So this happened last weekend. I was leaving a party, pretty tipsy, and ordered an Uber to get home. The app said it’d be a white Toyota Corolla, and it was only a few minutes away, so I stood outside and waited.
A white Toyota Corolla pulled up and stopped in front of me. Without really thinking, I opened the door, got in, and said, “Hey, thanks for coming so quickly!” The driver looked at me like I was insane and said, “Uh, who are you?” I laughed, thinking he was joking, and said, “I’m your 2 AM passenger, take me home!”
He looked even more confused and said, “I’m just waiting for my wife.”
That’s when I realized what happened. I had gotten into a random person’s car. I quickly apologized and scrambled out of there. My actual Uber pulled up just as I was walking away, and the driver asked, “Did you just get into that guy’s car?” I was so embarrassed but had to laugh at myself.
TL;DR: Mistook a random stranger’s car for my Uber, embarrassed myself, and nearly made a fool of someone else.
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It’s an honest mistake. You apoligized and left. You did not f up. Next time pay attention to the liscence plate.
At least the guy was polite, my ex did the same and the guy just started screaming at her, “Get out!! Get the fuck out of my ride I’m not your damn uber blah blah blah!” Like she was in the wrong, but he did not have to let into her like that. I’m glad it wasn’t so bad for you!
See, it should have gone down like your story.. a TIFU and a laugh, not some traumatic experience.
It happened to me when I was sober so you are one better than me.
Waiting on an uber to the hospital, the dot on the map shows him turning into the avenue and at the moment a car stops in the bottom of the cul-de-sac and starts doing a 3 point turn…you know like how every taxi driver does so I can get in and they can drive out of the avenue.
I don’t have my contacts in, and live on a quiet cul-de-sac so I hadn’t even looked at what the licence plate said.
But obviously it’s not the uber, it’s my new neighbour, who likes to turn his car around before reversing into his driveway, so that was a good way to meet the new neighbour
Imagine explaining to your wife why there’s another (I’m just assuming you’re a woman) was in his car at 2 am 😂
So… y’all aren’t locking your cars while waiting for someone?
So. Birthday party, about 10 of us, order an Uber, it’s says a gray min van (don’t remember the make), we are all standing out front of the bar, gray van pulls up, buddy opens the passenger door, someone else grabs the sliding door, we are piling in, driver has a death stare with the buddy climbing in the front passenger seat, immediately dawns on him that this isn’t our Uber. We climb out of this poor mans van, apologize profusely, stand in shame as we wait for our real Uber. In our defense, the vehicles were identical.
This happened to me – got in a car which looked like mine, turned to talk to my husband, it was NOT my husband. The poor stranger was in shock, and my actual husband nearly died laughing.