Some Guy Just Walked in My House.

That used to happen to us fairly often (once or twice a year) when I was growing up but as it was one of our neighbours we didn't complain.

A little old retired farmer called Barney lived across the road and Barney liked a drink. If the stars were in perfect alignment, someone would be coming home just as Barney was staggering back from one of the village bars and he'd ... just ... follow the car up to our house instead of the few yards further down the road to his own place. If we hadn't locked the door, he'd come in.

And stand there, silent. In the kitchen. Looking at us.

It was then down to someone, usually me once I'd got old enough, to take him by the arm and escort him back to his own house. Poor wee Barney.

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When my wife lived on her own in Guelph for university, she lived in the basement of a rental house. Her roommate had left the front door unlocked and in the middle of the night some guy walked right in, walked downstairs and into her bedroom. She was awake and didn't know what to do, he then realized he was in the wrong house and proceeded to leave. Now she triple checks the doors.

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"Well, at least your intentions behind the UTTERLY DEVASTATING FAULTS IN YOUR LOGIC are good." - Captain Steel

You know, if this is an April Fool's joke, I have to say, I'm kind of impressed by how plausible and restrained it is. Way more likely to be believed.

Too bad it wasn't a hot Asian chick.

No joke, Yoda. If I wanted to pull a prank, I'd have come up with something much more entertaining. Plus, if it was a joke, what's the punchline? It's just a random event that had a pretty boring outcome (which I'm glad of).

The punchline of any good April Fool's joke is the mere pleasure of getting to tell people you tricked them, of course.

Understood, but telling a story of a personal event that ends up with no major implications and which cannot be proved on a discussion forum seems a rather meager joke to try to get people to believe. What would be the point?

If I simply wanted attention, as said before, I would've come up with something much more exciting.

Plus, it happened on April Fool's Eve rather than day.

This is where you tell us he left his underwear.

Well, another true story, but this happened many years ago... I had a pick-up truck and I was getting in it to go to work. As I got in, out of the corner of my eye I saw a boot in the bed of the truck. The only thing I could think at that moment was that maybe it was my roommate (at that time) playing some sort of joke. So I looked into the bed and there was a homeless man (and yes, he was black) sleeping in my truck. I woke him up and politely asked him to vacate. He said he was travelin' and had no where else to sleep. (We lived right off a highway).

I could only imagine if I hadn't seen his boot, and started driving down the highway and he sat up - I would've seen this man in my rear view mirror right behind me - that could have been terrifying.

Shame on you, Captain Steel, for making him get out of bed. Don't you know that all black homeless men should get at least 8 hours of sleep?! Some Superman you are......

Heh! I would have gladly let him sleep, except I had to get to work.

We used to get a lot of strange visitors at that house - we named this one guy because he came and knocked on the door, and through the closed door we asked who it was and replied "Guy from the street." (not kidding!)

Someone had left their car lights on and "Guy From the Street" was nice enough to stop and let us know.

I have to add that Guy-From-the-Street stopped there twice over the course of a few years to alert us that someone had left their car lights on - but both times, when asked who was there, he identified himself as "Guy from the Street"!

Guy-From-the-Street took on mythical proportions as we imagined him some angelic street-wanderer who walked around doing good deeds.

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I showed up in wrong houses many times.

Once I went for a barbecue in a friend's house and I got at the door of a house and I asked is this Luis house? He said it was but when I got inside it was the wrong Luis.