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[debster913]

Hi, all--

I knew I shouldn't have had that venti frappucino after school today! Either that, or I'm just plain addicted to VR.

Anyway, have any of you made this mistake and felt like an idiot? You see someone you know and go up to say hello, only to realize by the blank expression on that person's face that he/she wasn't the person you thought?

I went to the local Greek festival last Saturday evening with my girlfriends. It's a yearly event that we do, plus we all love Greek food. While eating my second slice of baklava, I swear I saw my cardiologist (yes, he is Greek, by the way). I stared for a moment, thought, that must be Dr. V, and so I went up to say hello to this person. It wasn't my cardio, but he sure could have been the cardio's twin (same stature, hair, glasses, everything). Thankfully this guy was pretty gracious and shook my hand. I still felt dumb.

Any of you ever done this? A friend at work claims this is how he met his wife--thought he saw an old college friend at a bookstore, pub (can't remember where he told me)--the girl wasn't her, but they did get married.

Debi (debster913)

 

[geebee]

I actually have not done this myself but I have had a number of people come up to me over the years swearing that I am someone else. I just tell them that sometimes I feel like someone else. As they (whoever they are) say - everyone has a twin somewhere.

 

[debster913]

Gosh, then I must have a dozen!

Last fall, several of my students went to UC Berkeley for a Model United Nations conference. One of my students said he didn't think I'd believe him, so he took a picture of a fellow delegate from another school who looked exactly like me, only age 17.

A couple years ago, I was at the movies with the hubster and saw a young woman walking down a row a few rows down from us. I about crapped my pants--I thought I was looking at my own twin! I think I spent most of the previews staring at her and trying to digest the idea that I saw my "doppelganger" (sp?).

Although I didn't see it, a while back on ABC World News Tonight, there was a segment about this photographer who shoots photos of people who aren't related but look exactly like each other. So weird and interesting!

But yeah, I always get the "Aren't you ---'s sister/friend/cousin, etc." thing. I guess I just have a familiar face.

 

[Lisa in Katy]

Have y'all ever played with myheritage.com? You can scan in your photo and it matches you to famous people. It's not very accurate, but as long as you're smiling, it usually brings up gorgeous people. Now, it does have a tendency to match guys with long hair with women and women with short hair with men! It is quite fun though. I have a friend who weighs about 200 pounds and her face reflects it. When we scanned her photo in, it matched her with Renee Zellwegger and one of the Olsen twins!

 

[temp69]

goldie hawn

goldie hawn

came to my table after our table sent her a bottle of champagne and she walked right over and kneeled down and kissed me. fun. I kissed her back and she said "do I know you?" and I said "you do now." we had a laugh. i'm sure she thought i was an old flame.

 

[Adrienne]

Although I didn't see it, a while back on ABC World News Tonight, there was a segment about this photographer who shoots photos of people who aren't related but look exactly like each other. So weird and interesting!

I saw something about that photographer. He's from Montreal!

By the way, yes, I have said hello to people and then realized they were not who I thought they were. It's very embarassing.

 

[Cooker]

My mother in-law walked up behind a guy in the mall and hugged him from behind and asked if he was getting her gift (it was Christmas time). He looked at her like she was/is a nut and excused himself. She followed the guy (at a distance) to see what kind of car he got into. Says the guy looks just like me.

Imagine.............two Cookers for the price of one

 

[Ross]

I've done it more then I care to admit. Now, instead of feeling like a fool, I try to turn the mishappen into a friendship if only for the moment.

 

[Cooker]

You know there are just so many "looks". Being in sales and dealing with the public I see people all the time that I think I know. I have almost learned not to make an idiot of myself

 

[aussie girl]

My closest friend at school and I were always being asked if we were twins/sisters. As adults we married twins and now our kids are forever being mistaken for each other ...Mary

 

[hensylee]

the doors opened for the crowd to enter the theater. daughter, her husband and their son were amongst the huge throng. Wanting to keep the three of them together, daughter reached back for her son who was behind her - but guess what she grabbed. When they got to their seats, she apologized to her son. He told her 'that wasn't me'. It was another guy who was behind her. Imagine HIS surprise!

 

[Cooker]

the doors opened for the crowd to enter the theater. daughter, her husband and their son were amongst the huge throng. Wanting to keep the three of them together, daughter reached back for her son who was behind her - but guess what she grabbed. When they got to their seats, she apologized to her son. He told her 'that wasn't me'. It was another guy who was behind her. Imagine HIS surprise!

Now that's better than popcorn

 

[KAJ]

People have done it to me mistaking me for my identical twin brother. I hated it when we were kids. As an adult, it is kind of fun. It would happen every once in a while when we were both in the Navy. Funny thing was, I was always on the East Coast and he was always on the West Coast.

Karl