Everybody knows me (I don't know anybody)

[TNT]

I'm going to sit down and write me a country music song today... it'll be called "Everybody knows me (I don't know anybody)."

There's something in the air today... I took a walk downtown today... within the space of twenty minutes...

Random stranger #1 (a woman I'm sure I've never met): How are you?
Me: I'm okay. How are you?
Random stranger #1: (proceeds to tell me a long winded story I think I'm supposed to understand.)
Me: That's interesting. Um, look at the time. I've got to run.

I am still clueless as to who she is.

Random stranger #2 (another woman I'm sure I've never met): Wow, all of a sudden, we keep running into each other all the time.
Me: Life's funny that way.
Random stranger #2: I'm in a hurry, but the way things are going, I guess I'll be seeing you again soon. Ha, ha.
Me: Looking forward to it.

Who the @#$# was she?

Random stranger #3 (a man I'm sure I've never seen before): Hey, dude! Are you doing okay?
Me: Couldn't be better, actually.
Random stanger #3: You look like you just lost your best friend.
Me: I always look this way.
Random stranger #3: Okay.

The worst part is, the person I'm being confused with seems to have a much more interesting life than I have...

[Broomjockey]

I know exactly how you feel. I've gone into restaraunts, and the server asks if I want my usual. I've never been there before. 'Nother lady thought I worked with her. A family swore up and down I used to live down the street from them when I was younger (grew up in a different city).

It got to the point where I asked my mom if I had a twin out there, or if I was adopted and therefore, possibly had a brother. She still denies it.

[Misanthropical]

I get this a lot too. I swear I have a twin following me around.

I have had people insist that I went to high school with them. No, I didn't. I went to high school in a totally different state.

I have men insist that we dated. I think I would have remembered that.

I was walking my little guy to school one day when he was in Kindergarten and a woman stopped her car, honked her horn and waved at me like crazy while smiling, like I was her long lost friend. I have no idea who she is.

I have people honk their horn and wave at me when I am out driving. I have no idea who these people are.

I have a lot of people that will just start talking to me for no apperent reason, while I look at them and rack my brain trying to figure out if I know them. No, I never know who they are.

When I still lived in South Dakota, I had people tell me how rude I was for totally ignoring them when they saw me at a place I had never been to.

I can gain or lose weight, change my hair and still get people assuming they know me.

[Ree]

Hey, Mis, I guess you just have one of those familiar looking faces. :D

[Misanthropical]

You look like my aunt! Just kidding, Ree! ;)

[Barefootgirl]

When I went to India last summer, i visited the Red Fort in Delhi, which is a BIG tourist attraction there. I was wandering around with my guide, taking a few pictures,and noticed that quite a few people were pointing at me and following me.

I assumed this was because I had toilet paper stuck to my shoe, or something unpleasant on the back of my trousers, but after a quick inspection, it didn't seem to be. My pale-skinned, blue-eyed mother was followed around on her first visit to India, by people who wanted to check if she was white all over, but that was in the countryside in 1968, not in a high-traffic tourist area just last year, plus I blend in quite well in Delhi. Anyway, there were a couple of blonde backpackers nearby, and THEY weren't getting stared and and discussed.

I wondered if it was my hat, which was large and floppy and cream. My guide assured me that my hat wasn't funny at all (not that I believed him). We went on to another part of the Fort - and my crowd followed us. This was getting strange. Eventually I stopped and smiled at the children of one family, which seemed to be the magic signal. They explained to my guide that they wanted to take a picture of me, and would i hold their baby for the picture? Sure, I like babies, I'll hold her, she's sweet, and I'll stand so that all the other kids and the mum can crowd into the picture with me.

I still don't understand what that was all about. It wasn't just this one family, it was several groups of people. I am not particularly glamorous, or funny-looking or ugly (and even if I was, would YOUR first reaction on seeing a hideous western lady in a funny hat be to give her your baby?). My mum thinks that the people may have thought I was some Bollywood star slumming it.

PS. i related this story to some friends, and one of them said in horror that perhaps the woman was trying to give me her baby. She wasn't. Unfortunately, I have been in situations where people try and give me their babies, and its not like that. This family were quite well-off - the fact that they owned a camera proves that, and they didn't want me to keep the baby, just hold it. It was very strange indeed.

[Jpurple]

Actually, Barefootgirl, we get something similar quite often here- while I don't get handed babies to have my picture taken with, everyone wants to have thier picture taken with my daughter. We think it's a combination of looking approachable and having a cute 'farang' (foreign) kid. It's odd, because a lot of our expat friends get the same thing, but others, with equally cute kids, never get approached. You must have the same 'nice tourist' vibe we do!

And back home, I frequently got confused with a girl a few years younger than me who could have been my twin- we went to the same middle school and then the same university, but were never in the same classes because of the age difference. It gets very irritating.

[MadMike]

I get this a lot too. I swear I have a twin following me around.


I get this a lot too. Granted, I'm terrible at remembering faces, and there have been times when the other person actually did know me.

However, I am constantly listening to people swear up and down they know me from some place I've never been too, or that I'm friends with someone whose name I never heard of.

I wonder if my twin lives under your twin's couch... :lol:

[MystyGlyttyr]

I've been confused for Lita from the WWE twice. I'm not entirely sure why because I don't think we look that alike, aside from both being 5'6" with red hair and bad fashion sense.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/mystyglyttyr/me1.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/mystyglyttyr/Amy_Dumas.jpg

You can't really tell the perspective from these, but trust me, we don't look alike. My face is a lot rounder and my frame is a LOT larger. I don't see any resemblance at all.

But the first time was when my sister and I were leaving a WWE show and a bunch of little kids in the next car over started waving and freaking out screaming "Lita!!" at me. I waved. I dunno what else to do. I guess seeing me through a car window might've blurred their vision or something, I dunno.

The second time, I was in a gas station gimping around with a knee brace on (at the same time, coincidentally, that Lita was gimping around with a knee brace as well), when a busful of special ed kids came in, saw me, and stampeded. I explained to their teacher that I wasn't her but she told me to just humor them, so I signed autographs and gave hugs. Fun if a little strange.

[Tanasi]

My Dad was an identical twin and a lot of folks didn't know that. My uncle lived in the next town which was the county seat. The number of times my Mom and my Aunt recieved calls that their husband was running around with another women was astronomical. After my uncle passed away folks would freak out when they saw my Dad on the street. They would run up to him and say "I thought you were dead, I remember going to your funeral." Dad would reply that was my brother. I would have said "I did die but I'm feeling much better now." and then put my arms out in front of me and do the classic Mummy walk.
Some might accuse me of being a smart-a$$. They would be correct.

[Zinjadu]

I'm also one of those lucky people that has a 'twin', or maybe more than one... would that be a triplet? :lol:

A few people who shop in the store thought I went to school with them - I didn't.

One customer swears I had worked in a small-town restaurant with her - nope, and never even been to that town! She just started talking to me about 'back in the day' and I had to tell her I had no idea what she was talking about! :roll:

One older guy swears I look exactly like his daughter-in-law, and always calls me that when he comes in - that really freaks out my fellow employees, especially since he was doing it before I started dating T.

One woman who worked at Superstore asked why I quit there to work at Slaveway - I never worked at Superstore.

*shrugs* Oh, well, I guess it could be worse!