23 Funny ‘Whoops, Wrong Person!’ Moments
‘You’re chasing the wrong bald guy!’
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You’d think we’d all seen enough sitcoms by now to know that sneaking up on someone from behind is never the right move. So many things can go wrong, whether it’s scaring them so badly that they drop a birthday cake or kissing your wife’s neck, except whoops, that’s not your wife! Then the studio audience gasps in shock, and it’s a whole thing.
Well, these Redditors seem to have never seen a single episode of a sitcom ever, resulting in plenty of situations worthy of a laugh track, and one situation that would make Freud roll over in his grave.
![ZanyDelaney в 7y ago My partner thought he was nudging me out the way while browsing in a book shop. It wasn't me. 11 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/3/1112553.jpg)
![CaptainX25 7y ago when i finished greek dancing class. jumped into a car which i thought I . was my mums and said 'hi mum' in which she replied wrong car. 11 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/2/1112552.jpg)
![7y ago Ok I work with disabled kids, sometimes have to support them whilst they walk, this can Involve gently holding their arm as you walk to guide them. One day in the shopping centre I was watching several youngsters and took one by the arm and began walking, then looked and it was a little old lady...she hadn't protested and seemed quite happy about it! 13 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/0/1112550.jpg)
![bzzltyr 4y ago Came up from the basement to see my wife bent over putting a glass in the dishwasher. Yelled there's that ass I like. Turned out to be my daughters physical therapist putting the glass from water she had away. She still comes over, but she does not ask for water anymore. 42 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/1/1112551.jpg)
![FireAnd_Ash 4y ago Not mine, but when my sister was three, we were in a McDonald's and she thought it would be funny and steal my dad's keys. Long story short, that person wasn't our dad. She just kinda stood there dumbfounded for a bit, then silently gave them back and walked away. 5 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/9/1112549.jpg)
![Vetoxx 7y ago One day at school i was about to scare one of my friends, so i i hid behind a door and waited. A shadow comes and i jump out, turns out it was the cleaning lady.... i was so embarrassed 46 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/8/1112548.jpg)
![Jefferncfc 7y ago I was snorkeling with my family and a couple friends. One friend swam under my dad, while he was watching some fish, and thinking it was another friend gave him 2 middle fingers. Не then realised it was my dad and instead of apologising he swam off to tell me about his mishap. My dad didn't bring it up afterwards and it wasn't until I told him about the mistake that he said he thought my friend just didn't like him. 77 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/6/1112546.jpg)
![stanfan114 11y ago I was shopping with my wife in the grocery store. We were trying to eat healthy, and I catch her in the cookie aisle getting a jumbo pack of Oreos. I say, Honey, we don't need that! She turns around and it is a complete stranger, same haircut and jacket. I stammer out Oops I'm sorry... but she interrupts, You know, you're right. I don't need this! and puts it back.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/7/1112547.jpg)
![G_man252 7y ago In high school I walked behind a girl I thought I recognized and said her name. She turned around, but wasnt the person I thought she was, but she Did have the same name. That took a few seconds to explain 290 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/5/1112545.jpg)
![ConstantStomachPain 11y ago I came home a little drunk to my new apartment. When I walked in my roommates were having a small gathering so naturally I began introducing myself to all the new people: Hi. I'm ConstantStomachPain. I just moved in to the third bedroom. The first three people just said: Hi. But the fourth person said: No you didn't....Who are you? This was about the time I realized the posters on the wall had changed and the couch looked a little different. I lived on a third floor walk up and only walked up two floors before opening](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/3/1112543.jpg)
![butdontlieaboutit 7y ago This story starts the way any good story starts- with my best friend in a public restroom. I believed her to be in the stall next to me, and was clearly peeing more pee than she ever had in her entire life. Me, being an asshole said, well that's a long pee! Only to be met by silence. When I left the stall my friend was standing at the sink laughing at me- captain long pee remained in her stall until we left and I died. 131 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/2/1112542.jpg)
![ThanksChanka 0 7y ago i was browsing in a store with my dad, and i found something I liked, so I went to go look for him, without paying much attention, in my peripheral vision, I saw someone so I looked up and said, so dad... I then realized it was not, in fact my dad, but a old Indian man wearing a turban. 52 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/4/1112544.jpg)
![11y ago Me and my uncle were leaving the doctor's office after getting our flu shots. We called a cab. Не is bald. I mustn't have been paying much attention because I saw a cab coming, and a bald man running out in the rain. Thinking it was my uncle, I ran after him. I heard my uncle shout from inside, You're chasing the wrong bald guy! Embarrassing... 180 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/9/1112539.jpg)
![11y ago In elementary school a girl turned me around on the playground and kneed me in the balls. She then looked at me, said, Oh, wrong person! and walked away. 262 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/1/1112541.jpg)
![BanditMcDougal 11y ago Happened about... 8 years ago, I think... Wife and I were looking around the Halloween section at Target. As seems to happen when we're going through stuff like this, we started looking at different things, but in the same section; bringing things to each other that we found to show the other, etc. I found this awesome red-eye crow/raven and started looking for my wife to show it off to her. I came up behind her, put it on my shoulder, and in my best Vincent Price/Bill Hader voice I said, Isn't it creepy?? The woman who](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/7/1112537.jpg)
![motoxcody2005 . 11y ago . Edited 11y ago When I was a kid, we went to the airport to pick up some family members that I had never met before. I see my Grandmother walk around the corner at the airport and I take off dead sprint at her and give her a hug. I look up to find that it is not my grandmother and I just created great distance between myself and my parents in a crowded airport. I panic, but she hugs me back and laughs about my mistake. My parents calmly walk over and are laughing](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/6/1112536.jpg)
![brock_lee . 11y ago My wife and I were at her sister's house, and I walk into the kitchen, where I saw my wife talking to someone (I forget who). Anyway, I started caressing her ass. As she turned around, I was mortified to see it was her sister, who looks exactly like my wife from the back, apparently. We all laughed about it, but I was completely embarrassed. 1.4K ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/5/1112535.jpg)
![dvboy 11y ago Edited 11y ago My in-laws had six kids. I was married to the eldest. Forget the occasion, but we all went out for breakfast one Sunday. We took multiple cars. We park and start walking towards the restaurant when a girl in front of us leans into her trunk to get something. My father in law says: Check out the ass on that one. At which point his youngest daughter stands up and turns around. Hilarity.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/4/1112534.jpg)
![11y ago I was sitting in my university's library computer lab and I feel a hand lightly rubbing across my back. A girl behind me says Hey, sexy! in a slow, seductive way and starts to sit down next to me. I turn around and her face turns to a look of horror. Oh God! I'm so sorry! I thought you were my friend, I didn't mean it! AH! I don't mean to say that you aren't sexy - I just mean - - I'm sure you're really nice - - I'm just -- I am so sorry! And off she went. Sometimes less](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/3/1112533.jpg)
![Some_french_canadian в 11y ago I was 21 when I was hanging out with my family and my uncle's family around a public pool outside a hotel. My cousin was 7 years old. I surprised him by coming from behind, tossing him in the air and into the water. When I turned around, I saw my cousin standing beside my uncle who was staring at me with disbelief. Standing next to them were two horrorstruck parents wondering why I had randomly tossed their child into the water. 392 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/8/1112538.jpg)
![HomebrewHero 11y ago . Edited 11y ago Out at a bar with friends. No way to dry my hands after using the restroom, so I come out with wet hands. I approach a buddy of mine from behind, grab his arm with my still wet hands and say Dude, can you help me get my quarter out of the toilet? Dude was not my buddy - didn't know him at all.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/0/1112540.jpg)
![cromble 11y ago I had a friend at college that I was constantly running into around campus, so it became a joke that she would call me her stalker. I saw her one day, came up behind her and whispered stalk stalk stalk into her ear. It wasn't her. 51 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/1/1112531.jpg)
![CrazyMoFer 7y ago I was at the pool with my girlfriend, and tried to startle her by sneaking up underwater and grabbing her by the legs. My goggles were pretty foggy though. Long story short, I ended up flipping some random girl underwater right in front of her boyfriend. 12 ...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/2/1112532.jpg)