Strange/Amusing Occurences when playing Carcassonne

[likie]

I guess we have all had a few odd/amusing things things occur while playing - I though I would add 2 or 3 I can think of and see if others might add any.

When holding on to your meeples takes a whole new meaning
This occured when we were doing the final scoring - not sure how others do this but often one of us moves the meeples on the score track and the other counts up.  We scored one of my wifes unfinished roads (maybe 4 points) and while doing it I dropped the meeple and we couldn't remember out of two possible start points where the meeple had been before I picked it up (eventually we agreed on where we thought it had been).  Needless to say after scoring cloisters, cities, and finally farms I was ahead by a solitary point.  My wife was gracious enough to accept that I had won, but I'm still not sure if we had it right (it could well have been a draw)

Colour confusion
Normally I play yellow and my wife plays red - one night for some unfathomable reason we started off playing the other way round by mistake - we had played all of the river and both had maybe 3 or so meeples down before I went to add a tile to one of the yellow controlled features (maybe a city) and realised that I had 4 or 5 red meeples sitting in a pile in front of me.  Bizarre - we had to then swap all the meeples around.

The invisible black meeple
As above my wife and I allways below red and yellow, and we nearly always play two-player.  When we introduced my brother to the game he played black.  I was so used to scanning the farms for what the red meeples were controlling that in this particular game I almost missed the fact that my brother had managed (and I think deliberately - not bad for the first time) to connect a large field so that he had two meeples in it and I had only one.  I hastily managed (just before the tiles ran out) to get another meeple connected to this field to gain parity and secure the game - he may well have won if I hadn't noticed in time as the field had quite a number of cities (maybe 5 or 6).

[Tobias]

Switching colours is a big no no! If we're more players and for some reason I can't play black - I'm bound to lose...

One funny thing was that game where the dragon managed to eat four(!) of Sara's meeples in one draw. She wasn't too happy about moving it to eat her own meeples twice (muehehe). I declared myself a volcano placing genius there and then. And Sara declared me a sofa sleeper for the rest of the week