To never pick up a take away again

[ConfessionsOfAMumDramaQueen]

I'm still so embarrassed 🙈🙈🙈

Neither of us could be arsed to cook tonight so I decided to get pizza.

We went to pick it up, DH driving. I get out the car, pick up the pizza and throw myself back into the car. Hearing a startled sound to my right, I realise the man in the drivers seat is not my DH. My DH is in the car behind, in our car. In my defence it was the same colour and model of car 🙈.

I apologise profusely to the very confused random stranger, jump out and run to our car where my DH sits crying with laughter.

AIBU to never leave the house again in case I run into this random stranger?!

I went to pick up DH from a restaurant once and a random chap got into the car. thinking it was his taxi He was apologetic and we laughed. I do keep the locks on now though.

I heard a little trembly voice say Mummy?

Damn you, the wheeze is NOT helped by all this guffawing 😂

Once I spent half an hour in my lunch-hour in the carpark at work washing my car. I was just polishing the wing mirrors when I noticed a dent in the door that wasn't there that morning.
I was about to go to Reception and make a fuss when I checked the Reg No and it wasn't my car.

I almost turned back around to the man to apologise for being so rude at turning down a non-offer to a non-existent holiday but gratefully realised I'd be more of a fruit loop if I did and kept walking. I blame the amount of caffeine I was on at the time 🫠

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a couple of years ago... i went to the grocery store..came out and could not find my car. started pressing the alarm...nothing. so in a panic i called the police...right before i called my husband to tell him my jeep had been stolen. his response..babe. your jeep is in driveway...you took my car. ..thus more keys in my purse. omg. mortified when police pulled up and i had to tell them. they laughed at me/ bastards lol

Our taxis ring to say theyve arrived.like a prank call type thing.mine did.out I go and jump in.turns out the taxi call is a liar! They hadn't quite turned in and I was in a random ladies backseat.best day of my life☺😭

Brilliant 😂

Funny.

Pahahahahahahahahaha

Sorry OP that’s had me creased. Imagine if he was expecting a wife similar looking to you and actually drove off 😂😂

This happened to my sister. She was coming home late from work when the tube was suspended due to flooding. She was only 2 or 3 stops from home so BIL went to pick her up.

Before could get in the car, someone jumped in, refused to get out and insisted it was her taxi as she got there first. It was a good few minutes before she would listen to my sister that it was her DH and not a taxi.

I was expecting the estate agent the other day. Our house number is confusing as it doesn’t follow the usual pattern so get lots of people wandering around outside our house looking confused.

Anyway could see the woman through the glass pane standing about so I opened the door and, having never met the estate agent, said “I’m here! Do you want to come in then?”.

It was a good 5 seconds before she said “Sorry what?”. Turns out it was just a woman stopping to check her phone and I demanded she came into my house.

Wife, schwife. Supposing he fancied the pizza, & drove off?

Before central locking was a thing I once spent ages trying to get into my car and wondering why the key no longer fitted the lock. Eventually I looked into the car to see a child seat in the back. I didn’t have any children. My identical car was two rows down.

My ex did this in a shopping mall car park in Florida. He was lucky not to get shot! I have tried to get into cars that weren’t mine a couple of times. I think it’s pretty common!

This is hilarious. Imagine the lifelong confusion after returning to your car to find that it had been mysteriously washed 🤣😂🤣😂

Summer holidays, early Saturday morning. We packed the car for a holiday and as we drove away, I realised I’d forgotten my phone so DH pulled up across the road from our house.

as I ran back to the car and jumped in and shouted “let’s go!!!” The other driver burst out laughing as did the teenager in the back.

they too were waiting outside their house for their Mum to join the packed car to go on holidays and our car was parked behind.

not the same make.

not even the same colour.

Dd was two years old and a nightmare on that holiday. I should have stuck with their car.

They laughed at (with!) me too. Slightly similar circumstances ...

Stayed overnight at Ex's flat, walked to local, leaving car parked outside his place.
Enjoyed pub, came back, set alarm, up early for work.
Ex not in bed as I got up, imagined he was elsewhere in flat - not in bathroom, so quick teeth-clean & off, so I can get home to shower & change for work.
Cannot find ex to say bye to.
Ex was heavy drinker, & unreliable. Imagined he'd gone upstairs to neighbour chum upstairs & passed out up there.
Bit pissed off, but intent on getting to work.

Out ... cannot see car.
Rack brains. Definitely left car right HERE ... nope.
Sinking feeling. Bugger bugger bugger, car stolen, need bus, must get home & out to work.
This was pre-universal mobile phones, so decided to walk into town for a bus & call cops from home.
Home, called cops, reported theft.
Shower, change, ready for work.
Phone rang.
It was Ex. "Hi do you want a lift to work?"
Me: "Eh?"
Ex: "I got up stupid early & went fishing. In your car."
Me:"WTF? I thought it was nicked. I had to take a bus. Why didn't you leave a note? Also - HOW? I still have the key."
Ex: "I have your spare from when I picked up DD."
Me: [varied & extensive expletives] "What do you mean "lift". It's my bloody car. Get it back here right now. If you make me late -" [expletives].

Me - back to cop shop: "Er ... I just reported a stolen car, reg number blah blah."
Cop: "Oh yes, can see the report now, we'll be ...."
Me: "Right, excuse me, erm ... it's not stolen."
Cop: "Meaning ...?"
Me: (Gulp) "Um. My idiot bloke took it fishing without telling me, leaving me to think it'd been nicked, & rushing to get to work by bus."
Cop: "Well - GOOD news??!"
Me: "Not for him."
Cop: "Ha ha ha ha"
Me: "The thing is ..."
Cop: "Yeah?"
Me: "Could you ... arrest him anyway?"
"Cop: "Ha ha hahahhahha! I'll see what we can do."

I live in an area where not locking your car is pretty normal.

I jumped into my minivan after going to the grocery store and thought, "Wow! The brand new smell has worn off quickly!" before realizing it wasn't my car. I leapt out and found my own car before realizing I had left my bag in the other car. So, that was a really great moment when the owner of the other car found me in his car retrieving my own handbag...

I once had a couple walk into my house, the bloke said, "where's X?" I told him to leave, he argued with me that this was his mates house because it had a white door.

My house had a gray door and I think I would have noticed a random bloke moving in.

The woman of the couple virtually dragged him out.

DP and I were in the supermarket and he was taking his time choosing a loaf of bread, it was one of those times when there was very little left for all the reasons we've come to expect.

I'd kind of tuned out but came to and decided that it was time for us to get a move on and complete our shopping.

I turned to DP and said that we're just going to have to make do with what was available and just pick one or do without, only to find he'd moved on to look at the gaps in the milk fridge in the next aisle and another man was standing in the same place also flummoxed by the lack of bread selection.

I've also tried to get into the wrong car in service stations more than once but in my defence, I drive a lot of hire cars that are usually mid sized silver hatchbacks, so there's usually a few to choose from in any car park.

I was once stopped at the traffic lights beside the local train station on a cold, sleety evening, when a woman opened the passenger door, sat in, and as she turned away from me to get the seatbelt said, "Well thank fuck you're here. I've had one shitty day." And I said, "That makes two of us," and she stared at me, screamed and leapt out of the car.

I had a similar situation where a i attempted to unlock a car that wasn’t mine. Same male colour and model. The scary thing is my key worked and successfully unlocked it. But upon seeing fuzzy dice and different coloured seat covers I immediately realized it was not mine. I got out and locked it again. 😳 and then got into my car and drive away… I often wonder why my keys worked…

In the days when cars of the same make/model would often have the same key (@ExpensiveOops that may be why?) my mother frequently got into the wrong car and I can clearly remember on holiday in France, her trying to make me get into the back of a red Renault 4 that was NOT ours... ours, I eventually managed to point out, should have contained my sister, not a live chicken.

You would think the steering wheel issue would have been a clue, never mind the chicken instead of a 5 year old, but no, clearly she was having a trying day!

In more recent years, my sister has a key to our car as shes a named driver (motability vehicle).

There's a local retail park we often use, and if she spots our car parked there, she now finds it very funny to get in our car and lurk, waiting for DP to return to it (she knows if I am there, the wheelchair isn't in it!) so she can shout SURPRISE or just quietly say hello as he gets himself sorted. Shits him up every time!

I've done the too. I've also walked into the wrong house before, with a takeaway in hand.
My friend had moved, we were having takeaway at hers which I had picked up. She text me to let myself in, her front door was on the side of a semi detached house, I let myself in to the door at the front (no number in but the bin on the corner said the right number) only to realise it was her neighbours house. To make it even funnier her neighbour tried to hand me £10 and take the takeaway out of my hands. She thought I was delivering the food she ordered straight into her living room.
My friend was stood on the corner laughing when I let myself out of neighbours house.