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.

when i was on holiday in Germany i was DESPERATE for a cuppa in the hotel rooms. none of them had tea, most didnt have a kettle at all or if they did it came with coffee or fruit tea.

The very last hotel in central Berlin had black tea! i was SO excited. made myself a cup of tea, they even had a milk carton! bit of sugar ... drank it thru clenched teeth.
Made another cup just because ... and that's when i ralised they had put SALT sachets with the tea and coffee. Yes reader, I had forced myself to drink a hideous weird tasting tea (salt)

It stung like a bitch all over my body. Not sure what I did wrong if you were fine.

When I was a teacher I reached into to my bag for a board marker and pulled out a tampon 😅

Was skiing with a friend and he put what he thought was a buff in his pocket. He pulled it out later in the day when we went up a bit higher and it got a bit chilly. Turns out it was actually a pair of his wife's knickers...

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There have been a lot of eating and drinking odd things but yours has to be the most disgusting. As a chocoholic, you’ve taught me a very good lesson.

I once started a new job and handed over my passport for DBS check only to realise it was my husband’s

Sitting at a wooden bench whilst my kids played on a country park playground I was joined by an older lady and her very elderly mum.
There was a drop of rain and older lady spends at least five minutes rummaging around in her handbag for her plastic rain hat and finally brandishes the packet with pride, only to open it up and find a pair of disposable plastic gloves 🙄

Multitasking one morning - kettle on, tea bag in mug, dog's wet food in his bowl, boiling water into mug, dog's dry food into mug - aah, shit 😂

I lavishly applied extra strong Deet Jungle Formula to my armpits jus a couple of weeks ago!

I had a little prang in my car (no-one hurt thankfully), no damage to his car, but the wing was cracked on mine. He said 'it was almost like you didn't see me'. I said 'you were going very fast'. A bit flustered, I foraged in my handbag for notebook and pen to exchange details...
Except it wasn't a pen. It was a toothbrush.
His face was priceless!
(I'd recently had my teeth whitened so was obsessive about keeping them clean, hence why I had a toothbrush at the top of my bag).

A friend's mum asked someone staying to make her a tomato sandwich for work as she was running late.
When she opened her lunch box, there were two slices of bread with a massive whole beef tomato on top.
Just ate the plain bread.

What made it worse was the lump of poo was nearly as square shaped as the Wispa bites! It couldn't have looked more similar if it tried.

My sisters once went to a judo tournament with a shopping bag of potatoes. My mum had made the sandwiches and they both had a mars drink to go with it (quite weighty), with other snack bits. How they didn’t clock what they’d done before needing to eat we’ll never know.

Mine too!

One snowy day my husband had a very important meeting in London. He walked to the train suited and wellington booted, with a carrier bag containing his shoes. When he arrived at his meeting, he opened the bag to change into his shoes...... To find he'd picked up the bag containing our daughters pink wellies.

Arrived at the laundry basket and lifted the lid and realised I'd been about to pee in it - had just come from the bathroom where I'd thrown the previous days knickers and socks into the loo.

Thanks OP for this lovely thread.

I too have left the house wearing odd shoes. And put white fabric conditioner in the fridge instead of milk. But u think that's it! I have got away lightly!

I sat on the hotel bed to finish packing before going home. We were to have a meal in the taverna restaurant before leaving for the late flight. I walked down the stairs first and the rest of my family followed me. They were in absolute stitches, crying with laughter but they wouldn't tell me why.

I then had a bit of a strop because they wouldn't tell me anything, and strode like Boadicea through the full restaurant to our seats. There were a few giggles from the clientele which made me even madder. The waiter pulled out my chair and whispered in my ear "my dear, you have an item of clothing stuck to your back".

I had a 40DD mahoosive hammock of a bra stuck to the back of my shirt by one of the hooks. It was on the bed when packing and I must have leaned back for something and it somehow.......

Omg!

Howling 🤣🤣

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I accidentally wrapped a sellotape roll in a Grandchild Xmas present. apparently the other Grandchild wasn't happy their sibling had an extra present. 😀

My DH grabbed a boiled egg from the fridge for a snack on the way to work one afternoon. He was on the train and cracked the egg to peel it, smashing a raw egg on the tray table in front of him. At least it wasn't on his trousers. I could not stop laughing when he sent me the photo.

Not as funny as some of these, but my friends son (y4) kept saying how comfy his new pe kit was. His mum didn't realise till the bag came home at the end of term that he'd picked up a bag that had his sisters gymnastics kit and he'd been doing PE in a set of girls leggings and a girls fitted tshirt and hoodie top and not his usual pe joggers 😂

I once squeezed out a heaped tablespoon of Deep Heat (muscle cream) and was about to stir it into a risotto. Realised at the last moment it wasn't the same colour as tomato purée. Crisis averted.

Both are in red tubes. I keep some medicinal stuff in a kitchen cabinet as the bathroom cabinet is v small.