I thought I would share my recent case of mistaken identity.

A few weeks ago I was shopping in Tesco's and spied a pack of 18 Cumberland sausages (Billfields) for £1.59 BARGAIN AHOY!...so I bought 3 packs, the Cat household are a sausage loving family. They were bloomin gorgeous, I boasted about them as we tucked in that evening - "Arn't these sausages lovely Mr Cat, only £1.59 for 18, they truly are a find".

The next week I returned especially to loaded my trolly with more of this meaty find just in case the offer finished - to date we have probably eaten about 6 packs - even took one to Centre Parcs.

Yesterday I took a packet out of the freezer to defrost and for the first time properly read the packaging...Price £4.69 and in a star burst "Equivalent to £1.59 per llb".

Silly me.


Have you experienced a case of Mistaken Identity?

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

My best one was being stopped by the police for speeding. I hadn't long passed my test and I was devastated as I was in my brand new company car.

Anyway, I had been unsure about my speed because the speedo had been flickering quite a lot, so I explained this to the nice traffic cop. He gave me one of those looks and asked me to show him.

And that's how I discovered rev counters. :blush:

They let me off.

I thought I would share my recent case of mistaken identity.

A few weeks ago I was shopping in Tesco's and spied a pack of 18 Cumberland sausages (Billfields) for £1.59 BARGAIN AHOY!...so I bought 3 packs, the Cat household are a sausage loving family. They were bloomin gorgeous, I boasted about them as we tucked in that evening - "Arn't these sausages lovely Mr Cat, only £1.59 for 18, they truly are a find".

The next week I returned especially to loaded my trolly with more of this meaty find just in case the offer finished - to date we have probably eaten about 6 packs - even took one to Centre Parcs.

Yesterday I took a packet out of the freezer to defrost and for the first time properly read the packaging...Price £4.69 and in a star burst "Equivalent to £1.59 per llb".

Silly me.


Have you experienced a case of Mistaken Identity?

I've done that Cat, been mislead by a great bit flash sign that says something like £1.50 and then not realised that it also says in tiny writing "per kilo".

Also when they have a Buy one get one free on, say, chicken breasts so you load up with 2 and then find you've paid for 2 because in tiny writing underneath it said "Buxted" and the shelf was full of "Bernard Matthews" (for example). I think this is deliberate and a crafty way to get you to buy more than you intended :mad2:

Me too Critters, the sausages were on the end of aisle displays with all the other bargains - very clever marketing for dimm wits like us.

I've done something similar with cat food - mistaking the POS for dried food for that of tinned - I noticed at the checkout - and made them check. As far as I was concerned it was their fault for having the point of sale in the wrong place:whistling

Oooo I am eagle eyed when it comes to such things...very suspicious about these get something for nothing deals as it were....however, I was short changed by a tenner a few months back because I was half asleep from a nigh****ch and the sneaky shop assistant took advantage of my vulnerability....I didn't noticed until I was on the ferry to go home and suddenly a light bulb, previous set to dull sparked to life and made me check my wallet! :sad:

nigh****ch

:laugh: at the swear filter :laugh:

:laugh: at the swear filter :laugh:

Larf...at me with furrowed brow trying to work out the missing letters...T...W...A...T. Oh! Took me all of 3 minutes

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My best one was being stopped by the police for speeding. I hadn't long passed my test and I was devastated as I was in my brand new company car.

Anyway, I had been unsure about my speed because the speedo had been flickering quite a lot, so I explained this to the nice traffic cop. He gave me one of those looks and asked me to show him.

And that's how I discovered rev counters. :blush:

They let me off.

Whats a rev counter?

Can I tell you a story about me and mistaken identity - well not quite mistaken identity but it's close.

Some years ago Mrs Sf and I were on a beach in Wales, we left our bags and went for a walk along the beach about 1/4 mile. On the way back I saw a bloke looking in one of our bags. I took off in a wild sprint, and as I got closer to him I started screaming "You f*ing ba5tard, you f*ing ba5tard!" He looked up at me with a scared look on his face, then I realised it wasn't our bag at all, ours were lying untouched a hundred yards further along the beach, so I just carried on running past him, I was too embarrassed to stop.

Can I tell you a story about me and mistaken identity - well not quite mistaken identity but it's close.

Some years ago Mrs Sf and I were on a beach in Wales, we left our bags and went for a walk along the beach about 1/4 mile. On the way back I saw a bloke looking in one of our bags. I took off in a wild sprint, and as I got closer to him I started screaming "You f*ing ba5tard, you f*ing ba5tard!" He looked up at me with a scared look on his face, then I realised it wasn't our bag at all, ours were lying untouched a hundred yards further along the beach, so I just carried on running past him, I was too embarrassed to stop.

LARF!

Do you remember the story I told whilst out jogging one morning through a field and could see a vague aquaintance jogging towards me? I started to wave with gusto and it was only when I drew closer that I realised I didn't know him at all...to save my embarrassement I adopted the waving into my running stylee and sprinted arms aloft and grinning past him.

I once ran up behind someone in the street and jumped on their back saying 'Alright mate!' only to realise it wasn't my mate but a terrified looking woman who from the back was the spitting image of my chum! :blush: I apologised perfusely and then promptly made eye contact with the same woman a further three times that morning as she kept turing up in the same shops as me.... :bag:

Oh so many giggles here. Fee - did you get off with it then??

Cat you dozy mary you - but the thing is the sausages will have tasted 10 x nicer cos they were *cheaper* than you bargained for!!! :laugh: And so many larfs at your hand waving jogging styleee!!!

sf - I would have been utterly mortified, so glad you kept on running ... :laugh:

And Coastie - how cringeworthyly embarrassing is that??:laugh:

Flip, having had to explain to me what all the different bits on the dash were, I don't think they could face explaining what a 'ticket' was :thumbsup:

It probably helped being yound and winsome as well. Those days have long gone sadly, as the 6 points on my licence prove

And Coastie - how cringeworthyly embarrassing is that??:laugh:

What was really bad was that I hadn't seen this woman before and nor have I since.....yet I pounce on her and see her three further times in the same day! :blush: What's that all about!

Can I tell you a story about me and mistaken identity - well not quite mistaken identity but it's close.

Some years ago Mrs Sf and I were on a beach in Wales, we left our bags and went for a walk along the beach about 1/4 mile. On the way back I saw a bloke looking in one of our bags. I took off in a wild sprint, and as I got closer to him I started screaming "You f*ing ba5tard, you f*ing ba5tard!" He looked up at me with a scared look on his face, then I realised it wasn't our bag at all, ours were lying untouched a hundred yards further along the beach, so I just carried on running past him, I was too embarrassed to stop.


Hahahahahahahahahaha!!

Oh SF thank you - that's fantastic, it's made my morning!! :D

Can I tell you a story about me and mistaken identity - well not quite mistaken identity but it's close.

Some years ago Mrs Sf and I were on a beach in Wales, we left our bags and went for a walk along the beach about 1/4 mile. On the way back I saw a bloke looking in one of our bags. I took off in a wild sprint, and as I got closer to him I started screaming "You f*ing ba5tard, you f*ing ba5tard!" He looked up at me with a scared look on his face, then I realised it wasn't our bag at all, ours were lying untouched a hundred yards further along the beach, so I just carried on running past him, I was too embarrassed to stop.

LMAO. This made me laugh out loud when I read it this morning & I keep coming back to it & laughing again - it strikes me as funnier with each read :laugh: :laugh:

LMAO. This made me laugh out loud when I read it this morning & I keep coming back to it & laughing again - it strikes me as funnier with each read :laugh: :laugh:

I still gafore when I read it too Jaycee. :laugh:

What a hoot this thread is!! :w00t: SF, Cat & Coastie, thank you for making laugh! I have these images in my mind of you all! :laugh:

Just yesterday I was in the local shopping centre and there was a display set up in the middle of the ground floor with beauty treatment. One of the girls came over to me and asked me about nails and told that there is this wonderful new treatment that is fantastic for your nails and would I like a demo? So I said yes, so she started buffing away and then she asks "how old", I replied 37 thinking that it was a bit personal and then she nodded down to Abbie and asked again "how old"? Boy, did I feel a fool?!!!! :blink:

So I said yes, so she started buffing away and then she asks "how old", I replied 37 thinking that it was a bit personal and then she nodded down to Abbie and asked again "how old"? Boy, did I feel a fool?!!!! :blink:

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An idea for Dublin, the badges could have our ages on too.