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!

Just reminded me of a job interview I had at a care home, I prepared for ages, got up early that morning, left my house an hour early to get there in time then went into the care home and told them I was there for my interview, Got a strange look and told they weren't hiring.

I looked at my info and I was adamant and told the lady that I do in fact have an interview. She told me I didn't. I left feeling confused. Half way home it hit me it was for a different care home in a different city.

My husband turned up a week early for an interview once.

I also know someone who got lost and attended the wrong funeral.

I did the the same thing. Except one invite that had the right day but the wrong time.

I booked two hotel rooms for a funeral for my own family and another relative’s family. I was trying to be helpful as they’d just had a baby. When they arrived at the hotel (about a hour before us) they found out that I’d booked the rooms for the following week. I’d also booked everything non-refundable as knew we’d be going to the funeral 🤦🏻‍♀️. Stressful, embarrassing and expensive!!

I once thought it was Wednesday, but it was Thursday and I missed a dental appointment! Got the appointment rebooked and I forgot to write it in my diary and missed that one too!

Also missed a hairdressing appointment!

I seem to be getting worse with age.

I once booked a lovely boutique hotel in Paris for me and my partner - much nicer than anywhere we'd stayed before. We got there and they had no reservation for us. We managed to find a room a crappy hotel halfway down the street.
The next morning we are having breakfast in a cafe and I looked at the hotel opposite and though the name looked familiar. It was the hotel I'd actually booked - we'd rocked up at the wrong one. We were charged for it too, as we'd been no-show.

I've also turned up at the airport (when I was flying for work regularly) having forgotten to book a ticket entirely.

Yes, several times, most recently turned up to see Alan Carr a day late. Luckily there were a couple of empty seats so the kind theatre staff let us stay.

i did go for an interview a day early

My old boss once flew to Bucharest for a meeting which was in Budapest.

His PA had booked him onto the wrong flight and he didn't realise until he landed in Romania when he was supposed to be in Hungary.

Friend had her son's party on the same Sunday that the clocks had gone back. I was a single parent so Sundays were always incredibly lonely and depressing so it was lovely there was a party to go to.It was 30 years ago and there were no phones or clocks that changed themselves. We were about to leave for the party when the landline phone rang.Friend was ringing to see if we were okay. We could have been at the party a whole hour earlier.As we rushed up to the village hall my exhusband and his new girlfriend came out if his mothers house after Sunday lunch. My children saw their father and shouted "dad,dad". We had to walk over and meet the shiny and pert ( only 17 years old) girlfriend.If we'd gone to the party at the right time we'd have had an extra hour with lovely people and wouldn't have seen exhusband. That was a shit day.

I was at the hospital for a blood test and got chatting to another woman who was waiting . Turned out we were having a test for the same thing .

She went in but came out fairly quickly , saying she forgot it was a fasting blood test and had eaten breakfast, so they couldn't do it . I felt a little smug as I had remembered.

I went in for my test but came out just as fast as the woman before me . She was still there and I said 'I've done worse than you , my appointment's tomorrow' . We both had a good laugh . Luckily they fitted me in not much later .

Loads unfortunately…
turned up for a flight a day late. For another twelve hours late (neither my mistake). Once had an appointment in Norwich and drove to Ipswich instead.

My favourite one is my mum went to see East 17 in concert and they didn’t sing her favourite songs. Much confusion until we realised she had been to see Heaven 17 instead 😂😂😂

I can’t help things this was done as a brilliant piece of revenge for smelling!

@butterpuffed, that is actually adorable!

I went to where I thought a regional airport was once. ..ignored the motorway signs because I knew better....turns out it was a light airfield and not the actual airport. Bit of a mad dash but made it to the correct airport just in time!

The image of a bright bouncy balloon at the back of a funeral service has given me very inappropriate giggles

Booked back to the future at the theatre.
Completely forgot we had s booking until last week, should have gone 6 months ago.

Most recent, purchased second hand pram for £600, got there late in evening, lady had the lights low, as they were settled for evening. No problem. House was clean, she was well put together, so I assumed that the listing was correct, she certainly didn't seem grotty.

Got the pram home, next day, start to look at it, it's yellowing where it dhould be white, the hood has a tear, there's a missing raincover, oh, and it developed a creak.

Spoke to DH, who's face dropped, as they'd said they would prefer bank transfer opposed to paying through ebay, so that's what he did.

To replace the bits is expensive and fuck knows what I'll do about the creak.
Absolute stupidity on both our parts...very disappointed in us!

This didn't happen to me, but I once went to Alton Towers and stayed at a B&B in Alton village. The next morning, the owner of the B&B told me that some guests had apparently travelled all the way up there to discover it was the wrong Alton! They needed to go to a completely different place up in Scotland where the wedding was being held. I couldn't help but smile at that one (mean, I know!).

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.

We once went to the wrong wedding. It was a friend of DH's and he hadn't seen him for a while. I'd only met him once, and we didn't know anyone else invited. We took our seats (it was in a large registry office) and could see the groom and best man chatting at the front, but their backs were to us so DH didn't realise it wasn't 'John'. It was only when the bride came down the aisle that DH looked pale and said 'OMG, that's not 'Janet', this is the wrong wedding'. We waited until she'd reached the front and then shuffled out - luckily we were on the end of a row. It turns out the previous weddings had overrun but no-one had told us. The bride and groom thought it was hilarious when we told them. We were mortified!

I've double booked myself multiple times.

In my eagerness to book low availability tickets, I've booked without checking my diary.

On more than one occasion, it was only after the tickets arrived that I realised.

I've blown ££££ on gigs I can't get to

We missed flights from NZ to the UK - we were a day late, having messed up with time difference etc. Fabulous UAE customer service though - sorted out flights the following day with no additional charges. Bit panicky though

We showed up 24 hours late for our 4d baby scan and even worse they had phoned on the actual morning to confirm the appointment

I burst into sobs, I'd been struggling mentally with the idea of bonding with baby, gender disappointment and been finding it tough with my first.

That receptionist was so so kind, we had to go home and they gave us an appointment 2 hours later free of charge.

Not my mistakes, but years ago my very academic DC wanted to take a closer look at two Ivy league universities where scholarships would bring the $250k fees close to parity with unis in the UK.
A friend advised me to book with BA, citing the kind of superior service that @Meadowfinch mentioned. We chose the Waldorf Astoria for accommodation and the favourite university agreed access to a lecture in DC's chosen subject.
What is the cost of a small newish (second-hand) car, compared to the happiness of a child?
I still don't know. Codeshare meant horrible service on American both ways, the hotel put us in a room with a magnificent view, peeling wallpaper, damp patches and a chipped bath, while the esteemed Professor got his dates wrong, so we visited during exams and couldn't even get a coffee inside because catering staff were on strike seeking minimum wage.
In retrospect, Harvard was a bullet well dodged, DC is now an experienced professional in their chosen subject, but IMVHO, anyone beating themself up for a diary faux pas should take comfort from the fact that no punter can hold a candle to the professionals when it comes to screw ups.

DFriend showed up to the wrong exam at uni and failed her degree.. that one wasn't good 😩 she ended up retaking an entire year

I've turned up at a hotel a day early, well actually 5 of us but I'd made the booking. The receptionist said it happened all the time.