My wife (before we were married) and I once wandered into someone else's house by mistake. We were going to my uncle's new house out in the country. It was dark and an unfamiliar place. He had said "Turn in the second stone driveway" but we turned in the second driveway, which was indeed stone. (His driveway turned out to be number four overall; the others were paved.) The door was open and no one was up--all as expected for our late arrival for his upcoming remarriage. We entered and walked through several rooms looking for a note or someone still up before we picked up a piece of mail addressed to a name unfamiliar to us and figured out that there was a problem. We left and next day told the story. Everyone kept reminding us that we could have been shot, esp. out there in the country. I understood, but it was an honest mistake! When the owners of that house found out they laughed.
We would have been safer if they had locked their door, as it turns out.
We would have been safer if they had locked their door, as it turns out.
I have never heard of anyone ever doing that. I am sure it happens every great once in a while.
