When something wasn’t what it was meant to be….

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I’ve just read a story that made me laugh, so I’m looking for more…

Someone carried their camping chair to a festival, when on arrival realised it was a washing line.

Someone else recited the story of taking their swimming bag to school to find out they’d picked up their mum’s knitting bag.

Another recalled carrying a box with the windbreak in to the beach, only to find they’d taken a Christmas tree.

Please tell me more.

Not as funny as the above but when phones were bigger, I picked up the remote instead of my phone and took to work. It was a day my husband had day off too when the world cup was on. He did a 3o mile round trip to collect it.

@treacledan71 that is funny.

I think what’s so hilarious is picturing these things happening.

I’m sure your husband was over the moon.

Oh Lord, I’m crying with laughter! Those are brilliant!

I took one of those micro towels on a tiny draw-string bag with me when I went swimming in a remote lake.

I got out of the water, went to dry myself off, only to discover what I'd actually brought with me was a mosquito net, also in a tiny draw-string bag.

I can confirm that it's absolutely not possible to dry yourself with a mosquito net.

in a draw-string bag

My friend's husband took his black tee shirt to change into at work. He actually pulled his wife's black leotard out of his bag.

Well I’m howling at these 😂
Thank you all

@Littlefish and @Jadedandlost these are brilliant. It’s so easy to understand how it happens.

I’m bumping this thread - we need more of these!

Thought I had hold of my keyring in my bag but pulled out a dummy instead.

My friend's husband used to use an empty 2kg margarine tub to take his sandwiches to work in. One day he opened up his packed lunch to find he'd taken a tub full of margarine to work.

@AWomanInWinter Hahah! DP once took a food container without checking to work, and I rang him when I saw the 'right' one with his work-tea still in fridge. He had brought enough bolognese sauce (no pasta) for 4 people, instead of sandwiches and fruit, etc. To be fair he did try eating it anyway.

in our late teens my brother grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge to go on a bike ride. At the top of a hill after a long climb he took a large swig of…neat vodka. We had put it in a water bottle to take to a festival

A few years ago my friend got a phone call from her child's school to advise her they'd had to provide her DD with a lunch that day.
Instead of her sandwiches, she had accidentally put the chicken defrosting for the dinner into her DDs packed lunch box. 😂

My aunt packed to go to her nephew's wedding, stayed the night beforehand as it was far from where she lived. She got dressed and went to put her shoes on just before leaving the hotel, and realised she'd brought two different shoes.

Thankfully she did have one right and one left, and both black. But they were very different heel heights so she spent most of the wedding sitting down.

At uni, a flatmate carried her washing to the laundrette (in a bin bag - you can see where this is going!)
Waited ages for a machine to be free and yes she had taken a bag of rubbish
We couldn't believe that she didn't realise it wasn't really the right shape / weight
She was known for being a bit 'ditsy'

I once arrived at youth orchestra camp at the other end of the country to find that my clarinet case was empty 😱

Apparently DH's dad once took the family on a long hike to camp in the hills. He'd decided to try out a disposable barbecue (a fairly new thing at the time) and they were all looking forward to their dinner.

Turned out he thought the picture on the top of the barbecue of burgers, sausages etc meant that the food was all included inside the tray, and so he hadn't brought anything else to cook on it!

😂

Colleague was on his way to a very important promotion board. It was a public service where you wore a uniform. He was driving some distance so didn't want to risk any creases on his newly ironed shirt. He had carefully hung it on the suit hook in his car.

He arrives at the venue and takes the shirt to the toilets to change only to find he had picked up his wife's newly ironed shirt instead of his own (she was in the same profession). He actually managed to put it on although it was very, very tight and he couldn't button the collar. He did wear it to the interview after explaining his dilemma. It was certainly a good ice breaker and he passed the promotion board.

My friend had a piñata at her dd party. After quite a long period of hitting it with no luck we discovered she thought sweets were included.

I was praying that last sentence wax going to say she spent most of the wedding going round in circles.

In possible opposition to this thread, I’ve gone on a camping holiday without tent poles.

Twice.

😂😂

I made someone a coffee at their house and they spat it halfway across the room as I put salt instead of sugar in. The container was not labelled and looked like sugar. Who keeps salt in a big canister, near the identical teabag canister anyway