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Earlier this year, a Montana man picked up a pizza at a local brewery and hopped back into the car. It wasn’t until Vincent Zepeda started the vehicle and pulled away that he realized he wasn’t in his Honda CR-V at all.

In a completely random series of coincidences, the Hamilton, Montana driver parked his red SUV right next to the same vehicle – color and all.

Apparently, the other CR-V driver had left the key fob in their vehicle. This allowed Zepeda to engage the push-button start, thinking he was using his own fob.

“That’s not my dog…or my car”

Zepeda recorded himself pulling back into the parking lot after turning around. “I got in with my pizza from Higherground, and I got the [bleep] scared out of me by this dog.”

The camera pans to show a sweet, calm English lab named Fletcher. The big pup perched comfortably on a dog bed in the back seat. Funnily, Zepeda’s own dog was also in the back of his red CR-V.

Fletcher’s human (and the matching CR-V’s owner), Cynthie Fisher, told Inside Edition that she felt a bit humiliated by the event. “I’m just embarrassed by leaving my key in the car,” she said. “Always thought having the dog in the car would protect the car, but he’s not much of a guard dog, really.”

In the end, it was a friendly vehicle exchange and everyone ended up in the correct CR-V.