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.

Puts me in mind of the Richmal Crompton William Brown story where the gang find some lemons (not available as they are rationed in wartime) to pop into the fancy cooking that Violet Elizabeth Bott’s mum is doing. It turns out these were lemon soaps…

Fictional, but still a laugh.

This may be outing as I’ve regaled a few people with it but I’m too lazy to NC.

Our luggage failed to arrive on a family holiday abroad so DH nipped to the shops to buy some essentials. He then took the kids to the pool so I could shower, change and chill after the infuriating airport experience.

I got out of the shower lovely and fresh and went to brush my teeth. Toothpaste looked a bit funny when I squirted it onto the brush but I shrugged and figured that was how they did toothpaste in this foreign clime.

Reader, it was denture fixation gel.

I realised after about 2 seconds having coated my front teeth in the fucking stuff. Cue frantic clawing at my mouth with tissue (bad idea) then a damp towel. Thank god I managed to get most of it off so I could go down and ask the lovely hotel reception for some actual toothpaste to remove the remnants without having either my mouth sealed shut or a coating of day-glo pink on my teeth.

Had DH walked in at that moment I would actually have throttled him to death with denture fixation gel. Thankfully I was laughing by the time he eventually returned 😂

This happened to us.. we found aload in the bin somone had dumped.

DH (then 50) and I took our first long-distance trip together to SA, him on business for part of it, and as packing would be tight he got a very big wheelie case out of storage.

As I was unpacking in the hotel in Durban we found he had helpfully brought his school cap.

Not the same but similar: I still chuckle 20 years on thinking of my ex father in law who took his specs to the post box and posted them and left the actual post at home.

Potentially fatal if any kids around!

😂Brilliant!

😮🤮

These are all great.

My h turned out to not be what he was meant to be.

Thank goodness I'm now divorced from him.

My DH once took our DS's Pokémon lunch box to work instead of his briefcase containing all his marked essays and lecture materials for the day. He realised half-way to the uni, came back and dropped off the lunchbox, and then got halfway back to work before remembering that he still didn't have his briefcase 😂

Many years ago, I bought rolls of the same Christmas wrapping paper and didn't bother with labels. To be fair, I did keep the presents separated by person and only had one mix up, my then boyfriend was pleased with his box of chocolates as a change to all the home brew supplies I had bought him for his new hobby, my bff was rather confused about her box of sterilising powder.

Another DH one. We had to clear and sell my dad's house in a different city when he moved into a nursing home near us. On the very last day, DH went over to pick up the last few bits and hand over the keys, and came back very pleased with himself - 'I even remembered to pick up the baby monitor!' DS was about nine at the time and we hadn't used a baby monitor for donkeys' years, and never at my dad's. DH had actually brought home the ringer unit for the doorbell.

My Dad was out in his patch of woods cutting down trees and managed to cut his leg open with the chainsaw. While he held his leg together he instructed my uncle, who was recovering from a knee replacement to run a quarter of a mile back to his car where he had a military first aid kit, in a green canvass bag, in the boot. Poor uncle hobbles as fast as he can back to the car, locates the green canvass bag, hoofs it back into the woods and presents my dad...with a bag of jumper cables. No, not that green canvass bag, the other one.

@ChrissyShenkle I would give anything to have seen your face at the time! I am laughing so much

Not sure if this fits but when the first lockdown was announced, I decided to go and stay with my DP (we live together now but back then we didn’t). He lived a hour away from my house so I went home and packed 2 huge suitcases. Clothes, pyjamas, make up, straighteners, hairdryer, laptop, phone charger etc. basically my life. Drove to his house and he came out to help me with the suitcases…. And I hadn’t put them in my car, I’d left them on my street next to where I park 🙈🙈🙈

I sped home but they were gone. I was devastated and it cost me over 2 grand to replace everything

This one was on an Aussie radio phone-in: A woman bought a few things at a discount store, including a box of Tampax that turned out to have no bar code, so she had the indignity of having to listen to the tannoy booming across the shop as the assistant asked the price of Super size Tampax. But it got worse - the guy answering thought she'd said thumb tacks, and asked if they were the ones you pushed in with your thumb or the ones you had to bash in with a hammer.

Just woke my 4mo up laughing at this.

Away on a posh spa weekend with my sister. She pulled her black evening trousers out of her case... only to realise they were her son's school trousers.

My Dad was told to gargle with tea tree oil when he had a sore throat. Turned out he was actually using tea tree face wash though. He said he thought it was a bit soapy tasting.

This isn’t quite what the thread is about, but somewhat related…

I was buying a vibrator from Ann Summers (genuinely for a friend, I prefer Lelo 😉) and while I was paying I was a bit taken aback when the assistant advised me to, ‘Just push it in the bottom.’

Then I realised she was nodding towards my card and the card machine 😂

I bought travel size toiletries for a holiday, I was washing my hair and wondered why the conditioner started foaming up - it turned out to be body wash.
My hair was like straw.
The bloody writing is too small on the mini bottles.

DS (9) brought a tupperware box full of ham to school instead of his (much more nutritionally balanced) packed lunch. School called to check it was a mistake...or not!

There seems to be a pattern, careful what you take for lunch and watch what you’re drinking.

And don't take other people's clothes to special events! 😂

I cleaned my teeth in a tired blur, thought the toothpaste wasn’t foaming much , looked closer and saw it was anti itch cream!