Where's a camera when you need it.....

[kiwigtx]

I got my wife to come for a drive with me today to get a coffee from the local BP Station. They make awesome coffees, and I deserved one today. Anyway, she goes in to get my coffee while I wait outside the front door, engine running to keep the car cool. Meanwhile another car pulls up on the other side of the front entry at the Station.....so we're about 15 feet apart....and either side of the front door to the shop. That guy's wife gets out to get some coffee's also. A couple of minutes later, my wife emerges with my coffee in hand.

So I'm watching my darling wife walk out the shop front door....and to the other car - same colour silver and almost the same shape (it was an SS Commodore, ours is an XR6 Falcon) - easy mistake. But she is looking (so she claims) at the coffee to make sure it's the right one....and goes to get inside the other car. By this time, I'm knocking on my window to attract her attention....to no avail. She's nearly inside the car, and then realises that the driver looks different. She gets out, looks around, then realises the knocking noise was me.

The guy in the other car looks at me chuckling...so was I, and my wife walks over to my window...hands me the coffee, then gets inside the car. The other guy is absolutely pissing himself laughing now....so I just called out to him..."Wrong glasses"

Damn...I wish I had called out she should go to Specsavers.

Turns out she does go to Specsavers a couple of times a year....I think a refund is in order.

Here's a pic of my wife's car - (photo credit New Zealand Police).....


SS Commodore....


easy mistake...

 

[Kern Dog]

There was a FORD commercial in the 70s when I was a kid...They tried to impress the public by showing people how the NEW Ford Granada looked so much like the current Mercedes, people often mistook the two.
I have always had a keen eye and would have never made this mistake!

 

[BeeKool]

Ive done that before. We used to have a red Ford Escape. There were lots of them in the midwest (they rusted quickly).
We were at Walmart when I came out I got in tge first red Ford Escape that I came. Didnt know it waant mine until I atarted looking for my zippo to light a cigarette. The owner had parked right next to us.

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I was talking on cell phone one day after lunch and tried to open the door of a red s 10 Blazer. Wouldn't unlock. Then I noticed the red s 10 Blazer I was driving two parked spaces over....

 

[Hilljack68]

Years ago my grandparents came out of the grocery store and hopped into their gold-colored Ch*vy Citation and tried to figure out why it wouldn't start (well for one thing, it's a Ch*vy). Anyway, after a few minutes my Gramma looks around and says "Julius, I don't think this is our car". About five more minutes go by before Grampa abandons the struggle, and admits that she's right. They were parked in the next row.

 

[Dibbons]

Just goes to prove our recent beef with new cars (they all look alike). In the past, a person would make the same mistake only if the wrong car were the same make, model, and color. Now it could happen randomly with most any new vehicle.

My '72 Satellite Sebring Plus was mistaken for a Ford Torino once, sometimes a Dodge Charger.

 

[coronet68mx]

You miss the chance to get rid of your wife

 

[khryslerkid]

So who was driving in the first picture?

 

[BeatersRus]

lol,that guy almost got a free coffee.
Great story Kiwi

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

I have towed the wrong car,,,,,,,,,,3 times in 25 years!

 

[kiwigtx]

So who was driving in the first picture?

That would be my wife driving....only about 400 metres from home.
For a 6-cyl 4.0l engine, it gets up and boogies.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Wife had a 78 Camaro light blue same interior and a T-top. Went into a store came out walk up to an identical car stuck key in to unlock the car and thinking I didn't park here. Key didn't work looked inside saw stuff inside not mine. I parked 2 rows over.

 

[CudaChick1968]

Great story! I clapped at the 63-in-a-50 Memorial Plaque!!! Well done Mrs. Kizer!!! (sorry no kiwi flag to wave -- I'd bring that up to Joey Roger << wink >>)

A few months back I walked out of the Dollar General -- one of the whopping two hometown places to shop in Greenfield -- toward my favorite parking spot to the metallic silver 2012 Durango that got me there. When I reached the driver's door, I noticed a whole bunch of garbage on the passenger seat and floor and realized the interior was a darker color. "What the hell?"

Mine was parked one more space down the line.

Considering it's 102 miles short of 25K and still like new, the owner of the Dodge I was trying to climb into probably wouldn't have cared if I had.

 

[Dibbons]

I lived in Greenfield, California for a year, how many more are there?

 

[YY1]

My '00 Dakota R/T is 1 of 165 made in Amber Blaze metallic copper.

That's about enough for three per state.

When I moved across town in 2003 (right after buying the truck), I couldn't believe there was another one in the same color that parked in the same grocery store parking lot.

What the heck are the odds of that?

I saw it there about a dozen times.

I looked in it once. Mine has the arm rest and it had the console.

Never did see the owner, and haven't seen the truck since about 2005.

 

[440RUSH]

A friend of mine was at a away high school basketball game back in the early 70's. They left the game early and tried to unlock the door to his red Mustang but it wouldn't unlock so he knocked out the window. Once he got inside he couldn't get the key to turn the ignition then he realized he was in the wrong car. Oops. They got the hell out of there real fast.

 

[Slap Stick]

I was visiting a friend and wondered why my door key wouldn't work. He yelled at me to get in my own car. We had identical Tauruses.
I let a friend borrow my truck once. He locked the door and then couldn't get in with the key. I went to his house driving Dads car. In my own stupidity I used the car key on the truck....and it worked! We figured out I had given him the spare key for the car.

 

[YY1]

My 1986 Daytona key started my friend's 1973 Challenger!

 

[440RUSH]

My parents were friends with two elderly old maid sisters back in the early 60's.They had just traded in their white Chevy something for a red Chevy something. They parked right in front of a grocery store to shop. When they came out of the grocery store they saw this red Chevy parked in their spot. BOTH of them freaked out and were almost ready to call the police to report their white car had been stolen.

 

[Bb70charger500]

Dude no crap , I was going to visit with my wife's grandmother she just moved into a little town house style development in town , she wanted to see the baby ! So I'm good aboia not getting stuff wrong! Well all these places look exactly the freaking same same colors same everything! She drives a red Honda suv the guy next door came down for Winter (snow bird ) he has a red Honda suv also ! See where we're going yet!
Yup!
None of these old folks lock there doors I walk right into this guys house ,thank God I made a grand entrance saying guess who's here! The poor guy about **** his pants as I'm not a little dude I look like I'm going to rob you then rape you and hide you in the woods somewhere! He looks up and says "I'm going to guess your in the wrong house" of course I feel stupid so I apologise and start to leave and noticed his collection of mopar model s ! So we spoke for a bit he showed me pictures of his dart back in n.j. or something like that ! Nice guy .
Glad I didn't get shot !