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ConfessionsOfAMumDramaQueen · 2022-12-18T22:21:15+00:00

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?!

anxiousatnight · 19/12/2022 05:14

My friend was walking home from a night out. Got home, door was unlocked which he thought was strange but he was drunk so he just stumbled into bed and fell asleep.

Morning comes, he gets woken up by someone in the room. It's the parents of the child whose room he has fallen asleep in. The child had got out of bed early on in the night and gone in to sleep with their sibling. He gets up and legs it home, leaving his shoes by the front door.

Later he goes back with wine and chocolates to apologise and retrieve his shoes. Luckily they think it's hilarious and all was forgiven!

Bepis · 19/12/2022 06:07

@anxiousatnight he actually fell to sleep!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 that's hilarious.

anxiousatnight · 19/12/2022 06:15

@Bepis yes he slept there all night. When he woke up he couldn't understand why he was in a single bed, or why the room was filled with kids things. He didn't have any children of his own at the time, so he quickly realised it couldn't have been his house.

No idea why the door wasn't locked. Rural village so maybe just not too worried about security.

Thank goodness the child wasn't in bed!

Bepis · 19/12/2022 06:19

@anxiousatnight Can you imagine 🙈. I bet he was mortified when he woke up. Glad the parents saw the funny side though.

KatherineJaneway · 19/12/2022 06:21

Relative did something similar. In ASDA's car park, tried to get into a car that wasn't her daughter's car. Same make and model.

liarliarshortsonfire · 19/12/2022 06:57

My DD did this in Tesco, got in a van thinking it was her dad, some random builder just sat there whilst she chatted on about something, put her seatbelt on, looked round, screamed and jumped out again

liarliarshortsonfire · 19/12/2022 06:59

I think there's a story I read about someone seeing their dh car in a car park, it was unlocked so creeped in the back seat and hit under a blanket to surprise him . Wondered why she didn't recognise the blanket, car started up and drove off, she popped her head out and saw someone she didn't recognise. Gave the poor chap a real surprise when she tapped him on the shoulder. Apparently he was good enough to drive her back to the car park

Sleepyteach · 19/12/2022 07:21

My mum did this in the supermarket car park the other week, and because I’m a terrible daughter I let her. 😂 in my defence I was wrangling a toddler and mum was a bit ahead of me, I was driving DHs car that day, and she just saw a car the same colour in roughly the same location, I said I’d unlocked the car and she went to get in, I thought she’d try the door and it not be unlocked, turned out the owner was sat in there waiting for his wife.

Rockingcloggs · 19/12/2022 07:39

Ordered a taxi to collect us from the pub. Said taxi was really late but eventually turns up and my DH and I climb, chastising the driver on his tardiness and tell him where we live. The taxi driver responds with 'iv only come to pick my nanna up'!!

Selttan · 19/12/2022 08:34

I love this!

I've done where I've been out to dinner with a group of friends and home to the the toilet and when I've come back sat down at the wrong table. Had a group of women in their 70s staring at me.

ExpensiveOops · 19/12/2022 17:06

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/12/2022 04:04

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!

Oh my goodness! Well that explains a lot. Yes your poor mother must have been exhausted to the point of barely functioning! 😂 At least I was functioning enough to notice the vehicle obviously was not mine. lol!

mouse70 · 19/12/2022 17:27

I was staying with friends for the first time. terraced house. They gave me a front door key to let myself in later that night. Parked my car outside in road.In I went, front door direct into living room, to find a complete strange couple enjoying a quiet evening watching TV. Who was more shocked? I did apologise explained that the key had opened their door. I had to show them I was telling the truth and told them who I was staying with.(two doors up) Not sure who changed their locks.

Hellsmovie · 19/12/2022 17:29

This is amazing . I would of watched in anticipation of you getting in the wrong car as well

SirenSays · 19/12/2022 17:31

I was waiting for a friend when a bloke the size of the mountain from game of thrones got in the car. Thankfully he was apologetic and really sweet about it but it was scary!

BluebirdRobin · 19/12/2022 17:41

My ex dhs best mate was sat in his car waiting for his wife to come out of BlockBusters (when it existed) and said a prostitute thought he was looking for a date and got in his car!

Appently he asked her what the hell she thought she was doing and to get out! She got out pretty sharpish 🤣 He was a very tightly wound bloke too with not much of a sense of humour so I'd loved to have been a fly on the wall to see his face when she got in! 😅

ExpensiveOops · 19/12/2022 17:45

BluebirdRobin · 19/12/2022 17:41

My ex dhs best mate was sat in his car waiting for his wife to come out of BlockBusters (when it existed) and said a prostitute thought he was looking for a date and got in his car!

Appently he asked her what the hell she thought she was doing and to get out! She got out pretty sharpish 🤣 He was a very tightly wound bloke too with not much of a sense of humour so I'd loved to have been a fly on the wall to see his face when she got in! 😅

Would have rathered him be humourless about it in this case then accept her offer. lol!

Alannahxx · 19/12/2022 17:48

I did this once....only I jumped into the backseat and said "OK go" .....the driver thought he was being hijacked and promptly jumped out the front. Then I realised DH was 2 cars down😂

FTY765 · 19/12/2022 18:00

Ah, I did this when I was 15! Thought it was my mums car, jumped in and there was a strange man in the driving seat 😂Mum and brother found it hilarious...

Dogsinthecradle · 19/12/2022 18:18

My mother
She drives a car and my father a motorbike-they’d gone out on the bike and on the way home,she made him stop at a local shop
she got off and wandered in while unknown to her,dad moved down the road by about 50 yards
She came barrelling out of the shop,slung her leg over the bike that was parked there (with tall bloke in leathers on the front) and shouted ‘come on then you old bastard,I want to get home-I’m dying for a piss’

the young bloke who’s bike it was,just turned to LOOK at her while dad peed himself laughing a bit further down
she did the walk of shame and to this day,it’s all my fathers fault…

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ConfessionsOfAMumDramaQueen · 19/12/2022 23:31

😂😂😂😂 thank you all for your stories. I'm now feeling much better this seems to be more common than I thought!

Turned up to the DC Christmas thing and MIL asked how our child free evening went, to which DH replied that it had gone so well I tried to nick his takeaway and run off with another man 🙈😂. She found the whole thing hilarious and random stranger was not in attendance.

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FTY765 · 19/12/2022 23:32

Dogsinthecradle · 19/12/2022 18:18

My mother
She drives a car and my father a motorbike-they’d gone out on the bike and on the way home,she made him stop at a local shop
she got off and wandered in while unknown to her,dad moved down the road by about 50 yards
She came barrelling out of the shop,slung her leg over the bike that was parked there (with tall bloke in leathers on the front) and shouted ‘come on then you old bastard,I want to get home-I’m dying for a piss’

the young bloke who’s bike it was,just turned to LOOK at her while dad peed himself laughing a bit further down
she did the walk of shame and to this day,it’s all my fathers fault…

PROPER laughed at this! 😂😂😂😂😂

Vonniee7 · 19/12/2022 23:58

My husband did this and I was the one watching from our car laughing hysterically. Still makes me laugh to this day.

BashfulClam · 20/12/2022 00:01

I did that and just looked at the video fused bloke and squeaked ‘you’re not my husband!’ Then got out asap.

MIL just goes to the first car she sees that vaguely resembles ours. So any red car really, we have a 5 door and she was standing next to a 3 door shouting for DH to open the doors…well he can’t!

SapphireSeptember · 22/12/2022 20:36

KettrickenSmiled · 19/12/2022 02:18

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."

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You can't just leave it there! Did the rozzers nick your ex? I'm dying to know!

trulyunruly01 · 22/12/2022 20:50

I returned to the car but the donker would not work. I walked round the car donking the donker at different angles. No go. I could hear noises of donking, and then the car seemed to clunk. I walked round again and tried all the doors as I donked. No go.
A man came up to me and asked "wtf are you doing?"
Then a woman unlocked the car and got out.
My car was parked two along, was responding to its own donker, the clunky noise had been the woman locking the car from inside and the man was her husband.
In my defence, both cars were silver. That's all I can say.