h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And noticed it just in time, too.

I was checking out trains, ready for leaving the house in the next half hour or so. Then it struck me that the thing I was going to is *next* Saturday.

At least I wouldn't have been late.

you'd have been there in good time

If you think of the journey as more important than the destination, you could have gone this Saturday.

grasshopper

The dad of one of my daughter's friends arrived a year early for a concert.

Better to realize it's next week this week, instead of two weeks from now!

Even better than remembering that it was last week

F S

A year early? How did he manage that?

I got my own date of birth worng once, and nearly celibrated my wrong birthday. I kid you nowt Mind, I still think we're in 2014, don't care what anyone else says now of course, I purposefully put my year of birth forwards twenty years, when the receptionist/nurse/doctor asks me for it.... just to get th e predictible gafooring laughter or giggles depending on whom it is I'm never gona act like I@m grown up so figure I might as well not pretend I'm older than I actually am we've only kept appointment times, dates, days right thanks to google calender

He was given tickets to a concert of his favourite band as a birthday present. He didn't notice that the concert was 14 months away. He turned up on the right date but the wrong year.

Was it a really big, important concert? 14 months seems like booking a bit on the early side unless it is one of those "once in a lifetimes".

Couldn't the gift-givers have waited twelve months before giving the tickets to him, to avoid confusion?