OK crazy lady

[memster]

That's difinitly startling, but kinda of funny afterwards I had that happen to me years ago we lived in a duplex and they all looked the same it's Sunday evening DH and I are watching TV when here comes this woman stone drunk walks in the living room in sits down starts to ask us what's on TV My DH escorted her on her way.

 

[Sadie Chez]

A few years back Mom and Dad were running around town doing errands when they stopped by to pickup pictures they had being developed. Dad pulls in and parks and leaves Mom in the car while he runs in real quick, while he's in the store a car just like theirs pull up next to them the parks and the driver runs in and leaves his wife in the car, well you know it Dad plops himself in the wrong car all the while looking through the pictures and talking away to the wrong woman. My Mom's sitting there looking at him and he turns and looks at her (she says the look of sheer confusion on his face was priceless,) then turns and looks at the woman next to him who tells him "uh hon I thinks there's been a mistake" He jumps out of that car like it's on fire and runs over to his and had to listen to my Mom laugh till she cried all the way home. She still goes into hysterical laughter over it to this day if someone brings it up.

Okay flash forward 15 years and we had just moved to Georgia and my son had gotten invited over to some new friends house to watch the game. Now you have to picture my little 5'7" redhead Irish looking son pulling up to this house, he figured it had to be the right one cause it was the one with all the cars. The door was partly open and he just waltzes in and startes going around introducing himself and talking about the game when he realizes it had gotten really quiet and everyone is looking at him at which point he noticed he's the only white person in the room and he's in the middle of a family reunion............finally and older gentleman ask's "who is it your looking for?" To which my son answers "Joe" "That would be next door" They ended up all having a good laugh and the gentlemans wife ends up offering my son a plate so it was all good. But uh I think his attention to detail might come from my side of the family.

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

....that kind of reminds me of the movie The Strangers


last summer DH had left to go to the store and i was in the shower. he didn't lock the door behind him and i didn't feel like i needed to because it was broad daylight out and i was still home.

well after i got out of the shower, i heard someone BANGING on my side door and yelling something. obviously i wasn't about to open the door, but i went to the kitchen window to see if i could see anything. i saw a van that i had never seen before in my life, and all i could think the whole time was "omg...the door is unlocked!"

luckily after 5 minutes or so they left, and i ran and locked the door, but it was still scary.

i definatly lock the door now even when we're home.

 

[Diznygrl]

We've always had the same issue as dawson5, the house across the street from us has our same number, but is a different street. People have been mistaking our house for theirs for YEARS...always getting their package deliveries, people knocking on our door looking for the people across the street, etc. One time the people who lived there didn't pay their water bill, the city came and turned OUR water off instead!

We finally put up a new sign with our FULL street address on it, haven't had a problem since.

 

[Becky2005]

This only happened to us once & I wasn't even home. I thought it was hysterical though because it PROVED a point of mine to DH. He thinks I'm insane for locking the door while I'm home.

There was a party going at one of the neighbors or something. We live in a cookie cutter type neighborhood...I had left, it was dark out and when I return, DH tells me some random guy walked in, looked at him, went OOPS and walked back out. We have lived in this neighborhood for at least 18 years, in this particular house for about 10 & it's only happened that one time.

I think the poor lady took a minute to get her bearings together as to what was going on. Sorry it happened to you.

 

[cm8]

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!

 

[cm8]

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.

that was so sweet

 

[dawson5]

We've always had the same issue as dawson5, the house across the street from us has our same number, but is a different street. People have been mistaking our house for theirs for YEARS...always getting their package deliveries, people knocking on our door looking for the people across the street, etc. One time the people who lived there didn't pay their water bill, the city came and turned OUR water off instead!

We finally put up a new sign with our FULL street address on it, haven't had a problem since.

That reminds me of when we sold the house. Had to have the septic inspected, the inspector checked their septic instead of ours. I laughed about it but they were pretty upset that someone came in their yard and dug up their cap. (I had ours all uncovered and waiting for them, they still charged us $25 to do that, even though I had already done it.)

 

[bdoyledimou]

In my town, due to annexing we have two Main Streets, about 4 miles apart both going north south.
I lived at 123 Main St N Markham, and there was also a house at 123 Main St N Unionville. We were always getting each others mail, deliveries, food deliveries etc etc.

 

[MissFitt]

This only happened to us once & I wasn't even home. I thought it was hysterical though because it PROVED a point of mine to DH. He thinks I'm insane for locking the door while I'm home.

There was a party going at one of the neighbors or something. We live in a cookie cutter type neighborhood...I had left, it was dark out and when I return, DH tells me some random guy walked in, looked at him, went OOPS and walked back out. We have lived in this neighborhood for at least 18 years, in this particular house for about 10 & it's only happened that one time.

I think the poor lady took a minute to get her bearings together as to what was going on. Sorry it happened to you.

We had almost the same thing happen...DH and I and some neighbors were sitting out on our back deck one night. All of a sudden I look into the house and see some strange guy walk in. DH didn't believe me when I started flipping out but soon jumped up to see what was going on. He was asking for our next door neighbor -- we said this wasn't her house but he didn't seem to want to believe us. Thing was, this next door neighbor was having a huge party that night with loads of cars in HER driveway and in front of HER house and with music coming from HER house. How out of it was this guy and did he actually drive in that condition

 

[disneyaddicted]

We bought our house from an auction almost 13 yrs ago, the man that had lived in it passed away, it's a huge 6 bedroom and fullsize finished attic house, so he rented rooms to singles and college students. After we had been in the house a few years I was sitting on the porch swing when this guy pulls up in the drive way, he gets out of the car talking a mile a minutes, "Wow, this place has had some major changes to it, you must be one of the new rents, I lived here about 4 years ago, is Joe still here?" and he walks into my house. I was afraid to follow him in so I just stayed on the swing, he came a few minutes later looking confused/embarrassed.

"I told him the old man had passed and all the rents moved on, this was now my families home."

 

[NotUrsula]

When I was in college a male friend of mine had a close call when this happened to him. His parents MOVED and forgot to tell him.

He went "home" one weekend without calling first. He walked into the house (used his key) at about 8 am on Saturday, looked around and thought, "Cool, Mom and Dad bought some new furniture" then sat down to watch TV because he heard his mom in the shower. Naturally, the woman in the shower was NOT his Mom, and when she walked out in a towel to find that the person watching TV in her living room was not her husband but a total stranger, she grabbed a fireplace poker and called the cops. It took quite a lot of explaining before they let him go.

A few years ago our next-door neighbors had a incident where a woman started pounding on their front door at about 2 am, demanding to be let in. They did not go down to the door to speak to her, but called down from the upstairs window -- and my neighbor THOUGHT SHE WAS ME!! Apparently she went away after a lot of shouting back and forth. My neighbor took me to task about it a few days later, and I could not believe that she had thought such a thing. I told her that the only way I would ever do such a thing was if her house was literally on fire!

 

[BCV513]

My dad came to pick me up at college for the Thanksgiving break one year. He was waiting for me outside of my dorm. He drove a silver Taurus at the time, like thousands of other people. While he was waiting, a girl came over and hopped in the backseat with a suitcase. He didn't know her but assumed it was a friend of mine that we were taking to the airport or home with us. They chatted for about five minutes until I got there. Then I introduced myself to the girl. My poor father's face was priceless! Apparently the girl's father had arranged a ride for her with a friend of his. All she knew was to look for a silver Taurus at a certain time. So she had hopped in.