OK crazy lady

[binny]

omgosh!!! This woman just walked into my house with her dog!! 6:45 AM!

Cam had just left and I was in the kitchen cleaning so I hadnt locked up behind him yet. You can bet thats a habit thats going to change now!
I will going right behind him locking up from now on.

She just looked really confused and said "This isnt Jeffs house. This has the same staircase and everything! It looks just like Jeffs house. I guess I have the wrong house" She turned around, grabbed her dog and left.

Hello crazy lady, this is a cookie cutter neighbourhood every 4th house looks like this. Perhaps you should figure that out BEFORE you go walking into someone elses house!

 

[Rora]

Awkward!!!

At least she wasn't actually scary... lock those doors!

 

[OceanAnnie]

She didn't even apologize?! Love your title! Very appropriate.

 

[Kit'smommy]

I live at 1234 rosepark court. There is a house just like mine at 1234 rosehill court, which is one street over. (Not my real address, but you get the idea - they are very close). I would like to get my hands on the idiot who decided to name and number our streets the way they did. In the 11 years I have been in my house, I have opened my door to bewildered strangers looking for my neighbor at least 10 times.

 

[KATHINOWA]

We were having a birthday party for my DD and my neighbors were having an open house for the house which was for sale. There were cars all over the street for my party and their open house sign was on the front lawn. We don't have a fence on the front lawn so a couple must have been confused and saw all the activity at our house.

They walked right in and into the living room before I noticed them and had to point them to the (much smaller) house next door.

 

[dawson5]

My brother did something like this the first time he visited us when we moved here.

We lived on an "s" shaped street with one road that came off of it, it kind of went straight. If you didn't pay attention to the signs (or the road, you could see that it entered the thru street), you didn't know you were on a different street. People a street over had the same digits as us. He made it all the way to the front door and was ready to knock but looked at the brass plaque on the front door and said to himself "Judy would never leave someone elses name on her front door." So he went back to the car to look at his directions and found his error.

We have another doozy but a bit different. My youngest went to school with a little girl. We kept getting calls looking for her at our house. I finally pulled out the directory, her mom's name is Julie, I'm Judy. Her last name is the same as mine but with an L and our phone numbers are the same except ours does something like this:

877-1234 ours
873-1234 theirs

I finally saw her at school one day and told her about it. We had a good laugh.

 

[binny]

I live at 1234 rosepark court. There is a house just like mine at 1234 rosehill court, which is one street over. (Not my real address, but you get the idea - they are very close). I would like to get my hands on the idiot who decided to name and number our streets the way they did. In the 11 years I have been in my house, I have opened my door to bewildered strangers looking for my neighbor at least 10 times.

there is a lot of that here as well and likely what happened.

The whole thing was just weird. I was in my PJs, with a towel in my hand and this woman Ive never seen before and I are standing face to face in my living room. Both of us wondering what the heck she is doing there! The little corgi dog is barking at me (thankfully my big Golden was outside already or she would have gone berserk!) the woman is looking at my stairs and then me, then the stairs... she is gesturing and mumbling "his house even has this...". Then she started to walk away, apparently remembering her dog at the last moment because she turned around to pick him up. Then walked back out the door.

I stood there stunned for a minute then locked the door behind her.

DH came out awhile later and said "Who was the lady at the door with a dog?" Like it was a totally natural thing for someone to knock on someones door at 6:45 in the morning!


this is what I get for having an "open door policy" with my friends (only my friends!) at my old house. This is my payback!

 

[Pakey]

We bought a rental home in a cookie cutter neighborhood and my son is renting it with some roommates. The night after moving in, he walked into the wrong house with a case of beer. The guy told him he had the wrong house but was welcome to stay if he wanted to share the beer.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

How funny! Dh and I had our moments this week.

When we left a restaurant over the weekend I went to open the door to "our car" in the parking lot, which duh was not ours. In all fairness we have a black Yukon which is common.

Then when we get into the car after they are done laughing at me, dh says that he was at a Walgreens this past week in the parking lot on a call I think, and he said he watched some lady jump out of her truck, rush into the store. When she rushed out she opened the door and jumped in my dh's car and said, you are not my husband and jumped out.

 

[RyeCrimsonMoon]

I live in the dorms and the guys above us love to throw parties. One night we had a knock on the door and there were these two girls (obviously a little tipsy) trying to walk into our room. We were like "Err... hiya?" They looked all confused, but continued to ask for so and so and if this was the party. I was sitting on the couch in my PJs playing my PS2 and my room mate was in her PJs with nursing books in her hand (we're the ONLY people in the apartment). It tooks us atleast 5 minutes to convince them the party was one more floor up and this wasn't it. Soooo awkward.

 

[focusondisney]

Ok, here's what happened in our town 2 weeks ago: a man was visiting from out of town for a the christening of a friend's child. No one yet knows why, but at 1 o'clock in the morning, he walked into a neighbor's house. The poor neighbor & his wife woke up to a stranger coming up their staircase. After yelling at the man to stop & leave his home, the intruder kept coming. The neighbor fired 1 shot & the intruder was killed. Turns out the intruder was a much loved teacher from a few hours away.

The neighborhood homes do look similar & again, no one knows if he was just confused, drunk or what. But it is a tragedy that has touched off quite a debate here about gun rights, etc. And the poor homeowner who will have to live with the fact that he shot & killed someone, I really feel for him.

 

[dawson5]

How funny! Dh and I had our moments this week.

When we left a restaurant over the weekend I went to open the door to "our car" in the parking lot, which duh was not ours. In all fairness we have a black Yukon which is common.

Then when we get into the car after they are done laughing at me, dh says that he was at a Walgreens this past week in the parking lot on a call I think, and he said he watched some lady jump out of her truck, rush into the store. When she rushed out she opened the door and jumped in my dh's car and said, you are not my husband and jumped out.

I grew up in a Ford town. There were oodles of black T-birds on the road in the 80's. There was a story in the newspaper about someone leaving a store and opens a car with their key, but it wasn't their car. I think they got halfway home and realized it wasn't their car. Took it back to the store where they were just at, I want to say the police were there by then. This was before the chips in the keys. I don't remember the outcome, but kept wondering what are the chances.

 

[GeorgeG]

Everyone has a brain, but there is no requirement to use it...

 

[LuvOrlando]

my kids' elementary school principal has the same exact year SUV as I do but doesn't lock hers. One time I actually jumped inside but realized something was wrong because it was just so darn clean

 

[binny]

How funny! Dh and I had our moments this week.

When we left a restaurant over the weekend I went to open the door to "our car" in the parking lot, which duh was not ours. In all fairness we have a black Yukon which is common.

Then when we get into the car after they are done laughing at me, dh says that he was at a Walgreens this past week in the parking lot on a call I think, and he said he watched some lady jump out of her truck, rush into the store. When she rushed out she opened the door and jumped in my dh's car and said, you are not my husband and jumped out.

There is the same year and colour of our Ford at DSs high school weve walked up to it before but never actually tried to get in. The funny thing is they park really close to where we usually do. I wonder how many times theyve tried to open our doors?


Scary about the shooting


I can understand popping in, but at 6:45 AM?? And to just walk in and stand there for a long time. Just strange

 

[flamingglobessigmund]

At least she didn't yell: "Who are you??? And where the H is Jeff???"

 

[dislaney]

That's some open door policy you have there? I would have been scared to death seeing some crazy lady at 6:45 am. I'd be keeping those door locked from now on.

 

[Ephany]

Once I was at the gas station down the street early one morning (like 6:30am). I had gotten my hot chocolate and sat down, locked my doors like I always do and was adjusting my seat belt when I heard someone try to open my passenger side door. I look over and there's this woman (no idea who she is) trying repeatedly to open it. I open the window a bit and ask her what she's doing, she says she needs a ride across town. I told her I wasn't going that direction, she said ok and wandered off. Very surreal.

Of course this is the same gas station that has bible tract stalkers overnight. They stay in their car with it running, when they see you they'll jump out, try to convert you while you're pumping gas and then drive off when you go to complain inside. I don't go there after dark or in the early morning anymore.

 

[bumbershoot]

My son and I (he was 3 at the time) once walked right into our apartment...I stopped as I took the second step in the narrow hallway, b/c it just didn't look right (wasn't my stuff!). Stepped out, said a really confused "sorry", and closed the door...

It was 312. We lived in 212. We'd gotten off at the wrong floor, I'd ignored the *different* art on the walls, and didn't notice the door numbers.

I wasn't crazy. Just confused and distracted.

 

[HelenePA]

Before we bought our house we lived in an apt that was at street level. One day while rocking my dd#2 to sleep (as a baby) a local negihbor hood teen walked in.. he was challanged and had seem him around with his mom before. He scared the poop out of me but knew he was no threat.. he asked me calmly if I knew who he was and how to get to his house he was lost He was only MAYBE 5 houses away from home. I called for dh to come take him home he was so scared. He asked if patrick if he would hold his hand while they walked home. I'm so glad i left my door unlocked and could help him out. He was a sweet young man. I often wonder about him since we moved away.