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

[Anewuser]

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.

Many years ago my daughter's Dad was in charge for once as it was Mother's Day. Took my seven year old to a concert where she was performing and packed her bag. When it came time to dress for said concert, daughter found MY black leggings packed and not her own! However at the end of the concert he was meant to take home a friend from her class. Only he took home Suzy instead of Susan causing as major incident as parents of Suzy turned up to find their child missing and Susan was left with no one to pick her up as the venue was closing! All this in the days before mobile phones by the way...

Oh sorry.

I did something very similar with my Covid- addled brain but managed to stop myself and hoik the washing out of the loo before it hit the water 😁

I did the same thing - a hazelnut had escaped from the cereal. Except it wasn't a hazelnut, it was a dog treat.

i had never heard it before it gave me a giggle!

I have to wear high heels for work but don't like driving in them so change my shoes at work. The other day I grabbed my carrier bag with my shoes in and when I got to work realised had picked up a bag of dirty nappies instead 😬

Thanks. Same here.

DS and I were on holiday, very hot so very thirsty. Went to a restaurant and he ordered a coke, when it arrived he took a big gulp and suddenly turned into Mr Bean! I have never seen someone's face pull so many expressions as his did in that 10 seconds 😂turned out it was cold black coffee meant for another table.

On another holiday I picked out a selection of meat skewers in a restaurant that looked nice. Most of them were but with one, I don't know what it was, but I kept chewing and chewing and it just wasn't going down! The place was really busy and I started to feel really panicked! In the end I went to the loo and got rid of it there.

Back in the early 80s my Mum went for her very first smear test. She was nervous about it so made sure her under carriage was sparkling clean and she finished off with a spray of body spray down there.

The smear test went smoothly and at the end the GP thanked her 'for making herself so nice and pretty down there.' Mum was a bit baffled by his comment until she glanced down and realised, in horror, that she'd hadn't sprayed her lady garden with body spray she had sprayed it with my rainbow glitter hair spray.

I remember hearing that one in the 90s and still reading it in Take A Break years later!

Thank goodness you needed your bag. Too many babies have died as the parent has forgotten to dip them off and they've stayed in the car all day in the heat. These cases were in the USA.

As if a GP would dare to comment on the appearance of her nether regions!

Many years ago my daughter, about 5, wandered into the bathroom in a dream, sleepwalking. She lifted the lid of the woven linen basket , sat down and was about to wee - grabbed her just in time!

Not as good as some others here...

Our water electric pump broke and we needed it looked at urgently. This involved taking a photo to send to a contractor and confirming a few things on WhatsApp, none of which made any sense to me (still doesn't). Many texts exchanged about call out times etc. Simultaneously on another WhatsApp group DDs was invited to a paddling pool party
We got a message from host Mum saying they had taken the pool out of the shed but couldn't find the pump, so someone replied they had a pump they could borrow and would drop it over later at a particular time. So yes, I stupidly saw this message and was delighted we could 'borrow' a pump until ours got sorted. And yes I waited for the man to drop it off, and phoned when he didn't arrive and had the stupidest conversation with him until it finally clicked with me.

I just want to acknowledge the thanks for my reply post. It wasn't quite what OP was looking for, but it was the first thing that came to mind and I shared on a whim.

If you read and couldn't visualize.... it was one of those vry thin mini pads that are folded in half with a colourful wrapper. The tissue package in my purse was similar and also folded in half. So, engrossed in catch-up chat I opened the pad at the table and began lifting it to my face....

I've never laughed the way I did with my bff since she passed. She as one of a kind.

Went camping in North Wales in November. DP responsible for packing all the equipment.

The weather was very Welsh, so wet, the campsite was flooded in areas and it was still sheeting down. We got the tent up and looked around for the sleeping bags. DP had packed his but instead of mine he'd brought his old scout tent from the 1960s

Guess who had a cold uncomfortable night? (Hint. It wasn't me!)

@BirthdayRainbow
He most certainly would not have been left in there all day to die

It was October in the UK

My desk looked at the (very small) car park

He was very vocal

Students had already gathered around to see him "oh you've brought the little one with you today, can I have a cuddle?"

The childminder had already called to ask if I was on my way.

🙄

Really no need for the face. It was in no way a comment that you would leave him there to die of course. I was merely saying how lucky he was that you looked for your bag as you clearly didn't realise he was still in the car. I was merely posting something I had read. Maybe it would help someone in the future.

I disagree.

You were being a smug smart arse.

I so was not but I can't help it if you want to think so.

My parents, brother’s family and I were heading for a day out in London on underground. Brother grabbed the backpack with snacks from the hallway. After a couple of hours of sightseeing, he opened it to find he had taken my uncles’s backpack full of clothes which was also in the hallway (as uncle had been staying there for holiday). He had to continue to carry it around London and bring it back home in evening.

My dh drank a stockcube (mixed with hot water) as he had heard someone who gave it to me say ‘you can put this in soups’ and thought she meant it can be drunk as a soup. He had wondered why it was so salty but had forced himself to drink it anyway.

My dad was putting a shipment from England to me living abroad. He had a bit of space in the box left so grabbed a Nescafé gold coffee bottle from the kitchen cupboard and put it in. About 2 months later, we were unpacking the box abroad and found the bottle with some fried food my mum had put in it.
Also found the scissors and sellotape in the shipment box (had been using it to pack things and by mistake put them in box).
My in-laws forgot to pack my father in law’s underwear for their safari holiday in Africa. He ended up wearing my mother in law’s underwear.

My dh and I have both worn clothes inside out quite a few times and realised hour later.
My dad has taken the margarine to work instead of his sandwiches which were in a similar box.

Pull your head in. She was making a very valid point about a phenomenon - parents forgetting children are in the car - that has had tragic consequences.

The glitter hairspray for smear test is definitely urban myth!

Why make something up??
Same as the one with the tampax/thumb tacks. They are fake and been going around in various forms for years.

Glitter gets everywhere, so she'd have known, especially when taking her knickers off for the smear.

I've done the brown mark thing, rubbed off what I thought was chocolate on a wall and went to wet my finger in my mouth for the last bit... luckily the smell hit me first.
This was in the bathroom, so should have suspected, but it wasn't near the loo. 4 Yr old culprit.