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.

I bought some "apple juice" on holiday once.
10 year old DD said it tasted a bit funny but I told her it was just different to the apple juice we had at home.
She was being very giddy a bit later and when I checked it was cider and she was pissed!!! Luckily she had only drunk one large glass and seems to have skipped her Mothers penchant for epic hangovers even after not drinking much.
She is 19 now and still recalls how her mum got her drunk when she was only 10.

As a student I fancied by friends flatmate 'David'. At her leaving party I flirted a lot and ended up kissing him. I brazenly wrote my name 'Emma' on a piece of paper with my number (family home number, pre mobiles). David said he would get in touch over the Summer but he didn't and although my ego was bruised I was OK. One day approaching Autumn I was home alone and the phone rang and I answered with 'hello' and an unfamiliar voice said 'Emma?', when I said yes he said 'It's me, David, how are you?'.'David, its been so long! So nice to hear from you!'. I got comfortable and chatted for a while, laughing too much at lame jokes into the phone. I told him about what I'd done for the Summer and my plan to return to Uni, how i felt about my exams etc. Then there was a long pause and he says 'so..is Sarah there?', my sister. I was so flustered I said I'd go check, knowing she was out.

I wandered around the house bewildered, how could he even know Sarah? No, wait he met her at a party in his house, she came with me. Maybe they bumped into each other and hooked up? BITCH. No, I never told her I kissed him. But he knew, what kind of asshole messes around with two sisters? But if she was with him and exchanged numbers she would have told me, as I'm likely to pick up? It doesn't make sense. Unless he met her, fancied her and knew he had her number through me and is about to ask her out. You F*ing PRICK David chatting to me like you aren't making a fool of me. F YOU DAVID.

Then as I went back to tell the bastard that she wasn't in I remembered my sisters old friend David that I knew since childhood and had forgotten existed. Thank God I didn't say anything else. I curtly told him she wasn't in and hung up.

When we were teenagers I couldn't open a bottle and asked my sister if she could try. Thinking it was coke and she was getting it me over on me she downed half of it. Unfortunately for her it was actually maple syrup. She was nearly sick and can't eat maple syrup to this day.

Served her right. 😂😂

sitting In the office (in the days when smoking was allowed) on phone and picked up a packet of cigarettes out of my handbag only to discover I was hold a packet of tampons! All male office!

These were so funny, thank you for some light hearted relief.

When I was about 17 I saw my best friend walking about 20ft ahead of me on the High Street. So I ran up behind her, wrapped my arms around her waist and twirled her round...only to then realise it wasn't said BF and actually a random stranger. Thankfully she was very (very!) Gracious about it!

When I had my first smear test in the early 80s I was wearing stockings and suspenders (city finance job and hate tights). When the elderly doctor had completed what he had to do he pinged my suspender elastic. I was utterly speechless and got out as quickly as I could. Didn’t tell anyone because back in those days you just didn’t - and who would you tell? These days he’d have got a left hook.

My mum once told me that when she was in her 20s (1960s) she had to undress for examination by a doctor and he commented 'very nice' at the sight of her breasts. She didn't do/say anything, again, because people didn't in those days.

I was on a train years ago travelling from work to home. It was a very hot day and I knew I had some hankies (or thought I did). I normally put them in a paper bag so reached for some and began dabbing my sweaty face with them. Luckily the bloke opposite me was more interested in reading his paper than watching a sweaty woman mopping up sweat on her face with a bulky sanitary towel....

I sold a dress on EBay and my friendly buyer left a positive review about the dress and the ‘complimentary’ dog biscuit 😳 Not sure how it got into the parcel!

As long as you hadn't advertised it as 'from a pet-free' home I'd think that was hilarious if it happened to me!

I hadn’t. The buyer sent me a message saying she found it funny 😂

When I was 18, I went on holiday with my boyfriend. I sensibly packed wet wipes, in case we needed to freshen up. Boyfriend used them on the plane, to clean his face and hands. After we got home, my Mum asked me why I had Femfresh wipes. 😳I had no idea they were wipes for a woman's delicate area.

DH's grandparents were a bit old and doddery, and their neighbour called to say that their garage door had been going up and down for half an hour. They went to the house to find the grandad very frustrated that he couldn't change the TV channel - he was pointing the garage door remote at the telly.

If a GP did that today, he’d be in trouble with the GMC!

Would like to think so. Unfortunately, such things still go unreported.
The hassle/shame/inconvenience stops many women reporting.

I've reported somone before and was told a lot of reports are dropped or not followed up on.

Massively better informed than years ago, but still a long way to go.

I would definitely report it today, but as a naive 22 year old in my first job after uni I just didn’t know where to turn. But it’s always stayed in my mind. The doctor will be long dead now but it was so wrong.

I pranced into the lounge to show DH my fabulous new underwear - bra and thong. I told him the thong wasn’t as comfortable as my others and he doubled up laughing.
I had it on back to front so although I had a little triangle covering my bum, everything at the front was….sliced and hanging.
Not my sexiest moment.

One of my eBay reviews comments upon the "complimentary spider"...)

Sliced and hanging

Was running late for a night out once thought I'd picked up my mobile phone until I took it out of my bag to use it I'd brought the TV remote to the pub
Brought a phone and met a friend for a pint tried setting up the phone and it was annoying me was sitting in the pub shouting at the phone I don't wanna finger my phone just work u idiot
Not sure if I should steer clear of technology or the pub

I love this thread.

I have also taken what I thought was lunch out of the fridge/freezer only to get to work and find it was actually gravy, stew or something else not quite right 😃

I bought my stepmum a present for her birthday and sent it via Amazon. All good.

Except all my subscription orders ending up being sent to her address without me realising. Including incontinence pads amongst other various personal items.

My dad's face when he had to hand it all back to me 😂

My dad bought my mum what he thought was a lovely old-fashioned locket from an antique shop for her birthday.

What he’d actually bought was a Victorian memento mori locket, complete with a lock of the dead person’s hair.

She wasn’t the type to find it funny. He was lucky she wasn’t adding to the hair clippings that day.

This actually made me laugh out loud!! Hilarious

I sat down on a train station bench beside a rather handsome man and reached into my bag to pull out my book. Pulled out the book, with my spare knickers hanging off it, right under his nose 😳