Have you ever mistaken someone else car for your own?

unholyangel

My dad drove me down to auto shop to get some bits to fix my car. Parked in car park, I got out went n got the bits we needed then went back to the car, opened the door, got in and proceeded to put my seatbelt on while talking to my dad about putting the new battery in first, finally turned round to clip my seatbelt in only to notice the guy in the drivers seat was not my dad and I remarked as such "oh, you're not my dad!".

After I said that, he clicked that I wasn't some loony nutjob getting into random cars expecting a lift home and expression changed from astonished bewilderment to laughter. Apologised, got out and went to the correct car 2 spaces down - where my dad had been watching the whole thing and was hanging over the steering wheel in fits of laughter.

Soot2006

Early 2000s I put all my shopping in the boot of my lovely new little blue Micra. Got in but it wouldn't start. Only then realised totally not my car. I felt like a criminal when I was removing all the shopping form the boot!

Ganga

Slightly different story,my wife came out of our local Asda,put all of her shopping in the boot and then took her trolly back to the trolly park,got in taxi and went home,at home paid taxi and asked for help to carry all the bags to the house,What bags asked the taxi driver,the ones in the boot said wife,no bags in boot said driver,wife had got in wrong taxi ( all white cabs were we live ) even so still laugh about it now.

DigForVictory

Mum & I drive near identical Mondeos - hers being tider inside the most obvious clue. Mine takes more abuse internally, lugging teenagers around. Mind, the Roman Lucky Charm in the instrument panel well means my car is remembered by Everyone who works on it. (My youngest's woodcarving skills make me so proud.)

Hers, well, I've never put up with a cracked rear light unit for weeks, whereas she keeps parking near the pillar she can't see & now knows to listen for the gentle scrunch.

As for door locks, a mere two decades ago, a mate opened his (Volvo) car with a teaspoon (lolly sticks not *always* being in season), and used the key sparingly.

Mercdriver

k3lvc wrote: »

A few years ago I sat outside a south London station waiting for Mrs K3 when a (very nice) woman opened passenger door, got in and leant over to kiss me before realising her mistake - don't know who was more shocked, her, me, her partner who watched it all unwind from car behind or my wife who was walking across station concourse. Cars were similar colours but completely different makes/models

You should invoice Specsavers for stealing your life experience (the ad with the woman kissing the wrong man)

walwyn1978

Done it the other way talking about keys that fit multiple cars. Years ago in our late teens two of the lads had old Minis (both early 80's ones). After we discovered that one key would open and start both cars we would have fun 'borrowing' one key and moving/hiding both cars whilst the boys are otherwise engaged. Very juvenile, but huge fun.

Nilrem

Many times over the years, it didn't help that for a while we drove a very common car for our area (as the manufacturer had a factory nearby a lot of people got some form of discount at the time), in a common colour.

I've gone as far as to put my keys in the door in the past before spotting it wasn't our one
Mind you at least it wasn't an old Ford or Vauxhall from the era when the door locks wore out and then any key that was roughly the right shape could open it

AnotherJoe

A friend of mine had his rental car driven to the airport and checked backed in by someone with the same rental company and same make of car (though a different colour !)

Head_The_Ball

This story may or may not be true.

An elderly lady was returning to her car in a US Shopping Mall car park when she saw four young men opening the doors and starting to get in.

She pulled a gun out of her bag, approached them and yelled at them to get away from the car or she would shoot them.

The young men quickly ran away.

She got into the car and sat for a while recovering her composure.

She then tried to start the car but her key didn't work. She then noticed that the interior of the car was untidy whereas she always kept hers tidy.

It slowly dawned on her that it wasn't her car.

She found her own car a few spaces away. She drove to the nearest police station to report what had happened and, as she walked in, she saw the four young men, still looking shaken, talking to the desk sergeant about a car jacking by an armed old lady.

Mr.Generous

Many years ago I had a metallic grey / green escort, quite an unusual colour. I had rarely seen another car the same in fact. After a day out with the wife and 2 small kids we were at a petrol station, and having filled the tank I went inside to pay. I was at the rear pump, the front having been occupied when I arrived.

I paid up and came out - approaching the car from the rear. To my amusement my wife or one of the kids had put a "We have been to Paignton Zoo" sticker in the back window. I pulled open the drivers door and started to get in, and turned to the back seat and asked the 2 kids "OK where did you get the stupid zoo sticker from ...?" as I realised a couple of things.

The kids didn't look themselves at all, they looked much more grown up. The battleaxe in the passenger seat was looking utterly astonished and trying to conceal her handbag like it was some kind of robbery. I glanced around and saw my car immediately in front, and worse still, I could see my wife killing herself laughing.

I just said "Sorry wrong car" and !!!!!!ed off to my own car.

My wife maintains it was a different colour escort, but I dispute this.