Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To never pick up a take away again

140 replies

ConfessionsOfAMumDramaQueen · 18/12/2022 22:21

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?!

OP posts:
smilingthroughgrittedteeth · 22/12/2022 20:51

A few years ago i was sat in the car waiting for the little girl i nannied for to finish gymnastics happily reading a book when the boot opened and shut then the next thing i knew the drivers door was opened and a man just stood staring at me, at first he looked very confused then i saw the exact moment it dawned on him that it wasnt his car. He very quickly apoloised, shut the door and started to walk/run away, i shouted after him that he had put something in my boot and he walked back lookingbat his shoes the whole time, i opened the boot for him and he took out his briefcase muttered an apology and ran off down the car park to his car 🤣

Chatterboxy · 22/12/2022 21:20

That’s made me laugh so hard I’ve snorted! DH just looked at me like WTF! 🤣🤣🤣

KettrickenSmiled · 22/12/2022 21:50

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.

That is spectacular Selttan. Had the drink been taken? Wine😂

I think you should brand this WrongTabling somehow, & push for it to become a national pastime.

(pm me for my 10%, you're welcome)

napody · 22/12/2022 21:55

DuncanBiscuits · 18/12/2022 22:29

My brother did this and found himself sitting in a car with John Prescott.

Oh my god 😂

OP that really made me laugh, you can return your DHs Christmas present to the shop as you've just given him the best present ever!

KettrickenSmiled · 22/12/2022 21:56

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’

Dogs your mother is a legend, she's just made a random stranger wheeze with laughter (have a cold, it hurts, this was worth it).

KettrickenSmiled · 22/12/2022 22:26

SapphireSeptember · 22/12/2022 20:36

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

Show quote history

Yes & No, Prime Minister ...
Not on that occasion, it was joke with the copper to relieve the tension.

But that incident was part of a pattern of selfishness & entitlement that (too many) years later got him lifted from the marital home "for his own safety" for 'suicidal' (chinny reckon) acting out. Won't bang on about it as this thread is lighthearted, also too good for MeRailing Wink but thanks for asking, Sapphire.

KettrickenSmiled · 22/12/2022 22:27

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 🙈😂.

He's a keeper!
<<<gavel >>>

ILoveeCakes · 22/12/2022 22:28

You didn't even give him a cheeky BJ? Or a snog? Or a slice of pizza?

Where is the fun for him?

Muchtoomuchtodo · 22/12/2022 22:31

DramaAlpaca · 18/12/2022 22:32

Haha Grin

DH was on the receiving end of this once when he was waiting for me in the car near the station. Some random young woman opened the car door, hopped into the back seat and for a uncomfortable minute or two refused to believe he wasn't a taxi!

That could have been me - except I’m not very young!

i had talked myself into getting a taxi home from the station, I rarely do it. Hopped in the back to be told that it wasn’t a taxi!

I walked home wishing the ground would swallow me up and dreading the car driving past me!

KettrickenSmiled · 22/12/2022 22:34

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.

😂Love the way you write, also nominating this for Daft Donking medal.

A man came up to me and asked "wtf are you doing?"
An expression of immense dignity & "I AM DONKING" may have served well at that point. Plus, silver cars are asking for it. Sitting there, all silvery, mimicking each other.

Sux2buthen · 22/12/2022 22:57

I did this too.
My friends fiancé was picking me up, I saw the parked car and got in. Looked at him and said 'you're not Dave' and jumped out again.
Her blokes name was Mark anyway Confused

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 22/12/2022 23:00

Shortly after we moved into our house, I came out of the living room to find a middle aged lady standing in the hall.

"Boo!" She exclaimed, joyously. "It's me!". Then..... "Katie? I thought it was your mum."
I just sort of looked at her in surprise and you could see realisation dawning.

"Do the Arrowsmiths still live here?" She asked, slightly desperately.

I said no, they'd moved out about 6 mos ago.

She apologised about 10,000 times and skedaddled.

I didn't really mind but I do wonder if she sometimes curls up thinking about "boo, it's me!".

JudgeJ · 23/12/2022 08:40

BasiliskStare · 19/12/2022 00:46

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 used to pick my daughter up from her bar job at about 11.30 and this happened quite often, when I went down at about 1am after her New Years Eve shift I had about a twenty people chasing me round the square before I'd even stopped.

JudgeJ · 23/12/2022 08:53

We were staying at a swanky hotel in Las Vegas, huge multi-storey car park and we would spend ages looking for our car. One day we parked on the top floor, directly opposite the lift, very pleased it would be easy to find. When we went up the next day we were horrified that it wasn't there, walked all round in case there was a different lift but no, it wasn't there. We returned to our room to see if we had the rental documents to phone the loss to them, didn't have them as they were in the car and for some reason we went back to the lift up to the top deck and there was the car, where we'd left it. We later discovered that different lifts went to different 'top floors'!

BasiliskStare · 23/12/2022 18:33

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff - not a car one and on the other side of the fence - I once goosed a chap ( 26 years ago) in the gift shop of a museum , who was browsing the gift cards , thinking it was my husband to be - not sure what was going through my mind but that is what happened . Looked over my shoulder and there is Dh to be looking at completely different things. In my defence they had very similar shirts and trousers on.

Reader , I ran.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread