Mistaken Identity

Yes, this actually happened.
As is true in most subdivisions, many of the houses are quite similar in design, though most of them near us are quite different. Except the one two doors down. It looks exactly like ours at first glance, and more than once we have almost driven into the driveway thinking it was ours. And we have actually driven into the driveway, and wondered why the garage door opener wasn't working. Very embarrassing.
Well, it turns out that we are not the only ones confused.
Last evening the lady who owns the house similar to ours came over with a confession. Seems that she had gone away for 3 days and had asked her mom to come over to feed her cats for her while she was gone. So, last Friday, "Mom" came over, put her key in the door, opened the door and walked in. She was interested to observe that her daughter had rearranged the furniture...had even gotten a new dining room set.....was pleased to find the cat...but when she noticed the sitting area in the master bedroom the lightbulbs began to go off. It was with much embarrassment that she quickly vacated the premises, went to what was really her daughter's house, and fed her cats. She had gone into the wrong house!
Of course our neighbor was very apologetic, and was concerned that her key fit our door. What we think happened was that somehow we had forgotten to lock the front door, which almost never happens. I can remember coming home on Friday and noticing that it was unlocked, and thinking, Well, nothing happened, so the Lord protected us in spite of my neglect. Little did I know!
There, our latest saga. At least we got to meet our neighbor. Maybe we can trade cat sitting. Her black cat is the one that comes over to visit Max periodically. Course one is outside staring in, and one inside staring out, but they seem to enjoy the fellowship.