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 haven't heard of "Pernot" anything in donkeys... my auntie was a fan, she's moved onto Bicardi Breezers

Pernod is aniseed . Not sure donkeys !

When my DD was at primary school I used to freeze those tubes of yogurt ( Frubes?), so that they were still cold at lunch time, and also helped keep her packed lunch cool.
At school she had opened her lunch box to find a defrosted Mini Milk ice cream in there as I had absent-mindedly grabbed the wrong thing from the freezer.

My brother once stole a slice of my Nutella on toast, only to find out it was marmite.

He doesn’t like marmite anyway, but the shock of the savoury taste when he was expecting Nutella was too much.

I said it served him right for stealing!

I bake and freeze bread dough pasties to take to work for lunch.

One morning I grabbed a silver foil package, only to discover a crust of bread that I'd frozen to make into breadcrumbs.

On the same day my car broke down on my way home and I had to call a tow truck.

That was a bad day.

Course, there’s the classic MN thread about someone who’s prepared a fatball for the garden birds with lots of seeds etc, And she left it in the fridge as she had to go out. Came back to find her DH had eaten it because he thought it was an ‘artisan sausage roll.’

Well I do know of someone who took a python to work.

DP told me that one of his colleagues had a neighbour whose python got out of its vivarium. He and the police were looking for it, keep your cats in etc.

Colleague grabbed her gym bag (In the front hall) for the lunchtime run and headed off to work.

Some time later, she opened the bag and had twins! There was the python all curled up, fast asleep.

Her manager was quite keen for her to work from home that afternoon.

I went camping with a friend, it was stay in your tent after a party. She bought an old tent except what she actually bought was just the outer shell. No ground sheet.

Keeper 😂😂😂

Ugh aniseed you're absolutely right, like Shockwave!

Yeah Donkey's years..

Amazing! I remember you commenting that you were laughing so hard no sound was coming out! That’s given me so many smiles over the years, thank you 😀

I kind of like those crazy "oh you're very high/low so it must be a boy or a girl" 😆n

Saw this on Instagram, someone went to pick up their work bag, but had picked up their hoover and didn’t realise until they got to work.. (a teacher) 🤣🤣

So funny all these. Love the cat one.

In our early days of dating, DH gave me Allen Carr's Stop Smoking book. I read the whole thing, and when he asked me how it was, I said to be honest, it's a bit shit and not very funny. I thought it was a satirical book by Alan Carr!

Way back in the 80's, I was travelling with half a dozen colleagues to an overseas conference. We were transferred from the airport to the venue by minibus.

As we set off, the driver said he'd be happy to play a cassette if we had one and fancied some music. Paul Simon's Graceland had been released earlier that week, and I pulled the box out of my bag feeling very on trend having bought such a new release. Colleagues were suitably impressed and eager to hear it, so I passed the box forward, the driver took out the cassette, put it in the player and treated us to the theme tune from The Archers! (I'd recorded that week's omnibus to listen to later, and obviously got in a bit of a muddle with the cassettes and their boxes). My newly-increased street cred took a huge nose dive.

A prank rather than a mistake, but funny:
Bunch of young lads at a party, all obvious booze supply drank and they were hunting around for anything hidden. One of them ran back into the room holding a bottle aloft and shouting 'Ta-da!'. They all piled on him, wresting the bottle from him and each other as each took a swig: a good six of them had a swig before they realised it was shampoo

That reminds me a bit of the time DH and I were watching a film on DVD. A narrative voice came on:

"A woman walks down a hospital corridor. She pauses and looks at her watch. A man approaches her ..."

I thought 'this voice-over is a bit OTT, it's not really adding anything to the atmosphere'. Then I realised we had accidentally enabled 'audio description' for the visually impaired.

Just remembered another, thinking about the woman whose brother accidentally took vodka on a bike ride....

In an amateur dramatic production, at the dress rehearsal, it got to be point where one of the characters - who was extremely angry - poured a large scotch and gulped it down before finishing the onstage argument. And he poured himself a very large one, as he was expecting cold tea.

Nope, the stage manager hadn't had time to swap over the drinks, but didn't think to tell anyone.

The actor coughed the scotch everywhere.

Yes was not impressed. It was when you never looked at your phone for Internet etc just used to make calls so never noticed. Luckily we had a home phone and I had a work phone so cld ring me asking if i had seen the remote and advising I had left my phone and I clicked.

I had just returned from a long walk with my girl dog, in an area known for ticks.

Scratching her tummy later, I found several suspicious looking black things, so I got my tweezers and gently set to work.

She was a patient and loving soul, but she shot me such a horrified expression I stopped immediately.

Yes reader, they were her nipples....

Non-UK colleague once made a comment about English orange juice being unusual/undrinkable/an acquired taste. On further enquiry, it turned out they'd poured Kia-ora for themselves and their kids neat, without diluting. Boak.

A friend's dc carried their lunchbox to school and at lunchtime, opened it to find their ballet kit.

I was needing to catch an early train to London for a meeting, so DH (very new BF at the time) offered to come and pick me up and drive me to the station.

While I was finishing getting my bits together, he thoughtfully made me a coffee in my travel mug to take for the journey. I like my coffee sweet, and have flavoured syrups to add. I also have fruity ones to add to plain yoghurt… can you see where this is going?

It had snowed heavily overnight, meaning the coffee shop at the station was closed, but I was smug in the knowledge that lovely DH had made me that coffee and I was looking forward to sitting sipping it to warm up on the train. I found my seat, pulled out my mug, and took a lovely big swig of… blueberry coffee! 😂

Many years ago i was getting ready to go out on between reading bedtime stories, taking a 2 year old to the loo etc, i had put on my top, tights and underskirt. My friend turned up so i grabbed my coat and bag and raced down the drive, thankfully i realised i had forgotten to put my skirt on.