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!

‘Let’s go on the first May bank holiday’

turns out different countries have different bank holidays… so now DH and I (working in different countries) arranged to go to a third country at different times. We realised about a week out: expensive mistake…

A friend turned up one month early for a football match, luckily he lived close by so wasn’t too bad. I always wonder why he never noticed the complete lack of fans on his way there 🤣.

Ex colleague booked hotel in Las Palmas and flights to Los Palmas (or vice versa) and didn’t notice until he couldn’t find the bus to go to his hotel at the arrival airport.

These stories have made me laugh out loud 🤣....also missed planes in the past!! Not done the funeral/optician ones ...as yet!!! thank you lovely Mumsnetters for your stories and your kind words.....I am feeling a tad better now😁

Ex managed to confuse the preagreed (without issue) holiday dates for DD with the result that he had to find a week's childcare for DD when he tried to bring her back a week early with less than half an hour's notice. Not out of malice, he had forgotten that he'd wanted two weeks this time and only booked a week off work - despite each handover for the previous two months confirming the dates and the previous text messages confirming the dates. And the last pick up ending with 'Have a great time, see you on the 7th'.

It's going to take more than twenty minutes for me to get back from Sainsbury's, mate, never mind a different country. Yes, I'm fairly sure I'm not in the UK, does this selfie from the top of the fucking Eiffel Tower help?

He sorted it. Blamed his new girlfriend for booking the wrong dates, of course - as though she'd have been responsible for booking his annual leave with work. But he sorted it.

Oops!

A friend gave me 2 tickets to see La Boheme because last minute she said she and her husband both couldn't go. It was the next day. I invited my mum and we were looking forward to it as she said it was one of her favourite operas. We were a bit late leaving the house and had trouble parking so it had already started when we arrived at the theatre and the staff just ushered us through quickly in the dark without looking closely at our tickets. To save interrupting others they told us to just grab seats at the back somewhere.

So we sat there and watched the whole first half. My mum kept whispering to me that she didn't remember this or that song, or that being part of the story. And she looked confused. I don't know anything about opera but just sat through it but it didn't seem to be similar to the story she'd told me it would be about. When the lights came up for the interval we discussed all that and tried to figure out why it differed so much from what we'd been expecting. People in the seats around said nothing.

We went to the bar at the interval, grabbed a drink and were about to go back to our real seats (ones on the ticket). That was when I noticed from the ticket that we were a day late and we were at a totally different opera. No wonder my mum thought she was going mad and didn't know what what was happening in the story! We fell about laughing, especially thinking of the man who'd been sitting in front of us who couldn't have avoided hearing our confused discussion and hadn't said a thing to us!

The friend who'd given me the tickets was mortified when I told her. And annoyed with herself because she COULD have made it the night before, as it happens, so could have used the tickets herself.

I'm never late for anything at the theatre, I must have had a sixth sense that something wasn't right and didn't rush to get there. 😆

My self and a colleague ,we work at a care home ,made the same mistake. We were at the wrong funeral and we didn’t realise for ages. We didn’t recognise any of the residents family and there wasn’t an order of service .
The correct funeral had actually been in the morning!

I sent my kids and DH to Harry Potter world on the wrong date - he put the DCs on loudspeaker on the way back it was not pleasant

Heard a lady on the radio who turned up to a comedy gig the year before!!! The guy was such a biggie it was for the following year!! Huge hugs op, hope you get to see it or something even better x

Took my son for his ADHD assessment to the address at the top of the letter rather than the bold red, large printed address in the middle of the letter! Wonder where my son gets it from!

Oh no! I feel your pain that must've been absolutely awful. I hope you got to see whoever it was at a later date.

Not quite the same but back in the old days DSis booked a last minute holiday for the two of us on Teletext to go to Spain. She made all the arrangements, I just met her at the airport. Watching the flight tracker on the aircraft we were both surprised to be heading over the Atlantic. Turns out Costa Rica is not next to Costa Dorada…

I once turned up to a conference a year early. I'd been so looking forward to my overnight stay 😂

Dh booked train tickets for 8pm instead of 8am. I didn't even know that was possible, maybe everywhere didn't use the 24 hour clock all those years ago?!

I can understand if there are two places named similarly or being a day out, but so many people being 7 days out is odd to me, unless lots of places put the day of the week on the ticket?! Eg I wouldn't mix up 3 and 10 March but I might mix up Monday 3 March and Monday 10 March (I'm often thinking a week ahead)

Mine was fairly minor really, but I managed to book the airport car park a whole week early. The automatic barrier let me in as it was within the week so I didn’t realise until it was time to leave and the automatic barrier said no! This was after a long flight home with my children in the car with me. The kind car park attendant let me off as he could see what day I’d arrived.

Similar to pp
My DS2 booked an online exam as part of his qualifications
Booked for 12noon, only to find he'd actually booked for 12 midnight
Luckily it wasn't the other way round
After a lot of coffee after work, he sat the exam and passed

This is absolutely hilarious and horrifying all at once!!

Just last weekend at theatre for the wonderful Carlos Acosta. There was some confusion in the seats in front of us as one couple were sure they should be sitting in the seats which were already occupied. Turns out they were right and the couple in their seats had tickets for the night before. Luckily the usher managed to find them two spare seats.

I went to the wrong airport once and missed my friend's wedding. Shit happens.

I'm forever turning up to appointments/meetings wrong days and times and is actually the story of my life (have adhd) its really frustrating but you're not alone xx

I went on a trip to Ireland with some friends from university. Got to the airport to find I’d booked the journeys the wrong way round, flying Ireland to England on the departure date and vice versa.

I imagine your diagnosis has knocked you for six. I really hope you get great treatment and a positive outcome. 💐

We've just got back from our half term holiday. The week after the actual half term. I booked it last spring, so maybe the school dates changed, but it's the fact I never noticed in the intervening months, and it took one of the DC to say, Mum, our teacher says we're on holiday next week...cue very VERY contrite letter to school...

...and this came hot on the heels of dragging a friend to the theatre the week before, two days early.

I'm now taking the piss out of myself to steal the rest of the family's thunder! As well as quadruple checking everything!

I know someone who flew to Ireland instead of Iceland by mistake. It was a long time ago and I have no idea how he managed that one.

Year’s ago got my son all ready for his very first day at school, photos were taken in his uniform, much excitement etc. Got to the school and it was closed. We’d turned up a day early. There have been several things I’ve got days completely wrong for. At least this one didn’t cost any money.