Biggest going the wrong way cockups

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Today stopped on the way to holiday, then got on the wrong A road and drove back the way we came. Attempted to get off at next junction to turn around and then got back again in the wrong direction and had to drive another 6 miles in the wrong direction before I could turn around. 20 minute journey back 45 minute journey!

Help me feel less of a tit and tell me yours.

My friend was supposed to get a hovercraft and ended up on a FERRY, resulting in a Steve Martin style journey through France to meet her sister at the original destination.

I can get lost in a cupboard, so when I had to drive back from dropping dh at hospital, dh set the sat nav to for me.
First roundabout, take the 4th exit (5 lane roundabout) 2nd roundabout, take the 3rd exit, all good.
Next roundabout, take the 4th exit (5 lane roundabout) , next roundabout take the 3rd exit. All good still.
Next roundabout, take the 4th exit (5 lane roundabout), next roundabout take the 3rd exit.
Now I don't know about you, but I did vaguely think that having 3 lots of 5 lane roundabouts in a row was unusual, but it wasn't until I was going back to the 5 lane roundabout FOR THE FOURTH TIME that I realised something was wrong, and that the sat nav was stuck in a loop. If there hadn't been a 5 lane roundabout in the mix, I'd still be going up and down that bit of road now!
That wasn't all, I didn't trust the sat nav after that so went rogue, ending up in some village in the middle of nowhere, with roads about 2 foot wide and no bugger about to ask where the hell I was. Eventually (getting lost several times more) I got to a ford where you had to pay 70p to cross, I threw a pound coin at the chap, nearly in tears, and said to keep the change, just tell me how the hell to get on the road home.
Someone else picked dh up from hospital.

Years ago I left work to drive home, a familiar drive, even in the dark. I somehow took the wrong motorway junction. It was only when a jumbo jet flew right across my eye line that I realised I was next to Manchester Airport and not 20 miles in the opposite direction. Still don't know how I did that.

Managed to get lost on the way home from the airport. It was dark didn't help.
We had no idea, how to get back to where we wanted to go. It's quite scary really.

Took an ex-DP to an area of outstanding natural beauty that he wanted to visit. Or so I thought. Ended up in a housing estate 1hr 45 in the opposite direction with the same name!

I always find driving in Edinburgh stressful. I live in a remote place now so I'm used to driving mostly on single track or single carriageway roads but I have to visit Edinburgh a few times a year and it makes me quite anxious. Constantly changing speed limits, bus lanes starting/stopping, multi lane roundabouts etc. I'm a fairly confident driver but cities make me anxious now. I half expect a ticket of some description every time I visit Edinburgh. Been lucky so far.

In my after work drinks days when I lived in London I spent many hours (cumulatively) trying to find my way to the DLR at Bank station to get back to Lewisham. It's the bit where you used to have to go onto and through one of the tube platforms that always confused me!

I know someone who realised that she’d gone the wrong direction on the m25 and rather than come off at the next junction and turn back, she kept going the whole way round the m25

We booked a cheapo hotel at a motorway service station for a night so we could have a whole day in Winchester. But when we got to the junction before, the motorway was closed for resurfacing. We spent an hour driving about the back lanes to see if we could get there another way. We kept trying to get back on the M3 only to be sent in the wrong direction. We finally got through to "beds r us" and they told us there was no other way to get to them.

We had to go into Winchester and book a very expensive hotel at 10pm. 😭

I used to work near Bank underground, this was a common occurrence for me 😂

Joined the m11 at stansted after a day in Edinburgh. Was so tired I thought I don’t live in London and headed to Cambridge (North). It’s a long drive to the junction to turn round…

The time my car and I blundered into the no-cars part of the centre of Huddersfield when I was trying to get to a small town on the outskirts is my most expensive navigational failure to date. And the time I took the wrong route off Scafell Pike and ended up coming down into the wrong valley is an enduring source of embarrassment.

Not me but a work colleague was going home after Friday night drinks, was a bit drunk, got on a train from the right station and platform but the totally wrong train.
He wasn’t sure where he was going. He followed the crowd and had to turn back because he didn’t have his passport when he tried to board a ferry in Harwich.

Settling DD into Glasgow uni, we went off to Asda, via sat nav. We arrived at a tiny shack of a corner shop called 'Asda' in a very ethnic area!

The city I live in built a new ring road which my friend and I decided to try using to get from my house to hers. We couldn't find the exit, drove about 10 miles and decided to check if we had any food on us as she's diabetic. She had one sweet! We found an exit eventually, at 14 miles. TBF, the council owned up to confusing signage and changed them all.

I hope they refunded you.

I avoid changing trains at Bank if at all possible.

Oh I've so many...
Wrong side of the Mersey for Liverpool airport.
Travelled several miles on a local motorway. Thought it was odd we didn't see another car...the motorway wasn't yet open. It's been open many years but is still known here as 'The road to nowhere'.

This is incredible

This thread is making me feel so much better about my own abilities in navigating around places. I have no sense of direction at all, so am hopeless at retracing where I've been, but I often overestimate my abilities all the same. Yesterday I somehow thought I'd be able to go through some backstreets to work my way to a road I wanted to be on and ended up in a school car park at picking up time, queuing up with a load of taxis to get children.

Oh I love this 🤣🤣