November 08, 2003
Mistaken Identity
That's what I pleaded in night court.
I was really busy at work today and was fairly exhausted at the end of my shift. I walked out to the garage to get in my car and head home. That's a reasonable thing to do, right?
My key wouldn't open the damn lock.
This happens sometimes. Ever since I was broadsided in a hit and run incident, my door and lock just don't function as they should all the time. I went around to the passenger side of the car and tried my key there.
No such fucking luck, thank you very much.
At this point, I was chilled, tired, and frustrated. I started to kick the car.
And then I noticed that the car door was green. Dusty, dirty, and desperately-in-need-of-a-wash green.
My car's purple.
I hadn't been looking for color, though. I'd been looking for dirt.
I totally forgot that I'd washed the car the other day.
After explaining this to security, the police, the owner of the green car - for the 47th time - and to the judge, I was finally released on my own recognizance.
This is why I never wash my car.
Posted by DaGoddess at November 8, 2003 11:24 PMThe number to my therapist is.....
Just joking!
My older brother, who played college football and is quite large and intimidating, walked out of a store where his girlfriend was still shopping, walked up to the car, opened the door and got inside. Minutes later people are swarming around and a woman is yelling to get out of her car to which my brother angrily yells back words of love and fornication. Then his girlfriend exits and points to the car next to him as her car. They drove away madly.
Posted by: Jay at November 9, 2003 05:30 AMJay, your tale is hysterical, but JOANIE! My god! I'd say you being tired was an understatment? Yikes - and you had to go in front of a judge?!? Geesus H.! Guess the next time you wash it will be right before you sell it. *shrug*
Posted by: Cindy at November 9, 2003 10:50 AMThat's great ! I can't even claim a story like that !
Although, when huby and I stopped at a convenience store for his toilet needs, I let him out, then pulled into a parking space.
When he got back in the car, he told me he jumped into a car and told the bewildered man behind the wheel, " Let's hit it !"
oh,?puhLEEZ - i cannot believe the car's owner took things to court. I would have dropped the matter as soon as I saw your honest, work-exhausted face!
Posted by: dragonfly jenny at November 9, 2003 01:25 PMI can't believe that person didn't have anything better to do than toake you to court for that. They need to get a life.
Posted by: TW at November 9, 2003 02:41 PMMy wife's uncle got a letter from the finance company inviting him to come in and discuss his car loan. He parked a distance away and walked the other way when he left the office. Sure enough there was a car like his not far away, and the repo man beat him to it. Note that the car was parked outside a working class tavern in Rogers, Arkansas.
My wife herself once mistook another car for ours, in front of its owner. Right size and proportion, right shade of blue, but metallic paint. 1991 Buick instead of a '79 Ford Fairmont.
Posted by: triticale at November 9, 2003 06:55 PMReleased on my your recognizance? Trial pending? Could you use a deposition from a character witness assuring the judge that you are the sort of person who would have justification for such behavior?
Posted by: triticale at November 9, 2003 07:01 PMAll I can say is, "OOOPS!"
You need some sleep.
Oh My that is awful. Are you going to have to go back. Bring in your records showing all the hours you have worked since the fire. They will have to understand, with you being a nurse and it being in the hospital parking lot it really has to work out. Get some sleep, don't worry about it till the morning.
Posted by: Lady at November 9, 2003 10:22 PMOh, Joanie, I can just hear the string of colorful epithets which must have been issuing from your mouth (same ones that'd probably be streaming from mine, ahem). Perhaps the fates will be sweet and the owner of the dirty green car will one day was his car and do the same thing!
Posted by: gw at November 9, 2003 10:25 PMOh dear... I just washed my car this evening after work!
Poor you - what an arse to actually take you to court. Wish that didn't happen. Hope it clears up v.easily for you.
Posted by: Rae at November 10, 2003 01:26 AMI did the same thing to the HR manager's car. At the time, we both had new, maroon pontiac Grand Ams. It was only after beating on the door and yelling that I noticed "hey...there's a carseat in the back! I don't have kids!"
Luckily, no one caught ME. ;)
Posted by: Jo at November 10, 2003 06:34 AMPeople get litigious over the silliest of things nowadays... enjoyed the story. Have hopped into the wrong car more than once.
Actually caught someone trying to get into my White F-150 (as if there aren't plenty of those) oddly enough his key fit in my lock, but not the ignition. I figured that was a sign saying we were meant for each other....he disagreed and drove off in his own truck.
I've had that trouble with a white rental car. Luckily I figured it out before it escalated to your situation.
Posted by: Susan at November 10, 2003 03:06 PMMy mother's friend got out of work for the day, and opened up her car with her key. She was halfway home when she realized there was a coffee cup in the cupholder, and she doesn't drink coffee. For some reason her car key worked in this guys car that looked just like hers. She went back, got in her own car, and hoped that no one noticed.
Posted by: Sweetpea at November 12, 2003 07:09 AMI now see yet another advantage to having the remote key entry system. I have stood in front of someone else's car and clicked that little button on my keychain over and over again, until finally realizing that it isn't my car. Doh!
Posted by: sugarmama at November 12, 2003 07:14 AMOh. my. god.
Posted by: David at November 12, 2003 09:17 AM