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.

My ex husband had gone into the kitchen without putting the light on to take a swig out of his bottle of cough medicine he picked up the bottle of witch hazel instead and spat it all over the kitchen. Oh how i laughed.

On holiday, grabbed my son's vaccine from the fridge and took him to the GP for his jabs. Doctor said "Madam I am sorry, I can't inject this". It was my sister in law's piles cream 😬

A work colleague unwrapped her sandwich only to discover it was a block of cheese

DP bought a DVD off Ebay. It arrived in a padded envelope and after he opened it, he noticed something else in the envelope. Tipped it out into his hand to find it was a dried up umbilical cord and clip.

He had to contact the seller to ask if they wanted him to send it back. They explained they just picked up an old envelope off the shelf forgetting it was in there, apologised and told him to throw it away.

I unpacked my grocery delivery yesterday and one of the bags had two tupperware/plastic boxes in. It looked like someone's lunch.

I phoned the delivery driver and, yes, it was his lunch. It was in the same branded bags as the supermarket my order came from!

A few. A friend swigging out of a coke can that his mum had drained fat into.
Rushing outside and jumping in the back of a cab that wasn’t… it was the bloke next door’s mate come to visit.
Sitting in work chatting and suddenly realising my t-shirt was on back to front
edited to add: son’s friend putting a glass bottle of diffuser liquid in the fridge thinking it was booze

Every scan I had in first pregnancy said that I was expecting a boy. Old women would come up and put their hands on my belly (not UK) and tell me I was expecting a boy. All the tricks and old wives tales I did like hanging a crystal pendant over my belly told me it was a boy. Angry, purple dd popped out at 42 weeks extremely pissed off at having been misgendered for 9 months!

Was invited to a friends house for lunch. As we sat down to eat she said she had made us a nice pasta sallad. Except it turned out that she had forgotten the actual pasta.

DS went on his first ‘lads’ holiday last year and as the palest kid known to mankind got sunburnt on the first day. His mates were very nice and offered to pick up some aloe Vera gel from the nearby shop.

They came back with aloe vera washing up liquid.

Started work late (9 o’clock) and at 6 I heard a phone ring from my bag in the hallway. I had taken home our work phone. I work in a nursery and these were parents ringing to say that their child was ill and wouldn’t be in that day etc. So no morning off for me. And a quiet morning for my colleagues. 😅

I did this.

It wasn't a wedding.

I had brought 2 left boots. One with a 1/2" heel, one with a 2"

That was an uncomfortable night in every sense!

That was me under a different name, I don't think I've ever laughed so much at the time

sort of a win I'd suggest! 😆

Went to stay with an elderly aunt several hours drive away with dd who was about 6 months. Packed the car by setting everything by the boot and ticking it off my list as I did so.

Got to my aunts to discover id left the travel cot sitting on the drive - poor dd slept in a drawer that week 😳

Went to a bar where our friend worked after a BIG night out so we were all (including friend who was working) feeling a bit delicate and vague. Bar did light snacks and lunch bits so I ordered some bruschetta. Thought it tasted a bit odd but the need for carbs was more important. Friend asked how it was as he'd just been 'promoted' to snack preparer extraordinaire as well as bar staff. Said it was fine but I was sure that other bruschetta I'd had before was more textured on top. He pondered this then gasped and announced he'd 'forgotten to do the bloody toppings'.

So my bruschetta essentially turned out to be tomato paste on toast

My MIL(sadly no longer with us) wasn't the best cook, but once made an apple pie. Un be known to her fil needed some ready made cement to repair something, but the bag was split and in the bin he found an empty flour bag, and put the cement now bagged under the sink. Mil make a lovely pie and presented it to fil for him to cut. Which of course he couldn't. "This is hard as rock" when mil said well I thought I'd run out of flour but i found some under the sink. When fil explained you've made a pie with cement, she said it was the best "pastry" she had rolled out.😁

There's a Paul Newman story that might fit in here... hang on

I went to a sleepover house party when I was 16 and we all took a couple of bottles of alcopops each. I also had bad skin and wasn't going to skip my skincare for a single night.
Kev was absolutely disgusted by the drink that I'd bought with me....he'd been swigging my Boots Witch Hazel which he'd helped himself to out my bag. Served him right!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-dreamsicle/

not quite the same but a case of being distracted & why not? It's Paul Newman

@Scorchio84 I'm quite sure it was!

@KreedKafer , yes, this was exactly the type of Tupperware thing. Bleugh, I can taste it now.

I've thought of another. Back when I was married, I made some sloe gin. There was some left over after I'd bottled it up so I tipped the rest into a water bottle and left it in the kitchen.

Ex-husband asks me later if "we've got any more of that blackcurrant cordial?" He'd drunk the lot, at 40%proof. Thank God he didn't drive that day!

40%proof?? I need this Sloe Gin recipe @Needhelp101 😆

I took a bottle of mixed Ribena from the fridge to an early morning gym aerobics class
I took a swig and realised it wasn't . Before I could stop her my friend who'd forgotten her drink took a swig and spat it out shouting loudly "urghhhh what the hell thats Pernod and black !" It was 7:30 am ......... and I kept it mixed in the fridge for a quick grab take a drink to a friends , never intended for gym

I once offered someone a tampon in the pub instead of a cigarette. It's very important to look instead of rummaging around with your hand in your bag.

I work in a school. A child came into my colleagues office and said ‘miss, I couldn’t find my hedgehog this morning when I left the house…. He put his hand in his bag to get his pencil case out-erm found the hedgehog.

I'd made some home made lemonade, but also had some homemade mayonnaise I'd just made.
My DH came in and gratefully gulped 7 egg whites I'd left out.