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!

How did you get as far as your seats? How did they scan the tickets on the way in?

We were once on a support car park bus to the terminal. A couple with young children were doing their best not to kill each other because someone had confused check in time and departure time, and they were about to miss their plane.

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My brother once booked a Christmas carol tickets for the old vic in London not Bristol old vic that'd we'd gone . Luckily they gave us 2 seats after a family didn't show up last minute. Hamilton is going round a lot of places at the moment so if you can afford it
maybe book for somewhere else . Cardiff especially if you apply for the HYNT card you may be able to get a free carers ticket. So while it's a rubbish situation to be in I think a lot of people have done it

I famously turned up for a time management course a day late

I literally forgot to book our flights for a holiday. Thought I’d done it. Day before went to pull up the flight details to check in and nothing. I had to book last minute indirect flights and they were $$$$. First and only time in my life I’ve flown shorthaul business and I was so pissed off with myself I couldn’t even enjoy it.

My DH once booked cinema tickets, south east London, only to find when we got there, he'd booked for Manchester!!!
I think we were able to get our money back, but it was so long ago, I can't remember the details. (maybe we had time to swap to the London venue).
I do sometimes remind him about it!!!

I went to a physio therapy appointment and apologised for being too early. Turns out I was one day and one hour too early.

Similar but our tickets were for following month. Paid about 200 euros to change!!!! Then realised it was cheaper and quicker to fly home - but they then wouldn’t refund

I turned up a week early for a family funeral. I'd misread the date.

Not quite as bad as the wrong funeral but I put the wrong crematorium on the funeral notice for my parent.

It was during covid when numbers were limited so all the important people (siblings, suriving parent) were in the hearses. But yeah if it had been a massive funeral most people would have missed it.

I did something very similar. We got off the Eurostar at Lille station, expecting to get on our train to the south of France, only to realise I'd booked tickets for the day before! Luckily there were seats left but they cost us about £150. Not my finest moment.

Slightly different but I turned up to a funeral a week early. It took me 2 hours to get there and I had to turn right round and go home again and back the next week. Doh!

Not quite the same, but during the lockdown I was so desperate for some form of socialising that I twice walked over to groups of people, thinking they were public gatherings- like an outdoor yoga group or something. The first one was a park memorial for a local man who had died, the second I walked into an actual funeral. I just thought- ooh open church and people, must be a socially distanced coffee morning or something.

I knew a couple who turned up for their flight home from Ibiza a day late. They had to fly home separately and it cost them £££.

@willWillSmithsmith
Don't think so, it must happen quite often.😳
Mum said she did think it was a little strange because my elder sister ( same school) didn't go back until the Tuesday but she was convinced I started on the Monday. I was MOST put out as I was desperate to get started!

I’m sure my mum won’t mind me mentioning that she celebrated my 1st Birthday a whole month early. 😂

I once missed setting the clocks back (or is it forward? I never know) & turned up an hour early for a day's craft workshop. The irony of it is that I'm late for everything normally.

As a child, I & my family had spent a week staying with relatives who were due to go to the other side of the world, so as we wouldn't see them again for years, we said our very emotional farewells & set off for the ferry on our way home - only to find the tickets were for the next day & we had to go back to their house, stay with them another night & do it all again the next day.

My husband did the same. He was part of a long line of cars going to a funeral in the North East in an area he didn't know. He was the last car. Got cut off from the rest at the lights. Every light after that was red so no hope of catching up. When he got to the crematorium the last mourners were filing in. He was so stressed he just joined the end and sat quietly at the back. It was the funeral of a work colleague so he didn't expect to know the family or friends but, as it proceeded , he realised they kept using a first name he wasn't familiar with and there were absolutely no other work colleagues there. Big crem. Two funerals at the same time. The doors for the one he should have been at had closed as he parked. Had to just sit there quietly until it ended and then leave as unobtrusively as he could

Not me but I once went to the dentist on a Thursday. Another lady came in and said she knew she wasa bit early but could she sit and wait. They checked and her appointment was for the following Tuesday.
Doubt she sat and waited that long!

I once took the bus into Liverpool with my then 11 year old DD to see a Christmas show. The theatre doors were locked, so, puzzled, we walked around the building, thinking there might be a different entrance now, but no, all locked. I then checked the poster - we had turned up a day early (Sunday) - our show was tomorrow. 😳 Cue trying around various theatres for other shows, but of course, being around Christmas most shows were sold out. We ended up seeing Frozen 2 at the cinema instead. Of course, we returned the next day to see the show. 😁

I used to work in a very busy airport and I remember a dad and his son being stranded as he'd got the date of his outbound flight wrong, he should've been there the day before. I was gutted for them.

Amazingly my parents have just celebrated a major wedding anniversary!

I was a bit dumb to be honest. I could have waited at the only door and made him front it out, I chose to ‘take a walk’, saving every ones embarrassment, giving her the chance to get out.

If it helps I once spent £300 on tickets for a stand up comedy gig then forgot all about it until the night after, Only hit me that I didn't go when someone asked me if I enjoyed it!

I also once spent a lot of money to get to London for a book signing and went the day before, only hit me when I got there and there was no queue!

I turned up to parents evening two days early. And, I took my children to school in half term. I am not Julia from Morherland!

My friend and her family always go to the cinema on Christmas eve. At her cinema you have to book specific seats. Their family tradition is to wear a 'funny' Christmas hat when they go. They got there and there were other people sitting in all their seats. She was appalled that other people could do such a thing and had 'words with them and sent her husband to get the usher. When they checked the tickets they should have been there for the 2 o'clock showing, not the 6 o'clock one they were at. Hard to carry off at the best of times. Excruciatingly difficult when you are wearing large plastic elf ears and your husband has a Christmas pudding ,knitted by his mum, on his head