Have you ever mistaken someone else car for your own?

VickyP2

So I was sitting in the passenger seat at Asda car park yesterday when I heard the boot open , I thought it was my dad so thought nothing odd of it then I looked out of the driver window and there was a man I never seen before looking at me funny thinking it was his car , after about 3 minutes he realised he had parked 3 spaces up.

LeafGreen

Almost, saw a car in car park that was the same model/colour as my own, the reg was identical apart from the last letter which was an S instead of a P!

Annie35

not me personally, but watched a lady for a good couple of minutes trying to unlock her car at the supermarket with her beepy fob while the identical car 3 doors down was busy flashing away locking/unlocking itself. Told her in the end :rotfl:

dannyrst

My girlfriends mum mistook our car for another once...we have a silver SEAT ibiza...she tried to get in a dark green Mini!

neilmcl

Yes, done it a couple of times, the last time I came out of Sainsburys to where I thought I parked and spent a good couple of minutes wondering why the remote on my keys wasn't working. To be fair the car was identical, all the same options even the same year.

Mojisola

When it was more common for car keys to open not just your car, a neighbour dashed out of work in a hurry, jumped into his car and drove home.

It was only after he got home and went to get something out of the boot (which wasn't there) he realised he'd driven someone else's car home.

F1F93

Nope, never. But then again, I like cars that are a bit more unusual - my current two are a bright green Ibiza and a burgundy Rover 45... neither of those are particularly common!

Zero_Gravitas

In 1983, when I was at university, I came out of the halls of residence one evening after dark, unlocked my trusty Morris Marina, got in, started the engine, and then thought "hang on, I haven't got a cassette player"...

Turns out my Marina was parked three cars down. I locked up the other car using my keys and drove off in my own car...

Macadamia

Last year outside a trade counter I unlocked and got in my car. Put the key to the ignition and it wouldn’t start. Then I noticed it had leather seats, looked tidy and had a different smell. I was parked next but one. Blue Astra /Blue Insignia. Key fob worked on both. I was painfully aware of the CCTV when I got into my own car.

NBLondon

M'wife once borrowed my car to take her elderly parents out (not having rear seats in her own). Heading home, she was cursing the fob for not opening the doors until MiL gently pointed out that the one they had arrived in was 4 spaces away. Same model, colour and year - but 3 door and 5 door!

PasturesNew

Many years ago I worked with a girl who had a very very distinctive sports car. She'd parked it.... toddled off ....toddled back and was trying to open it when a man shouted "OI!" - it was HIS car, hers was another 3-4 spots down the road.

She ended up marrying him.