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To be absolutely mortifed mixup of DH and BIL?

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Sexyhouseslippers · 27/03/2015 01:34

DH brother and his wife have come over to visit DH and have a catchup before Easter. I came down to say hello etc. DH and his brother looks very similar I went up to whom i pressumed was DH and in tongue and cheek slapped his bum and muttered something like sexy. BIL turned round looking confused and blushing whilst his wife gave me a disapproving look. I'm in the toilet MN mortified and blushing.
Please tell me I'm not the only one whose done something similar.

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CalleighDoodle · 27/03/2015 10:15

Yeeeehaaaaa cowboy and can we go now!!!!

MrsDumbledore · 27/03/2015 10:52

Jemima -actually you've just reminded me of a similar incident with my dad when I was younger. My dad has very poor eyesight without his glasses, and we were in a water park with slides so he had to take them off. Along with my sister the three of us had, separately, been down a slide that you sat on a ring for. I emerged to see my dad coming off his ring, looking around and spotting a ring with a young girl with the same hair colour hair as me and my sister, and then pulling said girl on her ring to the side of the pool. She looked totally confused and a bit scared! It was lucky I saw what was happening so could quickly get his attention, before the police were called!

MTBMummy · 27/03/2015 11:01

Back in the dim and distant past when I was about 17, I had recently started staying over and dtd with my then bf.

I walked into the kitchen in his parents house where he'd gone to make me a coffee, saw him at the sink, walked up behind him, cuddled him, kissed him on his neck, and whispered "last night was great, thank you" only for me to them realise it was his dad!!! Both where tall and slim and looked surprisingly similar from behind.

I wanted to die, his dad just laughed, and BF then emerged from the adjoining garage to see me lit up like a beetroot

TheRavenChides · 27/03/2015 15:20

Some of these are hilarious!

Jemima I'm surprised the other mum didn't see the funny side. I'd have been in hysterics!

MTB

Not long after pfb was born I was having lunch with a group of new mums, none of us had known any of the others for more than a couple of months. A man walked in and she waved and called him over, introducing him as the DH of another one of the group, who wasn't there that day. He stayed and politely chatted to us all for a couple of minutes, looking a bit uncomfortable, but there were quite a few of us, so that was hardly surprising. He then wandered off to buy a drink and left, waving awkwardly as he passed.

It wasn't him

SoonToBeMrsB · 27/03/2015 15:27

My mum and auntie look very similar and were both at my 21st birthday party. My best friend (who has been my best friend since we were children!) approached me, blushing like mad, to say that she'd had a ten minute conversation with my aunt because she thought it was my mum. She had never met my aunt before this.

"I did think her hair had grown a lot since I last saw her"

kinkyfuckery · 27/03/2015 15:29

My 84 year old grandad was chasing my 6 year old DD around a shop for a kiss (a game they play).

It wasn't my DD, instead a random small child. Oops.

SoonToBeMrsB · 27/03/2015 15:38

Oh, and another! My colleagues and I (all allegedly sensible adults between the ages of 25 and 50) like to try to scare each other when the opportunity arises. The colleague I share an office with got our manager an absolute belter by hiding under her desk for ten minutes and grabbing her ankles when she went to make a phonecall. The resulting shriek was heard at both ends of the corridor.

To get her back our manager waited until colleague had gone to the toilet and hid outside. When she heard the taps go off and footsteps across the floor she jumped out and screamed holy murder... in the face of a very cat's-bum-mouth woman from the department round the corner. Mrs Cat's Bum Mouth did NOT see the funny side, especially because the manager fell about laughing and couldn't even explain through the tears.

Whoops

SweetPeaSoup · 27/03/2015 15:52

My FIL took the stairs at a multistorey car park while the rest of the family took one of the lifts. We came out of the lift on the ground floor just in time to see him throw himself through the doors of the OTHER lift, yelling RAAAAAA! at its terrified occupants (who had never seen him before in their lives)...

OhNoNotPooAgain · 27/03/2015 17:00

Hahaha I love all these. I once hot into a taxi after a party to share it home with my friends, except I'd got into the wrong taxi and it was full of strangers. I was a bit worse for wear and it took me a while to realise. They were all just really bemused.

creampie · 27/03/2015 17:24

I nearly snogged a complete stranger last summer. In fairness, the sun was in my eyes and all I could see was his sillouette. It was only when he spoke I realised the mistake, with lips about 6 inches from his! Turning to my left revealed a very bemused and open-mouthed DH standing about 10 feet away. I nearly died....

BigFatFurryCatPuss · 27/03/2015 18:14

Haha! SIL did this to DH a few years back - he and BIL are twins and she'd had a few drinks. We were sat nattering at a family do when DH walked past us - she slapped him on the arse and said "Get me another drink love" and was mortified when DH turned around and she realised it wasn't BIL

TBF they are identical and wear very similar clothing. I've never mixed them up yet

Thankyoumrspatterson · 27/03/2015 20:30

Loving this thread

lomega · 27/03/2015 20:35

At a party once that I was attending with DH, I ran up behind another man, linked my arms around his stomach and whispered 'want to see if there's anywhere we can go to screw?' .....into DH's best friend's ear They are both the same height and were wearing the same outfit. DH found it hilarious, his friend was shocked yet giggly, I went and hid in the toilet in tears. I was a bit drunk but I've never lived it down!!!!!!

TruJay · 27/03/2015 20:47

Haha these are great

DH and BIL looked really similar when we first got together, not so much any more though. One time at Pil's house I saw DH about to go upstairs so went to grab his bum, my hand was inches from the pinch when I heard DH call me from the living room! I nearly died once I realised it was BIL instead so I used my other hand to grab my offending pinching one and stopped just in time! Me and DH then fell about laughing at what so very nearly happened.

My sis, mum and I were once out shopping when my mum spotted and went up to our babysitter from when we were younger and gave him the biggest hug and asked how he was etc it wasn't him but thankfully the guy saw the funny side. My mum is totally gorgeous though so he really didn't mind. We all ran into the closest place which was the bank and dissolved into giggles! The guy really was the double of the sitter though haha

flora717 · 27/03/2015 21:38

I've been on the other end of this. I've been told often I look like someone else in the area. I know this person's name now (say Leah) because occaisionally it gets called out to me by a woman on the next road(she's told me it's her niece).

Anyway. There I am doing the shopping. Reaching up for a some fly stickers (relevant). My hand is grabbed and this huy says "here's your flies Lea". He had my hands millimetres from his crotch and sees my face. He was VERY apologetic. My DH laughing so hard (and now makes me crotch grab whenever I do anything remotely insect related).
I long to bump into him again to take the piss.

Minshu · 27/03/2015 21:53

Nothing so mortifying, but I did start talking to DD's friend's dad a couple of months ago, only to be told he was her uncle who I'd never met before (identical twin, although quite different when I saw them together later). We have identical twins visiting us soon, but it's not so embarrassing to get mixed up with toddlers...

DustyCropHopper · 27/03/2015 21:56

I did similar with my bil, him and dh look similar and he was actually wearing one of dh's shirt and I, without looking properly went and cuddled up to dh, only it was bil!

Dowser · 27/03/2015 22:13

In the days before tampons women used to wear sanitary towels called Dr Whites.

It was all so embarrassing. Not like today.

My mum was at a market stall reached into her bag for her purse and dragged this thing out by its loop. Looked down and there it was in all it's gleaming whiteness across the stall.

Poor mum. She tried to surreptitiously curl it back into her bag. These things were huge.
Just going to the chemists and asking for a pack of dr. Whites was bloomin embarrassing.

Women today have the anonymity of going to a supermarket and put them in the trolley next to the washing powder and yogurts.

It was so much harder back then.

I mean you used to have a relationship with the chemist . Nice day, how's mrs chemist etc . Then you had to ask him for a sanitary towels. Embarrassing. Very.

Marshy · 27/03/2015 22:23

I remember going into the chemist's with my mum and when she asked the male chemist for Dr White sanitary towels he used to go into the back of the shop to get his wife to come out and serve her!

JemimaPuddlePop · 28/03/2015 08:40

When my mum was a bit tipsy after a night out when she was 18, she left the pub she was at and went outside to go home...her uncle was picking her up.

She got into the car, slumped in the backseat and dozed on the way. When they arrived, she got out and went to his window to say thanks and it wasn't her uncle...just a random man with the same car

My mum was tipsy enough that she'd not realised anything was wrong when her 'uncle' asked for her address.

Apparantly he was just a nice guy who thought he's take a drunk young girl home rather than leave her on the street but still

WizardOfToss · 28/03/2015 08:55

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aderynlas · 28/03/2015 09:18

Many years ago all the children decorated the front windows for xmas. We all walked around to admire their handiwork. My window had little plastic snowmen, ballet dancers father xmas all sat proudly on what must have been two packets of dr whites, all fluffed up as snow.

Marmite27 · 28/03/2015 09:31

I once cuddled my DH's cousin from behind, I had a 1 in 4 chance of getting that one right! One BIL and another cousin were stood at a bar with DH at the time. This was greeted with much hilarity, this was before we were married, and I did the same thing with the same cousin on our wedding day! The other BIL was involved that day though!

I also once had a small child sidle over to me in a supermarket, slip his hand in mine, change his mind, hug my leg, called me mummy and told me he needed a wee! I don't know who was more surprised, me or his dad, - mum was at home lol

CalicoBlue · 28/03/2015 11:08

This thread has me crying with laughter.

Crazy lift man and snogging a stranger

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 28/03/2015 11:18

HA ha. You'll soon see the funny side. Not mortifying but Here's my story of mistaken identity. My Bil is a twin and me and dd were in asdA and we sAw who we thought wS bil or du. So we're shouting hi insert name here and he turned around and sAid I'm not insert nsmd here. I'm his twin. An easy and forgivable mistake, I guess.

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