location (a Library in my home town) - only to see that I had the date wrong, and should have been there THAT day!!

Knowing the city was dreadful for parking (hence the "last minute" check), I left my own car in the Library car park and thankfully could get a tai tot pick me up immediately (this would not have been possible at home) and raced to the city at top speed, thankfully being able to utilise the bus lanes as well, and just be dropped off at the city centre hotel where the exam was taking place.

I was late, and of course very stressed and feeling stupid. You have to ask to be allowed to take your place of you are as late as I was - but "thankfully" I was allowed to take my place and do what I could in the time remaining.
I made Special Circumstances submission that very day, as instructed - but really, what allowance could be made for being so dumb?! (They did though - and I did pass - but it was not a great pass, I like to think I would have done better if I had had more time, and been less panic-stricken. But, to be honest, who knows...😩

I was late and the show had started and there were no staff around. Opened a door to the auditorium and quickly realised I had walked 'on stage' of an orchestra being recorded for radio 2. Shut the door and ran. Wrong theatre.

Very similar, I booked tickets for Gifford’s circus, expensive and needed booking way in advance. Put the date in my diary. On the day we all got ready to go and I got the tickets out to find they said yesterday’s date 😫 I’d put the wrong date in the diary.

DC1 has never let me forget that one

I went to the wrong wedding once.
Only noticed when the bride walked down the aisle

I booked tickets for the whole family to see a matinee performance of war horse. Only to realise on the day that id booked a date three days previous. I felt so guilty that I rebooked at a venue further away. On that date one of the kids threw a hissy fit 15 mins in as it was too loud and we ended up leaving anyway... That was expensive!

I went to my 6 week post natal check and forgot to take the baby 🙈

My GP thought it was hilarious (and the baby was safe at home being cared for just in case anyone thinks I'd just abandoned it at home).

@WavyLines11 That is so funny!

My Auntie once turned up at airport to go home one day late and had to buy another ticket. She had been staying with her sister.

Once booked some train tickets in advance online to visit DH family in Newport in Wales. Thought I had done very well for myself as the tickets were super cheap. I assumed it must be an online deal. Turned up on the day of travel and obviously I had in fact managed to book to go to Newport in Essex which being considerably nearer explained why it was so cheap.

Also; after a lifetime of them nagging me to join their Church/religion, my Aunt and Uncle scheduled a Sunday to come out my way and accompany me to the nearest one.

I waited - and waited - and waited. Tried to call - voicemail. So gave up, and no way would/could I have gone alone, and besides, I was mainly doing it to stop the nagging. Their religion sort of disapproves of divorce anyway, so am not sure what the welcome would have been, maybe they were setting me up...

Anyhow, when I finally did get hold of them, they told me that I was the one who had the day wrong, and it was planned for the following Sunday. I knew it wasn't, as this was quite a big deal, for me to have rearranged other things I should and would rather have been doing. So, they never followed through with the following week anyway (and I had not said that the whole thing was off), so that led me to believe that they had either got it wrong, or were wanting me to jump through hoops (at last) to comply with their wishes.

The Aunt is now full-blown Alzheimer's, so maybe this was early days of it ---- although anyone, as this thread proves, can get their plans muddled.

And I' mstill not a member of their Cult religion.

I was once going to some event or other and was supposed to be picking my friend up from “outside the Savoy.” This was Nottingham. She went to the Savoy hotel, I went to the Savoy cinema. This was in the days of no mobile phones so neither of us quite knew what to do so ended up going home again - only found out the mix-up when I rang her the next day to ask why she hadn’t turned up.

A friend of mine was on her driving test and walked out of the test centre with the examiner to begin the ordeal and tried to drive off in somebody else’s car.

DH and I once met at the theatre straight from work. We worked in different cities, and lived between 2 towns. I had the tickets. He hadn't arrived by the start (plenty of time) I says I'd leave his ticket at the box office. He arrived just in time for the second half, having been to the theatre in the other town. This was about 20 years ago.

Last month we turned up to the panto for an evening performance. Right day and everything. Unfortunately we had matinee tickets. The show was sold out, but the theatre kindly accommodated 4 of 5 of us on the seats they reserve for wheelchairs, as they had no wheelchairs in that night. I felt like such a muppet.

We have Hamilton tickets for next year. Time, date and place is commited to memory, and several calendars!

In my first job as a twenty-something my employer offered to pay for me to go on a 5 day course in Wales. I was delighted!
I travelled there by train and as we got more and more into the countryside I started to try and figure out who else on the train was also heading to the course. I couldn’t see anyone obvious but didn’t think too much more about it.
When I got off the train at the tiniest station in the middle of nowhere there wasn’t anyone there to pick me up. I plucked up the courage to call them and discovered that I was a week early! I had to travel all the way home and then turn up at work the next day and explain what had happened.
When I finally did arrive the following week the very lovely organisers whispered to me that they know it was me but kindly didn’t tell anyone else.

I also booked ferry tickets the wrong way round. So, we live in England, and I'd booked Belfast to Liverpool return instead of L to B return. Only realised when I went to check in the previous day. Cost a fortune to change.

I worked with a guy who was married to a Canadian girl, and they were always looking for transatlantic flight bargains.

He was well chuffed one day when he got flights from Birmingham to Toronto return for about £150 each. Birmingham Alabama that was.