Got into wrong car

thunderdog · 16-05-2012 02:04PM #1

I think it has happened to most of us at least once where we're waiting for a lift from somewhere. Car arrives, hop in the passenger seat, get a conversation going, only to realise you're in some random persons car who has no idea why a stranger hopped into their car. Always an awkward moment but funny to look back on it!:D

biko · 16-05-2012 02:05PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKPwFEPsueU

John Doe1 · 16-05-2012 02:05PM

Its never happened to me and im the average irish man. Basically you are a fool:D

WIZE · 16-05-2012 02:07PM

Taxi

BraziliaNZ · 16-05-2012 02:08PM

Came out of a 7-11 once in the states with a box of beer and jumped into the passenger seat of an SUV to the bewilderment of the driver. At least they had a laugh about it but it was the wrong SUV, it happens!`

CreepingDeath · 16-05-2012 02:09PM

Not quite.

But a little over a year ago I tried opening someone elses car thinking that the alarm remote control had stopped working.
It was a distinctive enough old style Toyota Celica.

Then I saw mine two cars down, identical to it.

Do other people naturally park their cars next to similar ones for the novelty of it ?

Mexihalo · 16-05-2012 02:10PM

know of a lad who jumped into a cab and told the driver to take him to Baggot St. When he got there he asked the driver how much he owed only for the bloke to tell him he wasn't a taxi:rolleyes:

AnonoBoy · 16-05-2012 02:11PM

There's loads of young lads who live near me who are always making that mistake.

You'd see them driving around at high speeds at the weekends, always in a different car.

Boy are they embarrassed when I point out they're not in their own cars at all!

Oh how we laugh.

Nothingbetter2d · 16-05-2012 02:14PM

never happened to me either

Nothingbetter2d · 16-05-2012 02:14PM

Mexihalo wrote: »

know of a lad who jumped into a cab and told the driver to take him to Baggot St. When he got there he asked the driver how much he owed only for the bloke to tell him he wasn't a taxi:rolleyes:

i'd still have charged the stupid git

Jogathon · 16-05-2012 02:17PM

Ha ha. That's happened to me! Mortified!

CucaFace · 16-05-2012 02:17PM

Mate of mine years ago was getting a lock in a pub back in our home town.

Bar man called him a taxi and when the bar man opened the door to let him out my mate who had a good few drinks on him at this stage (and before the barman could stop him) just went straight out into the back seat of the car that had just pulled up outside the front door of the pub without looking at it properly.

Turns out he jumped right into the back of the unmarked Guarda Car that had just pulled up at the same time.

Mr.Crinklewood · 16-05-2012 02:19PM

In a shopping centre i held onto some womans hand, thinking she was my mother.

davet82 · 16-05-2012 02:22PM

thunderdog wrote: »

I think it has happened to most of us at least once where we're waiting for a lift from somewhere. Car arrives, hop in the passenger seat, get a conversation going, only to realise you're in some random persons car who has no idea why a stranger hopped into their car. Always an awkward moment but funny to look back on it!:D

na, i tried that story in court, they didnt buy it

DEFTLEFTHAND · 16-05-2012 02:29PM

I hopped into a blue fiat punto outside my athletics club one night. Same colour and year as my aunt who was supposed to be collecting me. I was initially confused by the presence of an elderly woman in the drivers seat asking me if I was alright in a concerned tone. It was only when I noticed the Offaly Gaa air freshener hanging from the mirror that I realised my mistake, embarrassing times especially as all the boys were lined up at the clubhouse door roaring their holes laughing at me.

Sindri · 16-05-2012 02:30PM

Happened to me once when I was 10. Came out the school gates, saw what I thought was my dads car. So I walk over, hop in and put on my belt, cue two women turning around and looking at me with absolutely bewildered looks on their faces. Not a word was spoken I just hoped out and walked away quite fast.

Amzie · 16-05-2012 02:32PM

Ive never gotten into the wrong car thankfully:)

Once when I was sitting in my bf's car in the passenger seat and while my bf was in the shop some random guy hopped in and gave me the look like I was crazy for sitting in his car!! I told him to go look at the reg num of by bf's car to prove it wasnt his, otherwise he would of really believed I was in the wrong!! eejit!!!:p

kwalshe · 16-05-2012 02:35PM

I only did something along these lines today, came out of a garage with my lunch in my hand and without concentrating opened the back door of the car and was half way in when I realised, dope! Then pretended that I was looking for something in there.

cuculainn · 16-05-2012 02:46PM

Not the same, but.........was carrying four creamy pints of Guinness down from the bar and concentrating on not spilling a drop so was looking down, left them down at what I thought was my table started effing and blinding about something or other and then looked up to see three asian tourists looking at me very confused........I was quite funny when I just looked at them and stood up and took my four pints back and walked to the next table where my three friends were in hysterics!!!

KittyeeTrix · 16-05-2012 03:06PM

Myself and the hubby jumped into our car (Toyota Corolla '95) parked outside Tesco once in a Galway shopping centre. We'd opened the door with the keys, had started the car up and started reversing out of the space before I realised WTF????? the car radio was glowing blue instead of green or whatever!!

Jumped out of the car and realised ours was parked 3 spaces up...........same model, age and colour. Thank god we'd had the radio come on or we'd be half the way home in the dark before we'd have realised!!

I honestly didn't think you'd be able to open and start up the same model car with another car key

ejmaztec · 16-05-2012 03:17PM

My mother in law climbed into the passenger seat of a car and didn't realise it wasn't her husband's car even when some mystified looking guy climbed into the driver's seat beside her. She stared at him for a couple of minutes with an inane smile on her face, then got out without saying a word.

chris_ie · 16-05-2012 03:27PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I hopped into a blue fiat punto outside my athletics club one night. Same colour and year as my aunt who was supposed to be collecting me. I was initially confused by the presence of an elderly woman in the drivers seat asking me if I was alright in a concerned tone. It was only when I noticed the Offaly Gaa air freshener hanging from the mirror that I realised my mistake, embarrassing times especially as all the boys were lined up at the clubhouse door roaring their holes laughing at me.

So you were able to tell there was difference in air freshener but couldn't determine it wasn't your aunt?

MarkR · 16-05-2012 03:27PM

My brother was walking down a road towards where we used to live, and the road was completely flooded. About 6-8 inches all the way across. While he was looking at the puddle, trying to master walking on water or flight, a car stopped at the edge of the puddle next to him. He hopped in delighted. Guy was only stopping to see whether he'd chance the puddle. Still got a lift across it though.

SoapMcTavish · 16-05-2012 03:27PM

I was parked in the middle of Limerick city one saturday ( across from a taxi rank ). Was waiting for my missus to finish work, when drunk guy sits into passenger seat. He was laa - looed, could not understand me at all ... I was thinking I'd be better off just dropping him home - but couldn't understand him either, then my missus came along - saw him - went ballistic, so I just pulled him out and left him lying on the path.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 16-05-2012 03:31PM

chris_ie wrote: »

So you were able to tell there was difference in air freshener but couldn't determine it wasn't your aunt?

In my disorientated state I thought she was some friend or something who she'd lent the car to, I'm a little slow sometimes to react in situations. :pac:

I am pie · 16-05-2012 03:34PM

Did this in a garage forecourt years ago. Friend driving white mazda max3 with me in the car, stops for petrol. i jump out and run into the garage, pay and buy some fags. He parks up at the side of the garage and another feckin white mx3 pulls up. I jump in, hand the driver a packet of fags and change and say let's go.

Took me a few seconds to get over the shock, got the fags and change back and did the walk of shame over to my pals car. Him crying with laughter.

Thud · 16-05-2012 03:44PM

A good few years back i was hitching (sounds weird nowadays) and a car pulled in, i hopped in and asked how far they were going, they looked at me confused, turned out they were tourists who had pulled in to look at a map

BornToKill · 16-05-2012 03:46PM

Would forcing the wrong person to get into your car count?

Lapin · 16-05-2012 03:49PM

I was hitching a lift out of Mullingar one evening when I was about 14.

Eventually a car pulls in and draws to a stop about 50 yards up.

At last, I thought as I ran towards it.

It was a hatchback and I as opened the passenger door to jump in, I noticed that the seats had been let down and there was a couple in their early 20's engaging in a bit of nookie.

They were so busy at it that I don't think they noticed me. Or if they did, they didn't care. Kinky fúckers.

I got out quickly, and yes, while I was tempted to watch the entertainment for a while, I also wanted to get home.

So I went back to my spot and managed to get a lift about 10 minutes later. As we drove past the kinky car it was still shaking from side to side.

Fair fúcks to them. Literally !

mikemac1 · 16-05-2012 03:52PM

Yep, done it

On a spin around Ireland and took a break in Trim which I don't know at all

Come out of the shop, wine coloured Mazda and hop in
Hmmm, why won't my ignition key work?

No harm done

BillyMitchel · 16-05-2012 03:56PM

Yeah me too, felt like a right eejit.. Another time in the zoo standing there looking at whatever and started to walk off and took what I thought was my girlfriends hand but was some unsuspecting woman with the same color hair! Everyone seen the funny side, apart from me who felt like I should of just crawled into the monkey cage..

Got into wrong car

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