Just when I thought I was getting a bit saner...

[Steve Maskery]

... I find myself in the middle of Morrisons pushing a trolley that isn't mine, and mine, complete with bags, wallet, life etc, nowhere to be seen.

As panic starts to set in I hear the tannoy:

"If there is an eejit called Stephen Maskery in the store, will he please come to Customer Services".

I have no idea how I did that.

 

[Zeddedhed]

I once loaded someone else trolley with a couple of handfuls of groceries and was about to carry on pushing it around when I noticed the small child sitting in the seat wasn't mine.

Then I remembered that I hadn't even brought my child with me.

And the child in the trolley was obviously Asian. (I'm about as Anglo Saxon as you can get and my son is blonde with blue eyes!!!)

So don't feel bad.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Ooh, thank you. That makes me feel a lot better!
S

 

[lurker]

I was moaning at the wife about the carp (anagram) she had put in our trolley that I was pushing.
"That's not our trolley dear (she never calls me this!) ours is over there". :?

 

[rafezetter]

I once loaded someone else trolley with a couple of handfuls of groceries and was about to carry on pushing it around when I noticed the small child sitting in the seat wasn't mine.

Then I remembered that I hadn't even brought my child with me.

And the child in the trolley was obviously Asian. (I'm about as Anglo Saxon as you can get and my son is blonde with blue eyes!!!)

So don't feel bad.

LOL thanks for todays laugh!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I went to the pub harvest festival, which was always a late night and far too much ale. After the pints went into double figures decided I'd had enough - so hit the double Brandy and Benedictines. Got up in the morning, day off, feeling fine. Saw swmbo off to work. Walked the boy to nursery, about half a mile, drizzly morning. Standing outside the school chatting with a few I knew, one of the fathers looked me straight in the eye, deadpan ... and said "did you know your boy has nothing on his feet?"

 

[Benchwayze]

That's made me feel much better about growing old! Thanks folks.

 

[Alexam]

I did this a few weeks ago. I was adding to my trolley and suddenly noticed a few items that I had not put in. Looking around, there was nobody nearby, so returned to where I had briefly left it earlier and met up with a nice lady, who was also looking around like she had lost something. I had to laugh at myself, but think she thought I was a real nutcase.

Alex

 

[nev]

I once came out of a shop early on a winters evening hopped in the car, noticed the interior light did not come on, fiddled with that for afew moments, no joy, then tried to get the key in the ignition, it wouldnt turn. Then heard a hmmph from the back seat where two people were sitting looking at me worriedly thinking i was car jacking them.
My car was parked one space further back
Oh how we laughed. Well they did i was a tad red faced at the time.

 

[dazzer]

Many years ago I took my oldest son (he was about 3) to the local shop. I was holding his hand and let go when I picked up something to buy. After paying I reached down and grabbed his hand and start walking out the shop, l then heard his voice behind me and turned round he was still stood by the till with some sweets in his hand, I looked down and had hold of another small lad who was looking rather puzzled as to why I was dragging him out of the shop. Very red faced I apologized to his mum and made a quick exit.

My brother had his driving test and the examiner asked him to read the number plate of a vehicle at the start of his test which he did he then asked him to go to his driving instructors car. He got into the car and started to adjust his seat etc, the examiner asked him the name of his instructor he replied Dave. The examiner calmly pointed through the windscreen to a car that was about 4 cars in front and said is that his car
After getting out of someone else's car the examiner said to my brother that he had to repeat the number plate reading part as he thought he might have a problem with his eye sight. Needless to say he didn't pass lol

 

[DTR]

A few years ago I was coming home from a late shift, it was the early hours of the morning. I was stood at my front door, fumbling around with the lock trying to get the bloody thing open. I thought maybe I was trying the wrong key.... Nope, wrong front door. If my neighbours heard me, they were either too polite or too scared to say anything.

 

[Benchwayze]

Maybe thirty years ago now, I recall finishing a night shift, after a particularly 'bloody' ten hours. I remember leaving work, and arriving at the main road, about a hundred yards from the office, where I had to turn right. The next thing I remembered was driving along the A34, towards the area where I lived. There were about two miles in between those points, and I couldn't recall a single moment of that stage of the journey. To this day I don't know what happened during those 'lost' two miles. I can just assume it was nothing out of the ordinary. So did I sleep, or did I have one of those periods of 'automation' I've heard about?

Or was that the start of going crazy?

:?

Cheers

 

[No skills]

At a previous job in a diy shed a good friend of mine was helping a customer take a load of laminate flooring to her car (escort estate), he loaded the 8 or so packs into the boot and the lady customer thanked him - a second or so later she said "I haven't got a baby seat". Yes she had the wrong car, right colour similar age but hers was one row over. Poor old Jim got the flooring back out of the car and she locked it back up, making a swift move over to where her car was parked.

 

[DTR]

How did she unlock someone else's car? :shock:

 

[No skills]

Customers keys opened both cars.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Years ago you could open any Ford on the road with about three different (worn) keys.

 

[Benchwayze]

Customers keys opened both cars.

That's how it was back in the day! There were only so many key configurations, and sometimes, 'close enough' would work too!

Another reason I always ran very ordinary, second-hand cars! :mrgreen:

Cheers

 

[deserter]

I owned a Capri and lost the key somewhere, but it was alright I unlocked it and started the engine with my mum and dads front door Yale key. I never replaced the original and it stayed that way for the next 18 months or so.

 

[DTR]

Now that you mention it, I used to have a worn out key from a bicycle lock, even though I'd lost the lock a long time before. I kept hold of it after I found out it would open the signal cabin door at a certain London railway terminus :shock:

 

[Student]

In my case, it wasn't being forgetful but trying to deal with a stroppy 4 year old grandson who I was getting dressed for pre-school. My daughter phoned that afternoon after picking him up from pre-school to say that the school staff were somewhat bemused that he was wearing odd shoes - one brown, one blue. What puzzled them even more was that they were both for his left foot.