Shopping trips that get sidetracked

[Gusbear]

My lovely YO just text me to say she took her daughter out today on a shopping trip to get her a new duvet cover.
They somehow managed to come home with a Pygmy goat instead. 😳
Anyone else gone out for one thing but come home with something completely different?
I once went out to get some car seat covers and came home with a new car.

 

[HEM]

Love it!

Mum went out the other day to get a lamp and came back with a budgie

 

[Yokosmom]

Had a friend go to a yarn festival and come back with a sheep. Four hours home in the back seat of her car!

 

[asmp]

Everytime I go to buy horse food. It's a country store and I always end buying things I didn't go in for - usually clothes but last time it was a wooden garden chair

 

[Baywonder]

Years ago, my OH went to the casino, and came back home with an 8ft real Christmas tree - with no net around it. It was fun getting that through the front door.

 

[Darbs]

A friend of mine went out for a wiper blade and came back with a new Range Rover!

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

I've been idly trawling the internet whilst slumped on the sofa - for winter coats or summer t shirts and brought a fuzzy instead , not once, but 3 times in last 8 years! 😂 Last one was in June last year.....

 

[HEM]

I've been idly trawling the internet whilst slumped on the sofa - for winter coats or summer t shirts and brought a fuzzy instead , not once, but 3 times in last 8 years! 😂 Last one was in June last year.....

Sounds like you might have been a little confused in the first place! Winter coat or summer T-shirt?

 

[teddypops]

Oh yes, my husband and I went out to buy a hedge trimmer and came home with a 20ft river cruiser boat!😂😂

 

[The Trooper]

I went out shopping for a watch and got a tattoo....

 

[suebou]

My brother in law went out to to pick up a chippy and came home with a Porsche.....

 

[hollyandivy123]

Oh yes, my husband and I went out to buy a hedge trimmer and came home with a 20ft river cruiser boat!😂😂

how did you get that in the car.............?

 

[Vodkagirly]

Many times in aldi. Pop in for groceries and come out with lots of random stuff. Last time equestrian was reduced and I bought lots of kids jods for a pound. I don't even have a child but I was certain that that someone is knew would fit them.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Sounds like you might have been a little confused in the first place! Winter coat or summer T-shirt?

Winter coat shopping at xmas, saw a lovely mini shetland, so enquired and purchased mail order and she arrived 3 weeks later on a Gillie bus.... 4 years later did almost exactly the same with another one in a different colour....
Last summer looking for t shirts, I got distracted again as you do, and ended up buying B fuzzy on the strength of breeding and photos, yet again another Gillie bus delivery a fortnight later 😂

 

[sportsmansB]

Many times in aldi. Pop in for groceries and come out with lots of random stuff. Last time equestrian was reduced and I bought lots of kids jods for a pound. I don't even have a child but I was certain that that someone is knew would fit them.

 

[scats]

I once went to collect a horse and came back with a puppy (and the horse)

 

[teddypops]

how did you get that in the car.............?

It was on a trailer, so we just hitched it up and off home we went!

 

[Littlefloof]

Went for a romantic(ish) night in a London hotel, came back having agreed to rehome an elderly working golden retriever. To be fair, the dog smelt better than the boyfriend.

 

[HappyHollyDays]

In NI you have to take your car to an MOT test centre and I had never had to do it before. My husband wasn't there to do it for me so I took the car to the garage for a pre MOT service and came out with a brand new car so I didn't have to take the old one to the test centre.

I also went on holiday to Germany, saw DP as a 3yr old and he arrived on a Parker's lorry two weeks later. I was 50, had hardly ridden anything for 25 years and the last thing I needed was a 3 yr old very opinionated warmblood but hey ho he is 9 now and I still have him.

 

[Meredith]

We have a family story that Mum tells.
Rewind to the 1930’s
Mum’s Great Aunt goes shopping and on her return, expecting thanks, triumphantly tells Mum’s brother
“ I nearly bought you an umbrella today”
🌧🌂😂

 

[twiggy2]

I once went shopping to get a pizza for dinner, 40 min round trip came home without it.
I came home with tweezers and a compact mirror!
Husband at the time was not overly enthralled.

 

[Baywonder]

One time my dear OH went to check a saddle - and he came back with a guinea pig. On another occasion he went into the chemist to get some paracetamol - and he ended up re-homing a rabbit!

 

[Errin Paddywack]

My mum went shopping for goldfish for my 10th birthday. Came back with a JRx puppy. My dream come true and the best dog ever.

 

[Snowfilly]

I've been idly trawling the internet whilst slumped on the sofa - for winter coats or summer t shirts and brought a fuzzy instead , not once, but 3 times in last 8 years! 😂 Last one was in June last year.....

Oops... Brought a welsh d from a group I joined to research colour genetics and adopted an elderly cat while searching facebook for a dog crate.

Mum went to a show to watch the connemaras as a client of hers was riding. She fell in love with a pregnant highland mare, brought the unborn foal on te spot and still has him 21 years later...

We're not generally allowed out unsupervised!

 

[Romeorider]

Went looking for pony grazing and came back with a tortoise!

 

[Green Bean]

Went to buy new steps for our touring caravan and needed to see it was the right height so walked out to the caravan sale area, put the steps down outside their show caravan and fatally peaked inside. Needless to say, we came home with a new caravan! Still can’t live that down 🤣

 

[blitznbobs]

Every single time I go to Aldi

Go in for bread - come out with a tow rope and a set of garden chairs... and usually forget the bread

 

[blitznbobs]

My mum went shopping for goldfish for my 10th birthday. Came back with a JRx puppy. My dream come true and the best dog ever.

That is impossible cos I have the best dog ever.

 

[poiuytrewq]

One time my dear OH went to check a saddle - and he came back with a guinea pig. On another occasion he went into the chemist to get some paracetamol - and he ended up re-homing a rabbit!

I’ve done similar! When my daughter was smaller and we were doing work on our house. The builder ran out of some stuff. Being a Sunday and his normal places shut he sent me off on a little trip to find this stuff.
Eventually found some at a builders yard which happened to have a pet shop next door, which had a big adult rabbit that had been returned having been bought as a baby because one of its ears went up and one down 😢
Obviously he came home with us 😉

 

[DSB]

Took an old,unwell dog to the vet,to be put down and came home with a five week old rescue puppy.Ten years later she rules the roost and is known as "Princess Bossyboots".