Got into wrong car

Tabnabs · 16-05-2012 03:58PM

I pulled up to a crowded bus stop recently to let my Mrs out to catch her bus. Some randomer steps forward from the crowd thinking this was their lift. The look on their face when they had to retreat in front of all those witnesses was priceless.

Yawns · 16-05-2012 04:08PM

A lad I used to work with was walking home drunk. A car pulls up and he leans to the drivers window asking how much to bring him to his house as he only has €10 left. It was a garda car that had stopped to see what state he was in at 5:30am.

Turns out he was in a bad enough state to throw the tenner at the ban garda and tell her to **** off she's only an old slut of a pig. So they nicked him, put him in the back and brought him to a garda station a far distance away to let him sleep it off and walk 5 hours home the next day.

He was 7 hours late for work and we all pissed ourselves laughing at him. His dad had been looking for him all day, rang a guard buddy who found out what had happened. When the dad heard what he done and where he was, he said to let him walk home and then went off home himself to wait for him so he could thump him.

matchthis · 16-05-2012 04:29PM

Dropped the little one to the creche this morning and came out to the car to get in. Unlocked the door got in and sat down. Was in a bit of a rush so was wondering what was going wrong...Got in the passenger side. Had to sit their for a few mins while the car beside me unloaded their kids so i didn't look a total prat

seamus · 16-05-2012 05:15PM

I've gotten into the passenger seat of my own car a couple of times before realising that I'm driving.
Closest I've ever come to getting into someone else's car is trying to open my neighbours car after unlocking my own.

My wife has had someone jump into the drivers' seat of our car while she's waiting for me and give her a strange look. Thankfully that time his wife was sitting in the passenger seat of the car next to ours breaking her ****e laughing at him and he quickly realised what he'd done.

I've also picked people up from town in the wee small hours a number of times. Quite incredible the amount of people who try to jump into the car when you stop in traffic. They don't even look to check if it's a taxi. It's really the only reason I've activated the autolock on my doors.

Morlar · 16-05-2012 05:27PM

I have done this once outside a bar. Got in, sat down, put on a seatbelt and gave the destination, meanwhile the driver was just staaaaaaring at me. Looking back on it, it took what to the driver must have seemed an inordinate amount of time for the penny to drop that this was not a taxi.

MikeD22 · 16-05-2012 05:30PM

Didn't happen to me but i remember a few years ago i was in the local petrol station. A white van was filling up and his mate got out and went in to pay. As he did your man moved to let another white car in to the pump.

This guy rushes out of the shop opens the car door and gets half way in before he realises he's wrong. Wasn't all that hard to figure out as he sat on top of your mans wife who is sitting in the car with a bewildered look on her face. Que the apologies and the roaring laughter from his mate in the van. Funniest thing i've seen yet

brummytom · 16-05-2012 06:19PM

My mom was getting a lift back from the hairdressers off my dad once.

She got in the passenger seat, whinging (as usual) 'you took your time didn't you? I've been waiting ages...' ranting for a good few minutes, before the driver turned to her and said 'I think you've got the wrong car, love'

We were also on a caravan holiday once.
My brother walked into a caravan, sat down on the settee and said 'why are we watching this rubbish?' to find a family of bemused strangers staring at him.

Slunk · 16-05-2012 06:27PM

Happened to me. Was queing at the ATM so instead of hold up traffic the gf said she would drive around the block and come back. Minutes later I turn and go to open the door of the silver 206 a few cars down at the lights. Luckily she was further down than that and beeped before I actually got in the car. The girl in the first car didn't know what was happening.

ballsymchugh · 16-05-2012 06:33PM

aileen from derry wins this threads hands down!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfdi_PWV-ZY

Smidge · 16-05-2012 06:41PM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

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 ?

A similar thing happened to my mother.
Came out of supermarket and went up to her car and got in.
It was only when she was sitting in the drivers seat that she thought "This is odd, I didn't have a air freshner like that!"
She then looked around the car and saw kids toys etc.
Quite obviously wasn't her car, so she got out and walked over to her car which was three spaces away. Exact same year, make colour, everything!
What was interesting about this though was that not only did my mother leave her car unlocked while in the supermarket but this other person did too!

RichieC · 16-05-2012 06:41PM

I got on the wrong bus one day and ended up on the north side, lucky to come away with me life.

Mint Sauce · 16-05-2012 06:47PM

biko wrote: »

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

Reported

Elvis_Presley · 16-05-2012 06:50PM

abou two years ago, jumped into the wrong car in edinburgh. ended up with good mates with the guy and went out with one of his friends for over a year. random shít does happen.

dillo2k10 · 16-05-2012 06:59PM

I done it once, last Easter .

Me, my aunt and my uncle were trying to find Easter eggs last minute. He was driving a black santa fee with black tinted windows. It was lashing rain out and we couldn't find parking. So he pulled up beside the door of the shop and we ran in.

We came out and just up from the shop we seen the jeep parked. So we just ran up and tried to get in, but the door was locked. We could see that he was in there. We thought he was just being an ass locking us in the rain, he's the type that would do that. So we started banging on the windows and pulling at the door calling him every name under the sun, and the things that my aunt was saying she was going to do to him was unreal!

So the bastard started the jeep up and started to move slowly. This really annoyed us and my aunt really freaked out. He drove out of the parking space, rolled down his window and says in a really deep cork accent - 'I'm sorry, I don't know what I done, I was just using the space like!' we just started laughing. My uncle then pulls up wondering why we were standing in the middle of the road in the lashing rain laughing

Intensive Care Bear · 16-05-2012 07:04PM

One of my mates was pulled up at some traffic lights when the local town looney (who lived beside him) came over asking for a lift home. My mate told him that he wasn't heading home but that his cousin was in the car behind him and he would give him a lift. He then watched in the rear view mirror as the guy jumped into the back of some random persons car.

OneArt · 16-05-2012 07:09PM

Got on the wrong train once.

Ended up in Holland.

MaroonAndGreen · 16-05-2012 07:55PM

I've never done it myself..

but someone has jumped in my car and sat there for like 15 seconds and didnt cop it, I was just like what the hell are you doing? :P

then he goes ''oh ****'' and he got out and ran off :P

I felt embarrassed for him! :rolleyes:

ilovesleep · 16-05-2012 08:04PM

When I was a kid, my parents took us into town to do some shopping. I was only about 6. Parked in the carpark and went into the supermarket.

Coming out with a trolly of shopping, they stopped at the car. Opened the boot to pack the shopping in and opened the door to load the kids in. Expect I didn't get in. A few car parking spaces down was a similiar car. Exact same car. I started calling mam and dad: mammy, daddy I said. Stop. But they were too busy. Eventually I got their attention. This is the wrong car I told them and the I pointed out the difference. In our car we had a small novelty thingy hanging from the rearview mirror and that was missing in the car that they were getting into.

Lapin · 16-05-2012 08:14PM

OneArt wrote: »

Got on the wrong train once.

Ended up in Holland.

I take it you didn't board the train at Limerick Junction.

Now that would be a story worth hearing.

Got into wrong car

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