Today I paid for someone else's petrol. I noticed as I walked back to the car that I was at pump number 4, not pump number 8 as I had claimed. I went back to the till. Much embarrassment as I held up the queue while they sorted it out.
Anyone beat that?
Well, I think that I can
match that ...
One of my neighbours at my old address had a beard and drove a big green van.
My hot water boiler froze up. When it thawed out, water started spraying everywhere so I switched off the water supply and called out a plumber. He was clean-shaven and drove a small white van. He gave me a quote to replace the boiler, which I accepted. He said he would go and get a replacement boiler and return to fit it the following morning.
So, I was looking out of the window the next morning expecting a small white van to arrive in front of my house, and a clean-shaven man to get out. A big green van pulled up in front of the neighbour's house instead, and a bearded man got out and headed for the house next door ...
I ran outside, intercepted him, pointed at my front door and said "
No, no, you have the wrong house - I live there". He gave me a very strange look which I eventually realised meant "
WTF are you on, Colin - I know you live there, and you know that I live here!" ...
I mumbled something about the phone ringing, ran back into the house and slammed the door behind me. Seconds later a clean-shaven man pulled up outside my house in a small white van!