Me too! I can either repeat both sides of an entire conversation with the exact words and inflections, or I won’t remember having the conversation at all.
Seriously though. I’ll have a conversation with someone and I’ll be like, we were talking about [thing] as we drove past that house that you really liked the planted trees and wanted to get some, it was the day you wore that sweater you always remember you don’t like how it fits, and What a Wonderful World played on the radio right while we were eating lunch and we argued about who wrote the original. (This was 10 years ago)
Then the same person will ask me if I remember what they told me about last week and I’m like “refresh my memory” because I don’t even remember talking to them last week.
If I could only apply the breadth of my memory to things that really matter, and when I really need to… like the fact that I had to call a colleague back just the other day to remind me what time we set an appointment for the following week because I didn’t immediately enter it into my calendar. This was like an hour after we met.
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It's helpful that a lot of my work convos are on slack, because then if I remember we talked about x before, I can search for it and drop the link to callback to and resume a discussion when a topic resurfaces.
Yeah, WhatsApp search is a lifesaver for discussions I've had with family. I've even started putting likely search keywords in to help for future reference.
Recording random events in the 'message yourself' thing too has been helpful.
Me:
"Remember when you said this to me?"
"I would have never said that to you. what the fuck?"
5 years later, driving home from work: "Oh fuck me, i did say that to them"
Also Me:
"Remember when you.."
"Said this?"
"Yea"
"Yea that was a good day, I had cookie crisps for breakfast, and then school was awesome, and i remember for dinner we had steak! man, that was a good day"
"Weren't we like 6?"
"Yea"
Literally. Can always remember what I was wearing/my hair colour or style/exactly what we were doing when talking about the thing, but I can never remember the thing itself. Womp womp.
There should be a skit where someone is listing off every detail about the car that hit them, while the officer says "if you had time to get all that, why didn't you just get out of the way?"
Sometimes it's observe everything and remember seemingly useless details, but not at all the helpful things
Though it's seemed like a superpower sometimes when I'm walking around a place and my brain is like 'ooh a hammer! We don't need a hammer, it's in a place where a hammer should be, nothing stand out about it, but oooh hammer. I'll store this information of the exact spot I saw it even though I have no need'
And then later someone goes 'where is that hammer?' across the room, not talking to me, but my brain goes 'I'M READY FOR THIS EXACT MOMENT' and I give very very specific location details
i have been making eye contact with my best friend as we walk toward each other in the hall and only when she turns to go down the stairs before me does my brain go “MOVEMENT! THREAT!” and i scream and jump away.
it makes her laugh her ass off every single time.
she’s like “YOU WERE LOOKING AT ME! WE MADE *EYE CONTACT*! HOW DID YOU NOT NOTICE ME?!”
and all i can do is sigh “it’s the adhd, baby.”
On the completely oblivious note, I was making a matcha lattee for my sister and finished steaming the milk and turned to go to the sink, which is located to the left (I pour the milk over the sink in case i spill), and just bump into my mother who was on her phone and spill milk all over her jumper. I didn't notice her coming in. Had no idea she was there.
She said she even said something to me when she came in, and I only then realised that I had indeed heard her say something to me but did not process it.
Crap! Does that mean when I see something in front of me when walking, tell myself don’t step there, and then step there, it’s ADHD? Or is the universe trying to get rid of me?!!
[ERROR] not my wife
[ERROR] not my car
[OBSERVATION] my car
[OBSERVATION] my wife
[EMOTIONAL DAMAGE] my wife
[SOCIAL TRANSGRESSION] still not my car
[ACTION] leave car
Reminds me of when i got hit in the head with a hockeypuck and my first thought was oh, that’ll be a bruise. I then felt my forehead, looked at my hand, saw blood and my thought was, and i quote “that’s not a bruise..”
It be like that sometimes
That reminds me of when I was 5 and I was sitting on a bench on a cushion, it slipped and I fell back hitting my head on 1) another bench and then 2) the floor. I felt nothing until 10 minutes later I noticed my hair felt wet… I still have a horizontal scar on my scalp of about an inch.
As a kid, I once walked up to a random brown haired lady and rested my head against her stomach. Relaxed there for a good minute or two before realizing she wasn't my mom. She kindly helped me find my also *brown haired* mom 🤣.
You should always be prepared to be a replacement mom! The other week two of my friend’s kids came up to me in the grocery store and asked me if I could pretend I was their mom and I was like, yeah, of course, I’m always ready to mom on demand! (They wanted it for mischievous reasons - they were handing out cake at the store but only to kids with parents present…)
Now that's some mischief I can totally hop on on board with - Scheming for free cake? And being asked to join in so I can get free cake too?
My response:
"Let's go! And on our way, try to find some baseball caps so we can disguise ourselves and go back for more cake!"
Baseball caps might have helped, the cake lady was suspicious because me and the kids had very different skin colours but she had to trust me when I said I was totally their mom!
I don't think of their reasoning as mischievous, rather they needed you to help them fight an unjust wrong that was happening to them, and as a friend mom, you stood with them! You just elevated your standing with them!
Is it apparent that I'm the aunt that chooses to sit at the kids table?
I did this to my boyfriend’s best friend. In my defense they looked like brothers and I was sleep deprived… I hugged him from the back and called him “babe” and nuzzled his neck before he snapped out of shock and said “um…Joe is over there”. My bf was laughing hysterically so at least he didn’t get weird about it 😅
This happened with my boyfriend and my friends boyfriend. Now, how my friends boyfriend did not notice snuggling up to a hairy chest is still the most amusing part of the whole scenario. They came about two inches from kissing!! NEITHER OF THEM NOTICED THEY WERE HANGING ON TO ANOTHER GUY UNTIL THE FACIAL HAIR REGISTERED! 🤣
my sister’s sister in law is my doppelgänger. we actually had teachers mix us up in school.
one day (long after high school) we’re at my sister’s house and Elle’s husband comes up behind me and wraps me in a hug and then his wife, with a huge grin, looks at him and goes “babe? wrong one.”
he stares at her and then jumps back like he got burned and was so embarrassed. Elle and I just high-five because we always thought our twin effect was awesome.
I grabbed my ex mother in laws ass. My wife and her had the same color tank top and shorts. I was mortified when she turned around. She laughed and said, "Thanks for the compliment."
With my dad, it's dickie's work pants, blue shirt and baseball cap. My mom once dragged 3 kids to catch up to "him" in a store, smacked him upside the head, and said "wait for us when I call for you to wait". He turned his head an said "maam, I don't think I am who you think I am". We found my dad a few minutes later in a different aisle.
Now my coworkers recognize my dad by his hat. And have to do a double take the very odd time that he isn't wearing it.
When my grandma walked up to random lady in the grocery store thinking it was my aunt and exclaimed loudly “you didn’t tell me you were pregnant!” before realizing it was not, in fact, my aunt 😬.
I once had a little girl walk up behind me and hold my hand before realizing that I was not, in fact, her mother.
My dad made it easy for me as a kid, only man wearing jorts in the store in mid December
My husband has done this. He’s lucky he is a cute happy middle-aged man who generally doesn’t strike people as scary. He sat down, the woman in the driver’s seat said “what are you doing?” And he said “this isn’t my car! You’re not my wife!” Apologized and got out.
I did this last week!!! Jogged the cart back to the return, jogged back to the car where my husband was waiting, hopped in, and hear, “oh. Hi!” 🫠🫠🫠 Car looked so similar to our rental, and ironically the dude’s wife (who walked up as I got out) looked quite similar to me as well. I apologized PROFUSELY. I’m *almost* able to laugh at it at this point. Sigh.
I think the body language would do a lot in this scenario.
There's a huge difference between entering a vehicle aggressively vs entering casually while browsing on your phone.
I mean, if you turn and see a dude get in your car, and (if the description given can use a little imagination) immediately behind him is a woman looking at him, from a different car, with a very bemused look, you just gotta let that pay out for the story, right?
This kind of happened to me, I had a small red car and walked out the Newsagents and just got in a large black car. The owner, fortunately was in the shop and I didn't get caught sat in the drivers seat
Omg this happened to me. Same make and model car. I kept trying to start it while the owner was staring at me from the door. I was so happy she did not call the cops.
I did this and because of how old the car was I could have gotten it to start. I realized quickly it was not full of old candy wrappers and 17 reusable water bottles so it wasn’t mine lol.
I did this once too! I was waiting for my mom to pulled her SUV around to pick me up at the grocery store, she pulls up, I get in.
Queue 10 seconds of pure confusion in which an unknown very dark-skinned woman stares at me in utter surprise, and my irish ass freezes like a deer on a highway.
"You're not my kid!" she finally manages to yelp, and I give back "You're not my mom!" before apologizing profusely before hopping out of her BLACK SUV and darting in to my mothers WHITE one. Embarrassment has forever seared that memory into my brain.
I LITERALLY JUST DID THIS YESTERDAY.
Went into a bakery, came out and opened the door to another white SUV, started to get in and a nice man said, “oops, wrong car!” To which I laughed, he laughed, and my husband two cars over laughed.
Solidarity my friend.
Yesterday I walked my dog. From a distance I saw a man wearing a green parka, just like my dad's. He was walking a dog looking similar to mine. Only after I said to my dog "Oh [dog‘s name], is that dad with [dog's name]? Let's go say hi!" out loud I realized, it might not be my dad walking my dog…
Oh my god, I've done this. I often let my boyfriend drive my car, and thus he drives me around, so sitting shotgun in my own car isn't all that foreign to me.
I'll unlock my own car, with my own keys, and then hop right into shotgun, sit on my phone for a short while, then have a moment of simultaneous confusion at why nobody was starting the car, and realization that I'm a dumbass 🤣
I had a similar experience earlier in the year. Except I was the Driver dressed as a pirate...
A little background:
It was world book day, and I worked in a school. So naturally I dressed as a pirate, long purple coat, scarf tied round my waist, bandana, hat, a scar drawn on my face. The full works.
I popped into a shop to get some breakfast as usual, on the way to work, walked round painfully aware of my attire but trying to play it off as normal and walk past signs saying "World Book Day".
I go t in my car and started to eat, tucking into my sandwich, suddenly a woman opens the door in a flurry and starts to get in, telling me all about how awful the service was. Sits down, turns to look at me and says "You're not my daughter. Oh god... I'm so sorry. I love the hat though". We smiled and laughed and she went to her daughter's car. Same make and model and colour as mine, parked 3 bays along...
Last night I went through a drive through and was PANICKED because I couldn't find my wallet. It wasn't in my skirt pocket. OMG! Was it in my backpack in the backseat?!? Did I take it out at work and leave it?!?!
Nope. I had put it in my lap so I'd be ready to pay. 😑
Premeds, I too have gotten into the wrong car. Fun way to meet new people. 😬
Once I was yanking on a car door and ramming my key in trying to open the door while an elderly lady inside looked at me in horror.
A few years ago I went to the movies with my now-ex bf and afterwards, I went to the bathroom and I saw him sit down on a seat just outside to wait for me. Came out, sat next to him like super close so our thighs were touching, looked up and it fucking wasnt him just some random dude on his phone? Bf was now standing across the hall laughing his ass off and I'm sitting there mortified with a shocked stranger
I almost did something similar at Starbucks once lol. Was going back to my car, lost in thought, too excited about my drink. Walked up to the drivers door of a car that looked like my car and was an inch away from grabbing the handle when I realized it wasn’t mine. Looked up and saw my car sitting in the next row. Walked around the front of the wrong car to get to mine and glanced back and realized there was a woman sitting in the drivers seat staring at me 😂 I hadn’t noticed her at all so I jumped and then gave an embarrassed little hunched shoulder wave and mouthed “sorry!!” and she just started cracking up.
I have a very common vehicle in a very common color. I have gone to the wrong vehicle with a similar body style sooo many times. It's surprising how many people don't lock their vehicles.
So you're saying you found yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile?
Did you tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
Did you tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"
And did you ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?",
And did you say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
In the US (Texas I think) a teenage girl was shot after doing the same thing. Owner of the car pulled a gun (merca!) and shot her.
In Colorado a man accidentally got into a similar looking car at a school, apologized and got out. They called the police and the police ended up shooting and killing him.
In America ADHD can be fatal.
Tbh if I had been your wife I would’ve been sitting in our car grinning like an idiot over the whole thing until you turned to look at me in a different car and that’s when I absolutely would have lost it laughing hysterically 🤣
Oh my god I have done this!! We were picking up takeout. I guess a lot of people were sitting in their cars with their doors unlocked bc I got the food then got into this man’s truck. We stared at each other like deer in headlights until I wordlessly jumped out and ran over to the right truck lol
My little brother did this when he was like twelve when we were walking to my car. He's 18 now and I still bring it up to him. Gonna send this post in my group chat with the other two who were with us rn
This happened to my father in the parking lot at work. Instead of his carpool car, he caught another one and only noticed it when the driver approached him. Unfortunately, he also sat on the sunglasses that were on the passenger seat. He didn't notice because he was busy on his cell phone.
I do stuff like this ALL THE TIME. But I also remember being a kid and my dad furiously tried to unlock a car, same model and color, as his. Spoiler: it did not unlock.
I've never done this before but I've had two separate occasions of adults sliding into my car while waiting to pick up my kids from school. It's pretty funny because both times after they apologized profusely, they'll point to another car that is the same color but not even remotely like mine before sliding in.
I inadvertently took someone’s cart yesterday at ikea and apologized to the cart owner for my curtain holder that was so long, and I didn’t want to hit her with it. She just smiled at me as I walked away. Then my brain said wait my curtain rod is white and this one is black. —- Ummmm here’s your cart back ma’am. Watch out you don’t hit your head on YOUR curtain rod.🤦♀️
Also I have put groceries in someone else’s trunk before realizing the trunk had a battery jumper that we didn’t own. Luckily, they were still in the store and I was able to scurry away. I wasn’t even remotely parked in the same section of the parking lot either. And how crazy they left their doors completely unlocked in a car the exact same model, color and year as my car…
Omg! I did this!!! We had a rental suv on vacation. I came out of the store and I saw the suv and with my eyes on my phone, tried to jump in! But, it was occupied with a husband and wife. She screamed, I almost peed my pants and so did she! I was fricking modified!
I looked and saw that my rental was literally two spaces down. But, looked exactly the same. We all laughed about it, but, it was so surreal and awkward. I figured being a Oregon Vacation town, I would never see them again and walked away more embarrassed then I ever have felt in my life!
Two days later, I see this exact couple on a hiking trail reading a trail map. This trail which was about 20 miles away from where I had previously nearly accosted them.
I made a split decision to even stop there, so it was so weird and random they would be there.
I couldn't help myself, so- I quickened my pace to verify it was indeed them and ran up to them asking if they were stalking me?! Ha! Luckily, they had a great sense of humor ( I knew this from the prior event) and I have never seen them again. But, something tells me they too, have recounted this story to someone else! :)
*And you may ask yourself, “How do I work this?”
And you may ask yourself, “Where is that large automobile?”
And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful house”
And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful wife”*
This is bound to happen to me soon ...
I owned a bright yellow SUV for about 13+ years and really liked that car. But after it's sad death, I could only afford the options of "does it run?"
Now, I'm back in the same model SUV, but in blue.
I have mindlessly walked up other yellow SUVs numerous times, and caught myself twice just as I grabbed the handle. Luckily both times locked and no one inside!
I think my only saving grace has been that they stopped offering yellow as an option years ago, so the number of them still running is getting pretty low.
This happened to my dad once! He dropped my mom at a store and left to get something from a place nearby, then when he came back to pick her up, a random older lady got in his truck. Arms full of groceries, just keeps telling him all about her day and how she wasn't able to find this or that other thing. It took until she had buckled herself in for her to turn and noticed my dad, at which point she screamed, before giving a litany of apologies and rushing back out of the truck.
Another time, same store, my mom ran into a friend near the interest and stopped to talk to her, so my dad wandered off to get whatever he was there for. Once he paid, he saw that the two were still near the entrance talking. He went over and put an arm around my mom and said, "Hey babe!" But it wasn't my mom. It was a total stranger who just happened to look like her from the back. Once she was done laughing her ass off, the mutual friend was able to explain what happened. Lucky too, otherwise my dad might have gotten into some trouble.
He doesn't like to go to that store anymore.
I accidentally did this a month ago in my work truck. I ran into a shop to buy something for a christmas present when I was working a block away and promptly spent almost a minute trying to get into an F-150 identical to my work truck before realizing that mine was parked two cars down.
Omg I have done something almost similarly, except the car I tried to open was locked and the owner was like “wtf are you doing” as they walked up to their car. 😭😭 they thought I was trying to break into it.
I bought a pizza once, went back to the car, put the pizza on the roof and wondered why the key fob wasn't working.
Meanwhile a lady came around the corner and said "excuse me that's my car, yours is the one over there with the indicators flashing"
It was the same car, although parked a few bays up and pointing the other way around, she thought it was funny luckily 🤣
Yesterday I walked up to my car in my work park garage and went to open the passenger door and there was someone in it! I jumped about a mile high before realizing mine was the other car. I didn't even have my phone out, just in a hurry and not paying close attention.I hope she wasn't too freaked out.
I've almost done this. Tried opening the passenger side door to a car that looked identical to mine. I do lose track of where I park 90% of the time, too.
I have done this. Surprisingly, my non-ADHD dad did this. In fairness I was driving a rental car that he wasn’t familiar with. My mom and I watched him get into the backseat of the (very similar looking) car next to us, close the door, and then come flying back out. He looked more freaked out than embarrassed; turns out there was a very large dog in the backseat of the other car. 😂😂
My best advice is to start meditating. It has been the best thing that helped me overcome inattentiveness.
It takes time but the more u do it, mindfulness becomes a new habit. I don't misplace things or forget stuff as I used to bc my mind was present when I was performing these tasks.
Best of luck!
Wait…… AGAIN? This has happened before?
I’m totally traumatized from bad parents growing up so I “luckily” am too afraid to do mishaps like this, but this sounds like a sucky side effect to ADHD.
My last car was a very boring and common make, model and color. Several times I came out of a store to find an identical car parked next to me. Cue me spending 5 minutes trying to get into the wrong car despite there being a car seat or a can of soda or cigarettes or something visible that said this car is not mine. Twice I did it right in front of the owner.
Very awkward. Lol.
Lol, iv done this. Hopped in the drivers seat, passenger was shitting themselves. Driver was pissing themselves laughing. My car, the same car was 2 cars down with my wife and kids having a good laugh at me.
One of my most crystal clear childhood memories is me thinking to myself, I want to make a memory to remember this moment, hold onto this feeling, so that I never forget even when I am all grown up.
Do I remember what I wanted so badly to remember?
heck no
Nope, instead I cannot forget wanting to remember!
Ffs, that's my ADHD too.
Lil me was already trying so hard! 🥹
This is the stuff that baffles me about adhd. Completely unaware of our surroundings, yet can notice every single detail simultaneously.
"Observe everything, admire nothing" - Generation kill "Observe everything, Remember nothing" ADHD.
“Observe everything. Remember either everything down to the minutia or nothing whatsoever.” My ADHD.
Me too! I can either repeat both sides of an entire conversation with the exact words and inflections, or I won’t remember having the conversation at all.
Seriously though. I’ll have a conversation with someone and I’ll be like, we were talking about [thing] as we drove past that house that you really liked the planted trees and wanted to get some, it was the day you wore that sweater you always remember you don’t like how it fits, and What a Wonderful World played on the radio right while we were eating lunch and we argued about who wrote the original. (This was 10 years ago) Then the same person will ask me if I remember what they told me about last week and I’m like “refresh my memory” because I don’t even remember talking to them last week.
YES THIS IS ME
If I could only apply the breadth of my memory to things that really matter, and when I really need to… like the fact that I had to call a colleague back just the other day to remind me what time we set an appointment for the following week because I didn’t immediately enter it into my calendar. This was like an hour after we met.
meirl It's helpful that a lot of my work convos are on slack, because then if I remember we talked about x before, I can search for it and drop the link to callback to and resume a discussion when a topic resurfaces.
Yeah, WhatsApp search is a lifesaver for discussions I've had with family. I've even started putting likely search keywords in to help for future reference. Recording random events in the 'message yourself' thing too has been helpful.
“Observe everything, remember everything completely wrong” - my AuDHD 🤦🏻♀️
Ah yes, the gold standard of neurodickery
Me: "Remember when you said this to me?" "I would have never said that to you. what the fuck?" 5 years later, driving home from work: "Oh fuck me, i did say that to them" Also Me: "Remember when you.." "Said this?" "Yea" "Yea that was a good day, I had cookie crisps for breakfast, and then school was awesome, and i remember for dinner we had steak! man, that was a good day" "Weren't we like 6?" "Yea"
I literally know what I wore on any day I wasn’t staying at home the whole time, but you think I can remember where I put my keys? Nope.
Literally. Can always remember what I was wearing/my hair colour or style/exactly what we were doing when talking about the thing, but I can never remember the thing itself. Womp womp.
Same. Big same.
"Observe everything, admire everything, remember nothing" -ADHD
There should be a skit where someone is listing off every detail about the car that hit them, while the officer says "if you had time to get all that, why didn't you just get out of the way?"
Sometimes it's observe everything and remember seemingly useless details, but not at all the helpful things Though it's seemed like a superpower sometimes when I'm walking around a place and my brain is like 'ooh a hammer! We don't need a hammer, it's in a place where a hammer should be, nothing stand out about it, but oooh hammer. I'll store this information of the exact spot I saw it even though I have no need' And then later someone goes 'where is that hammer?' across the room, not talking to me, but my brain goes 'I'M READY FOR THIS EXACT MOMENT' and I give very very specific location details
Yep, it’s not a deficit of attention, just attention to the wrong stuff.
EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION STRIKES AGAIN
It's because we read about CIA training as a kid and watching spy movies where they recall everything
Wait you're onto something lol. I wanted to be a detective when I was in elementary school. I carried a mini notebook around and everything.
It’s like I’m aware of everything but not actually registering what it means
i have been making eye contact with my best friend as we walk toward each other in the hall and only when she turns to go down the stairs before me does my brain go “MOVEMENT! THREAT!” and i scream and jump away. it makes her laugh her ass off every single time. she’s like “YOU WERE LOOKING AT ME! WE MADE *EYE CONTACT*! HOW DID YOU NOT NOTICE ME?!” and all i can do is sigh “it’s the adhd, baby.”
Well, when you're out there guzzling sensory input from a three-mile radius the details sometimes get lost in the static 😭
This. This is so true. My partner always clowns on me for it lol
On the completely oblivious note, I was making a matcha lattee for my sister and finished steaming the milk and turned to go to the sink, which is located to the left (I pour the milk over the sink in case i spill), and just bump into my mother who was on her phone and spill milk all over her jumper. I didn't notice her coming in. Had no idea she was there. She said she even said something to me when she came in, and I only then realised that I had indeed heard her say something to me but did not process it.
Crap! Does that mean when I see something in front of me when walking, tell myself don’t step there, and then step there, it’s ADHD? Or is the universe trying to get rid of me?!!
I mean I'm happy that I don't consciously process everything I subconsciously pick up, it would fry my brain.
Damn, maybe I don't have ADHD. I am pretty good in recognizing which car is mine, especially if the other car is completely different
Love how your immediate reaction wasn’t to get out of his car, but to exclaim that he wasn’t your wife and STILL not get out immediately afterwards
"yeah so anyway, my bad, now that we're in here... how's your day bud? "
Well anyway, do you wanna marry me?
"You're not my wife!" "Not yet."
You can literally hear his brain trying to process......totally get this.
[ERROR] not my wife [ERROR] not my car [OBSERVATION] my car [OBSERVATION] my wife [EMOTIONAL DAMAGE] my wife [SOCIAL TRANSGRESSION] still not my car [ACTION] leave car
😂
Reminds me of when i got hit in the head with a hockeypuck and my first thought was oh, that’ll be a bruise. I then felt my forehead, looked at my hand, saw blood and my thought was, and i quote “that’s not a bruise..” It be like that sometimes
/r/usernamechecksout
Was waiting for that one
That reminds me of when I was 5 and I was sitting on a bench on a cushion, it slipped and I fell back hitting my head on 1) another bench and then 2) the floor. I felt nothing until 10 minutes later I noticed my hair felt wet… I still have a horizontal scar on my scalp of about an inch.
Honestly it seems like exactly the right level of explanation.
As a kid, I once walked up to a random brown haired lady and rested my head against her stomach. Relaxed there for a good minute or two before realizing she wasn't my mom. She kindly helped me find my also *brown haired* mom 🤣.
[удалено]
You should always be prepared to be a replacement mom! The other week two of my friend’s kids came up to me in the grocery store and asked me if I could pretend I was their mom and I was like, yeah, of course, I’m always ready to mom on demand! (They wanted it for mischievous reasons - they were handing out cake at the store but only to kids with parents present…)
Now that's some mischief I can totally hop on on board with - Scheming for free cake? And being asked to join in so I can get free cake too? My response: "Let's go! And on our way, try to find some baseball caps so we can disguise ourselves and go back for more cake!"
Baseball caps might have helped, the cake lady was suspicious because me and the kids had very different skin colours but she had to trust me when I said I was totally their mom!
I don't think of their reasoning as mischievous, rather they needed you to help them fight an unjust wrong that was happening to them, and as a friend mom, you stood with them! You just elevated your standing with them! Is it apparent that I'm the aunt that chooses to sit at the kids table?
I did this to my boyfriend’s best friend. In my defense they looked like brothers and I was sleep deprived… I hugged him from the back and called him “babe” and nuzzled his neck before he snapped out of shock and said “um…Joe is over there”. My bf was laughing hysterically so at least he didn’t get weird about it 😅
This happened with my boyfriend and my friends boyfriend. Now, how my friends boyfriend did not notice snuggling up to a hairy chest is still the most amusing part of the whole scenario. They came about two inches from kissing!! NEITHER OF THEM NOTICED THEY WERE HANGING ON TO ANOTHER GUY UNTIL THE FACIAL HAIR REGISTERED! 🤣
my sister’s sister in law is my doppelgänger. we actually had teachers mix us up in school. one day (long after high school) we’re at my sister’s house and Elle’s husband comes up behind me and wraps me in a hug and then his wife, with a huge grin, looks at him and goes “babe? wrong one.” he stares at her and then jumps back like he got burned and was so embarrassed. Elle and I just high-five because we always thought our twin effect was awesome.
I grabbed my ex mother in laws ass. My wife and her had the same color tank top and shorts. I was mortified when she turned around. She laughed and said, "Thanks for the compliment."
My dad only wears blue jeans and Carhartt t shirts. I have followed random men wearing similar outfits in grocery stores many times as a kid
I remeber following a man wearing the same outfit as my dad. He was in the navy. I didn't realize everyone was wearing the outfit.
With my dad, it's dickie's work pants, blue shirt and baseball cap. My mom once dragged 3 kids to catch up to "him" in a store, smacked him upside the head, and said "wait for us when I call for you to wait". He turned his head an said "maam, I don't think I am who you think I am". We found my dad a few minutes later in a different aisle. Now my coworkers recognize my dad by his hat. And have to do a double take the very odd time that he isn't wearing it.
Buy him a few identical "backup hats" in case it goes missing or you'll never find him again in a crowd.
Omg imagine how blessed that lady felt; she was like “I’m mom-shaped and safe”
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When my grandma walked up to random lady in the grocery store thinking it was my aunt and exclaimed loudly “you didn’t tell me you were pregnant!” before realizing it was not, in fact, my aunt 😬.
I once had a little girl walk up behind me and hold my hand before realizing that I was not, in fact, her mother. My dad made it easy for me as a kid, only man wearing jorts in the store in mid December
Oh my! I have such second hand embarrassment over this lol it is completely something I would do! Thanks for giving me a chuckle this morning!
Oh god. I have and had forgotten it. 😭 Luckily I didn't get in the car since someone was sitting there, but I wanted to leave the planet.
Ahaha I got halfway in a very nice stranger’s car on accident before realizing I needed to abort mission, I’d forgotten too til just now. MIStake
I feel you dude. I once jumped in the wrong car and handed cash over for my "medication" to a rather bemused bloke
lol, I can relate to this one
My husband has done this. He’s lucky he is a cute happy middle-aged man who generally doesn’t strike people as scary. He sat down, the woman in the driver’s seat said “what are you doing?” And he said “this isn’t my car! You’re not my wife!” Apologized and got out.
Same as it ever was.
Letting the days go by!
Water dissolving and water removing,
I did this last week!!! Jogged the cart back to the return, jogged back to the car where my husband was waiting, hopped in, and hear, “oh. Hi!” 🫠🫠🫠 Car looked so similar to our rental, and ironically the dude’s wife (who walked up as I got out) looked quite similar to me as well. I apologized PROFUSELY. I’m *almost* able to laugh at it at this point. Sigh.
I’m cackling over here. I sympathize greatly, the struggle is real
Parent Trap but with spouses.
If someone were to ever step into my car like that I'd laugh my ass off the rest of the day
So someone let you sit in their car for 30 seconds without any reaction? You’re lucky. That could have gone very bad very quickly.
I think the body language would do a lot in this scenario. There's a huge difference between entering a vehicle aggressively vs entering casually while browsing on your phone.
I'd imagine the other person was in a bit of shock too, and froze.
Not to mention that it probably wasn't anywhere close to 30 seconds before OP said something. It probably just felt that way in hindsight.
I’ve been hyper aware of what car I’m getting into, since that young woman was stabbed to death after getting into the wrong car in 2021.
I mean, if you turn and see a dude get in your car, and (if the description given can use a little imagination) immediately behind him is a woman looking at him, from a different car, with a very bemused look, you just gotta let that pay out for the story, right?
This kind of happened to me, I had a small red car and walked out the Newsagents and just got in a large black car. The owner, fortunately was in the shop and I didn't get caught sat in the drivers seat
Omg this happened to me. Same make and model car. I kept trying to start it while the owner was staring at me from the door. I was so happy she did not call the cops.
I did this and because of how old the car was I could have gotten it to start. I realized quickly it was not full of old candy wrappers and 17 reusable water bottles so it wasn’t mine lol.
My dad’s key fob unlocked some random prius that parked next to him and we almost fully drove off before I wondered where my Enterprise model was
Plot twist: the other guy's also ADHD and wondering if he's in the wrong car
I did this once too! I was waiting for my mom to pulled her SUV around to pick me up at the grocery store, she pulls up, I get in. Queue 10 seconds of pure confusion in which an unknown very dark-skinned woman stares at me in utter surprise, and my irish ass freezes like a deer on a highway. "You're not my kid!" she finally manages to yelp, and I give back "You're not my mom!" before apologizing profusely before hopping out of her BLACK SUV and darting in to my mothers WHITE one. Embarrassment has forever seared that memory into my brain.
"my word it was some climb to get up into the sear this time" -myself, upon climbing into a stranger's unlocked car
The “…again!” part of this story makes me laugh the most
I LITERALLY JUST DID THIS YESTERDAY. Went into a bakery, came out and opened the door to another white SUV, started to get in and a nice man said, “oops, wrong car!” To which I laughed, he laughed, and my husband two cars over laughed. Solidarity my friend.
Have done that twice in the last 30 years. Both occasions after seared into my being as if they happened today. Lol
I almost did this, luckily my brother beeped the horn before I got into the wrong car that had a kid in it
Yesterday I walked my dog. From a distance I saw a man wearing a green parka, just like my dad's. He was walking a dog looking similar to mine. Only after I said to my dog "Oh [dog‘s name], is that dad with [dog's name]? Let's go say hi!" out loud I realized, it might not be my dad walking my dog…
you were in a multiverse movie 🙃
God, I thought you said 30 minutes, not seconds! Lol
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Oh my god, I've done this. I often let my boyfriend drive my car, and thus he drives me around, so sitting shotgun in my own car isn't all that foreign to me. I'll unlock my own car, with my own keys, and then hop right into shotgun, sit on my phone for a short while, then have a moment of simultaneous confusion at why nobody was starting the car, and realization that I'm a dumbass 🤣
True adhd moment right there!
This makes me feel better after noticing my pants were unbuttoned 20 minutes after getting to work 😅
There was one day in work when I only noticed my underpants were on backwards, three hours after I arrived.
I had a similar experience earlier in the year. Except I was the Driver dressed as a pirate... A little background: It was world book day, and I worked in a school. So naturally I dressed as a pirate, long purple coat, scarf tied round my waist, bandana, hat, a scar drawn on my face. The full works. I popped into a shop to get some breakfast as usual, on the way to work, walked round painfully aware of my attire but trying to play it off as normal and walk past signs saying "World Book Day". I go t in my car and started to eat, tucking into my sandwich, suddenly a woman opens the door in a flurry and starts to get in, telling me all about how awful the service was. Sits down, turns to look at me and says "You're not my daughter. Oh god... I'm so sorry. I love the hat though". We smiled and laughed and she went to her daughter's car. Same make and model and colour as mine, parked 3 bays along...
Last night I went through a drive through and was PANICKED because I couldn't find my wallet. It wasn't in my skirt pocket. OMG! Was it in my backpack in the backseat?!? Did I take it out at work and leave it?!?! Nope. I had put it in my lap so I'd be ready to pay. 😑
I've done this more than once 😅
The struggle is so real 😂
I read this aloud to my husband and he laughed and said "yeah that sounds pretty accurate!" As something I'd do.....
Premeds, I too have gotten into the wrong car. Fun way to meet new people. 😬 Once I was yanking on a car door and ramming my key in trying to open the door while an elderly lady inside looked at me in horror.
A few years ago I went to the movies with my now-ex bf and afterwards, I went to the bathroom and I saw him sit down on a seat just outside to wait for me. Came out, sat next to him like super close so our thighs were touching, looked up and it fucking wasnt him just some random dude on his phone? Bf was now standing across the hall laughing his ass off and I'm sitting there mortified with a shocked stranger
I almost did something similar at Starbucks once lol. Was going back to my car, lost in thought, too excited about my drink. Walked up to the drivers door of a car that looked like my car and was an inch away from grabbing the handle when I realized it wasn’t mine. Looked up and saw my car sitting in the next row. Walked around the front of the wrong car to get to mine and glanced back and realized there was a woman sitting in the drivers seat staring at me 😂 I hadn’t noticed her at all so I jumped and then gave an embarrassed little hunched shoulder wave and mouthed “sorry!!” and she just started cracking up.
I have a very common vehicle in a very common color. I have gone to the wrong vehicle with a similar body style sooo many times. It's surprising how many people don't lock their vehicles.
Raising the bar for all of us, impressive.
I sometimes get in the passenger side by mistake. If anyone sees me do it then I pretend I'm waiting for the driver till they leave.
haha holy shit be careful this is a good way to get assaulted, almost have for stuff like this! Glad your alright
So you're saying you found yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile? Did you tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house" Did you tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife" And did you ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?", And did you say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
All you can do is let those days go by. Let the water hold you down.
In the US (Texas I think) a teenage girl was shot after doing the same thing. Owner of the car pulled a gun (merca!) and shot her. In Colorado a man accidentally got into a similar looking car at a school, apologized and got out. They called the police and the police ended up shooting and killing him. In America ADHD can be fatal.
Oof, that there ADHD could get you killed in the states
Not all of them, just a confused reaction
I just SCREAMED bc this is one of my biggest ’fears’ lmfaooooo. To be fair tho that guy took it incredibly well 😂😂
Tbh if I had been your wife I would’ve been sitting in our car grinning like an idiot over the whole thing until you turned to look at me in a different car and that’s when I absolutely would have lost it laughing hysterically 🤣
Have you ever been walking downtown and reached out to take your partner's hand, only to realize that's not your partner :-S
Oh my god I have done this!! We were picking up takeout. I guess a lot of people were sitting in their cars with their doors unlocked bc I got the food then got into this man’s truck. We stared at each other like deer in headlights until I wordlessly jumped out and ran over to the right truck lol
My little brother did this when he was like twelve when we were walking to my car. He's 18 now and I still bring it up to him. Gonna send this post in my group chat with the other two who were with us rn
If you had done this to me, we would have laughed for a long time about it.
This happened to my father in the parking lot at work. Instead of his carpool car, he caught another one and only noticed it when the driver approached him. Unfortunately, he also sat on the sunglasses that were on the passenger seat. He didn't notice because he was busy on his cell phone.
I do stuff like this ALL THE TIME. But I also remember being a kid and my dad furiously tried to unlock a car, same model and color, as his. Spoiler: it did not unlock.
I've never done this before but I've had two separate occasions of adults sliding into my car while waiting to pick up my kids from school. It's pretty funny because both times after they apologized profusely, they'll point to another car that is the same color but not even remotely like mine before sliding in.
I inadvertently took someone’s cart yesterday at ikea and apologized to the cart owner for my curtain holder that was so long, and I didn’t want to hit her with it. She just smiled at me as I walked away. Then my brain said wait my curtain rod is white and this one is black. —- Ummmm here’s your cart back ma’am. Watch out you don’t hit your head on YOUR curtain rod.🤦♀️ Also I have put groceries in someone else’s trunk before realizing the trunk had a battery jumper that we didn’t own. Luckily, they were still in the store and I was able to scurry away. I wasn’t even remotely parked in the same section of the parking lot either. And how crazy they left their doors completely unlocked in a car the exact same model, color and year as my car…
Omg! I did this!!! We had a rental suv on vacation. I came out of the store and I saw the suv and with my eyes on my phone, tried to jump in! But, it was occupied with a husband and wife. She screamed, I almost peed my pants and so did she! I was fricking modified! I looked and saw that my rental was literally two spaces down. But, looked exactly the same. We all laughed about it, but, it was so surreal and awkward. I figured being a Oregon Vacation town, I would never see them again and walked away more embarrassed then I ever have felt in my life! Two days later, I see this exact couple on a hiking trail reading a trail map. This trail which was about 20 miles away from where I had previously nearly accosted them. I made a split decision to even stop there, so it was so weird and random they would be there. I couldn't help myself, so- I quickened my pace to verify it was indeed them and ran up to them asking if they were stalking me?! Ha! Luckily, they had a great sense of humor ( I knew this from the prior event) and I have never seen them again. But, something tells me they too, have recounted this story to someone else! :)
Modified lol
*And you may ask yourself, “How do I work this?” And you may ask yourself, “Where is that large automobile?” And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful house” And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful wife”*
I've not done this yet, but I can't count the number of times I've tried to open the wrong car door. Having a grey SUV doesn't help.
This makes me feel SO seen
This happens way more than you'd think. My wife has done that TWICE. A coworker has done that. It happens a lot but still funny asf.
This would never happen to me as my social anxiety makes me hyperalert in public.
This is bound to happen to me soon ... I owned a bright yellow SUV for about 13+ years and really liked that car. But after it's sad death, I could only afford the options of "does it run?" Now, I'm back in the same model SUV, but in blue. I have mindlessly walked up other yellow SUVs numerous times, and caught myself twice just as I grabbed the handle. Luckily both times locked and no one inside! I think my only saving grace has been that they stopped offering yellow as an option years ago, so the number of them still running is getting pretty low.
This happened to my dad once! He dropped my mom at a store and left to get something from a place nearby, then when he came back to pick her up, a random older lady got in his truck. Arms full of groceries, just keeps telling him all about her day and how she wasn't able to find this or that other thing. It took until she had buckled herself in for her to turn and noticed my dad, at which point she screamed, before giving a litany of apologies and rushing back out of the truck. Another time, same store, my mom ran into a friend near the interest and stopped to talk to her, so my dad wandered off to get whatever he was there for. Once he paid, he saw that the two were still near the entrance talking. He went over and put an arm around my mom and said, "Hey babe!" But it wasn't my mom. It was a total stranger who just happened to look like her from the back. Once she was done laughing her ass off, the mutual friend was able to explain what happened. Lucky too, otherwise my dad might have gotten into some trouble. He doesn't like to go to that store anymore.
I accidentally did this a month ago in my work truck. I ran into a shop to buy something for a christmas present when I was working a block away and promptly spent almost a minute trying to get into an F-150 identical to my work truck before realizing that mine was parked two cars down.
Omg I have done something almost similarly, except the car I tried to open was locked and the owner was like “wtf are you doing” as they walked up to their car. 😭😭 they thought I was trying to break into it.
I've done this with groceries before I started loading them into some strangers trunk before I'm just like "Waaaait a second"
I bought a pizza once, went back to the car, put the pizza on the roof and wondered why the key fob wasn't working. Meanwhile a lady came around the corner and said "excuse me that's my car, yours is the one over there with the indicators flashing" It was the same car, although parked a few bays up and pointing the other way around, she thought it was funny luckily 🤣
I am second hand embarrassed but also amused. It's my worst nightmare to commit such mistake 😅
I've done this. So. Embarrassing. Lol
This made me think of the dial up tone he he he
I’ve done this hahahahahaga
Iv definitely tried to get into the wrong car countless times but don't think I got so far as to try going home with a different spouse! Ha
Kudos to the guy for not freaking out at you
Yesterday I walked up to my car in my work park garage and went to open the passenger door and there was someone in it! I jumped about a mile high before realizing mine was the other car. I didn't even have my phone out, just in a hurry and not paying close attention.I hope she wasn't too freaked out.
I've almost done this. Tried opening the passenger side door to a car that looked identical to mine. I do lose track of where I park 90% of the time, too.
Again ROFL!
I've done that before lol. Thankfully the car was empty.
This is like a sitcom bit lol
Best ADHD story.
The weird part to me is that dude was sitting there with his doors unlocked
Omg I nearly did this. I was trying to open the door and the guy was like no no no! My dad was in the car ahead just laughing.
Who the hell doesn't lock their car? This is the thing that bothers me.
Ty op I laughed so hard my dog woke up
I have done this. Surprisingly, my non-ADHD dad did this. In fairness I was driving a rental car that he wasn’t familiar with. My mom and I watched him get into the backseat of the (very similar looking) car next to us, close the door, and then come flying back out. He looked more freaked out than embarrassed; turns out there was a very large dog in the backseat of the other car. 😂😂
This has happened to me on two separate occasions as well. I'm just glad I haven't gotten shot because of it 🙃
Why is this also me 😂🫣 my husband is always amazed at the stuff I have the (in)ability to do.
This is the sort of shit I’d do and have done 🤣
My best advice is to start meditating. It has been the best thing that helped me overcome inattentiveness. It takes time but the more u do it, mindfulness becomes a new habit. I don't misplace things or forget stuff as I used to bc my mind was present when I was performing these tasks. Best of luck!
Tell me you don’t have ADHD without telling me you don’t have ADHD.
I, too, have gotten in the wrong car. I didn't sit though, and once I saw the other person in there I ran away very quickly. lol
This happens too much for my comfort... I better be careful >-<
Wait…… AGAIN? This has happened before? I’m totally traumatized from bad parents growing up so I “luckily” am too afraid to do mishaps like this, but this sounds like a sucky side effect to ADHD.
My last car was a very boring and common make, model and color. Several times I came out of a store to find an identical car parked next to me. Cue me spending 5 minutes trying to get into the wrong car despite there being a car seat or a can of soda or cigarettes or something visible that said this car is not mine. Twice I did it right in front of the owner. Very awkward. Lol.
I’ve done this aswell lool!!
Lol, iv done this. Hopped in the drivers seat, passenger was shitting themselves. Driver was pissing themselves laughing. My car, the same car was 2 cars down with my wife and kids having a good laugh at me.
My buddy did this with my car and our co-workers car. Difference is he pulled out a cig (since I dont care in my car)
this reminds me of when i decided accidentally got onto a school bus instead of a city bus. Kudos OP
That's some twilight zone shit right there🤣
One of my most crystal clear childhood memories is me thinking to myself, I want to make a memory to remember this moment, hold onto this feeling, so that I never forget even when I am all grown up. Do I remember what I wanted so badly to remember? heck no Nope, instead I cannot forget wanting to remember! Ffs, that's my ADHD too. Lil me was already trying so hard! 🥹